Tag: Jose Mourinho
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Spurs appear to have Post delivered
It appears delusional Tottenham Hotspur supporters will have to wind their necks in and, more than likely, be made to look very silly. With almost pompous arrogance, fans of the underwhelming North London club were bleating that Ange Postecoglou wasn’t “good enough” to manage their club and that they “deserved better”. Who do they think…
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Europa League Last 16 Draw
Both Arsenal and Manchester United recently learned who their next opponents on the continent will be after the draw was completed for the Round of 16 in the UEFA Europa League. Mikel Arteta’s side have a trip to Portugal on their agenda having been paired away to Sporting while Erik ten Hag’s newly crowned league…
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Losing the plot over Potter misses the point
When Andy Cole took what felt like an eternity to score his first goal for Manchester United, you can be sure there were plenty wondering had Fergie lost his marbles shelling out what was a whopping £7M on the then Newcastle United striker. The wily old Scot seldom got decisions wrong. And, eventually, Cole would…
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Being around them doesn’t necessarily turn you into them
An opinion poll was recently encountered in one of the myriad Manchester United fan groups on Facebook posing the admittedly interesting question as to who has been the best manager of the Red Devils since Sir Alex Ferguson retired nearly a decade ago. Now read on… Perhaps being a little trigger-happy, this corner immediately plumped…
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Drifting like a candy wrapper caught in an updraft
In the episode of The Simpsons where Homer ends up crash landing into bed with Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger, the world’s favourite safety inspector was after being in a parachute pulled behind a jetski. When the contraption reached its peak height, Homer reckoned he was “Like a candy wrapper caught in an updraft”. Similar…
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Parrott chimes into Kenny’s uplifting chorus
Rep. Of Ireland… 1 Lithuania… 0 Sometimes things happen in life which, with the fullness of time, emerge as a clear sign of what was to come in its wake. For example, having spent two hours on a soccer pitch in Wales practising it the week before, it was as if Sean Boylan and Meath…
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The only predictable thing is their unpredictability
ATHLETICO MADRID… 1 MANCHESTER UNITED… 1 Manchester United currently resemble a volitile backside – you just don’t know what they’re going to do next. In truth, that has been the state of affairs at the Old Trafford club since Sir Alex Ferguson vacated the dugout. On and off the pitch. The second part of that…
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The wheels came off the wagon long before Ole lost control
Ole Gunnar Solksjaer has been sacked. The latest chapter in the half sporting tragedy, half farce that has been life at Old Trafford came to its sad but inevitable conclusion as the former forward was brought to book in the wake of yesterday’s latest humiliation, against Watford at Vicarage Road. The sporting tragedy here is…
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Gerrard playing the long game with percentage call
Bastions of the bandwagon are one of the few sporting phenomena yours truly cannot stomach. Fair weather followers is another acronym attributed to the same lot. It usually is followers, you see. There’s usually obvious telltale signs, they’ll be over the top if the need arises to decorate, will become expert ‘analysts’ overnight and everything…
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Weird window leaves many questions
A few years ago, on Deadline Day of the winter transfer window, I wrote a piece headlined “Almost time to take down the tent”. Inference being that the concept and the time around it resemble a circus. At the time, that manifested itself in the insane fees clubs were paying for players and the manner…