So how was it for ye in the football world. This week started and ended with the tradition poultry backlash against overweight Englishmen and the fallout. So fat Sam follows honest Chris in being forced out after a less than stellar performance in the midday game on sky- please let it happen again with DelBoy Redknapp- and all hell breaks out. For the LMA it was an outrage that these foreigners came in and got rid of a honest salt of the earth manager who could be England's next chief. Sky rolled out its expert Tony Gale-clubs managed none- in saying they hadnt a clue about good English football and now Graham Taylor is boycotting poultry in protest. First of all Graham-contributions to the beautiful game, John Barnes by accident; the same as his contributions to Italian social anarchy- if you are as much of a patriot as you claim, boycott Venkys and buy Bernard Matthews - claim it to be in memoriam- and secondly having heard the interview with the lovely lady from India's leading experts in Calcutta Fried Chicken, it would appear that they kinda prefer a tikki-takka style to a Peter Kay have it aerial bombardment and anyway its not as if Blackburn have been any good at it recently. They lost on Sunday to Bolton who while keeping a core of Fat Sam's team have moved to a more passing style-anyone who's seen the recent goals by Elmander and especially Mark Davies will say that they are pleasing on the eye under Owen Coyle- and yet even managed to outdo BB when it came to a route one goal. Thus, as a something to have i your arsenal route one is perfectly fine but when it's all you've got, ultimately it's limited and as a long term practice, Venkys were well within their rights to question whether or not it was a long term solution.
So lets take a look at fat Sam's record and its not as good as he would let you believe. he's won titles in 1992 with Limerick FC and Notts County and got promotion with Bolton but what is left out is that he appears to be far from having a natural home at real Madrid or inter more capable in the lower levels of the English game where his no-nonsense rough and tumble style is much more effective. When given the reins at Newkie, he failed by having no concept of having to build a squad with players not trying to rehabilitate themselves, a support who are too cold to want to watch volleyball and a tradition that was based on goals AND entertainment. Indeed, looking back at Bolton, its as if this season having a manger who believes in a passing game and in their ability to play it, some of the team have seemed rejuvenated free of the shackles of the Fat Sam Philosophy ie Elmander and K Davies.
Ultimately, though the issue is whether an owner can pick their manager. The LMA can bitch and moan but as Ashley proved the previous week, they have bog all say in the matter and unlike Ashley, Venky's argument that they dont like Fat Sam- no, i dont like the fuck even before it took him a week and a prod from Ginsoak to get upset over nothing- style and dont want their team to play that way anymore
Briefly, so tevez wants out. Better people than me report that he's really just a favela boy who misses his girls so it's probably true but it may well be that this about Kia Jorobcian falling out with Man City: The Scum bet the Arse but neither looked great but at least you know united will try to shoot at the end of a move: The Wenger Boy's get a lesson in the craft as Barce will show them how it should be done and the door; last week marcotti and cascarino said on ITV that Milan were out of form; 9 points clear at the top of serie a and facing Delboys Spurs hopefully smugness will be wiped off their faces.
Here are a few good links
Daniel Taylor explains the fallings-out at Cieth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/dec/15/carlos-tevez-row-manchester-city
Further to our rant about offside screwing defenders, a fantastic article on how to really screw them
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/12/15/offside-goal/#more-5401
A brief summary of the troubles facing galway football
http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/6141/38/
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