Bring on next season!

So I sit on the slow train back to Manchester from a stag do in Edinburgh, unable to watch the Swansea game. The weekend before I was at a wedding in Belfast so had to give up my ticket for the Arsenal game. By all accounts I missed another odd city performance where we show glimpses of what we could be, alongside more prolonged spells of what we actually are! That being somewhat of a mismanaged club at all levels that seems somewhat lost both on and off the pitch. 

When that happens you look to the management and we all no my long standing opinion on the tactical fool, but who is it actually that is the corporate fool at the club who has taken us backwards since Cook's departure?! Yes Pep is coming a man we now pin a lot of hope on! Yes he's mainly there because of Txiki Begerestain and hopefully we do owe Txiki that, but as far as the broad level management of the club is going he needs to pull his socks up significantly, for there is definitely a disenfranchised feel about, summed up perfectly by the disastrous handling of the Arsenal after match proceedings, where they should have simply just stayed out on the pitch. Highlighting yet further that as a club we simply need to start communicating better with those who make and define the club, namely the fans. Yes this battle is made hard for us by a united bias media desperate to pounce on us at the slightest mistake, but that's when you need intelligence at the helm to progressively steer you forward, something it seems at present is sadly lacking.

Anyway let's hope we can somehow just hold it together for Swansea this afternoon and look to a fresh start next season. However with the way this season has gone God know's what will happen?!

Managed by a fool.

I've been really busy recently so the fact that a lorry has shed it's load of bricks on the M6 and we haven't moved in ages because they've had to shut the road is useful for my blog at least!

Well since my last post a lot of average football has been played, as the tactical fool still continues to make a hash of it and ride his luck once more! Newcastle was awful and was the first signs of his squad over rotating, poor formations, lack of motivation and stupid tactics rearing their ugly head again! The result being dropped points and how we played at the bridge being a distant memory! All resulting in 2 points dropped and top 4 being made more difficult than was needed. Once again I bang the drum of play your best team as much as you can in the best formation and take them off when you are winning, something Simione and Atletico do to great effect.

Next Stoke at home and the first quarter of the game was like pulling teeth, nothing that resembled entertainment. Then we just seemed to get lucky again with a few goals that started to kill off the game and like I say through luck rather than judgement! The story of the game was Iheanacho again! He was involved in everything with his energy, vision and finishing, resulting in assists and two goals no less than the young lad deserves he truly is one for the present, not the future Pellegrini you complete fool! The other thing to note in the game was Iheanacho first was set up by Zaba overlapping, an attacking option we oh so miss when Sagna starts and I will continue to beat this drum until I am blue in the face!

Next was the big one! Real at home! Team sheet wrong once more like everyone before it, for if you put Fernandhinio, Fernando and Sagna on the same pitch we are two defensive with not enough attacking flare! I would have played Zaba, especially with the new 'Michael Jackson' not present for them on the wing! Then like I have said time and time again just play Fernandhinio holding, then in this case both silva and Kev in the middle, Navas one wing and Iheanacho on the other wing, play the young lad and he can do that job ten times better than sterling who I repeat is dog shit and the biggest waste of money in football I have ever seen.

So then silva gets injured and Iheanacho comes on but rather than putting him on the wing and moving Kev to the middle the fool went for 4,4,2 and what a surprise they started to dominate and we had no creativity in the middle, as we clung on to a 0-0 draw with some great saves from Joe and not before the ginger prince was cynically taken down when I'm sure he would have confidently tucked it away, but not to be!

So then Southampton at the weekend, and oh my god what a disaster! The fool Grini seemingly not giving a shit about top 4 as he recklessly over rotates once more! You know Leicester made 20 rotations all season with the second nearest being Bournemouth with 50. Now I know they both have small squads but it must highlight once again what I have been saying that consistency is so important to teams and players and teams this idiot puts out are like new teams that by their very nature don't have any confidence built up in them. The result was predictable and embarrassing as we made Southampton look better than Madrid! I so wish you had left last year Grini and no one managed the team, as I guarantee the results would have been better. I can't bring myself to focus anymore on that car crash so I will move swiftly on!

It's soon Wednesday, it's my Mrs' birthday and I managed to combine the two to her dismay in a pub in the northern quarter. Myself I already wasn't where I wanted to be as I missed out on tickets by 500 points and had to get the Thompson flights linked to the club cancelled, gutted! All in all I spent 5 hours on hold over 4 phone calls on our shocking ticket line, trying to get tickets as well! 

So the team comes up and again wrong as both Fernandhinhio and Fernando are present! It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out what happens next! What a surprise we have no attacking penetration at all looking limp, clueless and scared! I would have played Fernandhinio, Yaya and the ginger prince in the middle like at Chelsea. Then Iheanacho and Navas on the wings, trying to leave Sterling at the airport if possible! We all know what happened is what you would expect! We did not do ourselves justice because we are run by an idiot, never have I looked forward to someone leaving so much! We didn't even apply pressure at the end because we were set up so badly, followed by foolish substitutions by a fool. Yes Kompany going off didn't help but even he couldn't of carried us through this!

Well not the post I wanted to post, but one my brain feared I might, and my heart, well that is just pissed at the moment! Tomorrow Arsenal! Huge game and god knows what will happen! I hope my heart wins through but my head isn't so sure it will! Till the next time!

Colin Bell Stand, Third Tier