He never convinced me right from his interview after the first win over Cardiff. It was a really weird and awkward interview.
Basic school psychology is at play here.
The Manchester United dressing room is an unruly school class. It had been extremely unhappy under a miserable curmudgeon of a teacher who kept dishing out lines and putting pupils in detention, then that teacher left. The new teacher came in and was lovely to everybody, tried to be their friend, and the class responded for a while. Then the class realised that the new teacher had no control whatsoever and started running amok.
Jonathan Wilson made that analogy in a Guardian piece yesterday or the day before. Said it was ironic that as soon as Solskjaer was made permanent the players started treating him like a supply teacher.
I havenât read the last few weeks here, but lads getting exercised about the fortunes of clubs in the EPL is slightly worrying.
These are franchised affairs, run by economic gurus and populated in the main by mercenaries from abroad who bear zero or fuck all commitment to whatever jersey theyâre wearing. This âloyaltyâ is of course like Easter, a moveable feast.
I just fail to understand the reasoning behind young lads from (insert hamlet) down in the pub, festooned in the attire of some city in the land of the greatest proponents of annexation and rule roaring on âour ladsâ.
Thereâs no pressure with a temporary manager, itâs like a holiday in the Canary Islands.
Holidays in the Canary Islands can be great but you donât want them to go on forever - after a while you start getting bored, restless and tired of it all and you want to go home.
Once the temporary manager that made everything seem like a holiday in the Canary Islands is made permanent, your flight home has been cancelled and youâre stranded out there.
You have two options - pay through the nose and get a different flight home - ie. play to get the manager sacked - or stay out there for good - ie. make it work under the new permanent manager - and you donât want to do that.
Itâs the business end of the season when lads start to trot out âwhy does anybody support any teamâ line. Self protection from the binary nature of sport I guess.
Same lads will lose interest in the GAA too around July.
Sure lads are mad. Wasnât there an omertĂ on here lest it derail Limerickâs drive for five.
Sport is a release and if you have an emotional investment made over your life then no harm. We all have to get up for work in the morning except @anon61878697
Grown men coming to blows in pubs in Dublin over United Liverpool rivalry is daft alright.
