If you had to pick a word, “inevitable” might be a good choice.
After all, when you hire a guy who fundamentally doesn’t know what he’s doing, the odds of things going wrong are narrowed. It’s not only brilliance that produces racing certainties. Idiocy is just as persuasive.
There was no punch up in the away dressing room at Anfield, despite the hoax reports and unthinking repeating of them.
One can only imagine how bleak that room is when you’ve been stuffed 4-0 by your hosts. The space was deliberately designed as a dog leg, in order to frustrate communication, and the decor appears to have only benefited from the same suspended ceiling that infests most of the stadium’s bowels.
The pegs are the perfunctory two hook stainless steel of your school days and there is a slatted bench running around the walls that would be described by an estate agent as an “original feature.”
Anyway, no punch up, but there most certainly was a heated face off, specifically between Dawson and Sherwood.
The complaint from our valiant boys being, at least they were actually on the pitch; opposed to half a mile away in the director’s box seats, playing Candy Crush or snap chatting a lady boy or whatever he was doing up there.
This I’m a bit nutty me, I’m too passionate me cobblers, is as derided by the players as it is the fans. Perhaps Tim has been told to stay in the stands, lest he further damages the brand?
The incomprehensibility of the team selections has riled players. The penny with some has taken some time to drop, but they see that they are being sent out into battle, largely as unarmed men.
There’s been a suggestion that Tim, bathing in his own naivety and self righteousness, simply could not believe that his charges were prepared to take another lambasting.
Instead of taking their second Mike Basset hairdryer treatment in as many weeks, he wasn’t taken seriously and as said, some actually took issue with him.
And so a source close to the debacle, tells it that Sherwood soon after the dressing room row, told Levy & Co. he was happy to walk, but the offer was calmed into a meeting that took place yesterday.
One which sadly resulted in his continued employment.
Despite the desire of all those that wish the club well, and want Chumpwood binned, it is difficult to see quite how the board would orchestrate that.
All that would do is confirm to the world that we are in as big a mess as is suspected, and that Levy & Co. can’t recruit, even internally, even for just a 6 month run.
Sunderland will be interesting. Gus Poyet and Sherwood will have a relationship. At least, professionally they know each other. Poyet is certainly a passionate man, and one gets the sense he is also a very professional one.
Will Tim be in his technical area, or is Poyet another respected individual that Sherwood has branded a mug, on his climb up along the greasy pole?
