With respect to the man in the street, I don’t listen to that too much but I listen to managers who have been in the situation. I don’t want to tell you who’s contacted me but some people have given me a little bit of advice.
It’s a shame when you hear some people who should know a little bit better. It’s a tough job. Until you’ve stood in that technical area, you don’t really know. As much as I was close to it for many years, until you’re there and the buck stops with you, you can’t really comment. I do respect the people who have been in there and told me. And the other ones who have just passed comment, then I would say to them ‘you don’t know.’
I’ve had so many well-wishers in the game, especially English managers. They all want me to do well. Ex-managers want me to do well. I feel the pressure of that because I really want to do well, because I want to fly the flag for English managers. But I want to do it in my way.
Of course Tim isn’t going to listen to the man in the stands. Well, let’s qualify that a little. He was telling Levy & Co. to listen to the fans in the stands when he was merely pointing out displeasure of the great and the good that couldn’t cope with watching a side that had just bought 7 new players, in transition.
But now he’s in the hot seat, what do they know?
And you don’t need to tell us who has contacted you. It’s Arry. We know. If you’re trying to kid us Slur Alex or Pep have been on the phone, you’ll need to try again, mush.
On Soldado, we get an explanation as to why he wasn’t afforded the opportunity to build upon his goal against Cardiff.
In Tim’s book, Bobby’s simply not good enough to play against the top sides.
Ouch.
He’s not dying. He’s just in a barren spell. He knows that. To be fair if I rewind a little bit, he scored against Cardiff and he’s really unlucky how the fixtures fell after that.
We had to go away at Stamford Bridge and you can’t play with two up front there, you’ll get murdered. So we changed the way we played and we got it right for an hour until we had a calamity with a few goals.
If we had played at home against one of the teams lower he probably would have played and maybe got into a rhythm.”
