Why Mark Hughes deserves another chance at a big club, plus is Szczesny as good as he
thinks he is?
Mark Hughes cuts a sad, sombre, figure these days. He has never really recovered from his
sacking by Manchester City. His departure from Fulham was strange. It posed questions, and
delivered few answers.
A pre-season friendly.
Substantial team changes for the starting 11. Even more substantial changes at half time and
subsequently.
Young, up-and-coming Arsenal players like Bartley and Afobe getting a run out.
Nobody wanting to get injured before the serious stuff starts in a couple of weeks.
It's not even August, and Kenny Dalglish has been busier than the Pitt-Jolie's au pair brigade
when it comes to restocking the barren midfield corps that awaited him last January. Well, it's
perhaps disingenuous to call it barren; more like, not stocked particularly well. Like if a $30
dish at a fine dining establishment boasted signature ingredients like soap, anchovies, a box of
Rice-A-Roni, and a plunger.
Bob Bradley's out, and tomorrow, in all likelihood, we learn the replacement1.
I'm not a Bradley hater or apologist. I think he's a fine coach, even if he's tactically
limited/cautious, too attached to "trusted" players"2, and lacks the appropriate personality for
the grandest stage3. He'll probably pop up somewhere in MLS next year and have a fine career to
follow, maybe even fine enough that he gets a second chance at the adult table someday.
I am an unabashed Woody Allen apologist, so you won't find a "Top 5 Worst" list from me. Only the
good stuff. He's missed on a few, though none badly, and despite his age he continues to churn out
brilliant dialogue, thought-provoking themes and lush backdrops in his movies, which he still
dutifully produces at a clip of one a year.
"You say what?"
No wonder he frowns all the time. Dimitar Berbatov must be wondering what he's done so wrong in
his Manchester United career; while he isn't flawless nor is he immune from criticism there is
something that sets Berbatov apart from the rest. He is the darling of the aesthetes and rather
unorthodox for a forward, meaning he will not be appreciated by all corners as, say, Javier
Hernandez.
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Dave McIntyre Blog - Time for Real ChangeThere was a time when Ben Kosky and I were on opposite sides of the QPR fence and he was the placid
one.
In the course of Sundays blog discussion re the Toon debacle, a committed fan who unlike me,
regularly attends games and who felt totally let down by what she saw as a capitulation by the team
that day, advanced the opinion that I was too sunny in my acceptance of the team's performance.
Now leaving aside the fact (if you will forgive the cliché) that I am viewed, rightly or
wrongly, it matters not really, as a cup half full man, a Wenger apologist who can see no wrong
with the great man and a purveyor of stories of times gone by.
