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Only joking Windizzle, I did really. Top stuff!
Just going back to the "players never used to be rotated" arguement that he and several others trot out...
Yes, that is true. But no players were really ever "rotated" 40-50 years ago, and as such by April/May these players all had 50-60 games under their belt and were probably suffering a bit (plus as Windy said the game was slower due to the pitch quality etc). The point is that opposition teams now rotate their players so they are specifically fresher than those who are not rotated. The point is not the number of appearances Walker/BAE have made relative to Bobby Moore or Alan Mullery, but to Patrice Evra or Micah Richards etc.
Any idiot - and we're all idiots remember - could see that Parker had run himself into the ground by around December and we had a couple of "soft" home games (Sunderland/Bolton) around then where we could have rotated Sandro (returning from injury) or Livermore back in to give him a break pre-Christmas.
It amazes me that a so called "man-manager" can't recognize something this basic. Let alone his antagonistic comments about the players and the whole Modric debacle...
Yes, that is true. But no players were really ever "rotated" 40-50 years ago, and as such by April/May these players all had 50-60 games under their belt and were probably suffering a bit (plus as Windy said the game was slower due to the pitch quality etc). The point is that opposition teams now rotate their players so they are specifically fresher than those who are not rotated. The point is not the number of appearances Walker/BAE have made relative to Bobby Moore or Alan Mullery, but to Patrice Evra or Micah Richards etc.
Any idiot - and we're all idiots remember - could see that Parker had run himself into the ground by around December and we had a couple of "soft" home games (Sunderland/Bolton) around then where we could have rotated Sandro (returning from injury) or Livermore back in to give him a break pre-Christmas.
It amazes me that a so called "man-manager" can't recognize something this basic. Let alone his antagonistic comments about the players and the whole Modric debacle...