On some very, very rare occasions it has been known for us to be ever so slightly wrong about something. Here are five absolute shockers from the summer.
Say what you like about us – and you do, at length, and bless you for that – but we will try and hold our hands up on the, ahem, rare occasions we turn out to have got something wrong. Despite repeated protestations from assorted humiliated staffers every year, the traditional season predictions catastrophe not only still exists, not only is never deleted, but even has attention drawn back to it at least twice every year. It’s cruel is what it is..
What he’s appeared to be in his first nine games for the club is simply brilliant. All the Kane focus of the summer rather took attention away from the fact Spurs also had to replace a keeper who hadn’t always been entirely consistent but had been their well-established number one for a decade.
But that winless run from last season is now nine games longer for a Bournemouth side only kept off the bottom of the table by virtue of Sheffield United chucking in. O’Neil, meanwhile, accepted the poisoned chalice of the Wolves job on the eve of the season and with a squad shorn of many key component parts.
To O’Neil’s enormous credit, he is earnest and affable enough that he managed to do this without it once looking like a perfectly justified Partridge-style needless-to-say-I-had-the-last-laugh retort. Which is, in itself, almost as impressive as beating Manchester City.Thought they’d be quite good, didn’t we? Certainly thought they’d stay up. And a bit like Bournemouth we were too keen for too long to explain away the obvious failings by pointing to a difficult early fixture list.
Yes they’ve played some good teams but so, by now, has everyone. And conceding more goals than everyone apart from the team that shipped eight in one game is not a good look for team or manager.This was really silly of us in hindsight. Manchester United might occasionally oscillate towards competence and away from soap opera ridiculousness as they did last season under Erik Ten Hag, but the general trend will always be towards drama and chaos.
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