The View From Churchmans

Where do I start? Shocking. Everything was wrong: the application, the tactics, the individual performances ...this was just horrible to watch. Losing at home to the best team in the division is acceptable. But the manner of doing it was not. This is not my team at the moment. People argue that a club cannot have a "style"; how is a "club culture" possible in a business where the personnel and management change ... More...

Lesser hacks would describe this as a workmanlike performance (one of those phrases, like "despatched with aplomb", which are only ever used in a footballing context), but as Jean-Luc Godard said, "To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated." We got the result, and things are moving in the right ... More...