Wandsworth Wolf
02-02-2012, 16:06
I'm sure some of you receive the 'The Fiver', the daily football email from the Guardian. It's pretty funny and today's lead article made me laugh. Well, if you didn't laugh, you'd cry.
TAKING THE MICK?
Wolves owner Steve Morgan has watched his side crash out of the FA Cup to Birmingham, go 11 games without a win and even contrive to lose to Chelsea, and still managed to keep his opinions to himself. But on Tuesday night, something changed. First, Wolves let Andy Carroll capitalise on the split-second he wasn't thinking about his next night out to score a goal for Liverpool. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, they let Dirk Kuyt, confidence buoyed by a sharp-shooting zero league goals all season, help himself as well, two events that did little for Mick McCarthy's no-nonsense reputation.
Enough was enough and Morgan was in the home dressing room after the game to deliver a few home truths, with McCarthy left standing feebly by, the memories of Saipan suddenly washing all over him. McCarthy also received the dreaded vote of confidence from his captain Roger Johnson. "Changing the manager isn't going to change what the players do on the pitch," he said, something that would have been handy for McCarthy to have known when he spent £5.5m on the defender last summer.
TAKING THE MICK?
Wolves owner Steve Morgan has watched his side crash out of the FA Cup to Birmingham, go 11 games without a win and even contrive to lose to Chelsea, and still managed to keep his opinions to himself. But on Tuesday night, something changed. First, Wolves let Andy Carroll capitalise on the split-second he wasn't thinking about his next night out to score a goal for Liverpool. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, they let Dirk Kuyt, confidence buoyed by a sharp-shooting zero league goals all season, help himself as well, two events that did little for Mick McCarthy's no-nonsense reputation.
Enough was enough and Morgan was in the home dressing room after the game to deliver a few home truths, with McCarthy left standing feebly by, the memories of Saipan suddenly washing all over him. McCarthy also received the dreaded vote of confidence from his captain Roger Johnson. "Changing the manager isn't going to change what the players do on the pitch," he said, something that would have been handy for McCarthy to have known when he spent £5.5m on the defender last summer.