Pep - Manager of the Season 2017/18

Quite.

Drives me mad when I hear people having the discussion about whether he could succeed with a pile of shite club and second rate players. I even heard a West Ham fan mutter something about that on Sunday. It's so irrelevant. Pep is that smart and knowledgeable that he probably could work wonders with a "small" team but he doesn't need to and why would he want to. Pep is the go to guy if you want to get top players playing beautiful football whilst winning trophies. He is the epitome of elite.

Whatever happens in our last three games, what he has achieved this season is truly special and goes way beyond simply having the most expensive squad around.

Roy Hodgson, for instance, has done a very good job getting Palace out of trouble but if you look at it closely - and I haven't - he's saved a team that should not have been in relegation trouble. They had a bad start but he's had time to get them out of the mire; he's not taken them to a position above where they necessarily should be. There's a raft of teams who are much of a muchness and he has taken points from them. They did manage to beat Chelsea but based on a quick look, I think they have taken all of seven points off the top 8 clubs. He's been a very experienced guy doing experienced guy things but he ain't a special guy doing special things; Pep is.

Yup, it’s just another made up media construct to try and undermine our achievement. As I’ve said elsewhere, it’s like saying that Alain Ducasse can’t be considered a great chef until he proves he can knock out egg and chips 50 times an hour in a Gateshead cafe, or Red Rum can’t be considered a great race horse cos he’s never won the Clonmel Donkey Derby round a ploughed field with a fat kid on his back. It’s too ridiculous for words. The whole thing should be viewed the other way round, ie. give Tony Pulis £500m and he’d still win fuck all
 
Yup, it’s just another made up media construct to try and undermine our achievement. As I’ve said elsewhere, it’s like saying that Alain Ducasse can’t be considered a great chef until he proves he can knock out egg and chips 50 times an hour in a Workington cafe, or Red Rum can’t be considered a great race horse cos he’s never won the Clonmel Donkey Derby round a ploughed field with a fat kid on his back. It’s too ridiculous for words. The whole thing should be viewed the other way round, ie. give Tony Pulis £500m and he’ll still win fuck all
Messi's alright, but could he bang them in for Grimsby?
 
Where opinion is concerned rather than achievements it is not surprising that football writers vote the way how they write ie with bias rather than logic.
 
Yup, it’s just another made up media construct to try and undermine our achievement. As I’ve said elsewhere, it’s like saying that Alain Ducasse can’t be considered a great chef until he proves he can knock out egg and chips 50 times an hour in a Gateshead cafe, or Red Rum can’t be considered a great race horse cos he’s never won the Clonmel Donkey Derby round a ploughed field with a fat kid on his back. It’s too ridiculous for words. The whole thing should be viewed the other way round, ie. give Tony Pulis £500m and he’d still win fuck all

It would be an interesting experiment to give our team to a Pulis and put Pep in charge of Oxford United but about as useful as pouring sulphuric acid on your foot to see what happened.
 
If Dyche wins it I will seriously lose my shit! As much as the Dingles are punching above their weight, it would be tantamount to celebrating an unimaginative and mundane style of play compared to what we've produced this season!
 

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