Anybody else think that there's a link between Ronnie and us?
Let me explain myself. I think that now, Ronnie just gets bored. He gets bored with winning. So he sets himself challenges. Handicaps, if you like. His greatest problem is being the greatest player the game's ever produced. And for decades he's had that status. How does he deal with that? How does he get out of bed and motivate himself every morning to pick up that cue.
I think in the earlier part of the season the team looked a bit bored and disinterested. Oh yeah, we won a treble. What else? That was sort of the feeling. There are now signs that the team is waking up, saying, ok, it's down to us to set ourselves the challenge.
I wonder if Pep himself ever feels a bit bored. I sort of doubt that. But communicating his incendiary obsession with winning to his team, that must be a very difficult part of his job.
Ronnie, of course, is on his own. Must be a lonely life.
