KentBlue
Well-Known Member
He probably would, but that isn't saying much. They could employ Pardew, Hodgson, Pulis, any of the usual suspects - the outcome would be exactly the same because the rags are not very good. They don't have a good team, they don't have a good manager, they don't have good owners, and they don't have a good structure upon which to build for the future. How all this came about can be debated for many years to come, but however it came about is irrelevant, it's here and it's not going away anytime soon.
The rags have been a mid-table club for years and years. Even when the Pisscan was there, people were saying what a fantastic team they were. If they were so good why did they have to rely so heavily on referees to help them out season after season? We all know they would not have been anywhere near as successful as they were had Webb, Clattenburg, Dean etc applied the rules of the game fair and square.
And on top of this, the Murdoch-owned media have been pandering to the plastic masses for so long now that it's nigh on impossible for them to report the truth, even if they wanted to.
It's a bit like those plastic boybands from X factor or something: get a bunch of pretty-boy singers together, employ some professional stylists to dress them, do their hair, make-up etc, employ some professional songwriter whose fortè is 3 minute, cheesy pop songs with a bouncy singalong chorus, package the whole thing together, and then sit back and watch the millions coming in from all the kids and the easily-manipulated youngsters.
Without the huge Simon Cowell propaganda machine behind them, these band members would be stacking shelves or receiving benefits.
Same with the rags. Go a couple of home games without defeat and it's suddenly 'fortress Trafford' instead of 'routine 0-0 bore-fest'. Player scores a couple of tap-ins and he's suddenly 'scoring for fun', instead of being 'fortunate to get a rebound'.
Nobody can hide behind a facade for ever, and that includes the rags. They've been found out for what they've always been, a mid-table club that has been hyped into the stratosphere by lemmings like Custis and his ilk. Sure, they got very very lucky with the formation of the Premier League, the money, the glitz and the celebrity status, and a half-decent manager in the Pisscan, who was both revered and adored in equal measure. But that could so easily have been Aston Villa, Ipswich Town, Derby County etc, instead of the rags.
