If I see Taylor laughing and smiling at the final whistle, as he was after the Arsenal match, I am going to need to have the missus turn off my computer so I don’t catch a ban on here sharing my thoughts about him.
That small-time mindset should be nowhere near the team. You don’t become perennial winners by simply accepting graciously that you bottled the league but improved compared to last season. You aren’t setting the right expectations and demands of the players or the staff by declaring this a “successful” season because you finished second.
The women need to have the same expectations as the men: no trophies, especially from a position to win them going in to the final minutes of the penultimate game of the season, and going through the motions to end the season once the league has gone, is unacceptable.
Don’t care if I come off as a curmudgeonly ****. I want the women to be as dominant as the men—many of them deserve it for all of their hard work. Houghton certainly deserved a league title to sign off. And it is a disservice to all of them to not demand the same level of excellence (and sense of failure when they fall short) as the club does of the men.
Broadly proud of the players, but not Taylor.