DON’T BLAME THE REF!

JOHN LYONS says managers need to take a look at themselves before criticising the man-in-black…

 Derby’s John Eustace tangles with Ipswich’s David McGoldrick

WOULDN’T you just love it if a manager came out after a game and admitted that he´d made a complete mess of it.

Perhaps something like: “I’ve got to apologise to my players and our fans today because I got the game-plan and my substitutions totally wrong.”
Self-criticism is a concept that seems to have bypassed managers. Witness their postmatch press conferences and you...

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