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Poison: a comeback
Tottenham are leaders of the Premier League and José Mourinho has surprised many of us by not being the man of yesterday. Some of us admit that we were wrong but others, well, others are Stan Collymore.
He gutted Mourinho in January for the Daily mirror, with highlights from his column including:
* “As a senior manager, with the ability to motivate and organize, you are done.”
* “He will end up in tears with the Spurs worse than where he found them, more disgruntled players and good debt in the club’s bank account.”
* ‘Now is the average’.
So he Mourinho dismantled in march for the Daily mirror, with highlights from his column including:
* ‘It feels poisonous, spiteful, like it knows it will be there for a couple of years and then it will go away. That is José Mourinho of Tottenham Hotspur. Your point of sale is gone.
* ‘If Mourinho’s motivation no longer works, if the tactician José has lagged behind in terms of trophies… what do you have left?’
* “Players don’t want to play for him.”
* “Not only will it fail to bring Tottenham closer to the promised land of a trophy, even an FA or a League Cup, but it will cost them all the good work they have done in the last five years.”
Now in November, the mature thing is to say that perhaps you misjudged the situation.
On the other hand, you could be Collymore and write that Mourinho, the best of the table, remembers, ‘will lose players who want to play expressive and expansive football’ if they do not win trophies quickly. Yes, all Spurs fans are incredibly concerned about that particular scenario.
“I’m just afraid there will be damage to the line when Mourinho leaves.”
‘Fear’? Or ‘hope’ after nailing his colors to the mast and refusing to go down even a little bit in the face of overwhelming evidence?
A special one
And this is what happens when José Mourinho is in the news and the Manchester evening news they know they can deal with a few precious clicks away from London …
‘Alex Telles can decide the future of the signing of José Mourinho at Manchester United’
The ‘signing of José Mourinho’ in question is Diogo Dalot. And if you’re wondering now how a Manchester United left-back can decide the future of a Manchester United right-back currently on loan at AC Milan, ask no more, because the answer is just one word: clicks.
Oh boy Danny …
Elsewhere in Stan Collymore’s column …
“I’ve seen Danny Welbeck a lot over the years and it’s hard to be tough on him, but it’s time.”
He just scored his first goal for his new club Brighton and you think now Is it time to ‘be tough on him’?
Damn hell, Stan.
Also, he’s probably not “in his prime.” He is 29 years old.
Second Gea
the BBC The match report said that “Sam Johnstone made a series of magnificent saves,” as West Brom conceded just once out of seven shots on target for Manchester United, who faced only two shots on target from the Baggies.
So who made Garth Crooks Team of the Week just so he could make it clear that he was actually right and that ‘some experts’ were wrong by leaving him? David De Gea, of course.
If you want to play behind a defense that includes forward Danny Welbeck as a left-back and Brighton’s left-back as a right-back, that’s another matter.
Liverpool Man United Liverpool Man United
The dream scenario for any click-hungry journalist is to find an angle that covers both Manchester United and Liverpool. Hence this in the Mirror website:
‘Man Utd worries about Victor Lindelof’s injury to echo Jurgen Klopp’s comments’
Victor Lindelof injured? No.
Is Victor Lindelof an ‘injury problem’? No.
Has Jurgen Klopp said anything about Victor Lindelof? No.
Has Victor Lindelof said anything about Jurgen Klopp? No.
Has anyone mentioned Victor Lindelof in relation to Jurgen Klopp or his comments? No.
Is this a bunch of nonsense designed to combine the two most popular Premier League clubs in the world? Oh yeah.
Snub standard
It is this desperation to unite Liverpool and Manchester United, separated by eight places and seven points in the Premier League table, that leaves us with this utter nonsense at the Express website:
‘Andy Robertson expects three teams to join Liverpool in the title race, but snubs Manchester United’
Honestly? It comes back to us when a Liverpool player names all the teams in the middle of the table as potential title rivals; Manchester United have not finished 30 points behind Liverpool since 2017/18.
More more more
Take a look at the Premier League table and then at the list of the Premier League top scorers this season and it will take you about three seconds to figure something out. So why The Sun Website you have to paste a REVEALED tag on this claim …
‘Arsenal’s problems in front of goal are revealed with Dominic Calvert-Lewin scoring more times than the Gunners this season alone’
…it is not clear.
Since when did one number larger than another make the news?
Express delivery
This is smart and kinda gross for him Express website; It’s no wonder it’s at the top of your MOST READ article lists.
‘Arsenal bosses sent Mikel Arteta farewell message after Leeds United draw’
Reading that, we could conclude that Arsenal bosses have issued a dismissal message from Mikel Arteta. Because that’s what the headline says quite clearly. That is undoubtedly newsworthy.
But read again and it could be the Arsenal bosses who Has been issued a dismissal message from Mikel Arteta. That’s considerably less newsworthy, especially when the person delivering said message (or “says something,” in the old vernacular) is former Crystal Palace president Simon Jordan, who is not remotely associated with any of the parts of this story.
That confusion is not an accident. That is clickbait in its purest form.
Read these things instead …
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Sid lowe about Atlético de Madrid
Melissa reddy on the analytical revolution in Liverpool
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