Football Daily | Football’s version of toddlers at a party fighting over the last piece of cake
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Having watched his team record their best result of the season against Everton, Mauricio Pochettino must have been thrilled that talk in his post-match press conference was dominated by talk of an unseemly squabble between several of his players over who should take a penalty. And while it might sound like we’re being facetious, nothing could be further from the truth – finally, the wider football world had been provided with incontrovertible evidence of what exactly the Argentinian has to put up with. An elite manager cast into a role more kindergarten cop than Jürgen Klopp, it has long been suspected that Pochettino has had foisted upon him a squad seriously lacking in wisdom and experience. And on Monday night, like two entitled toddlers at a party fighting over the last piece of cake, Nicolas Jackson and Noni Madueke proved the point when both tried to snatch a spot-kick from each other and their team’s designated penalty-taker. Ultimately neither petulant tantrum-thrower got their way and demonstrating effortless cool of the jazz musician his name suggests he should really be, Cole Palmer got to riff, be-bop and scat on an already perfect hat-trick.
I’m going to try ‘I believe in rainbows and unicorns’ (yesterday’s Football Daily, full email edition) at my next performance review with management when they ask me what I’m going to do to improve my work performance. I would have thought ‘stop shipping calamitous own goals’ might be a better solution. Once is unlucky, twice is careless” – Brian James.
Wow! That Wrexham team must be really good, back-to-back promotions. They must be better than any other team in League Two. What’s that? They have played one game more than Stockport County and are four points behind. But, but, that must mean Stockport are a better team this season? Must be a fluke. Wrexham were champions of the National League last year. Where were Stockport then? Oh, in League Two because they won the National League the year before. Where were Wrexham that year? Oh, second, behind Stockport and failed to go up in the playoffs. What about head-to-heads? Stockport 5-0 Wrexham, game at Wrexham still to be played. That’s good, it will give the Wrexham players the opportunity to form a guard of honour for the champions (hopefully)” – Dave Challinor Brian Ross.
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