12-01-2016, 17:02
We didn't really survive because of attacking football that season, though. The two results which kept us up - wins against Norwich and West Ham - were both achieved by scoring an early goal on the counter and then having eleven men in our own half for the rest of the game. If Mel takes the credit for that, he equally has to take the blame for us blowing a 2-0 lead at Villa because our Lugano-led back four was pushed up to the halfway line and getting shredded by the long ball over and over again.
Nice bloke, in a bad situation, probably badly-treated as a result, but there was a whiff of the emperor's new clothes about his tactics.
Nice bloke, in a bad situation, probably badly-treated as a result, but there was a whiff of the emperor's new clothes about his tactics.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley