[Worldclassalbion]

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.

Of course he has to take blame for blowing leads Ska'd, that's a given BUT he did what was asked of him.

I have played football at a good level and if things were going wrong you adapt yourself along with the other players, you don't have to wait for a manager to tell you and you do it if he doesn't then argue in the changing room later SO as I said the players couldn't do what he wanted of them. Amazingly though because TP is a hard nut this group ofplayers are working their dangly bits off, therefore Mels players were lazy or thick or both and let him down massively.