[valpayne]

Cheers Tibby entertaining is my business so I like to keep it amusing even if I'm on my soap box. Il be brutally honest I used to despise TP back in his Stoke days but the truth of that is because I was sick of us losing to what I used to call a team of thugs lol! I hated losing to them more than most teams and I hated seeing him on MOTD doing his post match talks (smug bar steward I used to think) when he was appointed however my immediate reaction was firstly- thank de lawd he's on our side now cos maybe we can start beating teams we never used to and I can enjoy some of those smug post match talks. I also thought he was a good appointment because unlike Mel Irvine Di Matteo and a few others at least the guy has premiership experience and knows how to survive in it. I listened to his early interviews and he talks with experience and a good degree of sense and seems to have broad shoulders. He also appears to have a no nonsense approach to the work ethic he expects from these overpaid kids and tackles shirkers and the berahino types head on and puts them in their place I believe he man or should that be boy manages individuals with a fair amount of guile. I agree though 100% with others that it's not really the kind of football I like to see either but we all know this league is about results and this is what TP can and has achieved. I personally feel that over the last 15 years Hodgson looked like the one coach that could have given us what we all wanted an organised defence with some attacking flair but that appointment was very short lived thanks to the bloody FA steal. So we will never know. See my eureka post on here for the last time we had it all IMO oh and didn't that also end very quickly as Man U came knocking along with Real Madrid and back to the dark ages we went