TyldesleyLatic

There’s no right & no wrong formation to play in football. There never has been & there never will be.
It’s about selecting the formation best suited to the skill set of your squad and that’s one of the problems at Latics at the moment coz I don’t think 1 up front works with the current squad but there’s been times in the past, with different players, when it has worked
As it happens I don’t think that we’ve got the personnel to be successful at 4-4-2 either. I don’t think that we have the midfielders to be strong with 2 in the middle & I don’t think McManaman is an out & out winger but there’s no-one else I can think to put down that flank. I also don’t think our defenders work well as a team with only 2 centre halves

This can also mean that you don’t always pick your best 11 individual players more that you pick the 11 who can best gel as a unit in whatever formation that may be. I’ve seen it virtually all my life watching England where different managers have picked who they think are the best 11 players & tried to shoehorn them in together – Gerrard & Lampard in the middle of the park being one of the more recent examples. The times when they’ve had more success is when they’ve found a system that works with certain players – they won the World Cup despite having the best striker in the country at the time getting splinters in his bum coz other players worked better in Ramsay’s 4-3-3

Personally with Latics current squad, I’d go with 3 centre halves (Boyce, Ramis & Figueroa), 2 wing backs (Perch/Tavernier & Taylor), 3 central midfielders (Kvist, McCann & Mloney) & 2 up top (McManaman being one of them Riera/Delort/Holt being the other)

Egg’s right.
As an individual you couldn’t sue for libel or defamation from that article – Dave Whelan & Malky Mckay could try as they are individually named but as a Wigan Athletic fan I’m pretty certain you couldn’t although the supporters club might have more ability to

Aside from that, I think the writer could also justifiably point out that “Town full of p***s” & other such delights are sung by significant section of the Latics faithful at Latics v Bolton games and the fact that the club had to issue a statement only last week reminding all fans that the use of offensive language etc.. was illegal, as grounds for making such a statement regardless of whether you, me or anyone else on here chanted it

If its just those texts (or even similar additional ones that have yet to come to light) then the FA can’t do anything. Aside from privacy laws they set themselves a precedent when they said they couldn’t charge Scudamore with anything when his former secretary leaked what some deemed sexist emails, on the grounds that it was private communication between 2 individuals
What I’ve read the delay is in either charging or not charging him, is that they want to investigate whether there are any texts/emails in the public domain and/or whether they type of language used in the ones currently known about is indicative of a culture of prejudice operated by Mackay when he was in charge at Cardiff.
The comments from the South Korean player’s agent would indicate that there wasn’t whilst the comments that have come from the player who claims he was known as the “wee Eyptian” would indicate that others felt there was (or may have been).
So aside from just looking through the texts & emails provided to them by Cardiff I think they’re also going to be interviewing staff at the club[/quote]

Of course they can! They are not looking to bring criminal charges, this is an internal football charge loosely based on the old “bringing the game into disrepute” scenario. Wehther they should, or whether they want to risk someone counter-suing the is another matter altogether.[/quote]

They can’t though. They’ve admitted it themselves in the past.
There is a limit to what can be classed as bringing the game into disrepute & the FA stayed what that was several months ago

If its just those texts (or even similar additional ones that have yet to come to light) then the FA can’t do anything. Aside from privacy laws they set themselves a precedent when they said they couldn’t charge Scudamore with anything when his former secretary leaked what some deemed sexist emails, on the grounds that it was private communication between 2 individuals
What I’ve read the delay is in either charging or not charging him, is that they want to investigate whether there are any texts/emails in the public domain and/or whether they type of language used in the ones currently known about is indicative of a culture of prejudice operated by Mackay when he was in charge at Cardiff.
The comments from the South Korean player’s agent would indicate that there wasn’t whilst the comments that have come from the player who claims he was known as the “wee Eyptian” would indicate that others felt there was (or may have been).
So aside from just looking through the texts & emails provided to them by Cardiff I think they’re also going to be interviewing staff at the club

I didn’t count the United game as it was a friendly

I was wasting time in work yacking with a contractor we use (& fellow Latics fan) about the merits of our squad earlier this week & what I think is the root of Latics problems is not so much that the players are individually poor or so much worse than the players at other clubs, its that for the first time since I’ve been following Latics I can look at the squad and I don’t think that I could tell you what I thought is best starting XI & likewise the playing system which would best utilise the players talents.
In every area of the field if I think that one area would suit one type of formation then it means the players we have aren’t suite to playing in the roles elsewhere in that system. For example if we go with 2 up front I don’t think that we have the central midfielders suited to playing 2 in the middle or enough out & out wingers (at a push it’s McClean’s best position but it aint either Maloney’s or McManaman’s) needed for a 4-4-2. Go with 3 in the middle & 2 up front then for me there’s no position for Maloney, McClean or McManaman & you lose some of our most potent & quickest attacking threats.
If you go with the 1 up front & 2 advanced midfielders used under Bobby we aint got the person up front capable of playing that role effectively enough.
I don’t think the centre halves we have suit having 2 there but put 3 at the back & I don’t think we have anyone effective enough at left wing back.

I think that it comes from having had 4 managers in little over 19 months all with their own types of system & preferred players, and a high number of players leaving due to needing to balance the books & they themselves wanting to play at higher levels. Its led to a right hotch potch of a squad, very few of which I think are poor but who don’t compliment each other

I didn’t think there was any way that the whole ball had crossed the line but there’s some footage on youtube which just shows that incident & pauses it just before McCann clears it & the linesman got it spot on.
Fair play to him coz he’d have had to be bang on with the line to call that & he didn’t have that long to get from the last defender to the goal line to make sure he was in position