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It was a bit of media spin wasn’t it ?
Needed though at the time and it was spun around the time the club had a home friendly against Torpedo Moscow from memory.
Much needed back then especially as little Moreese across town was knocking us towards oblivion at every turn.
Never forgetJust watched Sunderland batter Rotherham with 10 of the starting 11 who were L1 regulars last season. Yet we struggled to get a point from them at the very end of last season with the same players.
Strange what a bit of confidence can do. Seven games in and I’ve still not seen an opposition side and thought “wow”.
I thought that until the Burnley game
A performance that said everything about our fantastic little club.
Brave , determined and professional are the three words I would use and yesterday is up there with the best ever results achieved by this club since 1978.
Only 4 other games are up there with it Man City cup final , West Ham 2011 , Arsenal 2010 and the famous Port vale comeback from 3 down in 1979.
Many more heroic performances I grant you but that one yesterday topped the lot for me.Not one team from league 1 has finished in top half after promotion in past 5 or 6 seasons.
Hopefully trend will reverse as league 1 was very strong last season and is still the case.100% play the kids
The league cup is a competion long past it’s sell by date which was in the 80s.
It attracts very poor gates and most teams play weakened
ones anyway making the ties non events.
Was brought in to boost floodlight football in the 1960s and has had its day in my view.
You know who the winners will be before it starts , Man City or Liverpool.B*****cks to him , ref had a great game in my view.
Just ragged off because our little team he thinks they should beat hollow has come and done a very good job on his very lightweight bunch today.
A true Latics performance that today once they realised the opposition didn’t deserve the respect showed to them early on in the game.
Latics gave a performance to be proud of and dare we start to dream a little ?All graft and effort we displayed on Saturday Aside I am rather concerned with the lack of transfer activity.
I felt we were very lucky to get a point as they had the better chances and we lacked cutting edge.
I am not expecting anything other than a relegation fight given how strong this division is , far stronger than the last time we were in it.A team that struggled all season with some ageing world weary players in there also .
Far more hungry, younger and ambitious bunch this time out with one or two ambitious wise old heads to help them.
Won’t be easy and I’m expecting a few dustings here and there but this lot renind me more of Paul Jewell’s 2003-4 set up than Cookys 3 years ago.
Just have to keep our chins up when we get done as we surely will over the season.
