Suggested New Year’s resolution: give the moaning a rest
Dear Premier League players, managers and pundits, I’ve got a great suggestion for a New Year’s Resolution - stop moaning!
Win or lose, it seems hardly a match goes by without an immediate post-mortem and it’s almost always the fault of the match officials rather than poor skill or tactical ineptitude.
“I think when he looks at that on replay he will probably apologise,” has become a refrain of hard-done by managers these days as they highlight one decision of hundreds in a match that did not go the way they would have liked.
Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate laughed off the idea that his team should have had a penalty in their defeat at Old Trafford on Monday, saying, “You don’t get those things here,” while Harry Redknapp let fly this week with a tirade of abuse towards a referee who sent off one of his Tottenham players. (more…)
