Instead of players arguing or debating, with various levels of animosity towards each other, you need to clarify and simplify a personal and unit role
It’s always this time of the year that a team can drop like a stone. From 18th place to 11th, there are only seven points separating the teams
First, Southampton, now Reading. These are supposed to be “nice” clubs, aren’t they? These are the clubs that give British managers the chance to cut their teeth
The Secret Journalist ponders events of the week – big and small, catchy and quirky – in 140 words
OK, it was not Fergie, Wenger or Benitez getting the chop. That would have been seismic, well off the Richter Scale on “Fleet Street”
McDermott was and is an honorable man. He had spent 13 years at the Royals and yet, at the first sign of trouble, the powers that be sacked him
The glory of winning in battle still exists but it is a glory that is increasingly driven by people behind glass-tinted boxes
You may think this is fine for managers and coaches but support staff, in the medical and sports science areas, are also at risk
There is a lot of talent in their squad and if they play with the fluidity they did against Everton, then they will be fine in the Premier League
Fergie knew that his decision to omit Wayne Rooney from United’s starting XI will have put sports editors around Europe in a mischievous state of mind
