From: {broken-address} Nicholas Armit
Sent: 03 March 2018 20:37
To: Richard Walker; Scott1cairns1; {broken-address} Nicholas Armit
Cc: Leeds List
Subject: Re: [LU] 3 nil defeatLasogga - 1. He's not nearly quick enough or fit enough to play in a team chasing the game. Yes I believe he knows where the goal is and given Chapman like service he will score a shed load in this division but at the moment we don't have the luxury (Above) Exactly what I was thinking and saying, but hadn’t put nearly so well ---------- 1) The decision to remove Green and bring in Wieldwald goes down as one of the worst pieces of football management ever witnessed. Up there with selling Cantona. Selling Cantona may have been a good footballing decision (a) for us (b) at the time -Wilko’s philosophy and all that, which had after all won us the title. Selling him to Man U, though, was a monumental disaster from our point of view. We fixed their engine and gave them the state of the art satnav that their machine needed to find its way. If we had sold him abroad all of that would never have happened. At the same time we would probably have deprived football of one of its magical stories. Cantona would never have done for Leeds what he did for them unless we changed 100% from where we were at the time to suit Eric alone. We were never going to do that so it would have been a dog in the manger move. Let’s face it – every single one of us knew that from the first moment that you heard of his transfer to Old Trafford. Stories of magic are a right bastard when it’s your porridge that somebody else is eating - with obvious relish. Green was a pillock for demanding a guaranteed first team place. Maybe he has been hurt in the past but in football you have to believe that you are good enough to win your place week in week out and not by means of simply a contract. With a guaranteed place Green might also have turned into a disaster. when things are this bad everything else looks like a better alternative. Forgive me. Not in a good place right now but I’m sure things are still better than they were a few years ago. We have something like a football club again – even when that club is getting it wrong at the moment. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ RIP Jimmy WAC-COE
