I hate to sound like a creep, but this is a brilliant post! It is pure literature, beautifully constructed and extremely well phrased. One of the Top Ten posts to this list EVER, IMHO, and I really hope it proves to be prescient.
Whatever you were on when you wrote all that, MDM, I suggest you stick to it! P.S. If I was wrong about my Guardian diatribe, I apologise, although I do stick to my basic points which were that a) your original anti-Manchester rant was weird, even by your standards, and b) when I lived in Israel, I frequently found myself being abused merely for reading The Guardian. Hi Football is not linear or predictable. It is a bit like the weather. The gulf stream or whatever. Illness and health is pretty good comparison too. There is a sort of overall predictability but then things can change in an unpredictable way. Ever since the the Bowyer Woodgate evening of shame & O'Leary's idiot book we have been on a course of implosion. A lot of factors inter playing in different ways with an inexorable inevitability, each interacting in an unpredictable way in a series of vicious cycles.Ripples became waves. Waves became a tsunami. We imploded. Our initial position 'Living the dream' was not stable. Then the change came it was simply an implosion. It fed on the relationship and changes between all the interweaving factors. But lets face it. The vast majority of those factors have played themselves out. The signing of Wise was a very shrewd move. It may have been the right move for the wrong reason. Now the factors that will interact and bring about a new dynamic are positive ones. Monetary stability, a strong leadership, a team that is playing below itself and thus can improve, a great youth policy [ God bless Wilkinson --- how much we are indebted to that man], fantastic support and the largest city in Europe with one team. At present the momentum was down. But the factor, as I said are played out. The previous unstable situation has not only been 'corrected', it has been 'over-corrected'. If anything we are in a new unstable situation ,which hope fully will be 'corrected' by the newer positive factors. The predominantly positive factors can now act and interact if handled properly. If we get the 'Manager Effect' the momentum will change. There are good reasons to feel that we will start to surge forward. I do no think that we can believe that the change will be linear or constant.But if Wise has the strength and Bates the wisdom and they weather the first inevitable blips we can start to soar, even this season. Sure this explanation is built on a desire for it to be so. But as I said Football is like very complex system driven by a host of interweaving factors. We understand the factors but not the extent and intricacy of the relationships. The factors have nearly if not all changed for the better. The leadership needed to take advantage of the changes is in place. I am no longer pessimistic,in fact I am guardedly optimistic. I hope that we can become very optimistic after say 10 games.I think to judge anything on one game, the next one is being simplistic and unfair. Hope I did not bore you all to death! Michael -- Dr Michael Benjamin, myRay: For peace of mind, http://www.myray.com http://www.MyDoctorExplains.com http://www.DrMichaelBenjamin.com Psychiatrist ----- Fight back spam! Download the Blue Frog. http://www.bluesecurity.com/register/s?user=YmVkZW5vZ2E5NDc0 _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist oh alright then :-) _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist oh alright then :-)
