Don’t actually recall him doing that? I only remember him calling out the fans as being clueless for cheering when we cleared long against Liverpool and Villa. Which demonstrated just how humble and classy he is.
Interesting piece, focussing on what spurs did wrong but never once showed the breadth of thinking to consider
a) what do you do as a manager when your players continually let you down because they’re not good enough? Persist, lose confidence, get worse, or adapt to protect and grind results?
b) what do you do for all the other facets of the game, of which there are many? Or are you so fixated on the starting of every phase at the back that you pick players solely on this and forget about the need to have anyone who can defend, save, tackle, create a chance, score a goal, defend a set piece, attack a set piece etc.
(I’m aware we scored plenty last season - I’m being somewhat facetious)
Russell sounded good last night from a certain angle but then his football in theory is wonderful. And when you have the better players it can work. But in the real world it’s flawed, and it’s high risk so liable to be badly exposed when you don’t have the best players. So you need to adapt. Which he doesn’t sound like he’s ever going to.
Good luck to whichever team next employs him, I’m just glad it’s over for us.
