Tom Ross column: Time for Birmingham City, West Brom and Wolves fans to lay off managers
IT’S quite amazing that when teams start to lose games or perform poorly out come all the comments about the gaffer from us Monday morning managers.
One of the favourites is “he’s lost the dressing room”. “He can’t motivate the team” is another belter, as is “the players don’t want to play for him”.
One you hear a lot, is “he’s tactically naïve” while “he’s lost the plot” is another that is used frequently.
However, they have one thing in common: they are generally only used when a team loses.
“He’s lost the dressing room” is used even when the team has won the week before.
This has come in the main from Baggies, Blues and even Wolves fans recently.
I understand perfectly that we Monday morning managers all believe we can do the job better than Tony Mowbray, Alex McLeish or Mick McCarthy.
Part of what makes the game so compulsive and addictive is that we can all have opinions on any aspect of the game, from the boardroom to the boot-room.
However, we are all playing fantasy football, while the managers do it for real and yes, in the wonderful foolproof world of hindsight, they do make some mistakes.
There is not a manager alive or dead who is or was infallible.
