He's not retracted it.
This time last year, anyone, even fucking Airfixx would be lying through their teeth if they had an ounce of positivity.
We'd gone from Poch, Champions league finals, to Mourinho, a serial winner to fucking Nuno. A drab, pointless, useless, dour, unsuccessful ex average goalkeeper. A man who, by his own admission, had learned everything he knew from the guy we previously sacked. And that was off the back of being knocked back by Conte.
What O'Hara said perfectly reflected where we were as a club and a fanbase.
The fact it got so awful there was serious fan discontent. Attendances started to drop. There was toxic negativity in the crowd forced FORCED Levy to act. He quite obviously had to bend over and fucking beg Conte to come and fix it. There's no doubt whatever Levy wouldn't agree to last summer, he backed down on the 2nd time around.
The fact the outlook changed thereon doesn't change what the situation was when O'Hara said what he said.
I remember him on the radio when we thought Conte was coming in the summer. He was on the 100% windup against Woolwich and Chelsea that we were gonna win the league etc.
He's a thick but he knows the difference between a Conte team and a Nuno team.