I'm sitting here looking at our squad, and the usual enthusiasm and belief of winning the title this season is here and booming.
Suddenly it's overtaken by a stupendous thought. Bloody hell, this REALLY is a good squad. These might not be rose-tinted specs for a change. We might actually bloody well do it, not because other teams implode and fuck up, but because we are actually good enough.
How the fuck did that happen?
I think it is down to teamwork. Not the usual teamwork, but a different, more important team. The team that runs THFC. Levy takes some credit for assembling this team, but if you are a Levy hater you can be happy, because you can now give the credit to somebody else, whether it is AVB for the playing style, Baldini for the recruiting, Steffen for exciting the lads, Ramsay for producing wonderkids, or even Donna Cullen for raising our profile. Maybe even one of the back room boys whose names we dont know.
And that's the whole point - we are truly a team and is it the first time ever that you have seen teamwork to this extent in the EPL? OWF, for all his brilliance, was a one man band with helpers. At THFC we truly seem to be developing a Staff, where one man is no longer important. This is what I mean by teamwork. And that is so brilliant, for it means that we are building something for the truly long term.
Has there been another club run so professionally?
Suddenly it's overtaken by a stupendous thought. Bloody hell, this REALLY is a good squad. These might not be rose-tinted specs for a change. We might actually bloody well do it, not because other teams implode and fuck up, but because we are actually good enough.
How the fuck did that happen?
I think it is down to teamwork. Not the usual teamwork, but a different, more important team. The team that runs THFC. Levy takes some credit for assembling this team, but if you are a Levy hater you can be happy, because you can now give the credit to somebody else, whether it is AVB for the playing style, Baldini for the recruiting, Steffen for exciting the lads, Ramsay for producing wonderkids, or even Donna Cullen for raising our profile. Maybe even one of the back room boys whose names we dont know.
And that's the whole point - we are truly a team and is it the first time ever that you have seen teamwork to this extent in the EPL? OWF, for all his brilliance, was a one man band with helpers. At THFC we truly seem to be developing a Staff, where one man is no longer important. This is what I mean by teamwork. And that is so brilliant, for it means that we are building something for the truly long term.
Has there been another club run so professionally?