As I sit here on a Sunday evening after the next instalment of Sky\u2019s determination to convince us all that football is great, I wonder if a change of tactic would be better. Hear me out with this because already I can hear some of you thinking, \u201cWhat are you on about Ross?\u201d<\/p>\n
Every two or three months we could all sit there and predict which matches will be on Friday, Saturday, Sunday or even Monday. Well any day of the week, really. Yesterday\u2019s \u2018MERSEYSIDE vs MANCHESTER\u2019 games could have been very anti-climactic. Everton were hardly setting the world alight and bought a defensive midfielder this week, while Manchester City seem desperate to confuse everyone with Pep\u2019s tactics. Yet Everton overcame an odd City display of falling over and shouting at the referee.<\/p>\n
Liverpool\u2019s 1-1 at Old Trafford, and it seemed that Sky hadn\u2019t learned from the game at Anfield. Jose is hardly going to play open, attacking football in a game like this, though this time it seemed to be more of a case of his players being unable to, rather than Jose not wanting too. It all got better for the TV showcase when Mourinho brought on everybody\u2019s favourite substitute Fellaini, elbows and all. I actually felt for poor Pogba being blinded by Liverpool\u2019s away kit when giving away a penalty. That should be looked into by the FA.<\/p>\n
I do have some suggestions for Sky though, as this weekend\u2019s choices were as obvious as ever.<\/p>\n
Sky should hold back sometimes with their choices. I know we all can\u2019t be clairvoyants and predict how a team\u2019s fortunes will go. But come on, throw the odd basement battle in there. Hull\u2019s game showed that with a bit of imagination, a team with a new manager at home would show more intrigue than two teams trying to bore us all into a Sunday snooze.<\/p>\n
At the bottom, even at this stage of the season, teams are getting desperate for points. There will be times players try stuff that makes us wonder how they became footballers in the first place. Nervous defenders making suicidal back passes, midfielders running up and down the pitch even before kick-off, anything to drag their team out of the dreaded drop zone. Imagine a team that\u2019s gone 6 games without a point and losing 0-3 with ten mins to go, what a great time to pan to the chairman and see if he has already left to print a P45 for the poor bloke only 20 yards away. To me that\u2019s more entertaining.<\/p>\n
Yes, the quality might not be so on-point. But sometimes we need a laugh and despair. So come on Sky there\u2019s often two ends to a league table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I sit here on a Sunday evening after the next instalment of Sky\u2019s determination to convince us all that football is great, I wonder if a change of tactic would be better. Hear me out with this because already I can hear some of you thinking, \u201cWhat are you on about Ross?\u201d Every two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,157],"tags":[188,189,190,199,481],"yoast_head":"\n