Hopefully it’s four weeks or six weeks at the very most but we don’t
Hopefully, it’s four weeks or six weeks at the very most but we don’t know for certain.”And then there was Wayne Rooney, who was forced to continue his long education yesterday (amazing – he is still learning at 19). Yesterday’s lesson was “how to miss a penalty” and didn’t he he do well when he stepped up in the eighth minute and weakly sidefooted into the corner of the goal where Gabor Kiraly’s outstretched arm happened to be? Cue the red mist, which seems to be precariously positioned just above Rooney’s eyes, ready to drop at the slightest rattling. The time had long past for Manchester United to get their skates on to catch Chelsea – they need rockets under their boots to do that. But at least they lit the fuse last night with a win that fairly crackled and fizzed with energy, incident and, yes, goal after goal, but never exploded into anything utterly convincing.
In fact, you would need the opposite adjective to describe the United defence, who simply do not seem to know when a game is won.
Souness’s last success there as a manager dates back to January of the same year, when Ian Rush scored twice in a 2-1 win for Liverpool against Manchester City. “We’re trying to buy the finished article, players who will improve us in a big way, and when you do that they are going to be expensive.”Then again, the price to pay will not be on the cheap side if Newcastle fail to improve in a big way once the new year comes around.. But if you do this job and you listen to the criticism then you wouldn’t be in it for very long. I don’t listen to the criticism.”I know that I am doing my best.
I know that I have got a very good group of players, and that we are short in some areas. If we can do the right things in the winter, or in the summer, then we can be a team that can challenge the big boys I firmly believe that.”But that’s in the long term. In the short term, I’ll just continue to work and do my very best. But I’m passionate about football myself and those are the kind of places where I want to work.”There’s lots of mischief-making by different parties involved with this club It’s like working in a Latin country in many ways.