Show Us The Bucket List
"We’ve got to tolerate, some of those people that you hate, I’m not in love with you, but I won’t hold that against you." Gruff Rhys, July 2001.
When I left Hampden on Saturday, I hated Neil Lennon. My seat had given me an unfortunate direct view of his touchline incompetence and reliance on John Park, a man I seem so obsessed with that I fully expect a restraining order.
After, I forced myself to look at the post-match comments, I saw a man that was hurting as much as us. He had watched a team of court jesters just blow his credibility out the water and, like us, fancied telling them some home truths.
"We were no-where near it today. There are things you can give the players – information, tactics – but there are things you can’t give them – hunger and desire, and we were found wanting." I would hope those words hurt the squad but I fear that they wouldn’t break stride from their play stations.
How we miss Barry Robson and Gary Caldwell.
"There is something missing. There is no leadership, there is nobody to take the game by the scruff of the neck when we are not playing well. We have been soft all season. We have got strikers who don’t score goals, who don’t want to go in there and get hurt. " Again, this will wash over Sammy and Fortune while they download some Grime and Bhangra onto their iPhones.
When asked about whether there should be a clear out he said: "I would imagine so. I would be recommending it." meaning another summer of wild speculation while frolicking in our paddling pools.
"If I’m not here, I’m pretty certain that some of them won’t be either" he finished completing a salvage job worthy of Scrapheap Challenge.
If my view hadn’t shifted from disgust via mild dislike to och-it-wasn’t-really-your-fault then this report from the "Car Park Rammie", for me, sets out the winners and losers in County-Gate and lays bare who will have a future at our club.
Though, shouting abuse, in a car park, is so retro and 90′s. That car park has been an indicator to the mood of the club for years. Nostalgia is lost with every re-tarring.
So, Lenny, despite his post match performance has lost any chance of getting the gig on a permanent basis. It’s with that heavy heart, a sift through the grim-reading list and a few scribbles on a beer-mat, on Saturday night after more than a few bevvies I have come up with my bucket list.
David Moyes, Roy Hodgeson, Steve McLaren, Steve Clarke, Stale Solbakken, Laszlo Boloni, Mircea Lucescu, Giovanni Trappatoni, Rene Girard and Mark Hughes.
Start at the top and work down.
YIC
