..to defend Steve Kean. BUT, his comments on the forfeit have to be put in some sort of context. If he had said we forfeited the game and we had United, City and Spurs in our next three games, fair enough I would have berated him. But what Kean says is true. We DO have 4 games coming up against teams who we CAN and MUST get points against. I'm personally really looking forward to these games, forget the cup and move on.
Admittedly I wasn't at the game last night. But just a point on fans who are demanding a refund for the price of their ticket:
1. Tickets were priced only £15 for season ticket holders
2. How can you expect a good performance from your team if you go to shout 'kean out!' and generally be negative? If you had to do your job with somebody shouting abuse at you all day, you'd probably find it hard to get results too.
Finally before I get a 'stat attack' from some people, here is a fact to consider:
'The average number of legs of a person in the UK is less than 2.'
It is getting difficult..
posted on 30/11/11
Telegraph:
Asked if his side could win the Carling Cup, he said: “Yes, definitely.
“When you get this far, we have got a good tie and we’re scoring goals on the road.
1:00pm Tuesday 29th November 2011
This is what gauls people, less than 24 hours later:
"We are in a position where we have forfeited going through and having the chance to reach a cup final.
"We have games against sides within touching distance of us in the league.
"We need to treat those games as cup finals."
BBC Sport:08:14 GMT, Wednesday, 30 November 2011
posted on 30/11/11
Your only fooling yourself he said it end of story
posted on 30/11/11
well i guess we can put all this to bed come 4.45pm on saturday!! If we win then the forfeit argument against Kean will seem trite.
posted on 30/11/11
Ok wow, I'll give him this one.. ONE I stress, having read a number of snippets and yes what he says about the context does stack up. Still does not change his ability mind you
posted on 30/11/11
I agree MJ, and only results can ultimately support Kean. He can't talk in terms of potential for much longer, but it is time that I'm willing to afford him.
posted on 30/11/11
Sadly wow, His time is up now, Winning against Swansea cannot get us out of the relegation zone. and we are 33% of the way through the season, only one team has survived after being dead last at Christmas and they had 14 points at that point Twice as many as we have now.
and at the same point of the season as we are now had 10 points already
posted on 30/11/11
stats from Premier League Website: Not Mine, the actual governing body:
Played W D L GF GA Pts Win %
18 1 5 12 19 40 8 6.0
posted on 30/11/11
Plus a win against Swansea won't change the fact he said we'd try and win the game. Then to suggest we didn't even try when fans have travelled and he's not played a youth side...
It doesn't stack up mate!
posted on 30/11/11
Fully agree with you MJ his time is up and Venky's are at Ewood right now including Mrs D .I hope they are talking about sacking him can't see it happening though
posted on 30/11/11
""What I was trying to say was that by not winning we had forfeited an opportunity to take another step towards a Wembley final. If my explanation or wording was vague or unclear then I regret that"...
Translation:
I is stoopid and did nae have the pr team that wrote this...