There are worse things than being the coach, as we must these days call managers, of a team in the third tier of Belgium football.
Perhaps not many worse things, but being the coach/manager who took Cercle Sportif Visé, better but not very much better known as CS Visé, down from the second division in May would have been one of them.
Read this article from @Knox_Harrington ! He red my mind! Thank you…
— fabio borini (@borinifabio29) September 3, 2014
The world and his dog have a view on the Fabio Borini affair. My own is well known: he is not paid to be a Sunderland supporter but for being a professional footballer, and must be allowed to
make his own choices, but I do bitterly regret all the wasted effort to bring him back when it was clear all along he’d sooner take a break from active football. Even those Sunderland supporters who profess not to care too much that this, indeed, is the outcome express a view merely by saying just that. What of Borini himself? And Liverpool fans? It is likely we still know only part of the story of how he now comes to be kicking his heels at Anfield with, apparently, little real prospect of breaking into the team on Brendan Rodgers’s present thinking.Well, Borini read the article we reproduce today from the excellently written Liverpool fan site The Anfied Wrap and gave it the seal of approval you see above. So step forward the author, Neil Atkinson, from whom we have heard before, with an introduction followed, with his consent, by the piece itself …
We’ve gone three PL games without any forward scoring so it looks like the front line failings we’ve experienced for at least two seasons are destined to continue. Jozy will score one day but Fletch looks like he’s playing the wrong system and Wickham’s playing the wrong position.
This is one Pete Sixsmith prepared earlier, a jaundiced look at the dying phase of the transfer window …
If we have lost out on Fabio Borini, my first reaction is to wonder at all the energy devoted to getting him back. A second reaction may come later, depending on the outcome of the QPR rumour.
Pete Sixsmith‘s wisest decision on Saturday was his choice of pub, the trick being to beat the ploddish Met Police anti-supporter radar, get a good pint and not still have miles to make up to reach the ground. Notting Hill Gate, the Commissioner will doubtless be surprised and relieved to hear, survived the visit from a dozen or more Sunderland fans. Then it was time to head on to White City and the day went downhill, as Pete describes …
Keir Bradwell sums up the players’ individual performances in marks out of 10 for the games at Loftus Road and St Andrew’s a few nights earlier…
Sixer warned he’d be late with his Soapbox, a day out on the Northumberland coast shading it as the more attractive option [compared with writing about the disappointing display we saw at Loftus Road]. Monsieur Salut’s pain, after his season’s Sunderland debut for this match, was quickly eased by a visit to the wonderful West End blues bar, Aint’ Nothing But … to hear Niall Kelly’s band and then Jerimiah Marques.
In case anyone’s interested, here’s something of M Salut’s, football-related and published by The National*, Abu Dhabi. The death of a Cameroonian footballer, hit by an object thrown from the stands at the end of a game in Algeria’s top flight, caused pain and unhappiness on a different level..
Malcolm Dawson writes….even this early in the season I had a feeling this game could be the defining one. The …
Malcolm Dawson writes….Pete Sixsmith has had a busy week. Tow Law on Friday, Wembley on Saturday, Sunderland on Sunday, Birmingham on Wednesday and doubtless some more non league games in between. Today saw him back in the capital at Loftus Road. I’m betting he would rather have gone to Pad!iham v Shildon instead