http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/repor...e-england-manager-job-after-euro-2012_1620454
i thought as in this web article,one of many i could have copied,that everyone knew that capello was going to leave after the euros anyway and that harry was favourite for the job,therefore it seems it didn't affect our form for another two half months when this came out in December.
the link with him wanting the england job and our poor form is a very weak indeed, every side hits poor form some time over 38 games it was just concidence it came to ahead at the wrong time for us and in most of those games we should have won anyway.If the squad had been boosted by quality signings rather than freebies we had we could have got third easily.
Alternatively, when a team's in poor form it usually relies on tactical movement and positioning to see them through. Well rehearsed moves, set-pieces, that sort of jazz.
We had nothing. Zilch. So when the team faltered, all that was left to do was grin and bear it, and hope that one day they'll come out of the bad patch. Not something a top-3 club should do, I'm sure you'll agree.
I mean, how many times during that nightmare run did you see us score from a set-piece? Or play a different game to the possession-based one we normally played? Or, hell, just switched around the formation once in a while?
Not very many. In the end, the reason I'm holding my fire on AVB is because I see what he's trying to do. He's trying to make us more consistent, implement a game plan that doesn't rely on just creativity or individual brilliance. That takes a lotta time. If you want proof, look at the set-piece goals we've scored this season versus last, the number of times we've broken effectively on the counter, the reliance on movement into space.
Harry couldn't do that, we had two end of season collapses on his watch, missed out on the Champions League both times, and watched our most promising team in ages get dismantled merely through the sale of our two most creative, able players. We had a great team. But we scraped 9 points from 9 games, drew against Villa and then were told that fourth was the plan all along, only to lose the CL spot to Chelsea, and watch our hopes of immediate progress go with it. And then get hit with an on-air demand for a new contract from our sainted manager a few days later, after he'd turned down the one we offered him in February.
Harry gave us some good times. But he also failed at the end of the season, two seasons in a row. And then said the players would get unsettled if he didn't get a new contract, after publically guffawing that the players wouldn't care if he stayed or left in March.
So AVB's struggling a bit. After all we've been through in the last few months, Mourinho would struggle to do something with our squad.