All or Nothing - spoilers

[Bishop]

I don’t think we lacked passers nor creativity - we ended up with 86pts at the peak of our powers in 2016/2017! The difference between us and taking that next step was not the lack of quality, more for the lacking in meteorology IMO. That’s not to say we hadn’t made MASSIVE strides in this department from what Poch inherited, but it just wasn’t enough to get us over the line unfortunately.

I was mainly talking about 2015/16 when we we fell short mainly due to a lack of creativity and options. those faults still applied the following year but less so. We will disagree as I said this at the time as it was one of my criticisms of Poch's sides. Mentality is great but you need the quality to go with it otherwise if you lack quality you end up with Sissoko.

 

[parklane1]

I don’t think we lacked passers nor creativity - we ended up with 86pts at the peak of our powers in 2016/2017! The difference between us and taking that next step was not the lack of quality, more for the lacking in meteorology IMO. That’s not to say we hadn’t made MASSIVE strides in this department from what Poch inherited, but it just wasn’t enough to get us over the line unfortunately.

Is bang on on the money, said it on here at the time and was told that i was wrong. The team we had for those few years should have picked up trophys but we always blew it in the crunch.

 

[DaveT316]

Is bang on on the money, said it on here at the time and was told that i was wrong. The team we had for those few years should have picked up trophys but we always blew it in the crunch.

Well it’s just my opinion. People are entitled to feel differently. And a point we all often overlook is that each season exists on its own and we may have suffered for different reasons in different seasons.

Not to say there wasn’t some overlap, but the Leicester and Chelsea seasons felt very different to me and the reasons for not clinching some silverware didn’t feel uniformally the same.

But for me, mentality was the biggest barrier to success over that four year period, but at the same time is the most intangible to measure. So I get why others suggest other reasons that are perhaps easier to quantify ie lack of signings / alternatives.

 

[Bullet]

We couldn't catch Leicester because they won every week and we couldn't beat them ourselves.

Anyway, all this has been done to death. Back to the TV Show.

I was surprised to see Mourinho kissing a crucifix every few minutes and kneeling on the floor to pray to one of the Gods for a win. I thought he was more pragmatic / logical than that.

 

[StephenH]

We couldn't catch Leicester because they won every week and we couldn't beat them ourselves.

Anyway, all this has been done to death. Back to the TV Show.

I was surprised to see Mourinho kissing a crucifix every few minutes and kneeling on the floor to pray to one of the Gods for a win. I thought he was more pragmatic / logical than that.

Habit NPI

 

[milo]

I was surprised to see Mourinho kissing a crucifix every few minutes and kneeling on the floor to pray to one of the Gods for a win. I thought he was more pragmatic / logical than that.

I was surprised by that too

 

[StephenH]

I was surprised by that too

So was I.

it might be the only way he can cope with having “Mr VAR” Serge around?

 

[milo]

My immediate thought was, that should be enough to get Scara into the Mourinho out camp

 

[ShipOfTheseus]

The crucifix looked to me as if it was deliberately inverted and also appeared tarnished, as if repeatedly soiled with blood and worse in diabolical rites.

 

[DeanoAustin]

The crucifix looked to me as if it was deliberately inverted and also appeared tarnished, as if repeatedly soiled with blood and worse in diabolical rites.

It did have to be removed from Gazzaniga’s arse after that ridiculous challenge v Chelsea.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

The crucifix looked to me as if it was deliberately inverted and also appeared tarnished, as if repeatedly soiled with blood and worse in diabolical rites.

Ahh. So that was the reason Aurier scored a goal rather than conceded a penalty.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

I was surprised to see Mourinho kissing a crucifix every few minutes and kneeling on the floor to pray to one of the Gods for a win. I thought he was more pragmatic / logical than that.

Not exactly endeared himself to @scaramanga with that behaviour.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

We couldn't catch Leicester because they won every week and we couldn't beat them ourselves.

Anyway, all this has been done to death. Back to the TV Show.

I was surprised to see Mourinho kissing a crucifix every few minutes and kneeling on the floor to pray to one of the Gods for a win. I thought he was more pragmatic / logical than that.

You've not been bought up as a catholic then mate, gets drilled into you until you leave school.

 

[metalgear]

Good is being narky and not being caught! We were naive in the way we were aggressive and it often backfired while the opposition seemed to enjoy seeing us losing it. I am sure we will start to see us do "better" in this area with Jose.

We were pretty narky during that period, constantly near the wrong end of the PL discipline table. Maybe the spend on players was a bigger factor than how nasty we were and that this is just a narrative for an entertaining TV programme with a charasmatic lead.

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[scaramanga]

We couldn't catch Leicester because they won every week and we couldn't beat them ourselves.

Anyway, all this has been done to death. Back to the TV Show.

I was surprised to see Mourinho kissing a crucifix every few minutes and kneeling on the floor to pray to one of the Gods for a win. I thought he was more pragmatic / logical than that.

Certainly is out of kilter with everything else about his character.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Certainly is out of kilter with everything else about his character.

Probably sees it, as a very last resort, someone to blame if it all goes tits up. #neverjose

 

[Denmark Spur]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1301807655732862977

 

[JerusalemMan]

We couldn't catch Leicester because they won every week and we couldn't beat them ourselves.

Anyway, all this has been done to death. Back to the TV Show.

I was surprised to see Mourinho kissing a crucifix every few minutes and kneeling on the floor to pray to one of the Gods for a win. I thought he was more pragmatic / logical than that.

He's a pretty strong Catholic.
A lot of sportsmen of faith wouldn''t necessarily pray for a win, just that they would carry themselves in an honourable manner.

 

[JerusalemMan]

Probably sees it, as a very last resort, someone to blame if it all goes tits up. #neverjose

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/sep/11/newsstory.sport6

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/jul/11/newsstory.porto

 

[Bedfordspurs]

I think it’s brilliant viewing
Nice to see the human side to the robots we see on the pitch
Serge comes across as a top bloke and one that you can see is liked
Jose shows that he is human too (wow, who would have thought it)
Kane shows a lot of leadership and that of a player who has the highest expectations
Levy is in awe of Jose it seems
And the Dutch lads clearly love each other