I fucking hate this phrase that seem to have crept into football. People use it to describe individuals who are in the top 0.1% of their profession in the World. Imagine within your profession working your way up to within the top 0.1% of individuals in the World and then being called a 'fraud' because you had a bad day or couple of weeks.
What does it actually mean anyway? Are you saying that he has no credentials for being a football manager of a Premier league club?
Calling a manager or a player a 'Fraud' after a few bad games is something that should get binned off. The same as saying 'Inject it into my veins' about anything or saying another fanbase is 'a different breed' because some individual meff on the internet has said something absurd about their team.
I generally agree.
To play devils advocate, I’d say what it means is that individual is a fraud in terms of not being up to the standard that they claim to be, and the wage they accept which is presumably in line with that level. Silva is a bad example, if Everton are stupid enough to think he’s the next messiah then it’s no fault of Silva’s.
I do, however, think that the phrase is quite apt to describe the likes of Hughes, Bruce, Pardew etc who consistently fail wherever they go yet have a reputation that preceded them and command huge wages in line with that reputation, when the reality is far removed from that
On this vein, the phrase which really irks me is describing any top player as ‘elite level.’ Does my fucking head in. They’re all elite level footballers by being in the top division surely? Obviously I know it’s used to describe the top level of top level footballers, the ‘elite of the elite,’ but then it’s massivey over used in that context. I even heard spurs describe as elite recently l.
