That Dion fanning article is rather disjointed. he can be a very hit and miss writer, but in fairness to him his heart is usually in the right place. but aside from large sections lifted from the observer, he is essentially the football section of the the entire sunday independent so his output can be a bit variable. The editor who appointed him to the job was his father, and his current editor is his stepmother so he's not exactly operating under the greatest amount of editorial supervision in the world. Whatever you might think about that article, it is still the best article in the whole shitheap of a paper.
While holding with a lot of the very good points made in response to the article, I reckon that it should be pointed out that the aaron sorkin point is something that seems to be gaining a lot of traction on this side of the irish sea. I'm not sure if it's a cultural thing, but BR's Relentless optimism and tendency to reach for superlatives perhaps slightly too often, can seem a bit grating at times to a lot of green red ears. Then again this is a country drowning in negativity, rage and thwarted expectation. But that's a minor quibble, and not something to really hang an article on. it's something that needs a little tweaking, not for BR to become a new kind of manager.
I'm also unsure how DF makes such a strong link between the future of BR and FSG. FSG's aim is to build the clubs turnover up to 300 million, through commercial income, the new tv deal, and expanding anfield, while getting the wagebill under control so whoever is the manager will have substantial funds to spend, regardless of whether or not we are in the CL. This is happening on a different timescale to what is happening on the pitch, so I don't know how you can link the two?
I think it comes back to the sort of volatility inherrent in our position, and the current status of our club. We're neither as bad as the first five games of the season made us look, (2 points) or quite as good as the next 11 (20 points) And neither are we as bad as the villa and stoke performances, nor as good as the fulham performance or the one today, we're somewhere in the middle. We are trying to do so many things at the same time, and trying to rebuild the club in so many different ways that we are going to have good days and bad days. The thing is that we stabilized, and the good days are becoming more frequent, but not often enough to justify talk of second, but also the bad days are nowhere near as common as the critics would have you believe and hopefully will become rarer.
And in the mean time, we need to get behind the manager. Lets stop all this second guessing over whether BR wants sturridge now, or whether he didn't want him in the summer, lets just get him in and see how he does, and see what he can add. All of this second guessing is just wasted time, energy and emotion.
