The English Guardiola

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Funnily enough, I was watching a documentary on Sky Sports about Guardiola just after the Sarfend debacle.

People were calling for his head after Barca lost all three of their opening matches and were knocked out of the Spanish League Cup in the first round. Then suddenly, something clicked and they went on a record-breaking run.

I thought while watching it "if only our season could turn out like that" because I had high hopes for Wilder at that point despite the Sarfend spanking. How right I was!
 
since1889 said:
Funnily enough, I was watching a documentary on Sky Sports about Guardiola just after the Sarfend debacle.

People were calling for his head after Barca lost all three of their opening matches and were knocked out of the Spanish League Cup in the first round. Then suddenly, something clicked and they went on a record-breaking run.

I thought while watching it "if only our season could turn out like that" because I had high hopes for Wilder at that point despite the Sarfend spanking. How right I was!
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I was still suffering a hangover from Adkins and felt Wilder was out of his depth. Told my housemate that he looked like a ‘rabbit in headlights’. Loves to remind me of that on every occasion we meet now.
 
Gin&Juice said:
Told my housemate that he looked like a ‘rabbit in headlights’.
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In fairness he did very briefly.

His voice was cracking and he sounded very unsure in one early post match interview.

Thankfully it was extremely short lived.
 
For the first few weeks of Wilders reign it didn't click, but at that point he had just taken an axe to a piss poor, overpaid and under performing squad who had embarrassed us under Nigel Adkins and brought in 7 or 8 new players, whilst fitting them in to a new system and a new style of play.

When it all began to click in to place, we went from losing to Millwall at the end of August to not losing for 20 games and rocketing from bottom to being genuine promotion contenders.
 
CarlMcBlade said:
How ironic that Wilder is in Four Four Two. Now if there was a rival publication Three Four One Two Wilder would be on the cover every week.
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The problem with that would be that sometimes pages 4 and 6 would find themselves beyond pages 7 and 11 harking back to stories on pages 8, 9 and 10 and all the footy hipsters would be losing their shit over organised publishing chaos.
 

If I recall correctly, we started the first few games that season playing 4-4-2 and it was mainly because we didn't have the personnel in midfield and we needed to be tighter defensively that CWAK experimented with 3 CB's for the first time, I think possibly the Oxford game when Jake Wright came in to play in the middle of that back 3 was when it started. It's been well documented since particularly in an interview with AK that they were trying to find ways of creating overloads with a back 3 and it occurred to them that the wider CB's were the most viable option to do it.
 
i still getting used to this every time i think ive got use to premier league normality. this happens. im not used to have someone interested in our manager thats not radio sheffield or the star

Gin&Juice said:
I was still suffering a hangover from Adkins and felt Wilder was out of his depth. Told my housemate that he looked like a ‘rabbit in headlights’. Loves to remind me of that on every occasion we meet now.
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im so grateful to sheff utd for going through 9 managers (inc caretakers) in less than 6 years because i thought he just has to work. because there was no one else. he was the last resort. so i never complained
 
I think they mean the English Rinus Michels.
 
since1889 said:
I thought while watching it "if only our season could turn out like that" because I had high hopes for Wilder at that point despite the Sarfend spanking. How right I was!
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oh boy. When you wake up on the settee having fallen asleep watching that program and dreaming that 'it could be United', you are not going to be happy!
 
PeterNdlovu081 said:
This is all too much for me.

It still hasn't sunk in yet that we got promoted last season.

Such a surreal time to be a Blade.
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For the last few days I am still getting my head around us coming back from 2 down to draw against Chelsea away from home. Even with Lampard in charge and a transfer embargo I still expected us to lose that match. Epic comeback and quality performance in the second half.
 
Gin&Juice said:
I was still suffering a hangover from Adkins and felt Wilder was out of his depth. Told my housemate that he looked like a ‘rabbit in headlights’. Loves to remind me of that on every occasion we meet now.
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I still cringe remembering telling someone at work how good Adkins seemed compared to Clough after the first few games, talking about how his "substitutions change the game"
 
Meant to pick a copy of this up today, completely forgot about it when I nipped into town at dinner. Must try harder tomorrow. (Although the Sainsburys on The Moor has a very small selection of magazines so I'd be surprised if they have Four Four Two).
 

It’s really worth buying a copy. Full of stuff I hadn’t heard before, ie. not just giving Billy some money to buy beers or whatever. The guy interviewing knows Wilder from his Oxford days, I think.
 
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