Bolton 1 - 0 Burnley (the Keighley Report)
I've always wondered about managing a football team. It must be different from any other management job. The new manager and all the pundits say He'll need time to get his own people in and to sort out the playing side' etc. This has always seemed to me to miss the point. Surely the new guy ought to be expected to make the malfunctioning squad perform better. Well, the squad left behind by Megson certainly endorses the pundits and confounds my view.
With the exception of SKD, Cahill and Chung Yong Lee (CYL) and, surprisingly perhaps, Knight who all played well. Megson's legacy is a collection of poor players who can't perform in the Premiership. As you'll all have realised this match report isn't from our much esteemed correspondent but from one of his subs who's been sitting on the bench waiting for his chance. Brian would normally go through the team and then do his match report but by now you'll all have read your papers or seen the Sky highlights so I thought I'd try and give a view of what Owen Coyle's inherited against the back drop of the game.
The banners around the Reebok saying Owen Coyle's Super White Army should have read Owen Coyle's rather drab collection of journeymen and jobsworths.
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