12 Dec 2025 20:24:57
Maybe I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but it strikes me that all of the following can be true at the same time:
- Mo is a legend;
- Mo let himself down this past week, not in the heat of a moment but in a premeditated outburst, followed up by his passive aggressive instagram post;
- Slot won us our 2nd title in 35 years at the 1st time of asking
- Slot has struggled since March to find a solution to teams having worked us out;
- Jurgen was a great manager, but his post title teams were not quite the same
- Both Jurgen and Slot had dire seasons. It doesn’t make them bad people, or hopeless managers. Any great movie director or musician has a fair few disasters - it’s part of being human, and more so exaggerated when artists (which I would say managers are) are so willing to take risks under the public glare.
- While Mo’s acts over the past week can be condemned, I would follow the Catholic principle of condemning the sin, and never the man/ woman.
What am I saying here? I have no idea, other than that these things are not binary. People are complicated, and ultimately we need to remember that Slot and Mo are both decent chaps, who are free to make choices we may not like.
12 Dec 2025 21:13:44
Monstersouness, I think your knife is sharp enough, mate.
12 Dec 2025 22:22:48
Well Monster . it wasnt sharp when you said Trent was a better player than Gerrard.
12 Dec 2025 22:28:30
Good post mate ?.
13 Dec 2025 00:19:41
MS well said.
The sharpest tool can be brittle, needs a lot of maintenance and often gets put away because it's "too nice" to use. U just need to be "sharp enough, durable, trusted and used every day. " Anyway, that's what Chat GPT thinks!
13 Dec 2025 01:21:46
Not the bluntest one either monster.