Season Summary

[MikeSB]

Gazan, you are right. Mike is either saying all this to provoke a reaction (I succumbed I am sad to say) or he is really living in the past. The past where kids were sent down mines or up chimneys, where mental health was neither talked about or recognised. We have progressed thank God (although I do worry about the rise of a certain political party/limited company!) and the recognition that players and managers can have struggles that are personal. His argument is flawed because Manchester United, who are the classic example of both sides of the coin, have changed their manager more often than some change their beds and have not managed to repeat the success they had with a manager who was a "failure" for the first 5 years at OT. The policy of giving a manager 6 months to be successful will ensure that in time you will be back to ones you have had before and, by definition, will be taking managers on who have failed somewhere else. It really is laughable!

When you get to a certain age, living in the past is all you can do...

Frank Lord was a wonderful header of the ball and achieved so many hat tricks in doing so. We really don't see that quality anymore as all teams do now is cramb the defence and make the game as dour as can be. This is not the football I grew up with, watched and played and if that is living in the past, so be it. I mean how can you play for 90 odd minutes and not have a direct shot at goal?? I would never have played football had that been the standard back then.

Life is full of ups and downs, millions came back from wars or didn't come back and left widows and families to get on in life. My father was terrible and horrible to me as he wasn't my real father but you have to live through these things and work hard and not sit at home like they do these days. They need to stop paying people big money to stay off work and possibly people will stop worrying then and basically get on in life. Football is terrible in many ways now as it pays stupid money at all levels of the game for just kicking a ball about and not very well at that. Managers are on a merry go round, they fail at one club and then get appointed at another club. We see that all the time. I think you need to be creative in life and do things against the grain. Lee Bell could change that and have 4 strikers playing every week and excite the fans in the process but they can't as their minds won't let them but what is to lose, but yet another game and who knows it may bring football to be played how it used to be.

There is no such thing as mental illness just the easy and hard way of life as there as always been. Unfortunately the medical profession has too many duds in it...