Thinking back I wonder what else has been going on in the background that has led to this and I can’t stop thinking about our Covid match v Livi back in Nov with Tam, er sorry, Thomas in the dugout. MM obviously set the line up, the tactics, the subbies and dictated from the comfort of his living room with Thomas acting simply as a conduit. As we all know the performance that day was phucking scheite and symptomatic of many of MMs games. Did Courts openly question it? Did he internally raise objections (likely with TA) of how we were going to/did play that day? Did he question the competence of the then manager with the resources he had at his disposal? Has he been surreptitiously lobbying his own credentials with TA ever since???

There’s just something that suggests this has been a done deal for a long, long time (as GB has suggested) and that everything else, including ‘interviews’ has simply been background music.

For better or worse we’re all in this together now but Thomas has to realise that he is under immense pressure from the get go here. There’s not going to be too much of a honeymoon period I would suggest.