He only talks about about investment to mask his performance, ya we may need investment but f**k me we have enough quality club to be beating Blackpool or Northampton and to be putting up better performances away then we have. He spent Ā£10 f**king million on Poulsen and Konchesky.
If what Hodgson is saying is the case, is he telling us Hollaway has better resources a rubbish interview that is taking f**k all blame again for the teams performance.
I thought Konchesky was 3.5 mill and Poulsen 4.5, but if you say it amounts to 10 I must have got it wrong.
As for your point that we should be good enough to beat Blackpool or Northampton, of course you are right. Once again though, average players all too often give you average results. They often get themselves up for the bigger matches, but too often they aren't any better than the average players which fill up the teams of poorer clubs, and therefore you get too many poor results and unexpected defeats. It's not a new phenomenon either, few will have forgotten Reading as recently as last season, and our absolutely awful record over the years against newly promoted teams.
Then people say "how come we can do it at Home, it's obviously the set up and the managers fault". They may be right of course to some extent, but it is a fact of life that average players better with the crowd in behind them to urge them on. The good sides, the ones with true aspirations to win big trophies, go on the road and can even play sh!t and win. they can play far worse than we did at either Spurs or Newcastle and eek out the points. They degend properly, they dig in, in games of few chances when they get one they take it. They work for each other, they don't hide under pressure or allow the first setback to engender an "it isn't going to be our day" philosophy. In short they fight for the points. Hodgson has singularly failed in any attempts to get the team to play in this wasy, and in this sense he deserves criticism. It is also fair to say though that we haven't had that spirit for a long long time before Hodgson appeared on anybodies radar.
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