Every Sunday paper lead with Mario failing to score again. The MoS (no I don't buy it) had no less than three pages on it. Sky Sports has half a dozen articles and videos on Mario's lack of scoring. None of them focus on our defence or our midfield. None of them talk about Falco, a reported £23 million one season signing only scoring one goal. Be fair, does that really sound proportional to you?
no of course it's not proportional, it's complete boll*x, the media have had it in for us since the rafa days and now their fave scapegoat is playing for their least favourite club...it's complete w*nk material for them.
Who gives a f**k if Falcao is scoring or not, Manure have other players who can score and do score, we don't. That is why there is more focus on Balotelli, what there should be more focus on though is why the f**k our genius manager insists on playing a misfiring striker in a position he doesn't like and which very very clearly doesn't work for the team. Every time he brings on a second striker we become more dangerous so maybe, and I know this is bit radical, but maybe start the f**king game with 2 strikers!!! I mean its now exactly rocket science.
generally i don't care what's happening at other clubs, but when we constantly receive so much negative attention and other clubs are let off lightly, it kinda piss*s me off. no matter how much br and the team can try to ignore it, it will impact the mood around the club, surely you can't deny that? it's not just falcao who is costing 23m, soldado has scored 6 goals in 26 appearances for the sperms. that's a 26m flop if you ask me. van p and rooney have only scored 3 goals each, dzeko has only got 2, not exactly lighting it up for such expensive players, but we've heard absolutely f**k all about it in the media. yet when it's balo, or when it was caroll, they were lining up to take pot shots at us.
i do agree with you however that if br is insistent on playing a mis-firing striker, he's gotta play 2 up front. i've said all along that we're much more threatening with 2. either that, or drop him. simple as that.
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