Sunday, December 27, 2015

Where do you stand...

... on the Van Gaal question?  Not whether he should be sacked as manager of Manchester United, but whether he is being treated unfairly by the media.  He clearly thinks he is, and that the media are whipping up a "storm in a teacup" about him being replaced by Mourinho - and indeed some of the papers are claiming that this is a done deal, which must be unsettling for him and the players, and it would seem, his family.  But that's what the media do isn't it?  If there's no real story, they make one up.  Unfair - perhaps, but if you put your picture in the frame, you must accept that people will use it as a target.  Nobody put a gun to Van Gaal's head and forced him to take the job, and he must know that if the team are not playing well it is he who will come under scrutiny.  So he may - obviously does - feel cross about it, but I don't think he's doing himself any favours by sulking.

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