October 31st, 2011 by Rick Waghorn | Comments Off
“Holty could have easily dropped his head because he hasn’t been playing, but that’s the attitude of the team – we all want to do well for each other. And we can’t play both of them [Morison and Holt] because we’re playing one, lone striker. So it’s either Steve or Holty and they both scored today, so they’re just fighting for that shirt at the moment…
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October 30th, 2011 by Rick Waghorn | 2 Comments »
“I’ve looked at it from six or seven angles and we feel Steven was fouled and what he’s doing is appealing for a free-kick,” the Rovers chief bemoaned afterwards. “Then the ball hit his arm. There was obviously no intent.”
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October 29th, 2011 by Rick Waghorn | Comments Off
“It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve played or how many years you have been playing football,” said Lambert. “But as soon as you see the whites of the goalkeeper’s eyes in that last second, it doesn’t matter who you are – the nerves play a huge part. And the penalty is right in the side-netting. And any other place, I think that goalkeeper would have saved it.”
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October 28th, 2011 by Rick Waghorn | Comments Off
“If you’ve got wide players like that [Pilkington and Bennett] then you’ve got to try and get the ball out to them as much as you can. And that’s sort of my job in the middle – to try and get it out to Benno and Pilks as much as possible just to let them have free rein to do what they want really.”
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October 28th, 2011 by Rick Waghorn | Comments Off
“The players know that they have to be bang at it every single game – or else we will get turned over,” said Lambert. “But they know that and, hopefully, they will keep the performance level up. And if we do that then maybe we’ve got a chance.”
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October 27th, 2011 by Rick Waghorn | 5 Comments »
“I don’t think the time is right for me to talk about myself, a contract or staying at the club longer or anything like that. It’s a time that I should be focused on getting results,” added Kean, talking the talk of a manager under pressure…
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October 24th, 2011 by Rick Waghorn | 2 Comments »
But the point is that the City boss now has a transfer model that works; he knows which players thrive on centre stage – given the right opportunity to prove their teenage detractors wrong. And, more importantly still, he knows which wage model works and which doesn’t. Sunderland’s, for example.
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October 22nd, 2011 by Tom Haylett | Comments Off
“Those players in the dressing room have been colossal,” boss Paul Lambert said afterwards. “We’ve got to remember what we’re up against here but we’re thriving on it; we’re enjoying it and I’m proud of them.”
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October 22nd, 2011 by Rick Waghorn | Comments Off
“We’re playing a high level of football at the minute and at this minute in time, we’re a match for most of the teams in this league, but we have to sustain that. There’s only a handful of games gone – we have to sustain the standard that we have set ourselves and, hopefully, the lads will do it.”
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October 18th, 2011 by Rick Waghorn | 1 Comment »
The impression, in short, was that City have gone from Halvergate to Hull to Hanoi in the space of 15 years and the three men at the helm.
Bowkett, he revealed, was off to China this month where he has long done business; he appeared to have an easy familiarity with the ways of the Premier League board; he ‘fitted’ with their likely vision of a supportive and engaged club chairman.
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