Dear Martin, There was an inevitability to the end when you said you had suffered a loss of liver function with little hope of it getting better soon. I was concerned, but you got yourself a good doctor and some treatment. The liver is a canny organ and when we chatted about organ replacement you […]
Bernie’s Round-Up…
These international breaks are a proper nuisance. You have just (finally) had a win and then off goes a group of your better players to play, somewhere, and then you sit tight and await news of pulled hamstrings, tweaked groins, rolled ankles, or worse. But at least we can sit and bask in the glow […]
Soft centres, ‘going through the motions’, and a head coach out of his depth…
Another game day, another disappointment. But I wasn’t surprised. Were you? We are a great advertisement for purveyors of certain chocolates. You know the ones with a soft centre. They look good but there’s nothing to get your teeth into, just that soft centre. But I did feel sorry for Jaden Warner. On his home […]
The week from hell… in every which way
I wrote a piece during the last international break in which I said the games leading up to November’s break would define City’s season. My view was that if they were still in touching distance of the playoffs, it was still game on. With that in mind, what follows is a journal of the last […]