Football often reflects life
these days, in that absolutely nothing can happen quickly enough to satisfy our
immediate need for up-to-date news. With this in mind, the report in Tuesdays
Mirror that excitedly revealed which managers were on the shortlist to succeed
Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, might be seen as just a touch premature.http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-city-already-looking-pep-7515034
The Spaniard, after all,
hasn’t even touched down in Manchester yet and will not do so for another
couple of months.
"And we can confirm Leicester have lost" |
This ludicrous
getting-ahead-of-ourselves masks the fact that the English football season is
now reaching its most critical phase and City, whether the Mirror likes it or
not, still capably managed by the phlegmatic Manuel Pellegrini, are clinging to
the hope that a season of mounting drama can still deliver more of the same
between now and mid May. If it does deliver such a finish, we may well be yet
to see the greatest drama of 2015-16.
While certain areas of the
press busy themselves speculating on who will be City’s manager in 2019, the
rest of us can quietly contemplate the club’s chances of resurrecting a proper
title challenge in March and April of 2016.
The signs were there last
weekend, in demolishing a passive and admittedly quite feeble Aston Villa that
all is not yet lost. http://www.espnfc.com/barclays-premier-league/match/422376/manchester-city-aston-villa/report
The ten point gap to leaders
Leicester will take some closing, but there are some encouraging signs as City
prepare to visit another of the Premier League’s endangered species this
weekend in Norwich City.
Firstly, the news that, by the
time the latest international break is complete, Pellegrini will have Samir
Nasri, Fabian Delph and, better news still, Kevin de Bruyne back in the fold
and ready for tentative inclusion in first team matters for the last eight
games of the season. De Bruyne's eight goals and eight assists so far mean his
inclusion in the run-in will be particularly welcome.
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