Cheerio, Peter Reid
‘LEEDS United fans must be unhappy with their clubs start to the season. But things are about to get brighter, as the Mirror leads with news that Peter Reid is facing the axe.
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Reid is not one of the worlds great mangers, or even one of its mediocre ones.
He is a poor coach, a truth illustrated by Sunderlands inability to kick a ball straight under his tutelage and Leeds developing ineptitude.
Reid will now throw teacups, as is his wont, and say how football has become a haven for myopia.
His performances should be judged after an entire season, hell say at which time Leeds will probably be heading for Division One.
If shortsightedness is a trait of the modern game then Arsene Wenger must epitomise things.
But tonight Wenger is looking to the future as he includes the names of three new faces in his squad to face Lokomotiv Moscow in Russia tonight.
The young lads will surely be keen to take their rare chances to shine in the Champions League, a game the Star says is Hit Or Bust for the Gunners.
The Mail puts it in stronger terms – Gunners know its do or die in Russia.
Anything other than a win tonight will not help Arsenals Champions League challenge. Defeat would be disastrous.
But from every tragedy a little silver doth fall. And the Mail hears that a bidding war is taking place for the rights to publish Stan Collymores autobiography.
Few players have thrown away quite so much, and Collymores story should include some interesting passages.
But its hard to counter the Mails opinion that its the footballers relationship with Ulrika Jonsson that will prove most lucrative. Especially is its as Honest as her effort.
Another whose autobiography cannot be too many years away is Tim Henman. At an age when hes thinking about life after tennis, Henman says he plans to take up coaching.
To begin this transition, the tigerish one is fronting a new Find A Star programme directed at schools throughout the land. Its a project Tim says is close to his heart.
And so it should be. After all, if it werent for it and other failed programmes like it, Henman would most likely not still be Britains best tennis player by a mile.
And then how many books would he sell?’
Posted: 30th, September 2003 | In: Back pages Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
