Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Iwobi, Maitland-Niles, Nelson, Willock; they all seem to affect a sort of round-shouldered, languid style, as if to project an image of... what? Gangsta cool? One assumes that everything they do in training is still timed, but they look apathetic.

Not, of course, that that's the main thing we have to worry about.
their own own grannies. See if I was the boss c, each day at training would be full of good loud ****ings and the occasional dry slap for any transgressors with transgression being defined as anything I don't like the look of.

You'd soon see all traces of slopey shouldered apathy disappear from the club and be replaced by the grim and steely demeanour that characterised centre forwards in the pre-war years.

You score a goal? You celebrate with a single manly punch of the air. You snap your ankle? You play on until the physio orders you off for treatment then you spark up a Capstan Full Strength on the treatment table and tell the doc to "gitta fackin move on!" so you can get back out for the second half.