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Zola’s honesty is at least something

Crumbs of comfort, maybe, but I am at least somewhat heartened to read Gianfranco’s candid condemnation of his players’ performance up at Eastlands on Monday night.
Phrases like;
“The standard that I am expecting from the team is much more than that”
“Unless we do more than we are doing it is not good enough.” and..
“Along with [...]

Zola’s mixed message

It may be smoke-screening, but some of the statements made by Gianfranco on Friday in the build up to the game leave me wondering exactly how progressive and attack minded we are set to be against the Mickey Mousers.
First he came out and said “I know they have good players and I am trying to [...]

Cole, Diamanti, Hines, Stanislas, Nouble – with choice comes responsibility

Gianfranco has had an easy choice to make up front for quite some time now. With basically no choice of strikers, it has been a case of picking Cole and one other, usually Junior Stanislas / the Boa constrictor/ Dyer.
Things are beginning to change now though. We have the genesis of a selection headache. In [...]