Another Sunday, another Hatchet Job

02 February 2003

Today's Sunday Mercury carries an article slating Albion, entitled "Fat Lady is warming up for Baggies".

"don't be fooled by yesterday's win at Maine Road" it proclaims, and goes on to add "You can't expect to stay in the Premiership on a weekly wage that would struggle to keep a Big Issue salesman in fags and booze" before accusing Megson of wasting the money he did have available on players such as Hughes and the now-discarded Lee Marshall.

It makes a few good points, such as the criticism echoed here by many fans about the deafening silence from the Boardroom or the Manager over Albion's failure to bring in a significant number of new players during the transfer window - it even describes Chairman Jeremy Peace as "anonymous", the criticism also long echoed here about Megson's rigid tactics and refusal to throw caution to the wind (unlike Steve Bruce, although it seems to have escaped their notice that Birmingham aren't doing much better) and fact that we will have no divine right to promotion if we do go down.

However, it does it, as usual, in such a spiteful manner that it'll probably do us more good than harm. Another one for the dressing room wall?

Previous Stories:

  01 February 2003:  Refs: "You've been done!"

  30 January 2003:  Transfer humiliation

  23 January 2003:  Sneekes calls it a day

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