'Is he the guy to save our season?'
56, 57, 58.I thought counting to 10 was supposed to help?How is Ruud Van Nistlerooy a football manager? He couldn't manage his way out of a wet paper bag. Is this the guy that's supposed to save our season? Bring back Steve Cooper, in fact bring back Peter Taylor! OK maybe that's going too far, but you sense my frustration.To be fair to RVN, despite my utter alarm at some of the starting line-up at Old Trafford, the Foxes played well in the first half, and deservedly went into the break one up.But let's look at his decisions in this match.He is still picking a left back to play right back. He brought on a right back and then played him as left back.There was no recognised striker on the bench despite paying Edouard up to an alleged £90,000 per week.He hands the armband to Wout Faes, one of the worse players to ever wear a City shirt.He seemed to not notice how much Garnacho was ripping us apart on the left when he came on and left our left back come right back to mark him.Even pre-match he was spouting nonsense - announcing that two teenagers - Monga and Evans would be in the squad. Evans must have been wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak. What a way to treat the youngster.Lets be honest he had no intention of ever letting either on the pitch.The joke is at least Dick Turpin wore a mask. RVN is ripping this club off. So I go back to my original question, how is Ruud Van Nistlerooy managing my football club?Answer: BADLY!Find more from Chris Forryan at Leicester Till I Die, external
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