The good thing about an away **** show is alcohol and quickly forgetting/ not letting the game ruin your day and having a laugh with your mates coming home. Maybe it’s a Scouse thing inherent in our nature, but you can’t keep us downbeat for long.
The bad thing about Wolverhampton is its a grimmer than grim **** hole you don’t want to spend any more time in than you have to. (Which looked even grimmer in daylight again after the weird darkness in the streets the Cup-tie down to the power-cut.). And its only an hour and a half down the line on the rattler so you’re home way quicker and less bevvied. And I’ve been a bit under the weather so staying out in town last night wasn’t happening.
The less said about the actual game the better. For all the, albeit incremental, positives to be taken over the last three games and the solid base to work from Jurgens slight tweaking systemically and formation wise had brought about, yesterday completely undid that again and felt like a massive step backwards.
Confidence is a really funny, if integral, thing in top level sport. And ours is so fragile and at rock bottom right now, as exemplified by Wolves fast start and everything falling apart from back-to-front so rapidly, that I just don’t know what more the manager can do? In the last two games alone we’ve shifted formation at least 3/4 times. Along with subtle changes in how we press/ the off the ball shape et al. And absolutely nothing he’s tried has worked. Which has been his story this season. Reading SM comments this AM saying he’s too stubborn and won’t change ….. I’ve never known a season under Jurgen where we’ve tried SO many different things! Often multiple times during games to get a spark. But absolutely nothing is working as confidence across the whole squad is at rock bottom. Just something we have to endure and support them through it. If one horrible season is the pay off for 6 exhilarating previous ones (I still refuse to acknowledge the jarg COVID season we weren't in the ground) where we’ve won absolutely everything and been among the 2 best sides in the World, then I’ll
HAPPILY take that all day long! And only a naive fool would discount this football club on the biggest stage of all, Europe ….,
And less said, yet again, about the low life meffs that fellow Wolves with their standard ditties about death/ poverty/ social deprivation/ singing the National Anthem and actually thinking that would nark us.
As we concluded on that aforementioned, fun journey home, if getting walloped 3 at Wolves helps in the long game of 4D Chess in sending Everton down, then those horrid 90 minutes would have been
MORE than worth it. As bad as we are, knowing our defeat to Wolves dumped the blues straight back into the bottom 3, dampening their earlier joy at Dyche the Reds opening gambit, made everything balance out again.
It will be an
interesting Derby week and then some.
UTR!
FTT!!!!! 
He freely admitted that we are progressing and new ownership could see United return to contender status (and he doesn't like it).
Its one thing being groomed as an understudy. But a whole other when you’re flying solo and the buck stops with you. And without knowing his personal situation, I wouldn’t castigate him for leaving. If he takes the similar role at Ajax, as has been mooted, fair F’s to him and you wish him all the best. That would be a wonderful opportunity, at a great club/ City to live, thats less stressful and demanding than the stakes we play at for someone so new to the role.