And Lo and behold we fall flat on our faces. I think it was basically just an off day but lets have a look at things analytically. The Bad News:
The Good news:
Now which list is longer?
Everything is just a little bit too early at the moment.
My alarm sounds before I am ready for it, I get out of bed ahead of the desired time, work begins whilst I am still getting ready and of course then it starts to get dark soon after lunch. It is also way too early to start making pronouncements like “this is the strongest squad I have ever assembled”. Dear Lord, how we did not need that hanging over us this early in the season.
I agree that it has been a sound start, but it is only a start and I am not yet convinced that you can win anything with hubris. Judgments like that should be made, at the earliest, at the end of a season, but probably keeping them shelved until the end of a career is a better idea.
As a Red my confidence can be quite a fragile thing (inwardly that is) and I now fear that anybody who beats us going to enjoy ramming those words back down our throats. We will lose at some point. What’s more, and what’s more important, is that we have often been in the position of being found out in Europe when we were least expecting it. Folly indeed.