Saturday, 11 March 06, 11:48 AM · Comments (0)
You'll remember it. Before Christmas O'Leary is publicly having a go at the FA over the Christmas fixture list and he even has a little pop at England manager Sven Goran before publicly back tracking, again.
Well today, with the prospect of a pile up of matches but with no one to blame the manager with the least ability in the Premiership has come out in favour of four matches in ten days.
"It will put a test on our resources but it will be great to have that problem. We coped with it over Christmas when we came through a similar spell unbeaten and I will be delighted to have to cope again." O'Leary said.
He went on "We have got three hard games, all away from home, in what is a big week. You can imagine how good it will feel if we were to get three good results and then go into the quarter-final the following Monday."
I cant disagree with him on the above statement but can anyone actually see us getting three victories under O'Leary?
Personally I'm only interested in the FA Cup. We'll get enough points to stay up over the next ten games so the focus has to be FA Cup. Only problem is O'Leary hasn't got a good record in the FA Cup or in football management as a whole so I doubt we'll get past the next round if we get past Manchester City. But I'll be hoping we do.
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