I see he was a Trapp man and comments:
"It was just disappointing how quickly the fans turned on him. He was a hero, but that’s football. A few bad results and he’s the villain straight away, (people were saying) ‘the football’s bad’. The football was always bad. It was just, we got away with it, we got results.”
I am not sure the football was always bad (before him) or that the fans quickly turned on him. I think the latter was a gradual process even before the failure at the Euros, certainly among my compadres, and mostly not due exclusively to the style of play but more so for his failure to pick perceived better players but that has been all well covered before. The style of football under his immediate predecessors wasn't all long ball and as far as I recall Kerr and McCarthy teams did try and play more of a passing game with varying degrees of success.
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