LMA to investigate 'Britannia Triangle'
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Published: Sunday 30 Nov 2008
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Richard Bevan, chief executive of the League Managers Association, has called for an urgent investigation in to the Premiership’s strangest new phenomenon - the Britannia Triangle.
“We need to understand why it is that apparently bright and experienced managers like Arsene Wenger, Tony Mowbray and now Phil Brown lose all sense of reason and perspective for the four or five hours they spend in the Potteries. Before they play Stoke they’re suitably polite and patronising about the newcomer’s survival efforts, but as soon as they turn off Junction 15 of the M6 they’re like small boys running to teacher,” Bevan told Spy Sports News.
“They need to understand that they can’t keep expecting to deflect attention from their own team’s short-comings by using the convenient excuse about how Stoke play. Mowbray and Brown each had one striker on the field and one shot on goal apiece, which tells it’s own story,” said Bevan.
Bevan was prompted to act by what he believes to be Brown’s gaffe over the Dean Windass booking. “Surely, even Phil’s friends in the media will find it hard to accept that you can moan about a style of play on the one hand, and then have your substitute booked for ungentlemanly conduct on the other,” said the bosses’ supremo.
Bevan is extending the investigation to cover national media, and the move has been welcomed by The Society of Editors. Executive Director, Bob Satchwell, told Spy Sports: “By my reckoning some 83% of reporters enter a parallel universe when they step in to the Britannia Stadium. They often write the direct opposite of what has happened right in front of them and are unable to use a positive adjective in the same sentence as the words Stoke and City. Many are complaining of headaches from the terrible noise. Something must be done.”
Submitted by chris9589 on Sun, 30/11/2008 - 17:13.
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