What's that sound?

What's that sound?

Is it the sound of  of Wes Morgan getting the ball full in the face?  No that wasn't obviously loud enough or come to think of it obvious enough for a referee of Mike Jones' calibre to even see although he is only 2 foot away.

Mike Jones....Smug Prick.

Is it the sound of Brendan Rogers crying into corn flakes after his one man team's, "one man" Steven Gerrard bagged another brace after he failed to offer him a new contract?

Or is it the sound of the aching bones of athletes in their prime who have had to go to work for four days out of ten over the Christmas period.

Nearly but not quite.

It is in fact the sound of the constant moaning of some Premier league managers and their reaction to the fact that their teams had to play 4 games in 10 days over the festive period.  Anybody would think it was a surprise for some of these bosses, do they not know that Christmas comes once a year and so does this fixture congestion, or are they just moaning, excuse making, ungrateful wankers?

To be fair it is not all Premier league managers having a moan, the main offenders seem to be Louis Van Gaal, Harry Redknapp and Steve Bruce from what I heard.  With Van Gaal it is sort of understandable as he has never managed in this country and never seen his teams play over Christmas, but even so didn't he look at the fixture list when he took over, was he not prepared to meet these fixtures head on.  the thing is he may have a few injuries, maybe a few more than some of his rivals at the moment but hang on surely with the depth of squad and some of the best young talent he has at his disposal he really shouldn't be moaning about it.  Look on the bright side LVG at least your only in two competitions, fuck know's what it will be like next year if you have finished in the top four and have to compete in the Champions league.

Hey Santa, no one told me we have to play at Christmas.

As for Redknapp who doesn't have the the size of squad at QPR that Van Gaal has at Manchester United, but still he should know better.  He has beeen a manager in the lower leagues where when games get called of and postponed due to bad weather the fixture congestion can pile up and by the end of the season teams can be playing up to 6 games in less than 2 weeks.  Redknapp is a serial offender though and a lot of his moaning is his way of showing the chairman that his squad isn't big enough to compete in the premier league, no doubt the weekend before the end of the transfer deadline at the start of February he will name two goalkeepers on the bench just to show Tony Fernandez how much he needs more top drawer players in all positions to give him every chance of avoiding the drop come May.  personally my advice to him would be stop trying to buy or loan some of your old players and start trying to get the best out of the players you have got in your squad already.  It shouldn't be that difficult with the "triffic" players you have at the club already, and besides survival in the premiership is your only concern after you made a load of excuses about being humiliated in the cup at home by Sheffield United.  No excuses now Harry!!

Cherr up 'Arry its Christmas!!!

When it comes to Steve Bruce he should really know better, he played and managed in this division for a long time so he should be totally prepared for it all, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised as when the draw was made for the third round of the cup Bruce was there watching it take place and even though the first ball pulled out of the hat was Arsenal's and the second was that of his own Hull City, he still, even though he had witnessed it live with his own eyes thought Hull City were drawn at home.  An easy mistake to make you might say, yeah an easy mistake to make if you have the attention span of a fucking goldfish.  So maybe that's what it is maybe he had forgotten that over the years as a player and manager there are quite a few games to play over the festive season.  Bless him.

Bruce was well happy the festive season was over.

With all these privileged mangers moaning and trying to protect their burntout over privileged players who in some cases wouldn't know what hard work was if it came down their chimney and emptied its sack in front of them, it was a breath of fresh air to see a manager of a premier league team embrace the fixture pile up and just get the fuck on with it without so much as a bah humbug.

 The thing is Burnley manager Sean Dyche probably has more to moan about then any of the other managers in the premier league, he no doubt has the smallest squad, he no doubt has the smallest wage budget and no doubt he has the lowest transfer fund.  On new years day these deficiencies were shown up when Burnley had to make 3 substitutions in the first half in their away game to Newcastle all because of injury.  The Lancashire side had to play the majority of the game without being able to make any more personnel changes but although they were 2-0 down and then 3-2 down they managed to carve out a much deserved draw as the game finished 3-3.  After the game Dyche didn't sit there moaning about it he just got on with it, here is a man who is is honoured and privliged to manage a team in the premier league, a manager who has to rely on more than just talented players to compete at this level.  He followed this great result with not a whimper but another fighting and grafting performance against an in form Spurs side in the FA cup, coming from behined to earn a creditable replay.  For a team with such limited resources it makes a nice change to see a group of hard working players lead by a hard working manager given there all to stay in England's elite league.

Burnley take on QPR this weekend and I think you can guess which outcome I am hoping for.  Up the Clarets!!

If Burnley survive this season I really hope that Sean Dyche gets the Manager of the year award it would be so deserved.

So Messrs Redknapp, Bruce and Van Gaal why not take a leaf out of Sean Dyche's book and stop your hard done by moaning and just roll your sleeves up and get on with it.

Sean Dyche, doing it the hard way.

I won't hold my breath because come the end of the season Steve Bruce and 'Arry will be still moaning about some shit that was unfair and making some excuse about some old shit whilst a team in the Ryman league are playing their 8th league game in less than two weeks due to postponements over winter, and are trying to stave off relegation or trying to get promoted to the next level of the football pyramid with a squad of 18 players.

Hopefully though Sean Dyche will have a great big smile on his face as his fighting spirit keeps the Clarets up for another season in the top flight.

As a football fan I know I am not alone when I say that I would have given my right nut sack to just once been able to play a game of football as professional footballer so this is why I feel the need to rant about this sort of spoilt behaviour, as far as I am concerned I would much rather live in a football world which had more Sean Dyche's in it than it had Ballotelli's.

 Give me good old meat and potatoes over big Charlie potatoes anytime!!