WE’RE taking each game as it comes’ ‘No one is talking about the R-word (or P-word)’ ‘It is about looking after our selves and not worrying about the others’.
As the season heads towards the business end, you can start ticking off these phrases on the football clichés bingo card, but however, often managers and players repeat them everyone knows they are kidding.
Footballers are human. They will be studying the league table, looking at fixtures, working out the permutations, just like the fans. Occasionally, they admit it.
Liam Rosenior, in his column for The Guardian, described last week how the Brighton & Hove Albion players had discussed after training how many points would be needed to be safe from relegation.
Revealed
Alex Rodman, fresh from scoring against Charlton Athletic last Saturday, to maintain Shrewsbury Town’s remarkable League One promotion push, revealed the players had checked the results of rivals Blackburn Rovers and Wigan Athletic as soon as they got into the dressing room.
While Rodman still insisted “we have got to focus on what we are doing one game at a time”, he had looked far enough ahead to know Blackburn and Wigan were playing each other this weekend while Shrews hosted Peterborough.
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NUNEZ SPARKS ROUT OF IN-FORM TIGERS
NORWICH City boss Johannes Hoff Thorup was delighted with his side’s performance as they made it four wins in six games to maintain their climb up the table after a slow start.
SHAUN RUES SOFT LATICS' BORE DRAW
WIGAN manager Shaun Maloney had mixed emotions after his side drew at Stockport to make it six games unbeaten.
Bielik's words are own goal for Blues
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CLAIMS OF RACISM TO ASSISTANT MAR DRAW
PORTSMOUTH boss John Mousinho apologised to assistant referee Bhupinder Singh Gill for alleged discriminatory comments made from the stands during the draw with Oxford United.
WILDER'S PUSH FOR BIRTHDAY BOY RAK-SAKYI IS PAYING OFF
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ARGYLE STUN ROVERS AFTER WAYNE SEES RED
PLYMOUTH assistant head coach Pete Shuttleworth praised Argyle’s never say-die attitude as the greens secured a last-minute win over high-flying Blackburn.
Former teen star is now real deal
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DERBY DATE SO VITAL FOR OMER
Interim boss has chance to boost bid
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LAURENCE Maguire has been reunited with Scott Lindsey at MK Dons - and believes his old boss is the right man to propel them into the League Two promotion shake-up.
I WANT TO ADD MORE ELLIOT
NEW Crawley Town boss Rob Elliot has promised evolution not revolution after stepping into the huge shoes vacated by Scott Lindsey.