The 0-6 was horrendous and worse for being at home. That Liverpool team is also nowhere near the quality of this City team either. The 7-3 away at Arsenal though was nowhere near yesterdays humiliation for me. There was a real difference to that one. The team were always in the game, giving it their all and basically ran out of legs because of the tough fixtures, while Arsenal were well rested. It looked bad, but it was understandable and more excusable, at least for me.
Yesterday was an utter disgrace for the sheer lack of effort. The simple things like not tracking the man that you're just letting run right past you. That lack of effort is pathetic and unacceptable. A lot of it comes down to Carver's lack of authority. He doesn't have any because of his personality and he doesn't have any as a temporary manager to a team already considering where they'll holiday this Summer.
Can you imagine an Alex Ferguson team playing with that little effort. He'd have gone in after and had such an outburst, involving smashing things up, that the players would fear for their lives if they ever played with such low effort again. Instead we have Carver saying the players will go away and think about it. You honestly couldn't make it up. He makes the wrong call at every turn. I'm not one for promoting autocratic or angry management, but there's a time for softly softly management and yesterday was not it. There needs to be a balance of the nice guy approach and the kick up the arse when needed. Yesterday was a time for some arse kicking.
Think you're remembering the Arsenal game wrong. We were in it and then Pardew decided he was going to be a tactical genius and play 1 midfielder against Arsenal's 5 and they were just strolling past us looking like they were going to score every time.
