Two Weeks of Misery
By: Armando | November 24th, 2008
I’ve been incommunicado for a few weeks, the day job is pinching my time as such, but if you’d like I’d say that there wasn’t much to write about actually then you’d be wrong. It’s been a disappointing few weeks at the Montjuic, with a 3-4 away loss to lowly Numancia that we should have put away but for two goals in the last 6 minutes or so, the deciding goal a howler let in by Kameni (again: it seems when the contract talks come in so do opponents’ goals), and the recent 3-0 drubbing by Racing Santander in which we leaked goals, a site I had grown accustomed not seeing this year. My god, Munitis scored a goal against us!
There’s something afoot, something that leaves me thinking about the collapse of last year and not so much because of the lack of on-field leadership or skill that De La Pena usually handles, but the fissures in the back-room weren’t closed with the hiring of Tintin Marquez off the previous manager’s staff. There is a dearth of talent in the wings, the club’s leadership are a step slower and the club’s lack of form are pushing us dangerously close to the relegation zone. Tintin is on his last legs, as the Barcelona papers are intimating, so who is the right person to turn this around? One of the many relegation fighters like Caparros, a Michael Laudrup who is clearly marking time in Russia yearning for a return to Spain, an out-of-work Juande Ramos who was out of his element in London, or someone younger? Whoever it is, it ought to be someone like Unai Emery or across town at FC Barcelona, where both have taken fractured clubhouses and formed if not a united front then an opportunity of unity, an atmosphere conducive to winning. That Moises Hurtado comes out this week and backs his manager and blames his fellow players is nothing more than what half the squad did last year, pointing fingers outward and not inward.
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