Sky Sports News HQ's Rob Wotton looks back at the week on the Morning View
Friday 20 March 2015 22:48, UK
Sky Sports News HQ's Rob Wotton takes us through an action-packed week on the Morning View in his weekly blog.
Another week and another array of footballing folk heroes have dropped into The Morning View. Six former England players, one ex-England Manager and a man who’s taken charge of teams in the top three divisions of English football have all joined the debate these past weekday mornings. Ref rage, away goals and managerial sackings were top of the agenda. But let’s start with…
PROBLEM OF THE WEEK.
Ronaldo’s non-celebration of Gareth Bale’s goal at the weekend sparked the debate on Monday morning. How does Carlo Ancelotti cope with those egos in the Real Madrid dressing room? His club have paid big money for those two big stars and he has to make sure they gel on the pitch. Nigel Adkins, alongside Steve Howey, provided a fascinating insight into how hard it is to deal with high profile players.
WINDOW OF THE WEEK
We all love Transfer Deadline Day. But how about this idea as an added bonus…a Managerial Transfer Window! That’s the wish of England legend Stuart Pearce. The former Forest boss was on The Morning View the day after Gus Poyet had lost his job at Sunderland, becoming the 6th Premier League manager to leave his club this season. Stuart Pearce said it’s time we introduced a Managerial Merry-Go-Round Moratorium and not just in the top flight, look lower down the leagues he says and the problem is even worse.
One thing’s guaranteed - it would make fascinating viewing on Sky Sports News HQ!
RULE CHANGE OF THE WEEK
It’s been a miserable week or so for English clubs in the Champions League. City had a shocker against a brilliant Barcelona side. While both Chelsea and Arsenal were knocked out on the ‘away goals rule.’ This prompted Arsene Wenger to question whether we should do ‘away’ with this particular feature of knock-out competitions. Rob Lee and Paul Walsh agreed with the Arsenal manager
REF JUSTICE OF THE WEEK
FA Chairman Greg Dyke sparked one of THE hot topics this week with his comments about the increased incidents of players surrounding the referee. The amount of teams warned about their behaviour has more than doubled in the past four years. While those actually charged with offences has risen significantly. Rob Lee and Paul Walsh sought a solution for the problem.
Peter Taylor and John Salako took up the gauntlet on Thursday. The previous night, Fulham’s Ross McCormack confronted the referee during the home defeat to Leeds. Peter Taylor thinks it’s not just down to the football authorities and the referee to crack down. He believes the manager has to take responsibility too.
That just about wraps up another week on The Morning View. We’re back this coming Monday-Friday from 10am on Sky Sports News HQ. So join us then as we’re joined by amongst others Ray Parlour, Jamie Mackie, Andy Walker, Gerry Francis, Rob Green, Alan Curbishley, Mark Warburton and Tony Gale.
