Newcastle v Wolves: Premier League – live!
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Newcastle United (a deliberately stodgy, affirmingly Spangeordie 4-5-1): Dubravka; Yedlin, Fernandez, Lascelles, Clark, Willems; Almiron, Longstaff M, Longstaff S, Saint-Maximin; Joelinton. Subs: Darlow, Krafth, Dummett, Shelvey, Atsu, Gayle, Muto.
Wolverhampton Wanderers (an ideologue’s 3-4-3): Rui Patricio; Dendoncker, Coady, Saiss; Doherty, Moutinho, Neves, Jonny; Traore, Jimenez, Jota. Subs: Vallejo, Pedro Neto, Cutrone, Ruddy, Ruben Vinagre, Kilman, Ashley-Seal.
In his epochal treatise on modern football, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill popularised the phrase “tyranny of the majority”. Roughly, his point was that most people are wrong about most things most of the time – though of course he made an exception for Mike Ashely – before going on to predict that Steve Bruce would do some decent work in his management career and that a few bad results at the start of a season would not mean that Wolves had “been found out”.
Of course, at Newcastle, all Bruce had to do was copy Rafael Benitez – it just took him a while to put his ego away, as it would as us all, and now he has things have improved. Wolves meanwhile, have not “been found out” because there is no “finding out” to be done. How they play should be obvious and why it works should be obvious; they were good last season because, as even Mill knew in 1859, football doesn’t change: decent players, well managed, will make for a decent team.
Continue reading...from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2019/oct/27/newcastle-v-wolves-premier-league-live
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