Duncan Barkes

So a couple of points.

First of all, on Who Needs Mourinho?

Did you know?

And I only found this out on Saturday.

That is a chant which was begun 20 years ago when he started playing for Brentford.

Because Brentford and Chelsea, well, Brentford obviously are looking upwards a lot, but nevertheless were jealous of Chelsea.

And there was a kind of a rivalry there.

So they started chanting, when John started playing for them, who needs Mourinho, we've got Moussinho.

So that's the first thing.

The second thing, and this is the most important thing, is that Nathan Thompson's absolutely right.

And it brings us back to Jose Mourinho because Jose Mourinho is famous for saying everybody who's played for him says he says the same thing.

When you have the ball and you are getting into a dangerous area, especially on the wing or in the channel, or maybe just coming through towards the penalty areas D and you're starting to look threatening.

He said, I must have a minimum of four players in the box, four players in the box.

And just like Nathan Thompson, I found myself shouting against Hull that there was only one person in the box every time we were going down the flanks.

OK, Ali and then Blair and then Caballero were unable to get the ball into meaningful areas, but they didn't have enough blue shirts to aim at in the box.

If you've got four players in the box threatening so that wherever the ball goes and often as it comes in, it's not going to be a complete clearance.

It's going to bobble somewhere.

And there was plenty of that.

And it was always picked up and cleared by a whole player because the ratio was Colby Bishop versus four or five.

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