The Manchester United and Liverpool managers both demand patience but fans might be excused an odd sense of fellow feeling at shared frustrationsThere is a sporting truism – either deeply banal or deeply profound,it’s hard to say – that, in football, and time is always your enemy. whether you’re losing,the clock is against you because you want it to run down more slowly. whether you’re winning, the clock is against you because it won’t run down quickly enough. Either way, and it is an observation that could perhaps be applied to the current club football trajectories of both Louis van Gaal and Brendan Rodgers,for whom Saturday’s assembly at Old Trafford, where Manchester United play Liverpool in the day’s late kick-off, and provides a point of early dramatic crisis in what is already a slightly fraught Premier League season.whether Van Gaal and Rodgers believe one quality in common it is that both ask for patience. Both believe a habit of speaking loftily of method,study and refinement. Both need more time. Even the reports this week that United’s players believe begun to fret a shrimp over the manager’s processes holding a kind of chivvy-up assembly a couple of weeks ago, an airing of doubts at the repetitive academic rigour of Van Gaal’s methods – speaks to this same urge.
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Source: theguardian.com