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I like that. Yes, I see exactly where you are coming from, but I don't think that word was mistakenly chosen. I think it was deliberately selected. I see it as a word that he would have used with care.

The brain doesn't work like that though does it. Our vocabulary is ordered in tiers. I see the brain like a library - you keep the stuff you need ready to hand on the ground floor. When you need more complex words, you pop upstairs to the second floor and get the word you need off the shelf...

I don't think so. If he had a momentary brain freeze he wouldn't use a word so charged. He'd opt for a more non-descript option.

snap!

Maybe, but I tend to think that 'unsavoury' is a word that one has to select from memory. It's not the first to jump into your head e.g. unfortunate.

Ah, but we know that this is the world of football. It's not the real world where the law and sanity prevails. No matter how much the Albion are trying to drag our club and others into that world, illogical things happen.

Of course there is pressure on players to perform, but that's not the cause for this lack of focus is it? If it is, then Sunderland should pull out as the pressure will arguably be more intense one rung further up.

I think it's fine to question the guy's attitude in saying he's not focused. Taking into account what he is asked to do day in day out it's not exactly a high pressured situation. I mean, when this is over he'll be on a handsome salary playing for a side going for promotion to the premier league...

Why exactly?

The analogy works in showing how out of touch footballers are with the real world. I'd kick him up the backside.

Worker: morning boss, I'm just not feeling focused at the moment so I thought I might just take 4-6 weeks off, paid leave of course. Boss: you're fired. Or you can just get back to work. Your call? --------- Personally, I don't think he's unfocused at all. He probably wants to play. He also...