Nah. Were you there? It was the norm. It was like teaching toddlers to walk. Fair play to GP for being the first manager to teach them to do that. But absolutely shocking that it should be required in the first place.
Not that simple. First Albion manager in recent times with the purse-strings loosened. OK, fair play, he taught El-Abd and Elphick to pass the ball on the ground, albeit painfully horribly slowly, after years of clear-yer-lines at all costs being drummed into them by the likes of Guy Butters...
Absolutely this. Everything about Hughton screams, albeit in a calm professional way, that he's happy to be in the job he's in, and is totally focussed on that job until he next gets shafted by a chairman. He gives off that vibe, both now and in his previous managerial positions. Whereas...