I don't see the point of this game. It's basically the same process as looking up a word in the dictionary: you flip the pages until you narrow down on the word. Um, OK.
Guys is a bit American for a football manager in England. I think "lads" is the standard gaffer term. You wouldn't catch Harry Rednap or Big Sam saying "guys."
It's a well known oratorial technique, repeating the theme and building up to a crescendo. Some of the most outstanding orators in history were consummate exponents of it, like, well you know, there's been a few of them.
I know what you mean, but it's a bit harsh to say bedwetters. Maybe some just need to learn that you have to judge a coach based on the whole season, not just a couple of bad results.
Away at Stoke about 10 years ago, in the days when I used to watch hesgoal, I think it was Izquierdo. An amazing dizzying sequence of one-twos that cut right through their defence, culminating in an emphatic drive into the corner of the net to make it 0-1 to us. Unfortunately Shaquiri ended up...
It doesn't make a season, but it's an indicator of many things. For one thing it shows what the team are capable of, and it shows that Hurzeler does have the ability rouse them.