Criticism is good but I’ll go on doing it my way, says Queiroz
Posted in News on Saturday October 1st, 2005 1:57pm
Daniel Taylor in The Guardian
Sir Alex Ferguson delegated media duties to Carlos Queiroz yesterday, which made it a busy day for Manchester United’s assistant manager. The Scot was nowhere to be seen at the practice ground as Queiroz took training, worked on tactics for today’s game at Fulham, announced the team, checked on injured players and dealt with the fall-out of Roy Keane’s announcement that he would leave the club next summer. Everything, in fact, that the manager is supposed to do.
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Queiroz has taken an increasingly prominent role and as a result has come under scrutiny as never before. It is no exaggeration to say he and Ferguson could be called joint managers these days and nor is it stretching the truth to say that it is not to the liking of most supporters.Ferguson may have been booed after last Saturday’s defeat to Blackburn but some of the most vitriolic criticism has been reserved for the Portuguese. He has been blamed for the abandonment of the 4-4-2 system that won the European Cup in 1999 and for bringing in a system that has led to a sharp reduction in goal output. “This is a man derided by the fans, a man whose track record is one of failure,” Johnny Flacks of the Independent Manchester United Supporters’ Association said this week.
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