NYCFC Nation: Podcast

If they start Pirlo it means they gave up.
The team gave up when Patrick Vieira gave them the perfect out by saying Toronto had already won the east with like a month and a half to go.

I talked about it on the pod but if your boss tells you that he doesn't expect you to meet these high standards you'll relax. I think that's what happened to the team, they saw the coach dropped his expectations so they felt ok to take the foot off the gas.
 
The team gave up when Patrick Vieira gave them the perfect out by saying Toronto had already won the east with like a month and a half to go.

I talked about it on the pod but if your boss tells you that he doesn't expect you to meet these high standards you'll relax. I think that's what happened to the team, they saw the coach dropped his expectations so they felt ok to take the foot off the gas.
I know that's a popular sentiment, but its not something I'm buying into. Granted, the results after he made that statement have not been good at all, so the data isn't necessarily backing me up.