So PV is complaining about how somebody else's complaints affected the refereeing, is that at all hypocritical? Or is that an underhanded way to affect next week's referees? Who knows. I actually don't feel like PV handled the post-match conference all that well. Maybe there is some advantage he seeks to gain from distracting the public attention from the actual footballing shortcomings of our team today.
Anyway, from what I could gather, his theory is that the poor offside calls robbed us of our game plan (stay compact, hit them on the break). That may be true, but even if the referees didn't ruin that game plan, any number of other things might have (pressure on the midfield made it impossible to get our head up and find the outlet pass, for instance). Whether it's the heat, or tired, old legs, or dodgy refs, we need to have a Plan B for matches like this.
Maybe this is how Mix will work his way back into the team. Or maybe we'll land a true winger who gives us the option of dropping McNamara back into an attacking midfield role, where he'll invariably run his bollocks off and give us a lot more midfield movement and defensive cover than we saw today.
