tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1516886615157036044.post3571435737531773640..comments2023-02-01T00:26:38.430-08:00Comments on Minus the Shooting: The K(nots) of RoyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1516886615157036044.post-31176261232629833082012-06-07T05:28:54.990-07:002012-06-07T05:28:54.990-07:00Yes. I'm a Liverpool fan & the parallels a...Yes. I'm a Liverpool fan & the parallels are exact; so exact I can hardly bear to face it... Problem is England don't even have a Kenny, so no chance to go exactly backwards before we go forwards...Lokihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03924395676931035948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1516886615157036044.post-53745919376250863772012-06-07T04:14:58.512-07:002012-06-07T04:14:58.512-07:00Absolutely. The thing is there *is* a logic to th...Absolutely. The thing is there *is* a logic to the “the bad made good” – it’s just that you do have to actually *face* the bad to get free of the expectation and make the good possible. We seem constitutively incapable of doing this – we won’t allow ourselves to pause for a second to acknowledge the cognitive dissonance – in the very same breath pundits have been saying for months “we haven’t got a chance; perhaps we’ll win”. As you say, the injuries are simply adding a shrill intensity. Is it a lack of humility? Hard to deny when it comes from Shearer and co. But there still seems to be a lot more fear and denial about than anything else… <br /><br />There are interesting parallels with Liverpool FC. For 20 years just waiting for Order to return, way too scared to admit to themselves the “terrible double-bind” they’re in: if we admit we’re not the kings anymore, we’ll sink like a stone (and Utd fans will stop even caring); if we don’t, well, it’ll take that much longer – big 4, 5, 6, 7…. Hodgson tried the former, the humble “let’s face reality” approach, and the fearful prospect was suddenly rendered very real. Nakedness exposed. Off with his head, and re-enter the King. And his very expensive new (retro-80s) clothes. And a season level on points with Fulham.<br /><br />Can Hodgson have learnt anything from that? When there’s no humble reality to retreat to what on earth might “the terrible truth” look like?!Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417537764348654479noreply@blogger.com