Lopetegui wins 'El Sackico' but life is unlikely to get any easier at the London Stadium
Lopetegui wins 'El Sackico' but life is unlikely to get any easier at the London Stadium, he might at least have received a few words of consolation from Julen Lopetegui. This was a night of quiet triumph for a manager who knows what it is like to be put in an impossible position by his own board but it is likely only one of them will fight to see another day.
Yet perspective is everything after the weekend’s events. Soucek had celebrated by holding up nine fingers in tribute to absent strikeron a lower limb fracture following a serious road accident on Saturday, and after curling a second past Sam Johnstone,O’Neil meanwhile had been hopping frantically on the sidelines, expending every last bit of energy in what may have been his final moments in the job.
Part of the justification for renting an athletics stadium instead of building their own ground was that the board was “absolutely committed to our policy of providing affordable family football” but this season, tickets have reached £120 for the biggest games.Lopetegui has essentially had to wrestle with a club that slipped into the dark ages long ago. He enjoyed a £130m kitty in the summer but much of that was spent at the behest of technical director Tim Steidten.
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