Nathan Jones has barely started at Southampton and doesn’t have so much as a single Premier League point to his name yet is already coming across as a perfect blend of Brendan Rodgers and Tim Sherwood. Don't sack him Saints.
One of the great things about the Premier League, one of the elements that just makes Our League simply better than any of Jonny Foreigner’s funny little football competitions, is that it constantly finds new ways to surprise you.
And in Jones the Premier League appears to have hit paydirt. The gold standard against which any Premier League managerial pronouncement is measured is simple: how easily can you imagine it being uttered word-for-word by Brendan Rodgers at his most self-regardingly assured? Having held himself with such self-described dignity through those defeats, Jones is not about to waste the chance to shed it all and go off at his critics, specifically Havant & Waterlooville manager Paul Doswell.
He mentions Havant & Waterlooville by name, but not Doswell. That’s calculated and gloriously petty. Calling him “the non-league manager” like he doesn’t even know his name when he’s clearly been reading the quotes over and over while plotting his revenge. Making sure to then go on and mention the club to make sure everyone realises that he does know Doswell’s name, he just isn’t going to say it. Then bang, into the punchline.
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