On the BBC live text yesterday after Stoke went one nil up, some punter messaged about how glad he was to see Lambert doing well as he'd been treated harshly at Villa. Is that the general narrative that exists outside of the club? Lerner really made chumps of us all.
It's also interesting how fans/certainly not excluding myself from this, can get carried away after merely taking a lead or going behind in a game, where the manager/player in question's merits are either praised from the high heavens (''I always knew Hogan was the real deal'' or the opposite "Fucking hell Bruce, we've been woeful, no wonder we're losing" etc.)
Finally, interesting to see no sign of Ireland in Stoke's 18 yesterday. Already bomb-squaded again it seems.