Beesotted’s Larry Signy ponders as to whether winning really is everything:
The talk after the last couple of games has been that although The Bees played badly – they won. And that, it was said, is all that matters.
Let me disagree.
The new idea that you should ‘play ugly’ to get a win seems to be all important these days. It doesn’t matter what you do – win, win, win. If necessary, a push here, an ankle tap there, a cynical foul to stop an opponent (a professional foul they call it, but it’s not really professional to get sent off, leave your team down to ten men and the n be suspended).
Play ugly, get three points. It doesn’t matter what you have to do.
That’s what people say these days. But wait a sec – if you ‘play beautiful’ and prove yourself a good football team, and then you’ll win far more than most. The result will be just the same – and you will have have provided the entertainment most people pay a lot of money to watch, you will have helped promote the image of the Great Game – and you will have done it with fairness, respectability, and due regard to what is right.
Apart from anything else, if we finish up a team that becomes used to ‘playing ugly’, think what will happen if we should get promotion. Teams in the higher division will slaughter us because their football will be better (I know we’ll try to improve, but we are supposed to have built a team to survive in The Championship) and we’ll have to continue to ‘play ugly’ to try and maintain our position. We’ll become a nothing team.
So please Brentford – please don’t ‘play ugly’ any more. Give me back my beautiful game, and let’s get promoted playing the right way.
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There doesn’t need to be a change in footballing philosophy, just a realisation that we need also to get results. There’s no reason why we can’t both play in the attractive way Rosler has instilled in the squad and be ruthless in ensuring that we get the right results.
It’s also a matter of what do you do if a team doesn’t allow you to play. Sometimes you need a plan B.
Just take a look at Arsenal and what has happened to them in recent years. You sometimes need to grind out results and sometimes that doesn’t look very pretty.
As it is sometimes this season I think some of our players have tried to ‘walk’the ball in to the net when hitting it may have been a better option. Play whatever way is necessary to get promotion I say.
The Arsenal analogy is very valid. Their fans didnt complain when they were winning 1-0 every week.
Worry about the division above when we are up. Let’s try and get out of this one first.