Leeds were already in the mire before Jesse Marsch and his inspirational quotes, but he’s done little to improve them.
There are a few lessons to be learned from Leeds’ increasingly dismal drain-circling gurgle towards relegation.
Don’t ignore the reality of second-season syndrome. Don’t pick up lots of injuries to key players when you have a relatively small squad; that’s just silly.
But there are even more important lessons. Don’t sack your beloved manager at the end of February and try to style it out as part of a grand new plan by appointing an inexperienced manager embarking on their first job in England.
Most important of all: never, ever trust anyone who places any stock in inspirational quotations. They are a clear sign of an intellectual vacuum. A certain indicator of someone who is a stupid person’s idea of a clever person. I think it was Oscar Wilde or possibly Mark Twain who famously first said that. Jesse Marsch saying “I like quotes” is in itself the most quotable thing he’s said during his three months in England.
Remember the picture of Jacob Rees-Mogg hard at work in his commons office that revealed his desk contained no laptop or PC of any kind – a genuinely absurd affectation for someone at least theoretically involved in running a country in the 21st century – but did have a big book of quotations? Yeah.
Or Michael Scott using that Wayne Gretzky quote about missing 100% of the shots you don’t take and attributing the whole thing – including the attribution to Gretzky – to himself.
Look, we can bring the whole thing full circle right here:
‘”You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky” – Michael Scott’
– Dave Tickner.
It’s no way to run a country, it’s no way to run a fictional American paper company, and it’s certainly no way to avoid relegation from the Premier League.
I must confess I don’t recall the specific Gandhi and Mother Teresa quotes about not bothering to defend in…
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