Intelligent Life Discovered at Latimer Park

Did anyone else catch Will Mellors-Blair on Radio Northampton's Non League show this week?  If not, click the link below.  It really is worth a listen.

Mellors-Blair Interview

Will comes across incredibly well and succinctly puts his finger on the difference in philosophies of our previous and current Managers.  Without ever bad-mouthing Leese overtly it was pretty clear the players felt constrained and unhappy under him.  

More interestingly, Will then goes on to talk about his vast number of professional qualifications and work helping other footballers with their mental issues after having suffered previously himself.  It was a timely reminder that those young people on the pitch running around for our entertainment are all normal, flawed human beings and not simply one-dimensional puppets defined only by which colour shirt they wear and whether they can trap a ball.

It shouldn't need repeating, but probably does, that everyone on the pitch huffing and puffing for our gratification is doing something they love for the watching, paying public.  Whether this is a goalie who drops a ball, a striker who blazes over or a linesman who may have missed an offside.  All human.  All flesh and blood people.  All of them feel and think and react the same way as the rest of us to praise or criticism.  Perhaps something to consider before we next bellow our outrage at someone barely in their 20's for failing once to do something we lardy f*ckers could never do while we have holes in our arses.

And Will is as human as they come.  He has experienced a lot in a short life.  He speaks with a great deal of sense and obvious intelligence.

And yet....and then.....

Will goes and spoils everything by claiming that we are the best team in the division and should be looking at the play-offs as a minimum.  Mmmm.... It's difficult to know whether we need to reassess everything else he has said in light of these patently wishful-thinking statements!

However, we will be happy for Will to point back at this article come April when our second-half of the season surge up the table propels us into the end of season shoot out.