While I appreciate the enthusiasm of the opening post, I don’t see a ton in there to be excited about once you get beyond “He got on well with a traumatised fanbase who would welcome literally any replacement to Benitez”
You reckon I think all professional journalists are infallible?
There’s a difference for sure, but in this case it didn’t count for much at all, especially when the ‘story’ was written for a site with very little credibility for accuracy
Wilson was completely unplayable (in a bad way) when he first joined. I’m no huge fan of his today, but the fact he became a serviceable Championship keeper from that starting point can only really be down to the coaches.
Williams gets a deranged amount of criticism. Especially considering he’s responsible for overseeing maybe the single largest improvement in a keeper I’ve ever seen in our squad.
There’s nothing to suggest that Given is a better GK coach than what we have. Pointing to his reputation as a player is meaningless. And probably how he ended up as assistant to Wayne Rooney at Derby.