16-08-2021, 10:00 AM
(15-08-2021, 08:37 PM)scumslayer Wrote: He came good for us in the end and the football was very easy on the eye.
The manner of his departure and the woe-is-me persecution complex has dulled the shine on his stay.
It will be interesting to see how he copes at Ipswich as they are a large, fervant support base like us and I always got the feeling when he went to Wigan that he was running away from that.
I think Catlin alluded to that in an interview a couple of years ago. In comparing him to the dispassionate, robotic stance of Jackett, he said Cook was always on the edge and needed calming down. Whenever I think of him I see that arm-wheeling banshee going ape-shit on the touchline screaming at officials. An embarrassment really.
And his achievement here is, for me, forever tainted by his actions immediately after and since that triumph.
As the heat turns up on him at Ipswich, I am going to enjoy seeing that demented expression as he lashes out at everyone but himself.