We wouldn’t be where we are now had the ‘Butler Out’ brigade had their way last season so why there’s a frequent need to undermine and criticise his decision making is baffling. ‘It’s all opinion’ some might say, but it’s more than opinion when it’s prominent on social media. That’s just heckling and can’t do any good.
Some will still say they were right, and their critics wrong, while saying Butler only changed because of reading comments on here, Twitter, crowd reaction or a board ultimatum. A negative opinion on Butler at the time was fine, there was a bad run, but it was very impulsive. Criticism was not always constructive. Managers can learn and there was little appreciation of that and maybe there should be more patience and consideration of that.
Being wrong is fine, but it’s the continued assertion from some that there was nothing wrong in knee jerk reactions to a bad run of form, while those who urged patience and thought he might learn were still wrong. And, no, this isn’t an attempt to crow. I have been as wrong as those were about Butler.
