Damien Cox: Give John Herdman an effing break. Three World Cup losses don’t erase all the good he’s done
Never mind thatin the 2014 NBA playoffs was perceived very differently, as a badass team official announcing a Canadian team wasn’t going to take any guff from anyone. When Brooklyn won that series, you didn’t hear that it was Ujiri’s fault for motivating the Nets. They printed T-shirts in his honour.
What utter nonsense. Like the competition hardened Croats needed any motivation to win at the World Cup. Then, when their tournament was done andit was presented by some — not all — as proof that Herdman had been found lacking in the international spotlight. But many also went into the Belgian game hoping against hope that what had happened to Iran at the hands of England wouldn’t happen to Canada. It didn’t, but then the Croats tore Canada to shreds in the midfield and underlined the reality that this was all the beginning of a longer process.Canadian veteran Jonathan Osorio.
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