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At the risk of being controversial, wtf do most of those fans know about how football really works, anyway?
The fact most of us have watched hundreds, even thousands of football matches isn't completely meaningless. Many fans have experience of coaching and playing themselves, the principles are the same just at this level it's professional football with a few more resources and analysis.
The likes of football journalists, analysts etc many of them have never played or coached professional football and have also watched thousands of matches. The only difference is they have professional experience and knowledge in how to put their thoughts down effectively on paper or on a spreadsheet/powerpoint, whereas most fans don't.
I'd like to think I have a good general understanding of how we're performing as a club on the pitch and in and around the first team set-up, and most of my concerns have been proven right over the last few seasons where others seemed confident of things working out differently.