Dion
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And yet you posted that Mitten should "wind his neck in" when presented with evidence to the contrary.The team talk at half time was about whoever wants to play can play, get your hand up if you don't want to play, made a few changes
Exactly…
That reads out as he made changes due to players putting their hands up. That’s how a lot of people read it too. Dunno why you’re acting as if I’m in the minority here.
If you follow up the bit about putting hands up with immediately mentioning “I made a few changes”. A normal person would think the meaning was you made subs due to players putting their hands up and not wanting to play. The fact you’re saying Mitten clarifies what happens tells you a lot of people thought Ole meant players asked to be subbed. Otherwise why would he need to clarify it? And if you didn’t know Mitten and Ole were close (I didn’t until this thread) why would you perceive what Mitten said as anything but a contradiction.
I mean you’ve got numerous people in this thread and online who came to the same conclusion.
The statement was ambiguous, which is the point. When presented with an ambiguous statement that can be interpreted one of three ways (either people asked to come off, or people wanted to come on, or a combination) it's nonsense to 1) jump to the worst conclusion, especially when there's evidence that Rashford was actually injured that game and 2) then tell people to "wind their neck in" when they clarify the situation, especially when you admit yourself you had no idea how close Mitten and Solskjaer were.