Vitor Pereira - Our Manager

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A nice quote from Peter Blackburn about Vitor:

'He understands the need for a whole squad, not just a first eleven, and has tenderly worked to bring broken bodies and minds left unloved and criticised back to their best'.

Hard not to think we wouldn't have got more out of some of the squad if we'd have Vitor early on in the season. 

Calling out your players when you lose in public is never a good approach.

People critisise Dyche for that but those players absolutely deserved to be criticised at the time. They put in a woeful performance at Wrexham which was simply not acceptable. They were given the run-around by a Championship side. We only gained some respectability back when the big guns came on and got us back into the game. No way did they deserve a Cooper/Nuno/Pereira arm around the shoulder. They needed a kick up the arse, which it sounds like they got.