Going Down

Snigger all you want at Glenn Roeder's increasingly surreal public statements, but he's right to insist that his comedy team is not in a relegation fight. Without a league goal in a month and a half, and full of so-called senior players who use each new low as an excuse for the next, it's more like a surrender than a struggle. We'll probably stay up because there are three or four sides who somehow manage to be even worse than our gutless wonders, still hiding behind injuries to mitigate their lack of pride, heart or tactical guile. What difference would mercenary Michael Owen make when there's no-one to give him the ball?