Strange times

In times of crisis it is easy to be confused. We sat on the 28th of August in front of our televisions excited to see Tenerife start against Girona. We expected to win, we were candidates for the highest positions in the twenty available. We could compete with the best and expected to have to fight Betis. And here we are 20 days later having taken part in some of the worst history the club has ever seen. The fans are blown away by the events. There has been only deception disgust and discredit. When a team falls from great heights like this it is normal to doubt everything and everybody. In consequence it is hard to know what are the good points. Did Arconada destroy a great team or once we have a new trainer will new problems surface? This is the question.
The answer will only be proved with the passing of time. Arconada needs to go, this is evident, perhaps the only thing everyone is agreed on. With his sacking, late -because the terrible scenes in the stadium on Saturday could have been missed and three points saved-, opens the only hope for a way forward. The club needs to find the right coach, a man who will give the players values, who helps the players play to the best of their abilities and helps them hide their difficulties (the absence of a defensive midfielder has been shown), and who can lead the squad into being a functioning group. It needs to be done. And if then we don't go up we can talk......
Certainly Arconada, part failure, part victim of "post" Oltraism, shouldn't have trained today. This was just another unnecessary cruelty.


Translated from El Dia Newspaper