I'm not sure what you're looking at, Whoscored has Downes at a 6.97 average rating across the season, Smallbone at a 6.72. Only Arma and KWP have a higher rating than Downes (apart from Tella and JWP but not including them for obvious reasons).
Form, momentum and the evidence of results against the top teams mean nothing, no siree.
Leeds fans were right. We'll struggle with the rest of our games.
With a squad that was never going to go down his prioritising the league over getting out of the Europa League group and into the knockout stages for the first time in our history was a travesty.
In fairness he probably has Vardy to blame for him losing his job as if we still had Van Dijk fit second half of the season I'm certain that we would have beaten United to win the league cup and probably qualified for the Europa League again.
He was manager for one game, in a season where we were shit, away to Spurs and we lost 3-1. No indicator of his ability really.
Hope they do well. Will definitely be looking out for their results more now.
Well it's all gone tits up.
Sunderland came back to win late on, Saints losing and Palace 1 up as well.
Honestly something a little iffy about Sunderland getting two goals in two minutes right at the end of injury time.