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The Premier League Relagation Battle: Last Day, What happened!

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A very quick blog:

I was amazed when I got back today to find that all of the teams in danger of relegation lost! What happened? Who would have predicted that!!??

Today when watching Setanta the reporter said that Gareth Southgate had asked him to keep him informed of what else was happening in the other relegation games during their game at West Ham.  If this is to believed and if the other managers also did this is it any wonder that they all lost.

Particularly Middlesborough had to win so there was almost no point knowing what else was happening.  Perhaps if they had concentrated just on their game they may have had a better chance.  A classic example of where a knowledge of sport psychology would have been beneficial. 

I fully appreciate that pressure and stress makes people act in strange ways but it is ashame that nobody was there trying to give across this very simple message, focus on what you can control.



James Beale C.Psychol
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Posted May 24, 2009 at 12:51 PM by TotalPerformance | Permalink | Comments(7)

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Four teams, none of which seemed to really want to stay up, or at least that's how it might look. So bereft of confidence, perhaps too focused on the outcome to be able to 'play' themselves out of trouble.

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Posted by robrobson | May 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Although i am always saying to the people i work with in football, concentrate on the things you can control,; i wonder how easy is it ito actually do in these days of media where all the crowd know in seconds evrything that is happening elsewhere. how easy would it have been to shut out what was going on epecially playing away from home

David Dixon BSc (Hons). MSc.
Posted by DavidDixon | May 25, 2009 at 3:44 AM
Good point David. I suppose the 2 things that surprised me was the fact that Southgate was asking for it (if the reporter is to be believed so he could amend his tacting accordingly) and that all of the teams in danger lost (I would never have predicted that). I think when West Ham got relegated the 2 teams involved (Bolton was the other) both won. I was expecting similar.

James Beale C.Psychol
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Total Performance Consulting - Sport Psychologists
Posted by TotalPerformance | May 25, 2009 at 3:56 AM
i see your point James, but the year West Ham last went down they had 42 points and the team gave the impression there was fight in them, i think under trevor brooking in the last couple of games under his charge they never lost, drawing on the last day away to birmingham. i think the thing that surprised me was the attitude of both teams, they both seems to accept their fate even before the final games. i watched the newcastle game (too tight to pay yet another company to watch football) and there seemed to be no spirit, even shearer just sat in his seat for the whole game. the highlights i saw of the middlesborough game gave me the same impression. therefore were the players and management mentally tough enough for the battle they found themselves in.

David Dixon BSc (Hons). MSc.
Posted by DavidDixon | May 25, 2009 at 6:34 AM
I don't know why Southgate would ask. Plan A: Win. Plan B: Win by a few. But that's the problem. I imagine they were all so focused on the result and not on playing football. In other words, all four teams choked and the two that went into the last day slightly better off survived (as we know).

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Posted by robrobson | May 25, 2009 at 2:42 PM
What can I say: gutted. No spirit, no fight and really not much fitness. For a very proud geordie this was a very bad day. Tactically it wasn't much better; loading up with strikers at the expense of those that actually feed the ball to the strikers was not going to work and leaving Martins and Viduka on, both of whom were spent forces meant we went out with a wimper. OK the goal was bad luck but we didn't deserve to get anything out of it. Focusing on what you can control is a very good point and the way the team played did seem to change one Man U went a goal up. If that were the case and something like a fluke goal occurs then it's almost impossible to pick up the momentum again. A very bad day.

Keith

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Posted by keithirving | May 26, 2009 at 1:07 AM
One thing to add to this is. All of the oppostion safe West Ham to the teams that were endanger of going down had something to play for: Man U, played a young team desperate to put themselves in the shop window or get into the first team. Villa, potentially Barry's last game as a Villa player Chelsea, the managers last game Maybe this was a factor? The above teams had virtually no interest in what was going on elsewhere. Anyway those the thoughts of a Health and Safety Consultant! Richard Beale www.rbhealthandsafety.co.uk

Richard Beale
RB Health and Safety Solutions Ltd
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Posted by Firstaidcent | May 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM

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