If there is one thing you are guaranteed from the opening weekend of the Championship season, it is a tidal wave of hyperbole that is easy to get swept away in. What we see in the early August sunshine almost always fails to translate into reality by the time we reach May and on the basis of what Wayne Rooney’s first game as Plymouth Argyle manager delivered here, he will certainly be hoping that is the case.
Results and performances on the opening weekend can often feel seismic one way or the other: after all, it’s the only sample size we’ve got to go on. To that end, there’s never too much to read into things when you drill down into it that much but to suggest this was an inauspicious start for Rooney in the Argyle dugout would be putting it mildly.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/aug/11/sheffield-wednesday-plymouth-championship-match-report
Author : Aaron Bower at Hillsborough
Publish date : 2024-08-11 18:33:19
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