Ive not really said anything about it until today.
My first reaction when Coleman was off consoling Son was utter bewilderment. Pick a top player in the league who has been considered a winning captain throughout a period of success...Terry, Keane, Gerrard, Vieira etc.
Could anyone imagine one of those players going into the opposition changing room and consoling a player who had reacted to something then chased a teammate and hacked him down from behind causing serious injury? Weve seen on camera how Keane stood up for teammates...our own Duncan Ferguson, Tim Cahill or others would never have done this imo
How did John Terry stand up for his teammates? Ask Wayne Bridge or maybe look at how his spat with Anton Ferdinand and see how that affected his England captaincy.
Roy Keane made tackles that were nothing more than assaults that would have been prosecuted off the field and walked away from the biggest stage in world football because things weren't to his own personal liking.
Gerrard? Dish out the racism t-shirts
My next reaction was that if I was in Gomes situation and i had been injured in such a way, would i want my captain to be off consoling the opposition player...or to be going ballistic and getting in the fourth officials face + going in front of the cameras after the game and calling out the opposition team and being vocal in his support of me and the total injustice. Even using my injury to call out the VAR penalty and biased decisions against the club.
For me, and this is a personal view which i appreciate others may disagree with, I think this attitude of Colemans is nothing short of a disgrace and a total dereliction of duty to a teammate and to be honest a quite pitiful example of captaincy.
I understand hes also had a bad injury, i consider that to be totally irrelevant in this situation. Hes downplayed the whole incident by his behaviour and the narrative has become all about Son.
There is no leadership in this team and without a leader with a winning mentality the team is like a house of cards.
Brands doesnt only need to sign a new spine of a team for Silva, he needs to sign a backbone!