Reid’s boot to the b **** cks

BRAVO, Peter Reid.

Cutting through the modern football twaddle like one of his tackles used to spear countless opponents during his days as a fearless midfield destroyer with Bolton, Everton, Manchester City and England.

Delivering his thoughts on the subject in a meme on social media, Reid (right) said: “We used to have the high-press – or, as we called it, we shut down from the front.

“And then we dropped off to shut people down – that’s the low-press. “Same thing – different jargon. “Recycling the ball – win a tackle. “Transition? A counter-attack, that’s what we called it. It’s the same thing.

“It’s all b **** cks.”

Message to Aidy Boothroyd

IMPOSSIBLE JOBS:

zeating a packet of softmints without chewing any.

zexplaining why ‘expected goals’ has relevance to anything.

zimplementing VAR successfully.

zdescribing the law of offside.

zfinding the end of my wife’s ‘to do’ list.

NOT IMPOSSIBLE JOBS:

zmanaging England’s best under-21 footballers.

MINO RAIOLA is talking as though Paul Pogba has proved his point at Manchester United, saying that, back in 2012, Sir Alex Ferguson didn’t rate the midfielder.

United last lifted the Premier League crown eight years ago.

Never mind the World Cup, if

Pogba (left) was that good, he’d have pushed his club over the line.

As it is, Ferguson’s hardly been proved wrong, has he?

MY BIGGEST laugh this week came from agent Jonathan Barnett who, with a straight face, said a collection of representatives in an organisation called the ‘Football Forum’ wanted to bring agents and players together “for the common good”.

This on the same day that it emerged these same middlemen had received £272million in the past 12 months for brokering transfer deals in the Premier League.

For the “common good”? Almost beyond parody, that.