Losses

Practice tells you everything about a team. If sessions are casual, distracted, or disorganized, then the games will be, too. If the quality of practice doesn’t reflect the demands of competition, losing becomes inevitable. Talent matters, but attitude matters more. A few players with negative energy, constant complaints, or a lack of effort can quickly poison a team's culture. That doesn’t mean cutting everyone, it means being honest about who fits the vision and who doesn’t

Playing is what happens when you enjoy the game, passing, moving, scoring, celebrating. Competing is what happens when the stakes rise and when pressure builds, mistakes matter, and results define the outcome. That’s where we often see the truth about a player, a team, and even a club.

Wolverhampton Wanderers (Wolves) - (My home team) are living the nightmare right now. They’ve lost every Premier League match this season — five straight defeats, the worst start in their history. When you’re on a run like that, it’s not just the scoreboard that hurts. It’s the self-doubt, the finger-pointing, the creeping question of why bother?