The appointment of Big B 1970 has already turned sour with many pundits tip for promotion having a terrible start to the season, and the manager has been questioning the commitment of some of his team.
Big B left last seasons bottom club Valencia quite rightly under a cloud, and despite them rallying towards the end of the campaign, still finished bottom with the fans calling the manager "worse than Gary Neville". Torino had been free scoring under their last manager, despite having a leaky defence, so no-one expected them to rack up two goalless draws against niwintz and his Genoa team in the opening round. A steady start more than a disaster, but things got a lot worse in the next set of fixtures when Torino were soundly beaten by the unfancied Lazio. As their manager deareststorm danced an Irish jig at the haul of 6 points, the Torino Ultras vented their frustration, branding their team "an embarrassment." Big B's players will have a chance to redeem themselves in the cup however as they have drawn storms boys in the 2nd round.
Torino hoped the season would pick up against a Watford team that looked beatable on paper, but int the first game their defence was impenetrable, having been drilled very well by manager IDanger IMouse. Clinical finishing at the other end gave Watford a 2-0 victory, and things got even worse for the Italians in the return fixture as the Hornets raced into a 4-0 lead by half time. A bold tactical switch by Big B did net them a couple of second half goals, but they also got caught twice on the counter attack to go down 6-2.
We caught up with the manager after the game who told us "the results are simply not good enough. With only 2 points from 6 games. we're massively under achieveing so far and the fans deserve better. We have some highly paid players and they just aren't putting in a decent shift. We've got some tough fixtures coming up and I want players who'll give everything for the badge on that shirt. No-ones place is safe so they need to pull their fingers out and get the wins we're capable of."