You've actually understated
the crisis at the defence bar.
Not exact matches
It is certainly true that the countries
at the centre of the Asian
crisis — Thailand, Indonesia and Korea — had rates that were de facto soft fixes — a high degree of stability in the good times, but not any serious institutional
defences when they came under pressure.
All he brings is lack of motivation, excuses aplenty, usually involving «biased» or incompetant refs, no obvious coaching or even any understanding whatever of the need for
defence and hard running, an injury
crisis every season, discontent among fans, slavery to 70th minute subs, whether needed earlier or not, a belief in last millenium tactics (mostly indiscernable tactics), a love of waving his arms and shouting uselessly
at the innocent fourth official (who does not make onfield decisions anyway!)
The Arsenal young gun returns to North London
at a time of
crisis in
defence for the Gunners with Per Mertesacker the only recognised centre - back available for the visit of Newcastle to the Emirates Stadium this Saturday.
The uncapped Spaniard has featured in nine Premier League games, mainly
at centre - back due to Arsenal's injury
crisis in
defence.
With Arsenal having to cope with the usual injury
crisis, especially in
defence, Arsene Wenger had to go with the relatively untried young Spaniard Hector Bellerin
at right back and the left back Nacho Monreal in an unfamiliar central role.
Veteran defender Sol Campbell has emerged as the surprise front - runner to ease the
crisis at the heart of Liverpool's
defence.
The three core tasks NATO adopted in its new Strategic Concept
at the Lisbon Summit in 2010 are collective
defence,
crisis management and cooperative security.
David Cameron's Downing Street machine may have endured its biggest
crisis so far over phone hacking, but
at least its media strategy is working well in one area:
defence cuts.