Will Winter Dampen Ivan Klasnic's Positivity?
Bolton’s newcomer Ivan Klasnic was interviewed for today’s match programme and Megson or Gartside made sure he used the word ‘positive’ in relation to the club’s mentality.
“I was impressed with everything that I saw. The stadium is excellent and everyone at the club has a positive mentality.”
The word ‘positive’ always seems to pop up during player interviews, I’m fairly certain that Kevin Davies, Jussi Jaaskelainen, even Johan Elmander used it preseason, along with the Bolton’s new signings who praised the positive attitudes of their new colleagues.
Should we believe that there is a constant positive attitude amongst the Bolton squad or is it just spin? Perhaps there is a clause in the players’ contracts that stipulates that players must be publicly positive on all occasions and must express this verbally to the media at every opportunity.
Not that there’s anything wrong with being positive, as long as it does not lead to overly overt optimism — know thy limits!
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