Levante – History Makers

Today, long suffering Levante manager Tom Parfitt saluted his brave warriors after they made it a club record 6 games unbeaten, and completed a league double over West Brom to hammer yet another nail into Mark Deadman’s coffin.

Afterwards, the gaffer was full of praise for his side. Levante went into the game with five players missing through a combination of injuries and suspensions, including top scorer Leandro Damiao. This meant only a second start for Dieumerci Mbokani and young Argentinean winger Martin Bernitez. The two players were both excellent. Mbokani scored whilst Benitez also chipped in with a couple of assists Youth team centre half Luis Canga also got a start.

The win, which comes off the back of 4 consecutive 1 – 1 draws, and a win against Twente has been reported locally as the greatest achievement in Spanish history. Barcelona winning the Top 100 title and Real Madrid winning the Top 100 cup. Not even close.

Prior to the record breaking run, Parfitt was concerned that he may be in danger of losing his job. After relegation last season, he only held on to it because the Levante board weren’t prepared to lower their standards and take a punt on Stephen Beddows. This season though, with the club flying high in 16th place in division 5, there are plenty of vultures circling to take the job on. So much so that Parfitt was concerned he may have had to ask Lana Del Rey if she wouldn’t mind giving Frank Hirst a blozza just so he could stay on.

The danger seems to have been averted now though, and Parfitt will be looking forward to a relaxing post season break, and unlikely though it may be, perhaps ending up on the receiving end of lovely Lana’s lovely lips himself.

Whilst basking in the glory of this season’s success though, Parfitt laid out a couple more targets for his side. First and foremost, he has challenged his side to finish above PMW’s Anderlecht. This would seem a fairly easy task given that they couldn’t win a raffle if they were the only entrants right now.

The other thing Parfitt wants to see is a player make the TOTW every week for the rest of the season. Levante have been criminally overlooked in this department all season, and the gaffa feels that this is a personal vendetta against him and his by the Top 100 authorities. He claimed that the lack of appreciation is symptomatic of the big club favouritism shown by those in charge.

That hospice in Greece seems to get several nominations every week. Bernard Matthews chicken kievs seem to get people in every week too. The Belgian boys, with one obvious exception are always in there too. It’s a conspiracy to keep my boys de-motivated and leave us struggling.

I’ll tell you exactly who is to blame too. DP, Hurst, Beddows, Keane, Senior and #Barca manager# Every single one of them to a man are running scared because they know exactly what I am capable of as a manager, and what this club can be capable of once the youngsters here make the step up.

It’s all an old boys club, and the ones at the top are scared of us, and more than that, they are scared of the embarrassment that will be caused when we start climbing the leagues and beating them to the pots.