Monday’s column comes from Craig Clark.

WITH each game, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that Gus Poyet’s overall approach to matches involves a strategy that extends beyond his first-team selection and the system within which they operate.

Poyet has already gained a reputation for being able to mould, adapt and improve players and this evidently involves man-managing them too; even when they’re on the bench, his players are as important, if not more so, than those in the starting XI.

You can read the rest of the column here.