Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

Slaven Bilic is not known for keeping his emotions under wraps, yet even by his standards the reaction to last weekend’s defeat at Middlesbrough was dramatic.
Sitting atop the raised dais in Boro’s press room, Bilic seethed and simmered, so frustrated by Watford’s gormless capitulation that most of his sentences vanished into incoherent huffs of despair.
The general impression was of an agonised patient entering his fifth hour in a hospital waiting room, or the fuse on a bomb sizzling towards detonation.
Bilic didn’t explode; not quite. But behind d...