roberts vice-captain

I too think this could be an inspired move. The actual position is normally either unheard of or rather lacking in any real job to do. However it is the feeling that he will be a responsible figure head in the club that may work. If he feels that he now has a responsibility to the squad as a leader of sorts, then it might just make him focus that little bit more, and may also help to show him that he is wanted and needed.

His problems in the past may well have stemmed from the fact that he been allowed to be a free spirit. All the talk of "doesn't get involved all the time but can win a game with amoment of magic" and the like may well have helped in carry on being an enigma. To some extent it will have helped him think he didn't have to battle and probably allowed the drinking to be excusable as well.