Yeah, also Baines feeds in crosses a lot more than Cole, and Young tends to cut in so if you put them both on the same side you'll still get crosses on both sides and effectively have another striker in the box with Young.
This. It's pretty standard nowadays - players have so much power and are often so mentally fragile, and the media are so damn aggressive, that no manager is willing to speak out against them in public. On that note, I saw an interesting piece in the paper today about how football, and English football in particular, has been one of the slowest sports to embrace sports psychology. The cricket and rugby team all do it, and continental sides have started looking into it. Maybe that's why our national team is so crap and so many of our players fail to perform.
