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2 Posted 24/11/2008 at 19:55:19
3 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:11:19
select 11 for english commentary !
4 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:12:32
5 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:14:46
6 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:18:49
http://www.justin.tv/directory/sports/soccer?kind=live&order=hot&lang=en
7 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:21:06
8 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:21:22
http://www.veetle.com/viewChannel.php?cid=491e2dd55d3d2
9 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:25:25
10 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:33:36
:-)
11 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:34:35
12 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:36:21
13 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:36:34
14 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:35:56
15 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:41:09
16 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:39:13
17 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:41:37
18 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:44:52
This one has escaped the cull for now...
19 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:44:38
20 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:46:40
21 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:45:38
22 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:46:21
23 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:47:43
24 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:46:18
Fingers crossed for a quick recovery for unfortunate James Vaughan.
25 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:35:49
26 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:49:38
Lightweight midfield at times and they lack confidence to get on the ball and pass it. The few times we have, we’ve looked decent. But if only Moyesie had a quid to spend in January for every long ball we play - we’d be able to buy Robinho!
27 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:53:15
Same old problem....no width, i am a moyes fan but not many other managers has so many untouchables, know he wants to play cahill, saha, yak and felliani ut one has to be dropped!!
28 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:55:00
29 Posted 24/11/2008 at 20:57:06
30 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:03:11
31 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:03:27
32 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:07:12
33 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:09:19
34 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:10:47
Ani UP FRONT not the f’ing wing!
35 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:12:29
36 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:16:50
37 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:15:56
38 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:13:47
39 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:15:13
Time yet, but we must improve
40 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:19:03
41 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:17:49
42 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:18:13
43 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:19:48
44 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:19:39
45 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:18:29
We also need to put lescott in the cb role drop yobo and play baines as he has a good cross and attacks like a full back should.
how could we go 6th tonight when we have been pretty crap all season?
46 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:21:57
47 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:23:46
48 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:21:04
49 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:26:14
50 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:23:21
51 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:26:59
52 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:29:10
53 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:31:37
54 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:31:40
Im expecting 2 more early subs to turn this game around Moyes
55 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:31:38
You cannot hope to achieve much when you can’t get enough possession.
56 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:30:56
57 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:34:43
maybe 1-1 if we are lucky
58 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:32:12
59 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:35:15
60 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:35:02
61 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:38:48
62 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:36:02
Fellaini 15m
Thank god Zaki isn’t playing would be 4-0
63 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:39:47
64 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:42:01
65 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:42:36
66 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:42:32
67 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:43:54
68 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:43:01
69 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:44:09
70 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:45:13
71 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:45:10
That’s....... unexpected!
72 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:45:18
73 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:43:43
74 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:42:36
Ok, who reckons Moyes has been smoking crack? Progressive substitions appear not to be on the agenda...
75 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:47:13
76 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:45:51
77 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:46:50
Come on Everton!!!!!!
78 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:49:04
79 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:49:19
80 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:51:00
81 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:51:44
82 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:47:49
83 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:50:12
Cahill misses another one... he could have had a hat-trick!
84 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:52:03
85 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:51:25
86 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:52:15
87 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:54:49
88 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:53:32
We need to totally rethink whats going on tactically at out club.
89 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:55:08
A rudderless performance.
90 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:55:07
91 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:54:15
92 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:57:28
93 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:56:15
But in this League always expect the unexpected.... we’ll probably get 4 at Spurs now!
Bloody hell, who am I trying to kid???
94 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:53:48
As the radio commentator just said did Everton actually create anything tonight or just tried to score off long balls causing problems in Wigan’s rearguard.
Great time to loose vaughan - are only true pace player - get ready for mid-table scrap.
95 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:56:24
Awful tonight.
96 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:58:03
97 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:55:55
98 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:56:06
99 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:52:03
Moyes Out!
I?ve been an apologist for Moyes before, no more. He has had millions more to spend than Steve Bruce etc. and he makes very bad sides look good. Our league position flatters us which is worrying.
Our football is horible to watch. I wouldn?t even call it football. Lescott looks a shadow of the player he was, played out of position. Arteta has been poor for two seasons. No more injury excuses. Cahill is only in the team for his ability to score... how many has he missed this season, how many holes has he left for midfielders to attack that have cost us goals.
Yakubu has had his good season, he will want his transfer fee in January. Osman plain not good enough. Pienaar hasn?t hit a decent pass all season. Rodwell, Felliaini, Gosling, Anichebe, Vaughn all a couple of years off being good enough.
Where now Moyes? No money in January, Bill you are a joke, always have been. Only bothered about a soulless tin in Kirby.
A failure for a season ahead. Makes me sick to my stomach.
100 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:56:25
As long as we accept such a cowardly manager, we will never go forward. Arteta & Fellaini were terrible today and both should have been substituted but Moyes doesn't have the bottle or tactical acumen to do this.
Moyes can fuck off now I?ve always supported him before this summer's joke and now I am watching awful game after awful game, knowing the manager won't do anything about it.
101 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:58:13
102 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:00:58
103 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:58:27
104 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:59:27
105 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:03:29
106 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:58:42
107 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:02:50
Our best 2 players from the last few seasons are Lescott and Arteta.
Both are way out of form.
What does Baines have to do to get a game.
Lescott’s confidence is shot to pieces.
Yakubu doesn’t look interested.
Howard kept us in the game.
We made Lee Cattermole look good
Enough said
Horrible
108 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:00:50
Fellaini was very poor today and should have been replaced at half-time. We need some width tonight and Baines should have replaced Fellaini with Cahill slotting in the middle with Baines on the left side of midfield.
Why on earth wait until 5 mins to go to throw him and to make it worse put at left back. We might as has gone for it and lost 2-0 than show no effort.
You would have banked on either the Yak, Saha or Cahill putting at least one of those chances away tonight.
One another thing, we need Arteta to get away from the set-pieces because they are becoming awful. How many times were they too long, too short or failed to clear the first man. This is happening game after game.
Rant Over!!!
109 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:02:38
Cahil was woeful tonight. Fellaini or Cahill in the middle, not both. The balance is completely wrong.
110 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:55:57
Thank heaven for tim howard, he and Jags played well. The whole team needs a kick up the back side but it doesnt seem that Moyes is that man. I have always been a supporter but iI really don't know about him anymore.
Anybody know when Shandy?s back, how about giving him a game, pace and width with him and Peanuts on the wing, freeing up Arteta for the middle.
We may be 7th but 2 defeats and back down there.
111 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:57:33
Let's be honest, Anichebe is mid-championship level at best, Arteta is back in Spain with his feet up, Cahill is numb from the hips down on painkillers, Baines is dross. It pains me to say this next one but Lescott MUST be dropped, Neville is distinctly average. Oh what the hell, they?re all missing Carsley! I'm missing Carsley, I even watched Brum the other nite just to watch Lee!
112 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:02:35
113 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:54:47
114 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:04:48
115 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:01:13
I think it's because Everton are never going to succeed! Everything about the club is shit. Old slow players with no style. Shit Stadium and were getting a fucking Primark standard stadium 8 miles from Liverpool.
We have no money and all we can hope for is mid-table. I hope you prove me wrong but that was the worst second half display I have ever seen.
116 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:56:36
117 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:05:15
118 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:06:12
Spurs (A)
Villa (H)
Man C (A)
Chelsea(H)
Bottom 3 after those games I'm afraid!
119 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:04:59
Too many long balls from back to front by passing a non-existent midfield. No width when midfield did have the ball and that's down to the manager playing 4 CMs.
Shit.......
120 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:54:01
Lescott is NOT a left back, Jesus even Stevie Wonder can see it........... He?s poor defensively in that position and poor going forward and his crossing is like something you would see at an under-14 game.
Yak and Saha are trying but they are getting absolutely no decent supply from midfield. It is unfair to blame them.
Player ratings:
Howard 8 - Some great saves
Neville 6 - Solid but too much hoofball
Yobo 6 - Solid but too much hoofball
Jags 8 - Read the game very well and made some vital interceptions (bit too much hoofball though)
Arteta 4 - Awful, offered absolutely nothing
Osman 4 - anonymous, would look lightweight on the ladies team
Fellaini 5 - has a good touch but everything seems to be in slow motion. Must be wishing he stayed in Liege.
Cahill 5 - Tried hard, missed a sitter but just isn?t suited to a 4 man midfield.
Yak 5 - No service, looking forward to playing for Spurs in Jan I reckon
Saha 6 - Lovely footballer, looked sharp today but again living on scraps.
121 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:07:08
Worrying thing is that, apart from Pienaar, that was pretty much a full-strength team.
Do you blame the manager? Does anyone really believe he asks them to play like that. I hope the players are hurting tonight and that Moyes reads the riot act. The problem he has is that he could do with dropping half the team, but who do you bring in. If we keep playing like that we will be back in the bottom 6. Time for the players to stand up and be counted and play for the shirt.
Yet again we had outstanding away support and virtually outnumbered the home fans. Well done to those travelling fans. You deserve better.
122 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:02:53
Why Castillo and Vaughan cannot get picked is down to poor management. Yaks and Saha cannot get past players and the midfielders cannot score goals anymore. Sure they will win some more games but the writing is on the wall for the remainder of the season, which generally will be uninspiring ? especially as they cannot win at home.
123 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:06:18
Yak, Lescott and Arteta must have lost us millions in potential value in the last few months. Surely some of the younger players (with pace) can do no worse.
The longer the season goes the more worried I?ve become, and we are seventh. Bet we?re not in the top half come the end of January though. But David Moyes (NW manager of the year!) has got a responsibility in this and he continues in the same vein for gods sake. Unless of course he too is waiting for his opportunity to jump ship!
124 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:14:30
FFS!!!!!!!!!!
125 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:11:02
In my 40 years, I truly cannot remember feeling so empty about Everton Football Club. I verge on just not caring and that saddens me beyond words. Just not arsed any more.
126 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:16:23
127 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:14:23
128 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:20:24
129 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:11:47
Arteta has become our worst player & yet insists on taking any set peice, he?ll be taking the goal kicks next week. Outclassed by a quicker, more skillful WIGAN team for fucks sake!! The Yak wants to pack in, he wouldn?t get a game up the park on a Sunday. Something has to change soon! Or we?ll be in a relegation battle.
130 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:21:34
We?re losing 1-0 to the side 3rd bottom, Moyes brings a striker on and plays him on the right wing so we go back to 4-5-1. Then last 6 minutes, we need to attack and what does Moyes do? Brings on a left back. Fucking brilliant. We?ve been shit under Moyes in the past but this is the most clueless and disjointed I?ve seen us since Smith was in charge.
So to all of Moyes?s fans who seem to think Moyes has led us away from those dark days ? we?re still just as shit.
131 Posted 24/11/2008 at 21:00:50
Does the problem lie with a defensive minded coaching staff that does not have an ounce of attacking experience between the lot of them? Why do our throw ins take so long to deliver are predictable and often gifted to opponents? Why in heavens name do we persist with Arteta?s useless free kicks and corners.
I confess to cynically jeering at our ridiculously pathetic attacks. Perish the thought but in an odd kind of way and for the first time ever, I found myself hoping that Wigan would teach Moyes and his naive crew a never to be forgotten lesson by hammering even more goals past us.
132 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:23:15
133 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:24:46
I?ve lost all faith in Moyes as he seems quite happy with the way we are playing, 4 Central midfielders because he won't drop 1 of them, 2 of them awful tonight but play the full 90 mins. Good managers change games; Moyes doesn't. Liverpool recently beat Wigan 3-2 at home, in the last ten mins they took off both full backs and brought on 2 attackers, trying to win the game, which they did; we put on a left back. Sometimes you do get what you deserve in football and we got it tonight as Moyes handed it to them on a plate.
134 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:23:29
14 games = 28 halves. 1 good 27 bad. How much longer are we going to tolerate this garbage? And please don’t give me all this no money Moyes having to do his best with what he’s got crap.
West Brom are bottom, but at least they attempt to play some football. At least they give it their best shot. At least they create chances. While we are expected to accept pedestrian, predictable, brainless bollocks. To be followed no doubt by whichever player wins this week’s draw to tell the local media how this player or that player is about to show us all what he can really do. I’m sick to fuckin death of having my, and your, intelligence insulted without fail every single week.
135 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:27:21
Just think next week against Spurs, Lecott against Lennon, surley Moyes will play Baines ??????
136 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:28:03
The total lack of width today and against Boro is such a gift for any team defending against us. We lack the skills and movement from the midfielders to cut them open.
Coincidence and luck is our offensive game atm. Our only efforts through the flanks are when Lescott and Neville come forward, and we know none of them can whip in decent crosses.
Arteta : Why on earth isn?t this man dropped?
Cahill: Way off, left winger? Hardly
Lescott: Disaster waiting to happen every game. Allow so many crosses to pass him just standing around waiting.
Osman: Works, but to no offensive support.
Fellaini: Sure he wins his headers, but what else does he really give us?
Yak: Dangerous when he?s inside the 16, but when is he ever these days?
Jags and Howard were the only two to stand out a bit here.
And Moyes? Just how bad do you think our bench is? 2 subs, one given 4 minutes in a game where we were atrocious....
Just fucking devastated to have to sit this one through.
137 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:01:45
Cahill, Osman, Arteta, Lescott, Yakubu were so crap tonight. Still the "manager" wouldn?t change anything, he only took off Saha because he was injured. So pathetic!
Even the worst teams with inferior players try to play and they can manage some kind of fight when going behind but we never do it. One more evening not worth remembering but hey: that?s what it?s all about when you?re an Everton fan.
138 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:31:57
I live around 280 miles away from Goodison and I don't get to Goodison has much as I would like so watching on tv some times is my only way. However the last 2 games, Boro at home and now the Wigan game tonight have left staggered with Moyes.
The team has no width, they play long ball nearly all the time, hoping to pick up scrapes which physical teams like Wigan will just head clear and win back the ball. Why does Moyes continue to play Lescott at left back after spending loads of money on Baines, a natural left footer. Castillo or Neville should be playing to protect the back four because there is no protection with the current midfield.
Some of Moyes?s subs decisions are amazing, goal down, should be chasing to score a goal or at least have a shot/chance he takes Neville off for Baines, why? If it was to provide width then why take Neville off and change the back four completely. Im surprised with our current league placing, we don't deserve to be where we are. If we carry on like this I really do worry where we will finish the season. Is it time Mr Moyes to walk?
139 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:35:35
140 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:38:04
141 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:45:00
Other than him, only Howard and possibly Jagielka looked like they had desire... the rest were going through the motions. A game plan with no width at all was doomed and it is hard to fathom how Baines did not get on earlier. Arteta tonight was frankly awful... as a big fan of his, it pains me to say that.
142 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:48:09
143 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:36:12
I?m afraid Moyes hasn?t got a clue, if he couldn't see at half time the way the game was going, well he should pack in. I am sitting there thinking surely he'll change this now... but deep down you just know he'll wait 'til it's too late.
Lescott's got to be rested, his season just gets worse and worse... let's have Valente back with Baines ahead of him so we can at least get behind teams and get some balls into the box. Arteta should accompany Lescott in the dugout. I'd rather give some of the kids a chance than put up with that shite week-in, week-out.
Five more years of this shite? Attendances are dropping and after that they will drop again, we play some of the worst football in the Prem?, slightly better than Stoke and West Brom but that's about it. Moyes, you are fuckin? clueless, that was as bad or worse than anything we were served up under Smith.
144 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:29:15
Instead of his usual fatuous excuse-ridden referee blaming after-match report, we would really appreciate a genuine critical analysis from Moyes and what he will do to correct things. My support for him is beginning to waver and should Arteta be allowed another corner or free kick that will signify my total dissolutionment in his judgement.
145 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:59:21
To lay the blame on any of them is simply wrong when you consider the events surrounding the club since around the end of last season and the summer.
They say hindsight is a great thing but for those with sense the writing has been on the wall for this season since that absolutely fucking disgraceful summer.
146 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:52:59
This was surely the very depths of how low we can go in terms of quality. The team has no balance or redeeming qualities, there is nothing there. Pathetic. I could go on but I might start getting negative!
147 Posted 24/11/2008 at 23:03:32
Neville Yobo Jagielka Baines
Pienaar Fellaini Osman Kissock
Vaughan Baxter
If we play this team next week, I bet that the performance would be much better than we have seen so far this season!!
Fuck Yakubu and Arteta, show them the door in January and get some well needed cash!
148 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:55:44
He sets out the team strategy. He puts the formation out on the park. I don’t think he knows his best combination or how to get the best out of his players.
Time and again player with the ball looks for a player making the overlap or the return ball, yet that player is never on the same wavelength.
Why are players not on the same wavelength?
Why are players not sprinting into corners, onto the wings, into space?
Why do players keep cutting back into the middle where we get crowded out?
I’ll tell you why...they are confused. The gameplan from Moyes is not clear.
Everyone criticises certain players, I don’t. I think they have no idea what they’re doing cause the direction from their manager is way off.
We’ve basically got the same team guys.
Seriously.
Moyes is trying to accomodate names instead of a balanced lineup.
Simple.
149 Posted 24/11/2008 at 23:01:27
Howard was the only player of Premier League class ? the rest were an embarrassment.
Arteta can?t cross a ball ? dead or otherwise.
Osman did not put a decent pass together.
Lescott fucked up (again) and Fellaini was like a giraffe with a hangover.
The team don?t deserve the support behind that goal tonight and you just begin to think that Cattermole might have been a good signing for the Blues after all that bullshit over the summer.
A nightmare (before I go to bed).
Night Night
150 Posted 24/11/2008 at 23:11:46
By the time they get control of the ball and realise that they are not playing where they want to or the ball is on their wrong foot the momentum is lost. Couple this with the fact that no one moves, then we are easy to play against. Time to bite the bullet and admit you are to blame for this so called FOOTball Moyes. Why not give Howard a go up front? makes as much sense as your team selections of late.
151 Posted 24/11/2008 at 23:09:41
152 Posted 24/11/2008 at 23:12:22
And this manager has just been given the most lucrative contract in the history of the club! God help us, we are going backwards at an alarming rate.
153 Posted 24/11/2008 at 22:15:03
I honestly thought we?d turned the corner after the second half of the United game, I thought we?d take that second half performance in to our next lot of games but it's failed to materialise!! Where was the commitment and desire and the willingness to play football the right way and to work hard?!Ffor basically the whole 90-plus minutes tonight, we gave Wigan all the time and space in the world to do what they like with the ball; not one of our players, especially our midfield, showed a willingness or desire to squeeze the ball and put the Wigan players under pressure, it was fucking shocking!!
I said it the other week on here and I'll say it again, one or two of our players, nar fuck it, a lot of ?em need dropping because they haven?t been performing at all. Arteta, Lescott, Yakubu, Cahill and Neville & Fellaini to an extent have all been shite, ok, Neville and Fellaini haven?t been as bad as the others but they have been shit!!
I feel sorry for Fellaini, ok his performance tonight was shocking but I think he plays better without Cahill in the side. When Cahill was out suspended, Fellaini looked like he was starting to pick up alongside Osman, he was scoring goals, his general performances was getting better... but then Moyesy brings Cahill straight back in and the balance of the team was all over place!!
Cahill and Fellaini cannot play together and the sooner Moyes recognises this the better, not one one of ?em is willing to sit back and protect the back four and thats why in recent games we?ve been getting caught out at left back when Lescott goes forward because no one as been there sitting and protecting the back four and filling in positions when players like to bomb forward as Lescott does, you notice tonight Neville hardly ever got beyond are right sided midfielder purely because there was no one sitting back ready to cover him!!
I tell ya what, I used to knock Lee Carsley something rotten when he was at the club, not for is defensive work but mainly his general footballing ability, but he was a good player for us. I didn?t realise how good a player he was for us until he?d gone! I didn?t think we?d miss him but we fucking do!!
If things dont start to improve at Everton, then I really fear for us this season, that performance tonight wasn?t even Championship standard and, with the league as tight as it is points wise, then a couple or so more defeats for us and we're right in the relegation mix!!!
154 Posted 24/11/2008 at 23:25:12
How the fuck we are so high in the table amazes me; we made Wigan look like Brazil.
155 Posted 24/11/2008 at 23:47:36
156 Posted 24/11/2008 at 23:55:21
Why do we not pass the ball? How awful is Fellaini? Wouldn't Castillo be worth a go? Or one of the kids? And what does Baines have to do to get a game when Lescott is so poor at left back ? sell him to Villa which he wants anyway and spend the money on a midfielder who can run and move forward aggressively.
We were powder puffs tonight, beaten to everything everywhere... Only Jags, Howard and Osman can even say they competed... Spurs, Chelsea and Man City next three games, bottom five by Christmas. Disgusting.
157 Posted 25/11/2008 at 00:17:03
The worst day for many a year was when Moyes realised no-one else wanted him and signed that nightmare contract! The fact that so many Blues have supported his clueless shite football for so long and that so many still say ?he?s the best we can get? makes me wonder if we really deserve any better. It's your fault for not seeing the Emperor's stark bollock naked and always has been!
158 Posted 25/11/2008 at 00:54:56
159 Posted 25/11/2008 at 05:03:41
Ok, I am taking the piss lads. I?m as miserable as the rest of you. With exception of the first 20 min, this performance was dogshit straight from a dogs ass. We had practically no possession in the 2nd half and at times it felt like Wigan had three extra players on the pitch. Shit!
160 Posted 25/11/2008 at 08:35:07
Humiliating and Gutting.
Bad Times.
161 Posted 25/11/2008 at 10:41:49
Spurs were exactly the same until Harry came in and then what happens, he gives them confidence and they start playing.
DM has had long enough to get us at least regularly challenging the Sky 5 but we are as far from that as we were before he came.
Relegation is NOT out of the question on last nights (and not only last night) performance unless something is done before its too late.
Spurs Chairman bit the bullet and fired the Manager and look what happenend.
My fear is our chairman is so far up DM’s arse he can’t see wuther than DM’s tonsils !!
Something has got to change......
162 Posted 25/11/2008 at 10:41:44
163 Posted 25/11/2008 at 13:41:16
The bigger worry I have last night is with Arteta, if a player gets passed the skipper’s armband then he should a) earn that honour and b) lead by example. I don’t think he’s had a good game since Fiorentina. I don’t know whether he’s injured, lacking confidence or just plain can’t be arsed. The biggest problem is the delivery, I’ve never seen such a drop in quality from a single player ever before, aren’t players supposed to get better?
Someone either needs to get hold of him on the training ground and put him through some Beckham style drills, or Moyesy has to be big enough to drop him and give him a much needed kick up the arse. At the moment he seems an untouchable, but Lescott was dropped earlier in the season so why not.
I’m sure we can see that quality again so I’m not with the dickheads calling for him to be moved on. How many people are crying about Carsley now? He just needs some man-management, and sharpish.


1 Posted 24/11/2008 at 19:43:00