Admittedly, my angle wasn't the best, but it seemed to run right across the face of the goal before Murray stuck it in ... for me, that's the keeper's ball. Nonetheless, the centre backs were equally culpable. Elphick and Hawkins are simply going to leak goals every game they play together.
If the ball's five yards out, it's the keeper's job to deal with it. Those were shit conditions for a keeper, but Kuipers was still all over the place today.
Kuipers 5 - Difficult conditions, but had a stinker. As good as he's been to date, he was poor today.
Richards 6 - Individually sound, but part of a back four that was all over the place at times.
Hawkins 6 - Ditto
Elphick 6 - Ditto
Whing 6 - Ditto
Thornton 8 - Quality performace, although was...
Agreed, but there's obviously something wrong with the defence, which just makes putting our best centre-back on the right wing seem ridiculous. I can't see why Hawkins was brought back after the Virgo/Elphick partnership looked so good against City.
Is Thomson fit? If so, that's three players in him, Livermore and El Abd who were outstanding against Man City that can't get into the side because of Virgo. Drop him back to CB, ffs.
Gdansk's pleasant enough, although there's not that much to do and it always seems to be bloody FREEZING there. Malbork's about an hour south by train, if whopping great castles are your thing, and Torun's further south, although I'm not sure it'd be worth a three-hour trip. Probably worth...
"Apparently on the internet message boards it is alleged that
John Terry told Ledley King to 'Shut up you lippy black monkey' before getting sent off on Sunday."
From a quick search.
"Already my phone has not stopped from English media requests ... it is a bigger interest now, for English football, English manager abroad, take his team to Arsenal, is big news ..."
"It is one of the reasons I came, because a good team, and they qualify Champions League ..."
What a penis.