[Football] CMS to Notts County

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Plenty of times that the ball has bounced away from Murray, but not labeled in the same way as CMS for that

CMS often was in full sprint mode when applying his first touch, which always makes it harder to control, maybe if he was stood still / backing onto a defender like Murray then his first touch may have been different, equally if Murray's first touch was always in a flat out sprint, maybe his wouldn't be as good (and Murray, like all footballers) does have a bad first touch from time to time.

This criticism of CMS always comes across as a little bit of bitterness from some fans because he didn't live up to their inflated expectations and / or they're trying to run his reputation down so that it seems it was all his fault that it didn't turn out to be a great move for him in joining us rather than hold a more balanced view where the team shape and tactics we employed will have also played a massive part of how he performed and how he's viewed by our fans. (it's like our playing Ashley Barnes as a winger and judging him as a striker (or even Locadia))

My expectations were certainty not inflated
Having watched him play in the playoff final
at old Trafford for POSH v Blackpool I knew
exactly what we had signed as it proved to be
Anyone who compares him to Murray can’t have
much of a clue about the game