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I don't understand the aversion to using effective footballing strategies. Such a shame too as he was brilliant whilst at Lyon. Don't think he ever reached those heights at Chelsea and I don't blame him for that. He was often not deployed correctly or filling in everywhere. He was your classic box to box player who would be brilliant in a 4-4-2, yet they used him all wrong at Chelsea. He was never a defensive midfielder. Mou used him Maka/Obi/Ballack/Maniche as Lampard's workhorses. He would have been brilliant doing what Toure does at City.

It always surprises me just how finished Essien is as a top level footballer. He is player that seemed indestructible and unstoppable, but injuries ruined him just like so many others. Was a passenger again. Dzeko!! Too easy, Yaya only beat one player.

Yes, the vast majority of teams are more horrible to watch than Man City. Grimbsy Town and Warri Wolves for example.

My main issue in general is how the media and pundits faff all over how Everton were f***ed over when the refs f***ed us up a bit as well. It's just more media friendly to say a team was robbed and then do the edits based on that. I, for one, do love a smash and grab once in a while though. And it being against Everton makes it somewhat sweeter. I don't understand what you expect from the media when a team seems to have scored four legitimate goals and is only awarded two.

Tyler must be joking. That makes no sense.

Pardew's celebrations are ridiculous.

This is a brilliant football match. Goodison in silence.

There's no chance the linesman could see the ball, tbh.

That was definitely a goal. The referee pulls back a 3 on 1 for foul that hasn't even disadvantaged the player. They've gone mad.

It looked offside in realtime. Anichebe would have been on, though.

This Ben Arfa performance is a flashback to his first few back from injury. Very poor.

Our central midfield has been absurdly poor, btw. Everton have "PHIL NEVILLE.....IN MIDFIELD" and they've effortlessly dominated that area of the pitch. Anita and Cabaye have been terrible.

I know it is only 1-0, but this is the worst I have seen us play in a long time. We've brought nothing to the match. No player comes out with any credit. It has been abject and relegation-standard.

I've just seen the Osaze Odemwingie sending off. Flashbacks to Guthrie on Fagan. Completely unprovoked assault. RM are actually playing their way out of the title race in September. Their season has been disastrous thus far.

It is amazing what a bit of pace can do to defenders.

He'd be a better villain if he was capable of more than 8 goals a season. Quite sure he done that every year of his career, tbf. Joe Allen offers very little. The game passes him by. He is fine on the ball, but doesn't exert much influence on the match.

Is Danny Rose at Sunderland on loan or a full transfer? He's a decent player, I'm surprised Spurs have let him go to another Premier League side.

I enjoy Suarez as much as any other current player. Fantastic villain.

Is the transfer window simply irrelevant at this point? Can he actually play? Good for him, anyway.

They've been poor as a whole, but Zlatan is tearing the league apart. Amazing player. Montpellier continued to be horrendous, lost tonight 3-1 to Stade de Reims. Continues the annoying trend of unfancied Ligue 1 sides making great runs to the top of the table, selling their best players, fading into obscurity, and embarrassing themselves in the Champions League. Quite annoying. :lol: We are finished! Hold on tight to those memories of Yekini, Amokachi, Amunike, Rufai, Jay Jay, Oliseh etc. That was it. Don't see us ever returning to those heights. Naija officials! May thunder strike them all down. Bastards. Can't believe you've put Rufai in that list. I never thought the man was good. Also, the game has changed to the point where players like Kanu and Okocha would struggle to make it. Honestly, from a pure talent of player standpoint, I really don't think we are too far from where we used to be. If our administration was even decent, none of this would be a problem, at least in terms of getting results in Africa. Honestly, even this rubbish homegrown team we've assembled is better than 80 percent of the continent. All this talk of talent is somewhat irrelevant, though, given that the last squad included ONE Premier League player and THREE from Warri Wolves. Keshi is a madman.

I watched the game live, when it happened there was an audible second of silence, as everyone processed what happened. The exact same feeling as the Chelsea goal. More confusion than anything. Imo, the guy has looked genuinely poor for us this season, but when he has the capability to do things like this he must be on the pitch.

Oi! Take a guess which federation of a massive, once proud football nation failed to procure a friendly for the FIFA date? Corrupt, incompetent fools.

Osman is good, but he's an aging, fairly unremarkable player who won't push England forward or be part of any tournament past 2014. It would be fantastic for his career if he received the call-up, as he deserves it, but in my view it would really be somewhat pointless. He'll never be an important player for your national team. In many ways he suffered from late development. He didnt really make a name for himself until he was 24-26, and by this time no one cares about you.

Mediocre? Our first opponent qualified for the Champions League by all rights, and our second won the Champions League and then invested 100 million or so pounds to a squad that was already talented. Villa aren't a great side, yeah, and that is match we should be winning, but they put up a credible performances under pressure from all sides, and we never got started. If most people had gotten the transfer window they desired, we would have exchanged Simpson for someone of higher quality and brought in a striker/wing forward. The injury problems are just unfortunate, and would have always affected us badly. This Everton that are meant to "bum" us lost to West Bromwich in their last match, which is essentially equivalent to our result as it was away.

Just like Tiote, I can't think of any team that values him to the point that they will match Everton's valuation, which will inevitably be very high. I don't think he will be as important to a higher quality team as he is at Everton. If you put him in the midfields of Chelsea, Real Madrid, etc, he'll look like a good player, but not one worth 30 million pounds.