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Cantona instantly getting up instead of rolling about looks proper weird as well

Was watching some Vinny Jones vs Roy Keane video in the pub the other day and one of the tackles was absolutely insane like Probably well known like but cannot remember it.

We're probably talking shit about the covid cases but then other sides in the league have done the same so fuck it. The FA have done an appalling job. Not going to lie though it massively benefits us going into January playing 2 games less and I can definitely understand why Everton and Southampton would be canny miffed about it. EDIT: Well Southampton anyway. Everton have been on holiday for about 2 weeks.

Yep. All games should have postponed anyway, insane to just let some of the league have a break over Christmas and others still play on.

And I would have been 600 quid richer

Such a weird formation like, love it in FIFA though so I can play with 4 Regista/Trequartistas

Everton's proposed lineups are equally diabolical like. It's a bit of a pisstake them having 2 weeks off and us being expected to play with a massively depleted squad because we haven't caught enough covid though

For him to drop out the team we would need to sign 3 top class midfielders though and for them to all hit the ground running. And even then he still starts if he continues on like this. God knows what we would have to pay to get an upgrade on what we've seen from him recently ,

been waiting for one of these

Compared to Tottenham

The thing is he threw the ball to a Man Utd player on the byline, he just did enough to stop them taking an instant throw in and bought us 5-6 seconds to sort ourselves out which he's entitled to do. It's not like he hoofed it into the stands. Pawson was in yellow card mode at that point though.

Like he's clearly not the answer mid to long term but I thought he put a good shift in yesterday. Joelinton was obviously the stand out but the pair of them made it very hard for Man Utd to get a foothold in the game.

Joelinton has recieved nothing but grief for 2 years though. Bit harsh to pile on a journalist for making light of it, especially when the overall point of what he was saying was that he was good. There was clearly no malace intended.

Think people are being a bit harsh on the interviewer like It was obviously meant as a compliment. Joelinton has widely been regarded as one of the worst players in the league so he was just expressing his suprise, like the rest of us, that he's actually fucking amazing.

Could probably play anywhere across midfield or behind the striker depending on the system and opponent imo. I would just forget whatever happened under Bruce. If there's an area on the pitch where he's likely to be involved in 50/50s he'll probably shine.

It's the freedom Howe has given him imo, if you look at his heatmap vs Tottenham (Bruce's last game) he was basically restricted to the far left of the pitch. Next game he started against Brentford he was everywhere. I haven't seen a great deal of him personally due to sheer apathy but if the rest of his time here he's been instructed to rigidly maintain a position where he's essentially waiting for one of our players to pick him out then it explains a lot. His best attribute the past couple of months has been his ability to essentially be a magnet to the ball, he's not man marking a specific player, or waiting about to recieve it from our players, he's mainly hovering about the centre left of the pitch but seems to have a license to pop up anywhere in midfield to battle for it. Would be over the moon for him if he makes it to Qatar.

He did nowt wrong like, was a harsh yellow tbh although they get given, same with Joelinton's. Was Pawson expecting him to give Man Utd the ball easily when half our team were woefully out of position?

It was pretty shicking to see tbh, had no idea he was capable of that Maybe it was just an alignment of the stars, fuck knows.

I bet your lass is fat.

Given his energy and ability to win the ball and maintain possession it's hard to see how he could be replaced without us buying a whole new midfield tbh. There's always room for a player who does what he's doing.

Maybe it was a fitness issue? Looked better the last couple of games and today especially he looked nippy. Not sure looking at him but given what we know of Bruce's laziness he could have been carrying an extra stone.

Was slightly taken aback by a footbaler actually speaking well in an interviewer instead of just rattling off set phrases.

@Disco it's true though. The Diame effect is real.

Ah I got that, Poot, was just agreeing in an obviously confusing way

This performance was deffinitely his best, and by a long way, but he's been hinting at this ever since Howe took over. Deffinitely doesn't seem a fluke.