Moyes dropped Didier Ndong to bring more 'Britishness

I'm tend to agree but being positive makes me feel better - my 4 pint glasses weren't full for long on saturday night - empty into the bargain - but the pub group were good - "Old Grey Whistle Band"
Watford & Leicester are not easy games - we don't win easy games so .....pull on for a win at Watford or its the feeder league

 

I assume from his comments that Moyes is referencing the tired old cliché that British players have more fight and desire than the 'fancy foreigners' which just goes to show how out of touch he is.

He clearly has no idea if he genuinely thinks the geologically slow Gibson would give us more bite in midfield than the dynamic N'Dong.

I've also read that his reasons for not playing Khazri are because he can't be trusted to work hard or retain the ball. Yet there are plenty of others like that who he's quite happy to play.

 

Excellent points. Take the hard-working Frenchman out the Leicester team and the Brits left holding fort stop putting the effort in.

 

I don't think there is anything daft or mysterious about the statement. Burnley have upset many a "footballing" team withe their direct style so he put our bashers against theirs and it nearly paid off.

 

'Bashers' - Darron Gibson and Jack Rodwell - two notoriously injury prone players throughout their careers.

Couldn't bash out a **** between them.

 

Moyes is a ****ing crackpot.

 

But this is exactly my point; British no longer equates to bashers or hard-workers. And in fact, its N'Dong, the energetic foreigner, who represents that hard-working, hard-running ideal better than the 'British' players that he was dropped for.
Its the foreign players who are the grafters now and the British players who are the soft-lads wanting extra time off because they are tired. At our very own club we have seen British players revolt against a foreign manager because he expected them to be disciplined and hard-working and to put the team ahead of themselves -characteristics which many people would consider to be inherently 'British'. I'm afraid, for me, Moyes' comments were out-dated and out of touch with modern football.

 

Semantics.

 

Maybe so, but what Moyes meant by 'British' is at the heart of the matter.

 

It is, we all understand what Moyes meant but when you say that and pick Gibson over Ndong then it makes you look like an idiot. Gibson is like the Berbatov of midfielders but without the talent, Ndong grafts and grafts and gets tackles in.

 

ffs gives a gun.