Everton seem to have played him in every game he's been available for too. Perhaps for the Fleetwood game Everton should have given Lossl or Virgina a match. Two clangers against a league one side he didn't need to play in won't help his mindset going in to this weekend.
If he played for the mags he would be crucified by our fans. He’s not actually very good tbh. His kicking is world class, but that aside, he’s definitely not up there with the best in the country.
He's been poor for a good 18 months. He shouldn't even be in the England squad and surely it's only a matter of time until he loses his Everton place. I'd assume that he's made more errors leading to goals and costing his side points than any other goalkeeper in the premier league the last couple of seasons.
Really really annoying last night with a free kick, right at the end of the game, all the team up the pitch for last chance saloon, and he mishit the freekck ,barely went 30 yards
Seems a little late in maturity. Seems his short comings are his temperament. He's only 26. Could be a few dodgy seasons while he learns to chill his boots and concentrate but I reckon he'll iron out his mistake in time the the second half of his career and become a rock.
He’s he a bonkers game today. Should have been off, couple mistakes then couple world class saves. There’s a top keeper in there amongst the mayhem.
Very late in the tackle and Clumsy he didn’t know it was offside, straight red for Me and a very lucky boy
I mean that's basically a Kung fu kick on a player about two metres away from the ball. If that's not a straight red what is. If that happened in the middle of the park then 100 times out of 100 the player is sent off.
Correct, I watched one last night in one of the efl games on quest. On the half way line straight red
As you might imagine, I'm no rules expert, but IF I understood the pundits correctly, the reason that Pickford didn't get a card, (of any colour), was because HIS bit of mayhem occured AFTER Van Dyke had played the ball from an offside position. So the ball was dead. So if an opposition player is annoying you, wait till they score and the ball is dead, then belt him good and hard. No doubt some happy soul who is good at rules can point out the difference, but when dragged down to basics, both cases look the same to me. I suspect Jordan now has hero status on the Blue Mersey. I see though that Elbows Al has changed his mind about such conduct. A few years back he was 'punditing' about some striker who backed off a keeper. Al recalled his time at Southampton as a youth and working with Budgie Burridge, (later, briefly, of NUFC). Goalkeepers EXPECT to be hurt, sad BB. It's YOR job to do the hurting. So, using that sort of philosophy, which Elbows foolowed throughout his career, it should be OK to get you hurting in first if you can. But The Rule that allowed Jordan to stay on DEFINATELY need to be changed.
Aye it does there are plenty of players comfortable with the idea of stamping on feet so that rule gives them a free shot at causing an injury.
Discussed in Parliment . In the middle of a Pandemic with Brexit going on as well, yes Mr Speaker let's talk about football.
Van Dijk believed he had executed the tackle well. “I don’t think it was a bad challenge at all,” he said. “Unfortunately I touched him, but I would never go in to hurt him or anything like that. I had the ball and obviously the wet pitch you slide through and I touched him but that’s football. Thats football Virg.
