The officials don't seem to care about it at the moment. The press will kick off about it at some point and then they'll clamp down on it.
Martinez has got to be out the door at the end of the season. Abysmal defending and the players look like they have given up on him and the club.
I've said for a while now that I think England's best two CB's at the moment aren't even getting a look-in: Dann and Shawcross. Dann unfortunately plays for a poor performing Palace side so I don't think his quality gets to shine through as much he'd like whereas Shawcross, despite being a bit of a dirty ****er at times, is a bloody solid CB on his day. Cahill has always been made to look better with Chelsea by having solid DM's in front of him and a good keeper behind him, ironically as Matic lost form this season Cahill eventually got dropped, I don't think that's a coincidence. Smalling can perform well but has a mistake in him pretty much every match. Jones... Not lived up to potential and is always injured. Jagielka was good 3 years ago. Stones has been really **** this season, has potential but he's not doing enough to earn a spot in the England side.
I don't think Martinez will see the start of next season with Everton. I can see Lukaku going in the summer and a new manager getting to use some of those funds to build his team.
Lol! Yeah probably not the best time to be praising a CB two days after we knock four goals past him . In fairness when we're in that sort of form, we'll tear any defence a new one. In general though, I do think he's a solid and consistent performer, it's not often he makes individual mistakes that cost Stoke a goal.
I don't think that he's fully fit at the moment, to be fair to him. Doesn't look quite right. I'm not sure that Stoke's reputation has helped him, but his debut was a disaster, too.
Yeah, Martinez will surely have to go at the end of the season now. It was entertaining 11v11 but Martinez has to set them up to defend in numbers and counter, he played into Liverpool's hands. After the red you can't help but think it shouldn't have just turned into shooting practice for Liverpool. FA Cup might save him but if I was an Everton fan I'd want him gone, 2 terrible league seasons in a row.
Shawcross came on with 20 minutes left with the score at 2-1 to England, replacing Steven Caulker of all people. Finished 4-2 and the blame appears to have fallen squarely on his shoulders.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...nded-my-england-career-before-it-had-started/ Speaking of Caulker, bet he's chuffed to bits at how his career's gone. Didn't he leave us for more first team football and to improve his England chances? Hmmm.
Utd a point behind Arsenal Arsenal's games are still being billed by Sky as part of the title race What have I missed?
“I sympathise with him,” Hodgson said. “I think he was very, very unlucky and I will go out on a limb – I don’t see that as a dive. I think he was unbalanced and that was it. I don’t think it was a penalty either. I just think he was unbalanced, running at that speed and there was a very slight contact with the defender who was trying to cover. “I think he went down because he was unbalanced but, of course, all the pundits I hear are saying: ‘He was trying to dive, look how he dived.’ I don’t see it and I wouldn’t blame him for that. I don’t think he did go down. It’s not in his make-up. “When you get sent off for something like that – where he obviously feels like I feel, and there is no doubt he is of that opinion – he has had to swallow the fact that he has been made to leave the field. Then, of course, he has reacted like sometimes human beings react. He hasn’t just said to the ref: ‘That’s all right, I understand, shake hands and have a good game.’ He has called him a few names. But he is a human being and that can happen. **** me! Why don't we award him the penalty and replay the remaining minutes of the game with Vardy reinstated, starting with a penalty at 1-0 Leicester. How's that Roy? Would you like him elected as a UN Ambassador to the far east and give him a Nobel Peace Prize as well? please log in to view this image Suggestions that Roy's opinion was influenced after he himself went down easily after the lady on his left gave him a tug in the box at The King Power are currently believed to be correct but remain, as yet. unconfirmed. How can the FA retain this prick as manager? Imagine any other employee of any other organisation giving statements to the press containing personal opinion regarding his view of a high profile quasi-judicial matter that doesn't concern him; they'd be gone in seconds. I've had enough of this **** (and the injured Rooney, Wilshire. Shaw nonsense) from this idiot. Get him out!
