Saw an interesting comment today - 'last time we had a run like this, nobody had heard of the Beatles or Bill Shankly'. Sobering thought.
Or Roy Hodgson? The difference, I suppose, is that Hodgson never had a stellar cast of players like Slot does.
I think the point is that the last run we had like this was 1953. (Hodgson may have just been starting primary school )
All the Beatles, except Ringo, despised football, and Ringo was an Arsenal supporter. Macca is a nominal Toffee, but has attended matches for both clubs. But I can tell you that, having met him and briefly spoken to him about football (how the **** is that for a name-drop?), he doesn't know one end of a football from another. He does genuinely want both teams to do well, though - he reminds me of my late, Blueshite mum. She didn't write Eleanor Rigby, though. They used to tell us in Ye Cracke that Lennon was a half-hearted Red, but I think that's because one of his mates (Pete Shotton?) was. Pete Best is supposed to be an Everton fan, according to my sister, who knew him back in the day.
I've now seen the "highlights" and while 1-4 isn't really a true reflection of the game our "defence" is pitiful particularly both CB's. Really need to change approach and sit deeper and and or change personnel / formation .
I honestly thought we were unlucky not to be leading by at least two goals at halftime. But no excuses for what happened in the second half - we were abysmal. Slow, turgid, confused, dilatory... 'kin hell, even the Thesaurus runs out of adjectives at this point.
Virgil is a shadow of what he was last year, Konaté has always been hit and miss, but he's mostly miss this season. Still, for at least one of their goals Curtis was up in the central AM position a la Trent, and so was nowhere to be seen during their attack down our right, a la Trent. This pulls Konaté over to the wing with Virgil coming over to the middle and a bloody big gap beyond. It's a definite an shambles atm.
