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.
Almost like we should be playing a RB at RB. It's a novel idea I know but it makes sense to anyone who isn't stubborn and hates his own players
Be nice if we had one. Gomez is the only senior one, and he's been very patchy as well - and who'd we drop to accommodate him? As I pointed out, it's the same problem we had for years with Trent under Klopp. I never liked it then and still don't.
You dip into the youth if there isn't a senior, it's what clubs have done for as long as they've had reserves and youth squads. And as to drop, from last night it's easy, Curtis Jones finds his way to the bench, where he should be.
I agree about Jones but I haven't seen enough of the younger players to know who would perform better. And I still think it's as much a tactical issue as personnel.
Tbf, only Szobbo deserves to keep his place on last night's showing, and that includes Mammory and Gravy, especially in that 2nd half. Not practical to bench the whole team, though, or Virgil would be out as well.
