His save from Payet (?) was world class as well - the tip onto the crossbar! but his distribution was absolutely woeful - my son put in a MOTM performance on saturday morning in Central midfield - 100% pass accuracy from an 11 year old (I watched him very closely) yet a grown man can't kick a ball to a Sunderland player! and kept booting it out of play Argued with my Dad about this yesterday - he said "Kone's distribution is poor" to which I replied that he's a defender who has to pass a ball under pressure - Mannone can kick the ball out of his hands under no pressure or off the floor under no pressure and should be able to pass to his own players or at least get the ball within a few yards of it's target!
John Terrys distribution was poor, so he invariably gave a short pass to Lamppost for him to pass the ball.
I think he'll keep you up, he kept us up twice during some shocking injury crisis', I wasn't surprised he got a decent reception at UP most of the 'fans hate Sam' was complete media bollocks, every media outlet showed a photo of the same, small 'sam out' banner because it was the only one they had.
Too true - but Mannone never seems to have the short option until the second half - last 2 games have been almost identical in the hoofball tactic until half time - why don;t we start like that! Mannone's distribution is terrible - some of the worst I've seen from a keeper at SAFC! We hoofed the ball towards the box at every given opportunity first half on Saturday - until 30 seconds from half time when we pansied about with it for 40 seconds until the ref blew his whistle
West Hams goal was analised by the TV pundits after the match and the blame for the goal, if there was any, was laid at the feet of Kone's distribution ( poor all game, but he wasnt the only one ) PVA's poor touch, JoS too slow in closing down and Mannone's slow reaction. So all in all a goal that could have been prevented according to the "experts". Jack Charlton used to say every goal is the result of a defensive mistake and we have conceeded more than any other premiership club this season, so its plain to see why we are struggling, but if anyone can put this right its got to be Big Sam. Personally I thought the deflection off PVA wrong-footed both JoS and Manone and gave the striker the perfect angle to bend the ball in which he did superbly by the way. My thoughts were that we thouroughly deserved a point and were a tad unlucky, and with better finishing we could easily have taken all three. The only way is up.
We had a West Ham Fanzine writer telling us it's pretty split between a bunch of ungrateful ****s and a bunch of fans who really appreciate the foundations he's laid. He even went on print with it (albeit adjusted the language) It's not bollocks mate. It's a strange phonominum(how so many people don't know footy enough to see he did a good job) But it's not bollocks.
We'll let you off Tel. There's been enough analising already, we don't need any penalising to go with it
