Whitey Grandad

It doesn’t matter when and in what order the goals are scored. All that matters is the end result.

He deserves nothing.

It’s a mistake that shouldn’t be made. But you have to organise your defence to reduce the chance that it might be made.

Well I’m not going to wear a blindfold and try to pin a tail on it.

You have to realise that not everything in life is black and white. Martin cannot organise a defence. His record at previous clubs is just as bad as at ours. An organised defence consists of many layers. If Salah is marked properly then McCarthy doesn’t get a chance to run out of the way.

Bree is a better player.

Oh no it isn’t !

A big reason but Salah had a clear run on goal due to open defending. And he wasn’t the first.

It has already ended in abject failure.

It had nothing to do with it being Salah. To pretend that it did is to think that the goal was down to a top quality forward whereas it was poor defending all round. Any forward would have leapt at that chance. Even any of ours. Poor defending is entirely down to Martin. It’s been the same with him everywhere he’s been.

A few sparks of brightness in a dismal season.

And escalators on the Underground after mini skirts had arrived and before tights were introduced. Fortunately no gentleman would look. Unfortunately I’m not a gentleman.

It wouldn’t have mattered who the winger was, unmarked by attack least ten yards and a clear run at goal and any forward would be licking their lips.

Martin won’t be getting us promoted again. Even if the fans are still around at that time I doubt that I shall be but happy memories of times past and all that.

If we keep playing this way we will not find our feet in the Premier League. They will be stuck in the mud at the bottom of a lower league. Personally I hate the way that we play. When it doesn’t concede goals it’s boring as hell and when it doesn’t concede goals it’s infuriating.

Remind me, what has he actually done right? (this season)

That's a couple of times now where he's misjudged the bounce of the ball. and it's cost us a goal.

I include their second in the charges against Martin. A totally unmarked winger runs onto a lofted through ball. Martin cannot organise a defence.

Include me in.

A bloke was selling them at two for one after the game. At least you could cut them in half and make two decent scarves out of them.

He played the ‘basic underarm pass’ perfectly. The point is that he should never have made that pass. What the hell was Fernandes supposed to do with it? He was on the edge of our crowded area facing his own goal and with three or four opponents up his backside. He did the only thing possible and picked out Flynn Downes who then panicked and fluffed his clearance. He is probably most responsible for that goal but it was the system that spawned it. As a general principle the further the ball is from your own goal the fewer chances you’re going to concede. As for their second goal no matter how many times I watch it I cannot work out what McCarthy was thinking. KWP should have marked Salah better but closing down opposing wingers is not allowed in Martin’s playbook.

He always has a mistake in him.

I was being polite 🤨

No, because that is the way that they have been trained.