Ramirez had his chance to impress on Saturday evening and blew it. It seemed the right substitution to make at the time but quite frankly he was awful.
Not tenuous at all actually. What a bizarre thing to post. Anyway, the MK Dons fans love him and reckon he'll be moving on to bigger and better things during the summer. He's a welcome addition to our squad.
Great draw for Northern Ireland: Greece, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Faroe Islands. We still won't get third and a play-off mind you! lol Flights booked to Budapest in September regardless. )
The problem with the Chapel is that as it's the family stand it's obviously full of kids and old people. (I include myself in that category.) Not exactly condusive for noisy support unfortunately. Drives me nuts.
Not the worst result in the world but it highlighted:
a) We've no plan B.
b) Our lack of options up front.
Hopefully the latter will be addressed in the summer.
Lallana should be starting for England. Not only has he been consistently one of top midfielders in the league this season he gives you something different wth his dribbling ability. I have no doubt Hodgson is well aware of this.
Should have been the same midfield as the Arsenal game for me. Big decision by MP to drop Cork, he's been excellent recently. Wanyama wasn't puling up any trees prior to his injury.
It's a good draw in the sense that both sides will fancy their chances of progressing to the next round. For the recent league game I travelled up on the Friday with my wee nipper and stayed over. We had a great weekend, all the Sunderland fans we met were very friendly. Unfortunately for me (and him) I'm in Oslo the weekend of the cup match so it'll be score updates on the mobile this time around. I expect another close game.
If Dani can't integrate back into the squad then he'll have to be sold but only at a price that is acceptable for an international of his calibre. ie Not on the cheap and certainly not loaned out. However if he wants to stay and sorts himself out then hopefully he'll turn out to be the decent signing we all hoped he would be.