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***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20
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dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
He closed off the channels and forced us wide all game. We have some great crossing talent (KDB chief among them) but nobody on the field was any sort of threat in the air. Even Aguero would have been an aerial upgrade, he's a bit underrated in the air IMO. Arteta came with a great plan and his defenders (Luiz especially) really stepped up to the plate. I thought Silva was especially poor. I was surprised he started over Foden, he's been good in recent weeks but hasn't got a good recent record of backing up big performances at his age.
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Lillian Thomson
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Watford sacking Pearson is odd even by their standards.
andruid
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Say what?
OverratedSanity
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More like David de gaya amirite
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But yeah he's just consistently dreadful now. The howlers are piling up with alarming regularity.
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Don’t agree, he still makes lots of saves no other keeper would make, kept us in the game against Palace. He’s about league average imo.
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Not making howlers regularly is the best asset a goalkeeper can have though. It's like late career Casillas. He could still pull off the odd outrageous save but when he's throwing the ball into his own net twice a month, his value became very questionable.
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I think this is mostly an illusion. Keepers that make mistakes feel like they’re much worse than the solid unspectacular types, but logically one goal prevented cancels out one goal thrown in.
I say ‘mostly’ an illusion. There are other factors, all else equal I think everyone would prefer to play with a solid-unspectacular type. But that’s much less important than the bottom line of who concedes the least goals overall.
Niall
International Coach
Slightly cruel, but he is a liability sadly at the moment. He was poor towards the end when it came to champions league qualifications and the clangers have really piled up this season.
He will be number 1 next season while Henderson on loan, Ole next summer will have to decide which of the two is the long term number one or worst case scenario look abroad for an alternative.
Have a feeling Henderson could be another Foster, talented but not quite up to the level needed.....lets not forget has dropped some clangers this season also.
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Can they get Lovejoy on comms for final to repeat the "Only Ray Parlour" moment.
Furball
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I wouldn't be surprised if something had happened behind the scenes that made his position untenable.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Ha, if one was compiling a list of "managers most likely to smack a player upside the head" Pearson would be #1, so it's all too believable.
Probably have Colin as #2, despite his advancing years.
wpdavid
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Brian Clough is said to have punched Nigel Jemson and, hard to believe, Roy Keane.