DID you ever see that film? Christian Bale - what an actor...
I'd have a lot more positive things to say about Bale's back catalogue than I could ever find about Everton today.
Every silver lining seems to have a big fat cloud behind it.
* M'Bia wants to join us - he's got a knee injury.
*Vagner Love move was a goer - we got conned by an agent.
*Tiago move could be a goer - player is mentally scarred by time at Chelsea (read as 'really wants to go to La Liga').
*We looked set for a barely deserved, crack-covering point on Saturday - experienced internationals we normally rely on let us down.
Nope. It still aint much fun being a blue. I know I'm not the only one who found Saturday a very unusual start to the season.
Even during the build-up when I'm normally as excited as a nine-year-old with a Happy Meal , I was subdued.
I still thought we'd actually beat Blackburn (stupid inherent optimism) but our starting line-up was ever bit as sobering as predictd.
Save for a spell in the second half, we were very poor and Lee Carsley was missed immensely.
For a perfect example of how much we relied on the Brummie, look how easy it was for Blackburn to pour through our midfield for their opening goal before David Dunn was allowed to look like a player by curling home a beauty.
I'm surprised Moyes played Jagielka in the holding role when he favoured Neville there against the likes of Chelsea last season.
We all know neither is ideal, but Jagielka will never have the swiftness of mind or feet required to operate there and it showed.
So what can we do? Hope M'Bia's knee injury isn't serious for a start. And hope that this delegation we've sent out to Portugal come back with the golden fleece, i.e. Moutinho.
Mark O'Brien at WSAG makes an excellent point though - it's funny how Moutinho has got better and better in the minds of blues every day this saga has stretched out.
Woe betide him if he takes a few months to adapt to the Premier League.
Anyway, Harsh Times indeed. (You should see that film).
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sutton coldfields wrote...
Harsh timeS, misery loves company, misery loves company still, its a diet of gruel and dry rye bread for us blues at the moment, even the blogs reflect it.
apparently the tiago deal is moving closer, just need to persuade the player now. both clubs seems set on it. tink he'd be a good buy.
bullard would be a coup, btw
Posted by: sutton coldfields | August 20, 2008 10:31 AM