Philips started slowly but he has started winning second balls and allows Bellingham and rice to control the midfield
I really like Phillips but I think he dropped a bollock by going to City (not that I blame him in the slightest) Liverpool would have been a much better fit for him.
You might be able to drop a Grealish or Maddison in there in some of the easier games but when push comes to shove I want Phillips and Rice in the team. Unless we magically produce a world class center half in the next 18 months.
Surprised the Italian FA chose Naples. Always thought it was like the Liverpool of England and tried to separate itself from the rest of the country.
Yep, having spent a month in Naples with a football crazy family running a pizza/bistro, they told me they were Neapolitan’s first, Italian’s second.
Although convinced the authorities decided on Naples because of the extreme passion generated there.
As an aside, their pizza’s were the best I ever tasted! Better than the ‘celebrated’ Neapolitan pizza parlours.
Brave man...passed thru Naples travelling from Rome to the Amalfi coast....the Circumvesuviana station there was very scary with some dodgy characters and lots of warning signs about pickpockets....we got a limo back from Sorrento to Naples
Not brave, necessary, as my 23 year old son had a very bad accident (a 5 meter fall) this was after my daughter’s wedding, he was helicoptered from Sorrento to Naples. We attended the hospital for 4 weeks.
Good news, I now appreciate Naples, we are still in contact with a great Italian family and my son is fully recovered.
Philips started slowly but he has started winning second balls and allows Bellingham and rice to control the midfield
I really like Phillips but I think he dropped a bollock by going to City (not that I blame him in the slightest) Liverpool would have been a much better fit for him.
You might be able to drop a Grealish or Maddison in there in some of the easier games but when push comes to shove I want Phillips and Rice in the team. Unless we magically produce a world class center half in the next 18 months.
This is it. I think GS likes Stones and Maguire as ball playing CBs but he doesn’t trust them enough defensively. Especially when our full backs play high. It’s the sensible option.
Maguire goes for a ball that wasn't there to be won and leaves us open in the middle. Game on.
It’s worse than that though. He gave it away, fucked the tackle up, the player then scores from where Maguire should have been defending…..and he picked up a booking.
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You might be able to drop a Grealish or Maddison in there in some of the easier games but when push comes to shove I want Phillips and Rice in the team. Unless we magically produce a world class center half in the next 18 months.
Good news, I now appreciate Naples, we are still in contact with a great Italian family and my son is fully recovered.
We just can’t keep persisting with him.
We could have been out of sight after the first half that day too