Ted Hughes wrote:carl_feedthegoat wrote:PALUS wrote:carl_feedthegoat wrote:TED
You can dig up all my posts on Lescott and you will see that when he plays well I mention it..I have said it plenty of times so your talking bolloks if you say that I slag him off even when he plays well !!!
We have shipped in over 11 goals in the last 6 competitive games or so and Lescott has played SHITE...thats a fact.
Thats why he dropped the cunt against RM and Ill say it one last fuckign time......IF VINNY HADNT FUCKED UP WE WOULD HAVE WON and then you wouldnt have had any need to write half a page slagging off Nasti.
No nobody slagging Nasti, he did the best he could playing first game on this level with players he did not play at all , if Saavic have debut here he would get red card for bad playing :) but even u Carl must admit it was strange game to debut and to many players who dont know each other , and why Bob did not give Nasti at list one game in Premiere before this , but i agree that defence is shit and that Vinny fuck moree then few times but he was covering whole game Maicon who was awful , but for 3 goal no exuse Vinny goal 100 % , even the first one he is the one give Marcelo time and space but also nobody else was there to duble , strange game.
Yes it was strange..but the alternative was to play a player that has fucked up so far this season and the latter of last season...maybe Mancini thought fuck it..Ill play him , anyone would think Nasti is just a kid that hasnt played fucking high powered matches before!!!
Nasti will replace Lescott for good soon enough imo..Lescotts in his last part of his contract and I doubt he will get another one..in fact he might even go in January.
I quite understand Teds and others surprise when he played Nasti but imo he played well and wasnt the reason we fucking lost..same as it wasnt Maicons fault we lost as he didnt concede a fucking goal when he was on the pitch !! call it luck or whatever..there are 2 facts that are indisputable and thats the goals against wasnt maicons fault and the 2 goals against wasnt Nastis fault...it can be argued that Benzemas goal was a brilliant turn and shot and not Nastis fault at all..I doubt whether 99% of defenders worldwide would have defied Benzema that turn and goal.
Anyway..its past and gone , now lets see what happens tomorrow.
If Lescott had been marking Benzema, you would have been screaming for him to be dropped as, quite rightly, you would have seen a mistake, as he was nowhere near where he should have been in order to defend it. It's not true that most defenders wouldn't have stopped it. Most Premier League defenders would have been 3 yards closer & stood a very good chance. Nasti fell asleep & didn't react. Understandable & no reason to write him off, but it was a mistake nontheless, & a pretty bad one.
He may have scored the same goal if Lescott had played, but it would have had to be squeezed through Lescott's legs, as he would have been all over him like a fucking rash. Lescott would get the blame where this lad doesn't though & that's where it's not fair.
He will make a mistake, maybe even v Arsenal & about once in ten games, it leads to a goal. Most don't but people still want to drop him anyway. For some reason, he isn't allowed to do anything wrong & others are, even if they do it more often. A Lescott mistake seems to count double in some people's eyes & any miscontrol of a ball seems to be a sackable offence.
It's not just you; the bloke in the MUEN is the same; ALWAYS marks Lescott 2 or 3 points down, no matter how well he plays. Hansen once did a highlights section on VK in a game where Lescott had been pretty much identical over 90 mins & he never even mentioned Lescott's name as being on the pitch, just how brilliant VK was. Most of these blokes sided with Moyes when City signed him & have been on his case ever since.
It's both unfair & bizarre. Last season people were blaming Lescott for Savic being shit, presumably because he was on the pitch at the same time, yet they never blame Lescott for Vinny being good.
He never gets credit for anything he does that's good, just shit for mistakes he makes or even when he does nothing wrong, like at Stoke. It never used to be like this. In Joe Mercer's side he would have been a hero & imo that's exactly what he & Vinny were last season. They are champions & deserve the opportunity to be given some games to sort out the defence, not sacked for any kid that comes along.
