Right, all teams need to do is pass the ball to their £14m world class out and out winger and we are screwed. I bet Burnley are putting the finishing touches on exactly such a plan right now.
Do you really think that after about 8-9 years as a Premier League right back, opposition managers didn't know about Hibbert's weaknesses? That Hiddink hit upon a brilliant new strategy they hadn't thought of? "Oh, run AT him with the ball. That's brilliant that is. All these years we've been running away from him without the ball, but that's even better."
Look, I'm not making Hibbert out to be a great player, and certainly not as good as Baines, but do you not think that at least part of the reason that Chelsea attacked down their left flank is that their right winger is Anelka? And that Hibbert got booked inside 10 minutes? And that Osman wasn't helping out? And that Malouda has, since Hiddink turned up, been one of the best out and out wingers in world football?
Why do we have to polarise opinions so much on these forums? If you don't like somebody, he's not just an average player; oh no, he has to be unfit to wear the shirt, a disgrace. I remember people saying Lee Carsley was useless, and that we should pick youth team players instead, because "they can't be any worse". James Beattie the same. Even Andy Johnson some people truly hated.