Guy who sits in front to the right of me in the Upper Bullens. In Martinez' first season all he would do is slate Lukaku, last season too. Left right and centre, most people around him agree to the point one person infront of ihm turned around and said 'Have you ever said anything positive?'
Last night, we played well, Kone, YES he should scored the first one, the second I have sympathy for, played well despite this. He allowed more space for others, his movement was good, he looked alot more up for it than Lukaku did (especially if Lukaku was in pain, not surprising). The guy wouldn't listen to the point of Kone has allowed for others to be better, he won balls that he had no right of winning.
Alot of the time Kone does himself no favours, but I thought he was a really positive impact last night, and no matter what the guy would slate him, unwarranted. Barkley, who had a good game last night still made some small mistakes, when Kone made the exact same mistake, he was up screaming 'YOUR 'EFFING' 'rubbish' lad.' (to clean it up). Barkley at one point ran into a wall of 3 players, a mistake, forgiveable ofcourse, but according to this guy Barkley is uncriticisable and can't be blamed when he always has 2/3 players on him... He then ignored the point of, well Kone has 2/3 players on him and you scream if he doesn't keep it..
The guy, now he can't hate Lukaku, has to slate Kone regardless of how well he does for the team. It's getting tiring every game listening to his patronising contradictory nonsense. He believes he's got a more valuable 'opinion' cause he has been going for 50 years... I've been going for almost 20, I've seen just as much crap play in Blue as him.
I just don't get it. We've played really well, we've controlled the game, we've created chances, defended really well, keeper has commanded his area. Everything was positive and I didn't believe any player played poorly.
We did all of this while looking short of confidence ourselves.
I've taken a few non blues to the match as we've had a spare ticket, all of them can't believe how negative and narrow minded he is.
His answer to 'Who would you have instead of Martinez?' was... 'Anyone'... That's not an answer, that's nonsense, If you can't justify his sacking and replacement then you can't argue it.
I know he doesn't represent MOST blues, but christ I can see why the players look 'out of confidence' when playing at Goodison if theres more of him lurking around.
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Apologies for the rant, it's just increasingly frustrating watching Everton at home and listening to this guy speak as if he hates every inch of Everton football club, regardless of performance.
but I just can't grasp how any blue can be unhappy with that last night. Dislike Kone all you like, he wouldn't be my first choice either, but christ at least recognise when he has had an impact on a team. We didn't create much in the first half, second half we could have had 4/5.
Shout out to Oviedo who was my MOTM, dealt with Townsend every time, whenever he got a yard, managed to close it down. Best performance for him in a blue shirt for me.
