Kevin Mirallas

[Sy-]

It was certainly a catalyst for our penalty problems, do you recall any penalty problems up to that point? ...... and after?

Why then deflect the blame to Jagielka? there wouldn't have been a situation too contain/manage if Kev hadn't have been a knob

In my honest opinion Lukaku was given penalties by Martinez to increase his tally, to pander to his ego and increase his value. I highly doubt that Kevin taking that penalty cast any doubt over Baines's ability to slot.

I'm not having a go at Jags either, there's no blame, he made a decision, Kev wanted to take the penalty so Jags and Baines obviously said "yeah if he wants it that bad", sometimes it just doesn't work out.

Anyway, no point digging any of this up anyway, it's water under the bridge!

 

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

Eric you're missing the point it wasn't the miss it was the pantomime before the pen and the way it affected Baines.

Baines looked really affected when he slotted against Norwich. It's funny that the game after Martinez is gone Baines is back on penalties. It makes me think that Baines didn't give up penalties, rather Martinez took them off him.

 

[Norwegian Cow]

It was more down to the lack of playing time thanks to Martinez.

thanks to himself

 

[McBain]

Mrs Mirallas according to an un-checked googling.

Just FYI

 

[hktoffee]

thanks to himself

Partically yes (red cards etc) but don't forget Martinez played Kone, Cleverley and Naismith ahead of him @LW.

He and Martinez did not get on this season surely.

 

[madden95]

Mrs Mirallas according to an un-checked googling.

Just FYI

not her sadly still fit the girl but has short dark hair

 

[McBain]

not her sadly still fit the girl but has short dark hair

Bikini Pic Confirmation?

 

[larbert toffee]

Mrs Mirallas according to an un-checked googling.

Just FYI

OK he can stay

 

[madden95]

closest we are getting mate but yeah thats her

 

[madden95]

Bikini Pic Confirmation?

just posted haha

 

[McBain]

She's flatter than a pancake printed on a piece of paper. FFS Kev.

 

[Lanolin]

He kicked off all our problems with penalties this season taking the ball off Baines attracting negative publicity and got himself needlessly sent off twice. Is that ok for starters?

All sendings off are needless. Is Barry disruptive? McCarthy? Or is it just foreign players or flair players that can be disruptive?

He wanted to take a penalty. He actually wanted to step forward and take responsibility for something, how is that a bad thing? He'd been the first taker in the shoot out at West Ham the week before, maybe he was the only one with the bottle to put his hand up then and didn't see why he shouldn't get the same opportunity in a game situation. Maybe there had been an informal agreement that next time someone missed one he would take over, and Baines had missed his last one. You don't know, you're just mud slinging because you've decided he's a bad apple.

 

[Khalekan]

Just seems like a winner to me, granted he sometimes goes a bit too far in trying to affect things, but in my memory he's the only player since Cahill who really turns it up a level either in the big games and/or when things are going bad.

I also don't believe the penalty incident was a catalyst for any of our problems, nor was it even a personal glory thing, he just didn't want to lose the game so was trying to take things by the scruff of the neck, it was for Jagielka to contain/manage that.

From memory, was it not about Mirallas wanting to score a goal so he could run to the cameras and show off a tee shirt under his jersey paying "tribute" to some friend of his whom had died a few days before?

A total vanity project for Kev from what I remember.

And as as @larbert toffee says, why drag Jags into it?

He was back in his own half, tying his laces IIRC, entitled to believe that grown men up the other end of the pitch would act like the professionals they are and carry out the team plan re pennos rather than behave like schoolboys in the lunchtime kick around, fighting over who takes a penalty

 

[Khalekan]

Eric you're missing the point it wasn't the miss it was the pantomime before the pen and the way it affected Baines.

To be fair, Baines's previous two penalties were awful.

De Gea saved easily at Old Trafford.....and I could have saved the one he scored at Sunderland a few weeks later.

But somehow the goalie let a shockingly hit penalty squirm under his body

So there might have been a case for relieving Baines of the duty.

But that was for the manager to decide.....not the perogative of one egoist whose primary motivation appears to have been to flash a tee shirt in front of the cameras

FTR.....I would have no problems with Mirallas taking the spot kicks.

I wish he had taken the one at Wembley

And the one home to Hammers when we were 2-0 up and coasting.

Oh wait....he couldn't have taken that one.....he had acted the idiot right in front of the ref.

Twice

And then people wonder why he doesn't get enough "game time"

 

[Khalekan]

Mrs Mirallas according to an un-checked googling.

Just FYI

*wolf whistles*