BigDunc'sFod
Player Valuation: £35m
MOTM in your last game, not a bad way to end it like
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tommye
Player Valuation: £100m
Bye Tone. Thanks for everything man. Love you long time. X-X-X-X-X
One last time......
He waits. That’s what he does. Then he shuffles. That’s how he moves. Side-step, side-step, side-step, tracking the bogey, marshalling it, gently manoeuvring it into position. And then he strikes. There is a heavy thump of boot on ball and a roar from the frenzied crowd. Patrice Evra spins through the night sky, landing heavily, the air driven from his lungs on impact. Unruffled and uninterested in the acclaim, Tony Hibbert gets to his feet and shuffles back into position. That’s what he does. He is not a superstar, he is not a brand. He’s just a bloody bloke.
There are certain expectations of a 21st century full-back. They must be auxiliary wingers, scampering up and down the pitch, tracking their man, but providing their own pressure on the flanks. They must be whippets in boots, probing and penetrating like a well thrown javelin. Hibbert probes and penetrates like a sledgehammer swung through the side of a shed. He’ll get forward occasionally, he’s even been known to set up the odd goal, but he has never, ever shared a sentence with the word ‘cavalier.’
This isn’t to patronise or denigrate his achievements. Hibbert made his debut for Everton in 2001 and you don’t get to play more than 250 Premier League games over an 11 year period purely because you’re a hard worker. Hibbert is intelligent, he doesn’t desert his post, he rarely switches off and he always, always makes sure that the man he is marking knows that he’s been marked.
One last time......
He waits. That’s what he does. Then he shuffles. That’s how he moves. Side-step, side-step, side-step, tracking the bogey, marshalling it, gently manoeuvring it into position. And then he strikes. There is a heavy thump of boot on ball and a roar from the frenzied crowd. Patrice Evra spins through the night sky, landing heavily, the air driven from his lungs on impact. Unruffled and uninterested in the acclaim, Tony Hibbert gets to his feet and shuffles back into position. That’s what he does. He is not a superstar, he is not a brand. He’s just a bloody bloke.
There are certain expectations of a 21st century full-back. They must be auxiliary wingers, scampering up and down the pitch, tracking their man, but providing their own pressure on the flanks. They must be whippets in boots, probing and penetrating like a well thrown javelin. Hibbert probes and penetrates like a sledgehammer swung through the side of a shed. He’ll get forward occasionally, he’s even been known to set up the odd goal, but he has never, ever shared a sentence with the word ‘cavalier.’
This isn’t to patronise or denigrate his achievements. Hibbert made his debut for Everton in 2001 and you don’t get to play more than 250 Premier League games over an 11 year period purely because you’re a hard worker. Hibbert is intelligent, he doesn’t desert his post, he rarely switches off and he always, always makes sure that the man he is marking knows that he’s been marked.
BigBlueConk
Player Valuation: £70m
One club man and never sold us out, despite all the offers.
Is Hibbo behind the #FishBraPerfection craze? I'd like to believe that the answer is...
YES.
Legend.
YES.
Legend.
one of the worlds luckiest millionaires, another crap player off the books
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
I like Ms John's beach store
DanEFC92
Player Valuation: £90m
Everton have ditched me after 25 years, says Tony Hibbert: 'It's no longer the People's Club'
- Tony Hibbert was released by Everton this summer after 25 years' service
- He and Leon Osman found out they had been let go via the club website
- Hibbert still hasn't spoken to any of the club's senior management
- The right back is training at the club but is embarrassed to use the facilities
- Everton have recently been taken over by businessman Farhad Moshiri
Crikey
bizzaro
LOVE GOT JUST THE WAY IT IS #ALWNV
Don't care.
We're a professional football club not a charity.
Thats what he is expecting if he wanted a new contract:
Charity.
This is contrary to the ideals of Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Grass
Coffee and TV
Player Valuation: £25m
That article is weird, how is it that he is training at the club but hasn't spoken to anyone? Does he just turn up and assume no one minds he's there even though he's not employed by Everton any more?
DanEFC92
Player Valuation: £90m
Couldn't have afforded him a conversation about not getting a new contract, or even a wee phone call?
ijjysmith
Calm
Thought the same. No doubt the letting him go was handled badly but it can't all be that bad if we are letting him recouperate there.
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