Shall we begin the Last Rites now or wait until next week's capitulation against Villa?
Losing to Bolton is no surprise, we always do - but this time Kevin Davies didn't score against us. Never mind, Sturridge twice and Lee (the smallest man on the pitch) with a header completed a routine win for a team clearly not worrying about an FA Cup semi-final next week. A team that hardly needed to break sweat against West Ham - who had players themselves who hardly broke sweat, although it was very clear they needed to.
So in the second half last week and the first quarter of an hour this week we conceded six goals. Perhaps it's a small mercy that we only conceded one more today, but our defending was rank. More than that was the passivity of the team. When we needed to start at pace, we did - snail's pace. When we needed bite, we'd lost our dentures. There 's more organisation in a herd of cats than our defence. And you'd like to stroke the cats as opposed to slap our 'defenders'. But our midfield was as sloppy as an unset jelly, Hitzlsperger, Noble and Super Scott giving the ball away with metronomic regularity. Bolton surely found the Kryptonite today, because even Parker was ordinary for West Ham (which is pretty crap for most other teams).
And watching a streamed game keeps me hunched over the monitor and unable to kick anything - just like Piquionne.
So our good form of the previous few games (up until the capitulation against Man U) looks like a dead cat bounce to me.
So next week, Joel is to be accompanied to the game with two friends who are Villa supporters, Jessica and Connor wisely deciding that they have something (anything?) better to do. Jack is deejaying in Brighton the night before and has made his excuses for not being fit to get to the game (like many of the team who play). I'm already so looking forward to it and to Chelsea and Man City away. How many goals will we concede in those games?
Time to move, I think, embrace Feng Shui and meditate to attain a state of calm. At least Jack will not have to travel far when we play Brighton away next season.
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