Well, I’m sorry, but it might as well have been.
I don’t have much to get away from saying that losing to Palace 3 – 0 was an utter disgrace.
But what annoyed me most was the awful tactics employed by Unai.
Make no mistake, the tactics were horrendous.
Any man and his Jack Russell could see that it wasn’t working. We kept playing that backwards, sidewards rubbish that has bored the crap out of us for weeks.
It was blatantly obvious that playing longer was the way to try and counter the way Palace were dominating the game quite easily, with their playing a low block and playing long as and when was required. And then Emery actually started to play like that after about 30 minutes.
I’ve always said that I don’t have a clue about tactics and I don’t profess to having a clue now.
But when you’ve got an idiot like me screaming at Emery to play longer, I just know something is not right.
The more concerning thing is that if Emery thought we might suddenly turn things around, we have a serious problem.
I didn’t write a post beforehand because I didn’t think it would go down too well, as I was privately predicting a 2-0 loss.
That was bad enough, but for us to actually outdo it amazed me.
From what I’ve heard, the natives were seriously unhappy tonight.
The grandsons left early and I believe they haven’t done that before.
We are not in a position where we can afford to be in the bottom 3, which I believe we will be after our 4th game, which is Everton away.
Europa league?
You’re joking, the way it’s looking.
Emery is on thin ice already.
Another one or two losses in the same way as we’ve started and I’ll be calling for him out too.
I can stand losing, but the football is shocking.
People are paying top money for this and it isn’t good enough.
I’m just glad that I’m not one of those who isn’t handing their hard earned over.
Right or Wrong? What do YOU think?