Alan PartridgeMaguire lol@assessing a player based on one touch. If I look at the moment in the first half where he failed to control a ball down the channel and ran it out for a throw-in could I rightfully assume that he's useless and shouldn't have been given a contract?
Snowball is getting more and more desperate it seems,like a boxer whose got to throw haymakers in the 12th in the hope of an unlikely knockout.
No "desperate" at all. I just can't believe the general air of negativity on this list.
This is what amazes me. I KNOW Long has his problems. I've said his lack of a GREAT first touch
and his (currently) inability to be a good holder-up of the ball like say Jason Scotland, means he probably
won't get regularly picked in a 4-5-1
But that one touch in the Chelsea game was, from what I could see, "world-class" (and would have been hailed as such had any Chelsea
player done it, or Doyle, or Church, or Van Persie, Arshavin, Ronaldo, etc.
Then the kid showed a lot of courage and confidence in attacking two brilliant defenders, and to finally cut between them was awesome
