I admit, I was being a little unkind. I'm probably more frustrated at the way Wilf has been used this season. It may just be me but Roy's 4-3-3 keeps Wilf pinned in on the left with too much defensive work to do and as you say 2/3 players marking him.

To my mind, the reason he was able to play better yesterday was that he seemed to have been given a freer role. I've said before, he shouldn't be kept in a strait-jacket on the left wing but allowed to have a free rein because it's far more difficult for 2/3 players to mark him in that scenario.

I can’t believe I’m having to write this, but just to clarify , Nathan Redmond is not a better player than Wilfried Zaha

“This is a crisis, a large crisis.... in fact if you have a moment, it’s a 12 storey crisis, magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24 hour portage , and an enormous sign on the roof saying “This , is a large crisis” - Edmund Blackadder

I think it's in everyone's interest that Zaha leaves in the forthcoming window. It's also entirely possible that all the speculation about his future has in some way unsettled the rest of the squad which could, in some way, explain our frequently less than stellar performance during the season. Just a hypothesis, mind.

I’d have to disagree with you on that. He is our best player by a long stretch and he will be impossible for us to replace with a player close to his talent. What we need is some better players to take the pressure of him so every pass we try to play is not to him.

Someone track down Piper........he'll know

There's no sun, the shadow of the wizard.......

Parish would have been crucified if he accepted Arsenal’s offer of £45 mil spread over about 7 transfer windows. The only offer we got for Zaha. While I said we should sell him because I thought he’d sulk or not apply himself fully in today’s player power game, we didn’t get anywhere near the £60-65 mil I thought he was worth. I don’t even think Everton put a bid in, including the rumoured £52 mil.

The real error is us never really addressing delivering results without him. That’s caused this. If we had a threat through the middle we wouldn’t constantly do the same thing out wide, needing Zaha to do it.

COYP