Well Phil, just quickly remind us what level of football you played in and whether your team had a player as good as Olise? It's a matter of opinion like most else in life and, like the rest of us, you simply don't know.

And me except I’d thrown my head back groaning “Oh, for f…hold on, we’ve only scored”.

Well technically it’s not because either he meant it or he didn’t and Michael will know which one it is. I’m sure it will come out at some point in an interview with him.

My money (FWIW) is on didn’t (100%).

Edited by Phil’s Barber (22 Mar 2022 6.08am)

If you ever watch the training videos you will see Olise continually shoot from the right of the penalty area with his left foot bending the ball with a view to aiming for the top corner.
The ball starts like it’s going to miss the target but then arcs back towards the goal making it very difficult for the keeper to reach.
Personally I believe against Everton that he did not quite execute the shot as he wanted, but his intention was clear.

The debate has moved on from whether it was a fluke, an intentuonal shot mis-hit or an entirely new type of skill, to the suggestion that the only people entitled to an opinion are those who have played the game.
Well I have played the game at a very high level indeed, 4500 feet to be exact where the air was so thin we had to decompress after the game to avoid getting the bends and it was so hot it cooked the pea in the ref's whistle. I was rubbish admittedly.

TP I'll add your name to the list for membership.

I am sincerely happy reading all these comments to begin to believe that perhaps a lot of things I attribute to my own idiocy can possibly be just 'human error' from which I am not the only sufferer!

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!