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He'd warned him at a previous free kick too. Absolute nonsense behaviour from Taylor, as he clearly isn't going to stay there for the free kick, being offside. Effectively just trying to stop him line the wall up, and therefore delaying the game, as the ref's not going to blow for the kick til Mignolet's happy with the wall. Sunday league f***wittery from Pardew, bet Allardyce was nodding in appreciation though. On the game, this formation seems solid enough, but 2 or 3 ofhours may aswell not be playing when we've got the ball. Need to find a way to get Henderson and Coutinho more involved, or throw on Lallana and Borini/Lambert.

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Aye, I don't really think it's fair comparing fullback's and CB's, but if you are, he was best of the 4 today.

I don't think you can forgive the sitter either to be honest. He's just not in a position where he's ready for the ball coming his way, ever. It's really odd, because there are times when he puts a shift in and closes someone down etc, but in general the crowd sees the run he needs to make, about 3 seconds before he does. I'm holding on to the hope he improves with Sturridge there to lead the line.

He'd have hit the bar.

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Never look down DD, you'd make a s**** tightrope walker.

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Unfortunately, the relatively poor start to the season has allowed some people to forget that, and revert to their opinions of 12 months ago.