Wilde

by Dave

 

Considering their fullback picked up an early booking for a foul on Wilde, you would have thought it made sense to get the ball to Wilde as often as possible, he would have had an advantage as the defender would not have been able to dive in for fear of getting sent off.

However, as you say, he hardly saw the ball and when he did he was surrounded by defenders, we should have switched the play more often from one flank to the other to create room for our wingers to exploit, but all we did was keep giving it to Wilkin who had a pretty poor game despite his goal, mind you it didn't help him that he got no protection from that pathetic ref.

Our main problem on Saturday was as it quite often is, giving the ball away cheaply, we have to improve on that aspect and quickly. I once watched a documentary on Sunderland and during his half-time rant Peter Reid kept saying "keep the ball, keep the ball, keep the f**king ball", it seems obvious to say but you can't play if you don't have the ball!



Posted on Feb 12, 2001, 9:48 AM

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