Yep. Not only did I witness his August 2016 debut, 3 years before Bielsa invented him, but it seems I managed to spot rather a lot of potential in him, even before the Argentine Jack Duckworth had sprinkled his magic dust over him...
Apologies - that was REALLY badly worded. All I meant was that the tweet didn’t necessarily mean they’d wear it for the game. There’s a good chance they DID mean that, tbf.
Bored of reading online, that Marcelo Bielsa invented Ben White, overnight last August, I decided to scroll back to see what I wrote about his debut, as an 18 year old, 4 years ago...
Were you expecting this discussion to become highly contentious, Pev? Not sure it REALLY needed to be in the bear pit...
(By the way, you're WRONG. ..)
Forgive me, but doesn't this response just 100% confirm that your rating of March WAS based on your disregard of him in general, and not in fact, on how he actually performed in the match - and thus the criticism of your post was entirely justified?
Dressing it up as 'genuine difference in...
There is an awful lot of utter nonsense in this that presumably just reflects your pre-judgement of various players, rather than what we all actually watched.
Using you very first rating as a benchmark, let’s assume your ‘did okay’ score is a 5? Maybe even a 6, as you’ve scored Ryan 6 despite...