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The point I am making is there is more than one way of playing the game and none of them are ‘right’. It’s not Pep’s ball and I won’t be accepting a framed picture of Guardiola with his arm around Potter as a symbol of success.

Everton won the league in 1928 by lumping the ball up to the goal-hanging Dixie Dean who scored 60 goals. Successful. Within the laws of the game. Greece won Euro 2004 setting up defensively and being clinical on set pieces. I could go on. Two examples of very different ways of playing the...

Who is Pep Guardiola to say there is a correct way to play the game? It was around for a hundred years before him and will be around long after he’s gone. There are 17 laws and none of them say you can’t set your team up to stop the opposition playing the tactics they want to.

Progress in that we’ve discovered another way to play Man Saudi that doesn’t work.

Not even VAR can save us now...

Stick to the game plan lads.

Fair enough. It’s a game of opinions. Everyone I spoke to at the game thought he was poor.

Gives Webster another chance after his poor showing on Tuesday night.