Welcome to toffee TV. It is the final word Sheffield United Neil Everton one We're still in the Christmas spirit. Well, we're still in that pyjamas. So that's why we're not in the studio Speak for yourself. I'm not I'm not acting pyjamas. You can't I'm not actually waiting anything below this top Just yeah holiday spirit Everton traveling to Play Sheffield United Boxing day always gonna be a tricky game last game of the day awful conditions But ever and ever and got through ever and got the three points ever and decided not to be the old-fashioned traditional ever and Went there and and got the win moved into second place and Hopefully this is the new everton pass Hopefully Yeah, listen, it was a tough game and it was always gonna be a tough game and coming so quickly after The United game and with half a team it was gonna be a difficult challenge, but All's that mattered was winning the game and I kind of knew it frustrates you sometimes because You kind of knew what game it was gonna be and what kind of performance we were gonna see And ever never come out and do the opposite of that and perform much better than you'd expect But what we did do was we stuck in there and battled it out and Stepped it up a little bit towards the end and got the win that we needed Yeah, definitely it was it was Obviously going in with the team we had obviously we found out we had no Richard Allison Which was always gonna make it a little bit difficult because he's one of our best players and we know and There's that record of not winning a game without some sort of you've got that You've got that beard and having you know Whether you like it or not, you know, you know That that weighs against you and I don't know where the where the players feel like that. I think it's just maybe fans Maybe nine games though, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, but it's only nine games But it is like like to pull out the dump people. Yeah, you're right, but it is that idea of Just getting over that and I think that's whatever I'm starting to do And I looked on social media in the day and I've seen a lot of people saying oh, you know You looked at all the results and all the results pretty much went for us and people like oh, it's gonna be typical ever Neverton, you know everything that I know the rest of it Whereas I think one thing maybe what we've seen in this run of of fixes is it's evidence Or ever in a book in that trend car on she's book in that trend. He is such a Good manager and has got this squad into a good in a good mental position where It's not really fear in that and obviously so obviously no rich arson Tom Davis came into the midfield as well, which I thought was the right move someone who could you know sit in front of that back for and help the core out and You know obviously a will be stayed in the side Obviously Anthony Gordon came into the side which was a which was an interesting choice. What did you think of that? Yeah, to be honest, they was I thought it was the right call Well, I'll tell you what I thought of his performance in a minute, but I thought it was the right call to pour him in I thought it was a I'm not gonna say brave because that will suggest that the manager is not brave and To have won the stomach that's been brave So but it was a call that you know a thing by default really that he had to make but not when he's being given This chance hadn't really performed And Anthony Gordon hadn't really been given an opportunity so it was probably the right call and like I've said before he was the one Who when he's playing or what we've seen and so far is the most similar to the charlotte in terms of driving forward? As it happened it didn't play like that. He played far too safe But it was the it was the call that I probably would have made to be honest with you before the game Yeah, and obviously Tom Davis coming in as well was I think was the right thing to do as well We'd seen on Wednesday night where you know our midfield just looked a little bit Well, apart from the core if he didn't really have anyone in there. He could put the foot in there So I thought Tom coming in was the right move and also using your squad whole gate came back as well Which again is good because it's saying that we're going for the going for the clean sheet first And I think that's the mindset that obviously the manager's got at the moment He's looking at the situation and think about we get we get a clean sheet here We'll win this game and ultimately that's how that's how it played out really wasn't it? It's um You know the conditions are really bad You know chef everything would seem to be like sheffy's and I didn't want a game So that all those things were stacked stacked against us. I suppose in a way in our own Mentality, and I think that's the thing clearly. We've got a we've got a break out of isn't it? It's just that mentality of thinking that Everything's gonna be against us when really it's a game for Paul. Isn't it on a on a pitch with 11 v 11 Yeah, it's there is we do have that thing where we do have that thing don't we where it's oh my god Wow, wow is us With everything, you know me me back home later. What's it with me? And he he said something early on I was like, oh, it's just typical in it everything again. I was like, well What would you know? I don't think there's ever gonna be a thing whether like Great jeffy nights. I've lost 15 home games on the run brilliance We've don't be like, but they're gonna win this one then are they or if they've won 15 home games on the run great We've got no chance to have women. We do do it because we've been it's almost like that thing It's trying to cry it in isn't it for you, you know try to Make it obvious that things are gonna go against you in the hope that the universe goes actually now You can have one back over But It was I don't think things are stacked against us. I just think things were set up to To be ever and what we've seen in the past mentality isn't it just that it's our own mentality is fans of thinking that way because we've we you know The old win this year and we go top. Yeah. Well, it's like me in bands.  We had the chance to go top, you know, we got beat by promoters You know things like that that people have seen for so therefore go whenever there's a chance to do something I'll ever know let you know if everything if our fans were used to us winning stuff We'd never think like that would be we'd expect to win these games So yeah, it was set up for it not to go. Well, but everything everything other ideas. Yeah, obviously it was it. It was a it was a It was it it was a cagey start wasn't it really was a cagey start Both teams Dealing with the conditions both teams didn't really want to obviously concede and we were Won't say a whole fun and puff and I thought we controlled the game I thought Tom Davis was very good in that midfield spot. He had a lot of room He made some really good angles He's always willing for a pass to come to him And I thought with with him he helped dictate dictate the game always look him get his head up looking for people like a Whoa be looking for people like Sigurdson and Anthony Gordon I just don't think we could get it going because number one I think obviously when you're playing a team like Sheffield United You know that They're not gonna Come out and try and play against even when they're at home They're gonna try and play and maybe set piece moments and stuff And I just felt like because we did have the full backs we had even though that meant it was gonna be that kind of game We needed that little bit of wit especially with having Inverted wingers, you know, we know Gordon wants to get the ball and try and come inside We know whoa He's exactly the same on the other side and I felt like just with not having that wit natural wit it Every time we went inside they just cut those lanes off too easily and it meant that Ultimately like we've seen a little bit recently Don finds himself isolated and You know, I think we've seen we've seen this with to Charleston as well when he's played He's found it difficult because if no one's going past them And the same with the world with no one's going past them it It comes hard then to create chances Yeah, we're always gonna be you're always sacrificing something when you're losing Attack and play from James Goldman and from Lugedine You know they are to attack and full back So they do want to get up and join it and that gives you more space then to create but at the moment We're trying to we're trying to preserve our defensive record at me We're trying to stay in games and hope that we have a moment of brilliance or we do create something As we move forward we'll have to be more expansive if we know that But we're doing what we can do with the tools the tools that we've got You know when Richard listen is a big miss whether he's playing well or not He's a handful and people have to worry about them. Which normally frees up a little bit of space for them You know, I'm just on Anthony Gordon he came in and He just didn't he didn't do what he's done in the past everything was very safe And I don't know whether that's just because now he wants to show the manager that He can be trusted to like look after the ball But the thing with wide players is They're the people you want making Chances they're the people you want taking chances They're the people who have to play on the edge because they're looking to break down a structure If you then play within that structure You you then just become nothing in the game You just become someone who just passes the ball off and most players can do that John Joe Kenny can do that as he's proven He's never going to try and run past people on that left wing John Joe But he'll get it and just pass it back and that's essentially what Anthony did You know, Anthony Gordon you want him to be getting he getting his head down running Running players not going to pass people and going and He just didn't do it so therefore Don was isolated and it's it's tough for them, you know, you're knocking balls into He's having to win the ball get it down and then try to do something with it You know where I thought of Obi on the other side I thought it was quite bright in the first half he faded in the second half But I thought in the first half he had a couple of good runs where he went by players Like they weren't there, but again, it was just a final ball And don't forget there was a there was a lack of energy as well You know, this team's had four big games in 10 days and then add a tough game In difficult conditions against the team. It was solid You know, chef United lost a lot of games, but lost a lot of games by the six by a single goal You know, they don't no one gets no one batters No, because they don't because the a good honours start working team the wealth set out It's just they haven't got that little bit of quality really in the final third If they had that chef United would be But be no half by you probably I think they'd be like barely or something to be maybe takes time, you know the splash 24 million on booster. So Um Ready Um, no listen it I I you know Was not critical, but obviously I've When I've done my videos afterwards and we play ratings people have pulled me up on Saying people that I didn't think played well and and they did think well played well But like you've just said there, I wasn't personally I wouldn't have a go at a woby or I would never go at anyone who's played any of the games recently Because that was another game And like tomorrow will be another game and you can't really you can't really have a go at anyone For all right if so and see Anthony Gordon's in a difficult position because he comes into the side so in on a day like that and the tactics are um already set for That mindset of digging in and making sure we get a clean sheet and then trying to nickel go So it makes it tough for him because he hasn't got anyone behind them come and pass them. He hasn't got he's not getting within Five or ten yards of domino car balloon so it's tough for him that the tactics are because of the situation So if anyone didn't have a good game, I I thought and a woby's end product was really poor But at the same time, I'm not going to have a go at him because of that You know because at the end of the day he's played a lot of football in the last few days And it is tough for people and it is about grinding out, you know games like this, you know, we were we were um I've seen it I know I was on wednesday night. I'm up Manchester United and saying the patience they showed the way that they kept going to the end There was no panic and that's what I felt like in this game I felt like when you're watching it, you're like, of course you are you you're like these are bottom and Why aren't we doing this and why aren't we doing that? But in the in the in when you look at the whole game We were really patient in this game We knew if we kept a clean sheet That there would be that one moment And and could we take it and we did take it and and you look at you look at plays and you look at car Answered at the end and you look you see to yourself the job's being done. That was the job That's what we set up to do and we done it and if some people didn't have the greatest games during it then that's fine because It's not it's not necessarily about It's about doing your job and you're right about that and you go and that and you go and probably set out a Got to do his job and not try and do a little bit more And you know, maybe you'll come off the pitch and maybe the manager put his arm around them and say You know what you didn't do anything stupid tonight You know Seek who he wants him to do a little bit more, but he might put his arm around go You've done a job for me tonight because what you've done is you've you've given me Um an hour there An hour where it saved somebody else's legs an hour And we can move on with that now and and I think at this time here That's that's what that's what really matters, isn't it?  It worked well. We had Gordon Was safe and and probably didn't do himself any favours. I just thought about watching Anthony Gordon last night You can't understand why he's not being playing. He's just he's in that difficult moment at the moment where it's He's too good for the 23s And he's probably not good enough to be in our team at the moment. So it's that Loam territory now maybe within where he just needs to get games game after game after game and build himself up But he did a job for the team and like I said it worked because Bernard then came on and give us a different option when he come on so You know, I thought like you said, I thought Tom Davis dictated the the pace of the game really well didn't do anything silly He's well class of buying three kicks That was Tom's best game for a long time, wasn't it? Yeah, it was because he really did You know again, you're asking him for ways to come into the side um and Alan's out now for you know, who knows Best part of January there'll be six weeks. Yeah best part of January. Isn't he now he's out for yeah If not most of January So you've got to come up with solutions and andre Gomez and gilphysig it's an aren't really and the core I aren't really that's not really the solution but as I thought Tom Came in I thought he was you know, I thought he done well in the arsenal game. Um But he come in and he really He really offered something he wanted the ball Um, and it was the perfect game for him because he did have quite a lot of space But he makes for me Tom makes really good Like I said before I think he makes really good angles when he gets the ball He opens the pitch up and sometimes that can be dangerous if you're not Right on it or you have got someone pressing you high because he does like to take the ball on the Tane and have the have the pitch open up for them and that can be dangerous because if you get caught in that position Um, or the pass is not on You're leaving yourself a little bit exposed, but I thought I thought yes, they I thought he he done that really well and it did open the pitch up and it allowed sigaton to be a little bit higher Um, and it allowed allowed strikes of a woby to be on the front foot And he was trying to at times he was trying to play nice little clip balls over the top to dom as well Didn't know he's weak, but you know he was there was a there was a There was a difference to his to what every time he got the ball It wasn't just he got the ball and and give a simple layoff he was Doing different things and chef of the united place didn't always know what he was going to do next Yeah, well, you know played what 74 minutes he had One eight of his 11 grams you'll finish with an 87 percent pass and accuracy, you know Seven 10 ball recoveries, which was the most of any everton player last night So he did have a he did have a really good game for us He does sometimes he does take that little chance in your heart is in your mouth a little bit with him And more so because you don't want him to make a mistake when he's done He's that thing where he'll do like six things great. Yeah, and on the seventh He'll do and then people will only remember the seventh. Yeah, so it's almost like you want him to do but what he's got an opportunity now to establish himself In the squad as an important player for everton because I think obviously when everyone's fit I don't think he gets in the team unless he can perform at that level every single week And then he gives the manager something to think about but what he's got to do is he's got to show the manager He's capable of doing the job because if he just becomes a squad player that Plays once every now and again and they're unsure about him as he ever going to develop as a player And he's no valiant to us. So he has to prove that he can come in do a job Do it well And people can trust them then So he's got it. I think he's had a key moment in his career And it's about putting them in performances like he did last night on a regular basis And I think if he does that the manager will appreciate him and the fans will start to appreciate him Yeah, I mean when he plays like that, you know when people you hear the nonsense people spout about him being You know a lower league player and all that kind of thing. You just look at those Looked away. He took care of the ball last night and said is that half that if you have that level of concentration um You're going to be fine. You're going to be fine. Your manager's going to trust you to come in and that's all he comes down to See only this time of year. It's trust. It's the trust to come into the team and do a job that you're asked to do Squads squads thing. We know that players are out. There's a lot of games and we're trying to maintain them the momentum and it's you're asking what you're saying to players is like we could have nine ten players today you fully on it, but if you don't do especially where Tom's playing You know and we're at the Golden's playing the difference. It's out on the wing. You're asking them to do um create stuff And if he doesn't It might and hate it's it's not going to hurt the team defensively too much Um, and you've got some like banana to come on you when chef is denied to retire it can take the game to them But where Tom was was a real Real key part of it and also it means that people like the corey you are going to play probably every game It means like they're not having to do extra work Which is an important thing as well. So He was all over the place wasn't he? I don't think he had a great game, but he does a lot of stuff off the boat He does a lot of shadowing and harrying and pressing and it forces them into errors So it did work really well at Davis at the ball a lot and the corey and I thought And I will disagree on this which is mad because normally it's you the other way around with Go on say it. Say it go on. I thought she gets him as excellent. I really did Okay, I didn't say he had a bad game Right, what I said was is that I thought it's his end product was poor. There's a difference, right? His free kicks were garbage, right? and I just thought like In the game His end product was poor and I said exactly the same about a woby and I said the same about Gordon His end product was wasn't great It got that what I got what I said actually got missing tape at it. That's why I couldn't be asked to argue with people on twitter I just didn't think his end product, but what I did think was um is that he He's that position He's not he's he's starting to like where he used to just point fingers And let everyone else do the work he's starting to do the work now He's starting to get in between the ball and the and his own goal Whereas he used to just point to people to do that. He's actually starting to do the leg work that he didn't used to do um offensively, I didn't think he was great until Ironically he went into that position into tom's position Because this is the thing. This was what was funny. This was just the weird thing about this game was I give tom davis man of the match But ironically it was probably Taking tom out the game and bringing gilfee siggerton in that deeper position that one is the game because Tom never made that run forward because we've just said there that kid just wants that kid did his job But he ain't gonna do another job Whereas those changes Were made to win as the game gilfee siggerton became that he said himself He then become the dent defensive midfielder and if you watch the goal He runs from a deep that deep position He has a input in the goal earlier on When the when he's got the ball and he recycles it and brings it back I think he lays it off to he lays it to coam and then he just walks from that deep position and nobody tracks him And I think that was the difference when he moved there Tom wouldn't have made that run because he just wouldn't have he's been asked to do position He's gonna do that to the letter with gilfee siggerton understands the game better. He's got more experience. He's got more ability and he understands that If he gets himself into that position something might drop to him so Gilfee is Actually using his head a lot more. He's using that football brain I remember at the back end of the season before last When we were talking about him being the brain in the team And I think he's starting to that's starting to come back a little bit Where he's now starting to he's like literally just Not telling people what to do. He's just doing it in a in a without maybe touching the ball a lot of the times He's he's he's clever. He's become a lot more clever than the last four or five games. Anyway, manager God is manager certainly likes him as a footballer trust him and I think Where we were scratching our heads before and I go, why are you playing? I think we're starting to see what maybe the manager sees day in and day out on the training pitch Clearly a very good professional Clearly the manager can talk to him. I think it's been said before, you know He's been said that you'll make a fantastic manager because he understands the game of football And maybe just at times it doesn't always connect from his brain to his feet But I think recently It's it is starting to work and like I said about a woby before not being there's a lot of games I'm not I would never be at this stage of the season I would never be critical of somebody if they have a bad game because Not not a bad game. Sorry a game where there's not a lot of influence on it because I just feel like it's about Getting through the games and and really just doing your job Um, and I thought gilfy cigarettes and did that did that and obviously captor off. It's going to win and go With a bit of an product that you said he didn't have No, no, no, it's free kicks and corners. Acra. I've got no thinking about that No, they wake up.  They wake up last night He's scored a few goals from his set pieces Just because the ball's put in he doesn't he just put it into an area Now you're arguing that he No, I'm not I'm not because I thought his general play was excellent last night. I thought he linked everything up He was making intelligent. The biggest thing the biggest difference with him in five games has been his willingness to wake You just said that before there was no work right from him eight weeks ago He was just on the pitch pointing. Yeah, whereas now he's literally ready to Walk, you know, he's ready to go and put that extra bit in He's running around making tackles and then when the ball comes to him, he's got that little bit of quality Do we still need better and more mobile and we feel probably yeah, but at the moment He's really up this game and I think it's great and that's what we want We want him to up his game. We want tondave us to up his game We want a woby machine if my woby of late a woby being written off and yet he's up this game now and he's becoming You know a good member of the team and you know when everyone's fit Those lads are going to give the man is just something to think about and that's what we need there was The problem is when we've lost players This season and it's been the top players We haven't had the quality to replace them with because these lads who come in playing at the level Whereas we've seen that when Tigerton over the last half a dozen games has got better and better a woby ass tondave us so We're still the squad still painfully thin in terms of quality. We know that you know, you look at the bench and You're like you're looking at a day gone. Who else can we bring on here? We're really gonna do nothing is he and In concubo, but he's a gamble because again, he's only his first season As you know here and so Yeah, we do need better quality and that's that's where we're looking but I thought starting the first half just very briefly We've got Tom had made that chance where he don't believe me took an ass chest and volleyed it wide was unlucky Guilfee had whipped one just wide at me a woby had cut in and had a go and the keeper had made a good save Well, albeit he'd expect them to save it for a good hand And we'd had the half one where the keeper dropped it and govley shot it mean it could have ended up anywhere but You know with with totally controlling the first half You know they had one opportunity later on in the first half with the Olly break which he put wide Other than that, we were in total control and then You know the second half you write it might have been patience. It might have been energy levels, whatever it was But we just kept prodding away well You know ultimately ultimately it's bad as the this isn't We we've said loads of times. We're not a massive fan of football At this time of year the quality is is really poor the games are really poor. It's not going to be helped by having no crowds in um squads are stretched I think I think this time of year always helps the teams at the bottom and the teams at the top I think that's actually why one of the reasons why like I know I know if the main reason they love it TV it means you can put it on all day for you know Most of the time it's great TV ratings because people are at home But I think one of the other reasons is it is good for the teams at the bottom teams at the bottom feel like they can um play, you know Negative tactics and we'll get we'll pick wins up and that makes the league more exciting But it also helps the teams at the top because of the squads so that's You know when you're looking you look someone like a man city game They'll probably change up like seven or eight today's team for the for our game Whereas we won't be able to so For us in this game it was about staying patient. It was about Um using what we couldn't I thought So it's actually that's where car on to lotty again Was brilliant because you you know Anthony Gordon's on there and whether we people think he's had a good game or not he's obviously kept Them busy. I mean I actually thought a woby and golden could have swapped sides Just to so he could go on the outside Yeah and go on the outside not always come inside where it was congested Whereas obviously they're not going to go on the outside too often on when they're because they're invaded wingers so But Anthony Gordon keeps them busy and then banard comes on And banard offers something a little bit different. He has got that first touch That means he can get away from the opposition. He's not thinking about it all the time He has got that experience and I think him coming on at that moment. Um, michael keen who's not injured I've never every ever tony knew he wasn't injured. This is where pundits and commentators is just They haven't got a clue. It's like we all knew we wasn't injured He's played more football than anyone else So it was sense for him to come off and mason hall gates going to into a centre back and saying Do you say he was injured? But he'd just gone on a sprint he was ramped forward with the ball laid it wide and got it back and you like You can tell he's not injured. This is the problem with commentators And pundits who haven't got a clue about individual football teams Every ever tony was sitting there going, you know, he's not injured He's going off because he's played more football than anybody else He'll go off he gets himself half an hour breathing before he plays again against man city And mason can go into centre back and shames can come on. It's one of the only ways we can change things about it at this time So it was good from carla. We understood they had nothing Meena was dealing with everything. Meena was brilliant. He was dealing with everything in the air He didn't need to stop us like that and the other he is when mason went into centre back He won everything in the air as well. So we dealt with it. No problem And shames give us that little bit of extra something going forward although He needs to calm down on his first touch because the amount of times I've seen him lately nearly kick her out Uh, uh, run it out nearly but he's fine in his feet. I'm not having a gore. I'm he's fine in his feet But he offered offered up some he opened the roof for us. Um, and but not just Just either winning cheap files or or skipping inside and opening the pitch up a little bit Those little changes that's where where we've been talking about on wednesday about the lack of quality coming off our bench And man united being being that's probably what chef is united look that last last night is where they're going We're bringing another person called ollie on who I probably can't I'll never be three ollie I don't know who any of them are but it's another ollie ollie ollie um That's the difference we can bring on that little bit of quality and that's what opened the game up and We were sad at the back. Let's be honest. We were we were The owl had the slippers on for most for most of that game Um, and it could we find something else and I think just the introduction just on the gore was just maybe a little bit more drive um Guilty being a little bit deeper starting to see that the pitch open up and shameless as well So the owl and benar and the owl played their little part in in just getting that little one moment to Open the game up for a goal Yeah, they did I mean we you know They were a You were worried about them off set pieces really let's be honest and you're right me and dealt with everything but For us you just open that we can create that one opportunity and we'd add a couple of breakaways and we just made the You know don't fall on the lad on the edge of the box for no reason You know on golf free base through things like that where is You're getting them out of jail by doing that day running back panicking You know and but you were hoping that one would come off shame. It's just that one It's the keeper's spilt and you'd add another one that was cut back and no one was there And you're just thinking can we get one right? And um, and we did you know ball back in Up in the air but not first such as beautiful just to cushion it into the core of his path And he's got awareness to see Sigurdson arriving and great let first touch him gilfy out of his feet and then back across the keeper And lovely calm finish That's Sigurdsson was renowned for a couple of seasons ago. Um, and it was a great goal into the core That was it then that was it can we can we just keep what we've got or will we nick one on the break again and make it 2-0 and You know and and we were in control then and and they obviously Come on to us like you'd expect them to but we looked like the team that was more likely To nick one until obviously injury time and they had a couple of hard chances, but You know the the referee No, I'm going to Andre Gomez I mean there's a there's a Andre Gomez get caught and it's in the box and it's neat and he and literally A minute later There's a foul on Mina and there's less contact on Mina than there is on Andre Gomez And it's just you're just scratching your head. It's just mad. It's just mad and then Where do you get? I like I try to stay away from I know you love to my referees But where do you get this time from I will I will never know I will First off. He was zero time zero time added Zero time added, right And in the second half there was five subs and a goal that's three minutes And yet he somehow found five and a half minutes and play well. It was about six Supposed to six many blues whistle And that's that's the thing for me. I don't understand it And they never they can't they don't have to justify it. They don't have to say where it came from It's baffling and it You just like obviously for the players the players are just like what? Yeah, you know, I've got to go through this again and obviously It just ekes out those they had obviously the last shot of the game has then put them on wide But all that takes us all that needs is a deflection and it's in the back of the net and it's From nowhere from nowhere with time where there's no justification for it He was just shocking all the way through. It wasn't a difficult game to referee And it looked difficult All you know, we've done five fouls and they can get booked and five naughty fouls as well And yet Bernard does one where he's just a second late to the ball gets booked Dom gets booked for throwing a ball away. They don't get booked for kicking it away BT going on about Bernard's And you're not talking about the tackle on Tom Davis, which was a shock and challenge But the referee's too busy going back to moan at Michael Keane and Davis has been done with a scissor tackle And you're like, how are you not seeing this thing? And then the Gomez one, I'm sorry If that's more shallow, it's a penalty 100 percent. If it's Jamie Vardy, it's a penalty 100 percent if it's Martial, it's a penalty 100 percent. It was nonsense No one in the world could tell me looking at that. It wasn't a foul VAR have looked at that do me a favor VAR V8 Jag Because it's absolutely not the people they've got in that box must be blind They must be because it was a stone wall penalty and the story there was contact There was contact and that's all you're in now. Oh, there's a bit of contact. It's it's got to be given.  I watched the game the other day. There was two minutes And the referee played a minute and 40 and blue was whistle and there was six ups and he played two minutes Well, he didn't he played a minute and 40 last night five Shubs and the goal we get five well we get five minutes and 55 seconds when he blew the whistle After they've had a shot and you're like, what are you doing? There's no way this comes from until the until the No, there was nothing there was nothing in the game. There's nothing. There's no fidget on the pitch. They have to come out No, it's not Absolutely, it's lotus, but but we will listen we won the game and that's the most important thing these all Result is all that matters the performance is yes I've seen people talking about being disappointed on that in our comments on python and stuff how we played but I knew what it was going to be like It's the it's a get another game where we've played a lot of games. We've got half the team missing You know, we've got a We've have best front three two of them aren't playing So immediately there's a drop-off in quality our left back one of the most creative and best left backs in Europe If not the best out at the moment colman's only just coming back. We lost alan who's been next So, you know, we've got five four or five players a bit would have made a huge difference So we're not going to be the most creative but even with those players out If we'd had a week by week rest, I feel the United haven't played since last weekend So they were always going to be a bit fresher.  We're every second in the league. I'm one than saying we were fabulous last night and we got beat one nil So Not a big win. Not a clean sheet and I'm delighted.  They've just absolutely batted west amp And do two two So You know on the struggle and so that's that's what it's like It's it's you know teams like that who are who are creating loads of chances of missing it and conceiving Keep goals where at the moment you've got plenty of time to evolve to that with a year in it's a year since carlo's first game Against bernley and you know, I'm the second in the league. Yeah It's about that mentality isn't it about having that mentality of not being beat. That's what I'd rather have I'd rather have I'd rather have that all over the pitch and start to see people like You know not starting but over the last few weeks we've seen people like ben gov 3 and And you know mason holgate coming back to you know coming back to somewhere near his best of All right, maybe not being brilliant jordan games, but Just not just having that attitude that we will not be beaten You know, you just see the little moments like ben gov 3 going on that run down the wing and the The lad came in clatter them and the lad nearly ends up in the next street Because he's been hit by ben gov 3 ben gov 3 just get himself up and dust himself down. He's done his job Start attitude. That's a little snarl. Yeah, it's just a little snarly look Start attitude where people are pulling together to get through games And what I what I did like about it as I said was that patience and we don't always see that patience in our team Where we've seen it against us where it's like Where you're thinking oh, it's just getting you know close to the end and all There was there was just that little bit of patience where it was like we'll get an opportunity in this game because We're actually gonna ramp it up now in the last 10 minutes and we've got better plays on the pitch Because that was the thing in the first half and I think I said to you early on I said it's in someone who's like We've it looked like early on like we didn't want to Have a go at them. We just wanted to just stay and and do our own thing And it was like we were being unambitious in a way But ultimately if that's the game plan if the game plan is to stay in the game and nick it You know, I remember the new castle game. He's carl said the same thing, but maybe on that day The team selection probably wasn't right and we weren't where we are now But he said on that day didn't he said, you know, I thought we'd keep it tight and then we'd nick it and obviously it went against us on that day But we're starting to see that now. Um, and you're right when the good play Hamas Rodriguez for me now could easily slot in where I was playing and I think We we'd be we could easily just keep doing what we're doing You know If you put the if you put the pieces in place behind the attacking players It won't affect the structure and what it'll do is it's what the best teams have You know, you look at the You know, it's gonna show me age, but you look at the great Arsenal sides They had certainly Wenger's early Arsenal sides. They had that defence that was very tough to break down And all the attacking prowess was in front of them Chelsea under Marino They had a great defence all the skill and everything was ahead of the defence And you had four good defenders and they're holding the fielder Yeah, you know Liverpool do it they do it slightly different They have flying attackers, but they three flat midfielders dropping and the great are keeping, you know Can keep it tight and that's something that's undone man city, isn't it? Is that the inability to do that? Whereas You know For us now, we haven't got the play He's got the quality once and though really really he's been able to get people in he wants so Therefore we just got to get like you just said get that mentality of being tough to beat Hope that it would be all us in Dominic Alvalu and Hammers when he's in the side again Or whether it's a woby or someone has got that little bit of quality to create something that wins us the game So that when we go into the transfer market next we can build and bring better quality and they can fit into this Ethos of the team are working that grinds out results and I just thought looking back on it You're not going to get better low block defenders than Keane and Mina The pair of them are brilliant sitting on the edge of the box. They're everything away The other two kids are full back a great got a bit of nastiness about them Yeah, and so it's looking good. Yeah, and now it's about that it's about that structure And it's adding to players in the final third and another midfielder, but it's great It's absolutely great when you write it was patient and we've won the game and we've built ourselves We're up to 29 points now. We were saying we could get to 30 points by the halfway mark We'd be you know in a great position for Europe, but obviously we could go Easily go past that now. So that's we've built that little bit of room in as well for ourselves, you know We you know we we want to be in and around the European places. So that's fantastic We've built that little bit of room in and We'll just we'll just see what happens, but Great three points grand. They're out, you know a year since caravansiolotti's first win, which was a 1-0 win over barely won late on as well. So Everything comes full circle. So Yeah, I'll take that obviously not much time till I'm in city game, but that'll that'll ultimately take care of itself We'll see we'll see what happens See who's on the pitch That'll be the biggest thing Trying to get players You know, there's a there's an argument for for almost Just putting whoever is in the best conditioning and just I mean the only the good thing is If there's any good thing city played the same time as us last night eight o'clock And so they won't have had any extra rest. However, the caveat to that is they've got a better squad and fitter squad but play whoever and Then get get this out the way this city game, which you should never be saying about a game when you second in the No, no, you should be looking for this But then we've got west end and four days for west end and that's gotta be a focus as well Then there's a nice little break Of eight days before there's the break till the effort and third in the Third in the in the away table as well Who'd have ever thought that? Yeah, I mean that's That's incredible. I'm five out of eight away games. I mean we've won steep centre something before saying we've won and half of the away games in Anti-Lotty's managed which is and it took us 55 away games to get the same figure, which is Mad, isn't it? You know 50% of the nine out of 18 away games. We've won under anti-Lotty, which is Which is incredible really so And brilliant absolutely brilliant. So we've just got to keep Just got to keep doing what we're doing. I've got me in You know keep it going and who knows where it gets us to You know second with a bit everyone's armed off of that with me at the time of recording this was second so There you go another win to talk about it's all good. Make sure You give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already if you want more great videos join us over on patreon the link will be down there And also the man city preview will be out pretty soon as well because It's tomorrow and we ain't got much time in between so these videos build fast Um, so there you go. Make sure you check out that as well. Thanks for watching. See you later


I'm Sam Vaknin, I'm the author of Malignant Sir Flav, Narcissism Revisited. Daydreaming and fantasizing are healthy activities. They are the anti-chimber of life. They often anticipate life circumstances. They are processes of preparing for eventualities and planning. But healthy daydreaming is different to malignant and pathological grandiosity. There are four components, the first being omnipotence. The narcissist believes in his own omnipotence that he is all-powerful. Belief in this context is a weak word. The narcissist knows it is a cellular certainty, almost biological, and it flows in his blood and permeates every niche of his being. The narcissist is convinced that he can do anything he chooses to do and excel in it.  To his mind, there is no other determinant and no limitations. Hence, the narcissist's rage when confronted with disagreement and opposition. Not only because of the audacity of his evidently inferior adversaries, but because such discord, such disagreement, such criticism, threaten his worldview and endanger its feeling of omnipotence. The narcissist is often fatuously daring, adventurous, experimentative, and curious precisely because he believes in this hidden assumption of can-do. He is genuinely surprised and devastated when he fails, when the universe does not arrange itself magically to accommodate his unbounded fantasies. When the world and people in it do not comply with his whims and wishes, the narcissist often denies a way such discrepancies, delists them from his memory, and as a result he remembers his life as a patchy quilt of unrelated events and people. The second strand in pathological grandiosity is omniscience. The narcissist often pretends to know everything in every field of human knowledge and endeavor. The narcissist lies, prevaricates to avoid the exposure of his ignorance. He resorts to numerous subterfuges to support these godlike omnipotence, omniscience. Where the narcissist's knowledge fails him, he feigns authority. He fakes superiority. He quotes from non-existent sources. He embeds threads of truth in a wide canvas of falsehoods. He transforms himself into an artist of intellectual prestidigitation. As the narcissist gets older, this invidious quality may recede, or rather, metamorphose. He may now claim more confined experience, but a deeper one. He may no longer be ashamed to admit his ignorance and his need to learn things outside the fields of his real or self-proclaimed expertise. But this improvement is merely optical. Within his territory of knowledge, the narcissist is still as fiercely defensive, as possessive and as fallacious as ever. Many narcissists are avowed auto-deducts. They are unwilling to subject their knowledge and insights to peer scrutiny, or for that matter, to any scrutiny. The narcissist keeps reinventing himself, adding new fields of knowledge as he goes. His creeping intellectual annexation is a roundabout way of reverting to his erstwhile image as the irredite Renaissance man. And then there is only presence. Well, even the narcissist cannot pretend to actually be everywhere at once in the physical sense. Instead, the narcissist feels that he is the center and the axis of his own universe, that all things, happenstances and people revolve around him, and that cosmic disintegration would ensue if he were to disappear or to lose interest in someone or something. He is convinced, for instance, that he is the main, if not the only, topic of discussion in his absence. He is often surprised and offended to learn that he was not even mentioned. When invited to a meeting with many participants, he assumes the position of the sage, the guru, or the teacher-guide whose words carry a special weight. His creations, books, articles, works of art are extensions of his presence, and in this restricted sense, he does seem to exist everywhere. In other words, the narcissist stamps his environment, he puts a stamp on it, he leaves his mark upon it, he stigmatizes it. Finally, there is perfectionism and completeness. The narcissist is an omnivore. There is another omnicomponent in grandiosity. The narcissist devours and digests experiences and people, sights, smells, bodies and words, books and films, sounds and achievements, his work and his leisure, his pleasure and his possessions. The narcissist is incapable of enjoying anything, because he is in constant pursuit of perfection and completeness and hoarding.  They want to own all of it, to be everywhere, to experience everything. They cannot delay gratification, they do not take no for an answer, and they settle for nothing less than the ideal, the sublime, the perfect, the all-inclusive, the all-encompassing, the engulfing, the all-pervasive, most beautiful, cleverest, the richest and most brilliant. The narcissist is shattered when he discovers that the collection he possesses is incomplete, that his colleague's wife is more glamorous, that his son is better than he is in math, that his neighbor has a new flashy car, that his roommate got promoted, that the love of his life signed a recording contract. It is not plain or jealousy, not even pathological envy, though. This is definitely part of the psychological makeup of the narcissist. It is the discovery that the narcissist is not perfect or ideal or complete. This realization does him in. And so, the narcissist is grandiose as a kind of self-defense. When anyone challenges, the assumptions underlying the narcissist's grandiosity he reacts with rage to this narcissistic injury.