{"id":321,"date":"2015-08-25T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2015-08-27T22:53:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T21:53:46","slug":"billys-blog-everton-post-match-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/25\/billys-blog-everton-post-match-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy&#8217;s Blog &#8211; Everton &#8211; Post-match thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a thrilling performance, believe it or not, it was all about defence and defence is coached by Manuel Pellegrini himself. On the pitch it doesn\u2019t start with clean-sheet Joe but with Aguero pressing the defenders making it much easier for our midfielders to take charge and it\u2019s difficult even for a toothpick to pinpoint the individual role of a player I mean Kolarov ran 70 yards to score then defended valiantly. I like Navas, he\u2019s no Billy but he defends better which gives us the platform for attack, his crossing and shooting could be better dressed with pink boots though. Eee when I were a lad, a wee bench splinter, all boots were mud coloured and made of lead. I was often used for flicking out the caked mud, unlike Phil Jones I was a useful tool, a useful prick.<\/p>\n<p>For those lucky enough to be seated facing the pitch, the game was great to watch with pure class responsible for the goals. Martinez was magnanimous in defeat, a refreshing contrast to the Portuguese Man of Straw.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding David Silva could be MOTM every time he plays (also postulated by the TV pundits) Kolarov deserves a mention not just for his lung-busting goal but for his all-round play. Knocking the Queen into a cocked hat I am so looking forward to his Christmas message. Yes Aleksandar, with the exception of red, you can wear boots of any colour you damn-well like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3.jpg\" alt=\"Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3\" width=\"80\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a thrilling performance, believe it or not, it was all about defence and defence is coached by Manuel Pellegrini himself. On the pitch it doesn\u2019t start with clean-sheet Joe but with Aguero pressing the defenders making it much easier for our midfielders to take charge and it\u2019s difficult even for a toothpick to pinpoint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}