Blog announcement

Due to going away on Friday morning for a long weekend holiday, they’ll be no pre-match blog-posting ahead of our trip to Everton; a game I’m also unlikely to get to watch and, so… 🤞

This was always going to be, of course, a game we need to win – we were certainly never in a position to 'take our foot off the accelerator'. But having suffered an irritating home defeat to Spurs, yesterday, there does seem, understandably, a greater need / urgency to keep picking up 3 points; starting, ironically, in Merseyside this-coming Saturday (5:30pm GMT).

Brief thoughts on that Spurs defeat? I’ll just 'copy & paste' what I wrote on a vlog this morning:

I feel like I'm to blame for that result yesterday, in some ways, as I painted two scenarios in my pre-match blog where, in the first scenario, we lost and Harry Kane scored a hat-trick! 🙄

Very disappointing to lose at home to a side who have lost 3 league games in a row but, as I say, I sort of saw it coming - flippin' Spurs have a nasty habit of doing that to us, especially at crucial times and when we least need it...or at least that's how it seems to me.

Too many players had below-par performances at the same time - I even thought some of our better players' passing was off yesterday, although I have to give Tottenham a lot of credit for the way their bank of 5 defenders and 4 midfielders worked hard to make the passing spaces tight.

Just need to reset & focus now and a trip to Goodison, next up, is something that should force us to do.

I think 21 shots and only 4 on target tells an old, sadly-familiar story too...

Thanks, as always, for taking the time to read and, hopefully, I’ll be back blogging ahead of our trip to Peterborough United in the 5^th round of the F.A. Cup on Tuesday 1^st March (7:15pm GMT).

Next up - Goodison Park

C’mon City!