Liam

It was a good idea, this.

A few would work better. 4231 or 433 are the obvious ones, but at the end of the day, having just two central midfielders, away from home, at Arsenal of all places, is just stupid. We've got away with it lately against weaker teams because Adebayor's been dropping back and helping out a lot in midfield, but he didn't do that at all today. AVB seems to have been sacked for being inflexible and only playing one up front/4231 but Sherwood is being just as inflexible with a worse gameplan. It's mind-numblingly stupid, all of it. 

Ach, I know who y'are. I'm not sure. He was arguably Sunderland's best player when on loan last season but that ain't saying much. Benny was liable to falling asleep from time to time, but he was generally pretty positive. What's especially confusing is that we apparently could have had Coentrão but rejected him. He would have been an upgrade on either player. 

I'll miss this beautiful bastard though.