When Montenegro were in the lead for all of 10 minutes, they were moaning like fuck, especially about Hudson-Odoi apparently being too young to be starting qualifying games. Then when England gained the lead (with Hudson-Odoi setting up the goal), they change tack and it's all about how amazingly talented he is and how lucky England are to have him.
most, if not all, commentators and their pundit sidekicks are guilty of this, drives me nuts, they deal in hyperbole and superlatives and switch the narrative around in seconds from 'playing out of their skins' to 'they've been wasteful with the ball today' on the turn of one or two wayward passes, happens all the time
and the huge great giant shiney turd in the punch bowl is keeper saves
'a fantastic save there' - really? most of those 'fantastic saves', had the ball gone in, you'd heard 'you'd expect him to have done better there' - a save can't be fantastic in my book if a non-save would've been considered 'you'd think he'd got that', to me the two are mutually exclusive
a fantastic save to me is a save you don't expect the keeper to get or at the least (if it's a really good keeper so a higher standard is expected), if he did save it, more times than not you'd expect to see it go in against most keepers
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