Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
You're defeating your own argument. When quality declines across the entire team as you have said (agreed) you look for other things to compensate. Players who can at least pass a ball, put a cross in, are prepared to run for 90 minutes, players who give a fuck. That's why he's liked. Nobody is pretending he's a throwback to the great Milan defenders. But he's got the balls so many of our other players lack so he gets a pass on whatever defensive mistakes he makes because, after all, nobody in our team can defend so why single him out? At least he gives us something a lazy, self absorbed **** like Walcott can't or won't offer. Jenks is not a thief, turning up to put the minimum in and pocket the cash. Admire him for that at least because we have precious little else to admire at the moment.
I dont see jenkinson as a particularly hard worker.

"Effort" is just the phantom stick football fans use to prop up the players they like and beat the players they dont, and as its quite hard to measure they get away with it. Its actually cowardly, just say you have a crush on jenkinson for whatever reason and that you dont like walcott. There is zero evidence to suggest jenkinson outworks others but I am confident no other premiership side would touch he as he is technically inept.

Notice how even when he is shyt, wilshere is "the only one trying". Did he work any harder than monreal or arteta yesterday or any other day? People see what they wanna see.