Quote Originally Posted by AKBapologist View Post
It's funny, want to take this moment and contrast it with the last time you bitched about playing well and not getting the result, or seeing talking about a bunch of mercenaries or lazy cunts regardless of the talent or experience we had.

The player's on the pitch gave everything today and for that they deserve my respect for the performance.
Think you're reading too much into it. Some players (well, actually, I can only think of Ramsey) showed they have a good engine and you could clearly see them working hard. Gervinho seems to be a trier too.

Fully agree with you that we should be proud regardless of talent and purely on effort but I don't think the effort was that special today. The midfield weren't working enough to cover the large gaps and they could easily have ran in 2/3 goals if they had some half-decent players. Thought it was a slow-paced, rubbish game but I don't think we're in much danger of going out so happy enough taking the 1-0.