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Captain_Fishpaste
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Errrr.....I realise that this is getting into semantics and various comments are not meant to be absolutes, but I quote (you):
"I just don't rate defenders who haven't got a grasp on the basics of defending".
Now, I suppose the "basics" could be the second or third thng about defending........
I know how to speak a little French, but I don't consider myself to have a grasp on it. I am not a master of it. Phil Bardsley is the same with defending. I am sure he knows how to do it, but he just can't master it sufficiently to do it well enough for this level or often enough.
In absolutely no way was that sentence saying that he doesn't know how to defend.