Yes, I remember David Helliwell. I felt a bit sorry for him because he was so skinny football didn't seem the right profession for him. Still, I'm surprised he only played 15 games (just checked) because I have such a distinct memory of him.
Players / teams so well trained that all individuality is being forced out. There's no place for the likes of Mike Ferguson and Ruben Rochina any more.
Raya has probably only played half a dozen games for them. Is that sufficient to judge him on? Here are some of the early comments on here about Smallwood after he started playing for us, but now everyone wants to get rid -
"he's a solid professional who knows exactly what he should and shouldn't do"
"probably the one real success"
"ive been very impressed "
" has been nothing short of a revelation since coming here "
"Fergie for England" we used to shout from the terraces but we never got our wish, although he was so frustratingly inconsistent that it was never really going to happen. Utterly brilliant on his good days though.
"Ay ay, ay ay, Barton is better than Yashin
Douglas is better than Eusebio and Burnley are in for a thrashing"
If he was better than Yashin he can't have been that bad