Gary Cahill shines as Bolton claim first home win of the season
The theory that if Gary Cahill were playing for a bigger, or at least buy canada goose parka uk more fashionable, club than Bolton Wanderers, he would now be England’s first-choice centre-half may soon be tested.
The rumour mill in Lancashire has it that the Tottenham Hotspur manager, Harry Redknapp, will test the Trotters’ resolve to hang on to the Yorkshireman with best price canada goose jacket outlet usa online store a £15m bid when the transfer window opens in January. Cahill has certainly begun the season in outstanding form and, according to his manager, Owen Coyle, he is can you pick the most expensive canada goose parka continuing to improve.
“The great thing about Gary today, along with his defensive work, was his distribution when he can you wash a canada goose parka broke into the middle of the park,” said Coyle. best mens canada goose parka “He’s very authorized canada goose outlet comfortable doing that because he has great feet and pace to burn, and he picked the right pass, he recognised the space was in the wide areas. I’d said to him before that he has a tendency to try and force straight passes, which sometimes leads to us losing the ball and having to deal with counter-attacks, but every decision he made today was the right one. It’s great that he was in the [England] squad, but to my mind he is now certainly good outlet enough to be playing for his country.”
Cahill, and his central defensive partner Zat Knight, had to be at their best against a Stoke team which took the game to their opponents in impressively varied style. Jermaine Pennant and Matthew Etherington saw plenty of the ball out wide and consequently put their opponents under real pressure, making canada goose coat 1000 calorie a day diet it difficult to believe they went in behind at half time, Chung Yong Lee taking black canada goose parka full advantage of a fortunate rebound with a nicely struck first time finish from the edge of the area.
Rory Delap’s equaliser early in the second half set up an already entertaining and incident-filled game for a dramatic added time finish, during which Ivan Klasnic, brought on by Coyle as a late substitute, first scored with a swivelling volley after Stoke failed to deal with a long throw, and then picked up two yellow cards.
The final moments were mayhem as Stoke launched the ball into the Bolton penalty area, but Cahill and his cohorts stood firm. Coyle believes that the six weeks Cahill spent recovering from a blood clot in his chest in 2008, a condition that jeopardised his life, let alone his career, gave the player a mental fortitude black canada goose parka that has stood him in good stead since. “There’s a lot of things about Gary, but given some of the trials and tribulations he’s been through, his mental strength is remarkable That has been the making of him as a man, and I think from now on he’ll go from strength to strength,” said the Glaswegian.
For Pulis, best canada goose coat for skiing coming at the end of a week in which he was one of three managers accused by Fulham’s Danny Murphy of pumping up his players to the point of physical recklessness, there was vindication in a performance of obvious ability and commitment. Asked if the players had been affected by the sort of attention which can only be unwelcome, Pulis replied: “I thought the players were brilliant today. In the first half Bolton were very good on the counter-attack, which given we were the away team, says it all. “There were so many good points and so many good bits of play from the players. [Central defenders] Ryan Shawcross and Abdoulaye Faye were outstanding, as were Pennant and Etherington out wide, so we take the defeat on the chin, and look forward.”
Man of the match Gary Cahill (Bolton Wanderers)