In today’s Fiver: Al Pardiola, Theo Walcott lets it all out, and hair 1-0 cap
When Crystal Palace lost against Manchester City the weekend before last, going down to a goal scored by an unmarked opposition player from a corner, their manager Alan Pardew declared that “the goals we’ve conceded from set plays is not us”. When, at the time, his team had just shipped their ninth out of 21 goals from set plays. The Fiver often gets lost in a reverie thinking about Gylfi Sigurdsson and last week we imagined and even predicted the Icelandic dead-ball specialist would be licking his lips, rubbing his thighs and shouting “Eranu indeed!” at the prospect of filling his boots against Palace at the weekend. And so it came to past, with Gylfi scoring directly from one free-kick, before setting up three of Swansea’s four other goals from set plays that led to some of the most comical breaches of Palace security since Michael Fagan broke into the Queen’s bedroom. All of this in a match that could only have been improved if “Pards” had done his dance after his side had gone 4-3 up, before conceding two in injury-time to lose 5-4.
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