But it's quite weird that all our CBs have been crap for almost 2 seasons now. We had the 4th best defence in the season before that. The reason cannot be that they all just suddenly turned crap, I am convinced that it's the system, which by the way also made us the best attacking team right now.
I'm not so sure it's only the system. I mean look at Skrtel: He has been really good just one season for us (when he was so outstanding that City came after him). Now he makes at least one fatal error in each game it seems. And it's not any type of mistake but beginners mistakes. High kicking the ball and setting opponent's strikers up instead of heading the ball. Forgetting to mark his player. Not communicating with the other defenders (in fairness this is as much the other players' mistake too). The Skrtel we all know behaves just like this all the time. He hasn't suddenly became cráp at defending - this is who he is. Under Clarke all our defenders were better. It might have been the system, but it might also have been their defense coaching was better over all.
I think he has been good (not exceptional) for at least 2 seasons, with some odd mistakes, every now and then, but, he is not the only one. However, the kind of mistakes every one of our CBs are doing cannot be only up to them, Toure has been dreadful lately, Agger hasn't been himself and Sakho has done less mistakes mainly because he has played much less,, but, he has been more or less consistent and better when played.
