Phil Jones Crawl

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I know he screwed up in the build up there but it takes some guts to put your head in between the boot of a striker and the ball. I think he did well with that little header at the end to stop Giroud from reaching it. It looks funny as feck but still an amazing effort defense wise:

Reminds me of this a little bit:

 

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He starts praying half way through the crawl. He genuinely thought he was going to die there.
 

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It's absolutely hilarious but genius improvesation defending
 

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Simply cracking, Jones never fail to entertain with his stupidity
 

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I know he screwed up in the build up there but it takes some guts to put your head in between the boot of a striker and the ball. I think he did well with that little header at the end to stop Giroud from reaching it. It looks funny as feck but still an amazing effort defense wise:

Reminds me of this a little bit:

:lol:
 

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Step 1: Do a Slippy G special.
Step 2: Proceed to a Gollum crouching recovery position.
Step 3: Arch your right arm over for a breast stroke and ready yourself for a dive.
Step 4: Dive forward, plank yourself in a flat stationary position.
Step 5: Head the ball with your ear.


That's textbook defending.
 
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this is going to become one of these moments that people kind of ignore whats actually happened because its funnier to play along with the lazy narrative. If this was vidic the context of the green smileys would be very different. saw them accompanied by comments like "clumsy oaf" and "duncan edwards II" earlier. hes made a huge feck up just prior to this, but recovered brilliantly albeit looking humorous while doing it.

shouldnt be used as an example of jones the "horrible clumsy defender strikes again".
 

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Do you have the gif of Phil Jones totally KO'ing himself last season challenging for a ball from a corner in the opposition box?
Was this when he literally tried to run through a defender to get to the ball at a corner (like you said) and there were fears he'd end up missing the world cup? Believe it was vs. Hull at the end of the season.

this is going to become one of these moments that people kind of ignore whats actually happened because its funnier to play along with the lazy narrative. If this was vidic the context of the green smileys would be very different. saw them accompanied by comments like "clumsy oaf" and "duncan edwards II" earlier. hes made a huge feck up just prior to this, but recovered brilliantly albeit looking humorous while doing it.

shouldnt be used as an example of jones the "horrible clumsy defender strikes again".
Obviously it was both one of the most brilliant and one of the most ridiculous moments of defending some on here have ever witnessed :lol:
 

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That's a great effort to be honest. @Nucks would be proud of how he is putting his body on the line!
 

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this is going to become one of these moments that people kind of ignore whats actually happened because its funnier to play along with the lazy narrative. If this was vidic the context of the green smileys would be very different. saw them accompanied by comments like "clumsy oaf" and "duncan edwards II" earlier. hes made a huge feck up just prior to this, but recovered brilliantly albeit looking humorous while doing it.

shouldnt be used as an example of jones the "horrible clumsy defender strikes again".
And the award for most humourless post in this thread goes to...
 

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Fair play to him for face planting the ground to get a slight nudge on the ball :lol:.