Pau Torres

[olaftab]

Happy to hear your examples.

At this stage I think discretion is the better part of valour😟

[pauliewalnuts]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

Maybe that is a factor but doesn’t the same apply to Italians?

You’re kidding?

There are expat Italian communities all over Europe, massive ones in the US and Australia. They drove a large wave of 20th century immigration into the US.

They've even got one in Glasgow.

[Dave]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

Maybe that is a factor but doesn’t the same apply to Italians?

You’re kidding?

There are expat Italian communities all over Europe, massive ones in the US and Australia. They drove a large wave of 20th century immigration into the US.

Argentina too.

[Tayls_7]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

Maybe that is a factor but doesn’t the same apply to Italians?

You’re kidding?

There are expat Italian communities all over Europe, massive ones in the US and Australia. They drove a large wave of 20th century immigration into the US.

They've even got one in Glasgow.

Stanley Tucci filmed a culinary travel series with each episode focusing on a region of Italy.  One of the episodes was based in London because of the large Italian population in the city.

[Ads]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

Maybe that is a factor but doesn’t the same apply to Italians?

You’re kidding?

There are expat Italian communities all over Europe, massive ones in the US and Australia. They drove a large wave of 20th century immigration into the US.

They've even got one in Glasgow.

The clue is in your name!

[nigel]

There are some proper heathens who don't know what a proper paella is. ;-)

That is almost a Paella Valenciana but he'd get a yellow card for the red stuff (peppers, are they? Not allowed). Snails are accepted.

Probably Chorizo

[Risso]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

Maybe that is a factor but doesn’t the same apply to Italians?

You’re kidding?

There are expat Italian communities all over Europe, massive ones in the US and Australia. They drove a large wave of 20th century immigration into the US.

They've even got one in Glasgow.

My neighbour over the road is Italian. He even looks and sounds like he should be in The Sopranos.

[Footy-Vill]

There is no worldwide modern Spanish diaspora as there is with those other nationalities.

Maybe that is a factor but doesn’t the same apply to Italians?

You’re kidding?

There are expat Italian communities all over Europe, massive ones in the US and Australia. They drove a large wave of 20th century immigration into the US.

They've even got one in Glasgow.

I think you neglected to say South America and Argentina. When it comes to talking about Italy in such a context then Argentina linkage is major and want to point that out and how much heritage there is in Argentina than comes from Italy.

[Dante Lavelli]

The fact the UK has no food culture has turned out to be such a blessing.  We are happy to steal any cuisine (and do it well) whereas France/Italy/Spain seem stuck and restricted by their heritage.

Very misinformed opinion if I may say so.

Is it (which bit do you disagree with£? Taking my recent holidays:

I walked 300km along the primitivo Camino and the food was fantastic but I only saw typical Spanish cuisine until I reached Santiago (I don’t recall anything in Lugo or Oviedo, the other cities).

A week around lake Iseo and the food was off the scale good, but I don’t recall seeing Thai/tacos or anything other than Italian food. Maybe burgers. Girona the same.

I’ll concede on Lisbon and Barcelona but no where near the variety you’d get in similar sized city in the UK.

(Apologies for the humble bragging but food, drink and holidays are serious business in my life).

[olaftab]

Pau worries me and makes me nervous with his casual approach to defending. Pau excites me and raises my hopes every time he receives the ball from Emi or Konsa  in our half and looks up and punts it 50 yards to our attackers.

[Risso]

Pau worries me and makes me nervous with his casual approach to defending. Pau excites me and raises my hopes every time he receives the ball from Emi or Konsa  in our half and looks up and punts it 50 yards to our attackers.

Yes, it was the best and worst of him yesterday. He can look sloppy in defence, and I don't think the deflection for the goal would have gone in if he'd attacked the ball rather than standing still with his hands behind his back. But then no other defender we have can ping the ball with such accuracy 50 yards to set up attacks, and as Emery said in his recent interview, that's an important part of how we play. Overall then, very promising from somebody new to the league, albeit with some improvements to make.

[OCD]

He played a lovely pass to put Digne in behind their defence. As we progress, we'll come up against well-drilled defences playing a low block and that sort of pass can turn a game.

[coreyfeldman]

He played a lovely pass to put Digne in behind their defence. As we progress, we'll come up against well-drilled defences playing a low block and that sort of pass can turn a game.

He also got away with at least a couple of attempted cross field balls from the left, played right into the middle or across the midfield that, on another day could have caused a serious problem.

[Somniloquism]

Pau worries me and makes me nervous with his casual approach to defending. Pau excites me and raises my hopes every time he receives the ball from Emi or Konsa  in our half and looks up and punts it 50 yards to our attackers.

Yes, it was the best and worst of him yesterday. He can look sloppy in defence, and I don't think the deflection for the goal would have gone in if he'd attacked the ball rather than standing still with his hands behind his back. But then no other defender we have can ping the ball with such accuracy 50 yards to set up attacks, and as Emery said in his recent interview, that's an important part of how we play. Overall then, very promising from somebody new to the league, albeit with some improvements to make.

With the spate of handballs, especially the one in the scouse derby, you can't blame him for trying to get hands out the way. However as you mentioned, he didn't / couldn't attack it properly, although unfortunate the spin even beat Martinez.

[Somniloquism]

He played a lovely pass to put Digne in behind their defence. As we progress, we'll come up against well-drilled defences playing a low block and that sort of pass can turn a game.

He also got away with at least a couple of attempted cross field balls from the left, played right into the middle or across the midfield that, on another day could have caused a serious problem.

Wasn't it one of those that we scored the third from because the Spammer couldn't control the interception?