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Once an ever present 'sparky' adopted 'Cockerney' who lit up the pitch while wearing the Claret & Blue, Pablo Fornals has descended into a shadow of the player he once was. His performace today against Sheffield Utd was truly woeful and followed on from his previous awful performances against Bristol City and Brighton.

Gone are his bursting runs and Duracell bunny running from box to box, his eye for a goal has completely left his repertoire, instead being replaced with a sideways or backwards pass that invariably puts a team mate in trouble.

Sheffield: Foderingham, Ahmedhodzic (C), Robinson, Trusty, Bogle, Souza, Hamer, McAtee, Brereton Diaz, Brooks, Osula Subs: Amissah, Brewster, McBurnie, Archer, Norwood, Osborn, Norrington-Davies, Seriki, Buyabu.
West Ham: Areola, Mavropanos, Zouma (C), Emerson, Coufal, Fornals, Soucek, Ward-Prowse, Cornet, Bowen, Ings Subs: Scarles, Cresswell, Marshall, Johnson, Mubama, Casey, Fabianski, Orford, Ogbonna

Back in the day, it was not uncommon for a certain player to run on the pitch at the Boleyn to be greeted with a chorus of "you're not fit to wear the shirt" within a couple of minutes of taking to the field.

Of course over the years the player's name changed but the sentiment remained the same, wearing the Claret and Blue was an absolute honour and one that a player had to be well and truly proud of!