Robbo Di Robbio wrote:
So just because he doesn't tick all these spurious measurements of what a MF player should do he is US? Lampard doesn't either yet he has been possibly the best in his class for nearly 15 years. So he doesn't seem to tackle much (he does), find space (he does) or work hard (and even if he did you ignore it)? I give up.
He's not useless, he is a player who is not particularly good and should play less because we have better players. 

What class is that?  Ability to score goals from midfield when played in one of the best sides in the world?  Maybe that is why Nolan looks relatively ineffective for us (as did Lampard) because they are not that good when they don't have great teams around them, or asked to do something other than make late runs and score from midfield?

So he finds space and works hard?  Fantastic, he does the fucking bare minimum for a midfielder.  Have you any stats to show how many tackles he makes comapred to other midfielders?