Just wondering what will happen with Flamini now.

At last he is getting much needed game time and to be honest, had an excellent game yesterday. I was at Watford and he certainly puts himself about, reads the game very well and I think installed a lot of confidence in the team. His experience playing at a high level was evident.

As he gets more playing time, he will only get stronger and sharper. Kind of plays that Jedi role, but does not commit so many fouls and plays simple, but effective football.

I hope the stories in the papers are not true and he remains with us until the end of the season.

Hopefully fat Sam has put an imediate block on him going,he has leadership quality and allows others to play there own game while he breaks up play.Simple class player,and adds a calming influence.

Flamini was excellent but expectedly tired later in the game due to lack of match fitness. Brought the best out of Cabaye too. Hope he stays

Flamini has filled-in at right-back and left-back although that was a while ago.

He was a player who was renowned for covering a lot of ground in a game but he is now 32 and one cannot expect him to do what he did when he was much younger.

Allardyce dossier chapter 3. "Stopping the Other Lot from Playing Football".

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We can't know if Flamini has been left out because of fitness/injuries or if it was just that Pardew didn't rate him but I think it's clear to see that he's better than Ledley. I certainly would have liked to have seen more of him especially as we've leaked so many goals that have come from the DM (be it Cabaye or Ledley) making mistakes.