I know the lad is not an athlete by any stretch of the imagination but he looks shagged come the second half in some games. Does he smoke forty a day or something? His concentration in the second half yesterday was terrible n'all. Wasn't concentrating enough when he should have scored (what a monumentally poor finish that was!), wasn't concentrating enough when he was given a good ball to the wing and it bobbled through his legs and out for a throw, wasn't concentrating on his defeinsve side when he allowed runners to glide past him unattended for counter attacks.
I thought he had a really good first half but my word he was poor second half.
I'm not sure he's athletic enough to work on this fitness issues though. I think he's just one of those players, like Joe Cole, who is spent after an hour.
To be fair to Kev I think he gets tired for brief moments in a game because he is trying too hard - he covers a lot of ground trying to engineer space and make things happen. Lets not forget even when he has a poor game he still creates several chances, he is the assist king. He is key to our future and is a fantastic player. Also his dip yesterday came after he missed the sitter - this can happen to anyone, but what showed me a lot about the character of our senior players - and I include my favourite Silva in this - was not one of them went over to him to gee him up after the miss.