I didn't say he was beyond criticism. I just think it's silly to be focusing on his corners when he offers so much else to the team. Corner and set pieces are specialist jobs, given to whatever outfield player is the best at it. When VdV plays it's pretty much completely irrelevant. If someone else was better than him it would be irrelevant when they played. If he deserves criticism for it so does the rest of our players that aren't better than him at it. On what basis are you saying that none of our players take a better corner than Modric? What sample are you basing this on because it seems to be VDV and Modric that almost exclusively take our corners?
What does goal poaching have to do with it? Central midfielders should be expected to be able to take very good set pieces, but goal poachers shouldn't? No goal poachers shouldn't be taking corners, they should be in the box getting on the end of corners/crosses I would have thought that was simple common sense. It's a bit disingenuous to describe Modric simply as a central midfielder, he is the attacking fulcrum of our team, our chief playmaker, therefore I do feel that it is reasonable to expect him to be able to deliver a good corner.
Harry decides who takes set pieces. If not him then one of the coaches, who answers to Harry. If Harry wanted someone else to take the set pieces someone else would take the set pieces. Well that's lovely, but they should for example look at last match where we had about 20 fudging corners amounting to fudge all and think hmmm perhaps we shouldn't just rely on those two to take our corners.
