I learned brutal lesson about trusting team-mates - Jordan Pickford must do the same at Everton

I learned the hard way to stick what I was best at on the football pitch and Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford needs to do the same.

The passage of play is so lacking for Everton against Crystal Palace, there was no point in having a midfield. If I was James Garner I’d be embarrassed because it’s like they don’t trust him to control the ball and pass it forward.

I remember playing for PSV in a cup final against Ajax, I did a quick one-two and I put a 35-yard ball over the top for Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink to go through, lob the goalie and hit the bar. I thought it was good play, the manager Guus Hiddink, thought it was good play but he said to me: ‘Don’t do it again!”

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He told me I was a left-back for a reason and Phillip Cocu was our midfielder and it was his job to pass to the strikers and create opportunities for them. I had to do my job and trust him to do his job and not to disrespect my team-mates by missing them out.

In the first half, our playmakers were Ben Godfrey and James Tarkowski with a 50 or 60-yard switch. But we still didn’t get behind the back five so what’s the point of the midfielders?

If I was playing with Pickford, I don’t know what I would do. His erratic behaviour makes the fans and his own team-mates nervous.

He asks an outfield player for the ball some 20 yards outside his area. If I’m an outfield player, I’ll tell him where to go and say ‘you just concentrate on stopping shots, that’s your job, trust the midfielder to make something happen.’

We don’t need him making things unnecessarily difficult for us and