Top flight is completely irrelevant this year, it's all about Bielsa sitting on a bin and destroying the concept of the English gaffer for good.
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Top flight is completely irrelevant this year, it's all about Bielsa sitting on a bin and destroying the concept of the English gaffer for good.
The MOTD commentator is for some unknown reason pronouncing Sokratis as 'Socrates'. I mean, you are literally paid to pronounce footballers names.
That is Greek for Socrates. It's no worse than people saying Robert Pires instead of Robeeerrrr.
They were doing the same on Sky Sports, it was incredibly annoying.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Arne
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
MotD 2 unbearable. Ten minutes of verbal diarrhea from Jenas/Keown on the giant iPad for the Liverpool game.
Surely more like commentators calling Jurgen, George...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
That’s the worst example of commentators mispronouncing a name you could have given.
First weekend has been a direct continuation of last season, nothing’s changed.
He's not Georg Klopp.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Arne
And Pires is more Pear-sh (hard to type the sound) as it's Portuguese.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Yeah. You never get other Greeks having their forenames translated.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Arne
He uses it as a sort of Brazilian style mononym because his surname takes fifteen minutes to say, and if the commentators started pronouncing Fred as the Brazilians do it would be considerably worse.
Papastathopolous needs to be chanted from the terraces. Preferably to the tune of 'Baby, Give it Up'.
Is there a more boring voice in the world than that of Alex McLeish? He could put a Red Bull to sleep.
His closing statement, said with the affect of a man chuffed to bits with himself, was 'words are easy, action is the thing.'
38,000 tickets sold already for the Liam Miller tribute game. Wasn't expecting even half that for 3pm on a Tuesday afternoon.
That's the sort of thing people will take a day off work for, although fuck knows how they arrived at that time in the first place.
It was a crazy time but I think it's for a lot of the ex pros to be able to get in and out in the one day. Good few of them have other stuff going on I'd say.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
Might look at heading myself if I could get off too, though the stadium is in an awful spot for travelling to. Will be bedlam after it coupled with the normal nightmare evening rush hour in Cork.
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Manchester United Legends
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3. Nicky Butt
4. Ronny Johnsen
5. Paul Scholes
6. Denis Irwin
7. David May
8. Louis Saha
9. Rio Ferdinand
10. Quinton Fortune
11. Andy Cole
12. Michael Clegg
13. Mikael Silvestre
14. Kevin Pilkington (GK)
15. Dion Dublin
16. Roy Carroll (GK)
17. Gary Neville
18. Alan Smith
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2. Stephen Carr
3. Kevin Kilbane
4. Richard Dunne
5. Kenny Cunningham
6. Keith Andrews
7. Kevin Doyle
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19. Shane Supple (GK)
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Ian Wright has played the racism card for Sterling.
Moron.
It’s not like he’s wrong.
There's some pretty clear racist overtones to it all, I'm not sure what you're annoyed about?
Wayne Rooney being a chav and an idiot was a national joke for the best part of a decade. David Beckham likewise. The only other non-white lad who gets any tabloid attention for his ANTICS is Jesse Lingard, and he's also a bit of a tosser. That seems to be the common thread.
There may be a racist agenda with him in the print media, I don't know as I don't pay anywhere near enough attention to it these days.
What I do know is that he's now played 44 times for England and in the vast majority of those games he's been complete wank.
He's clearly a wanker (the gun tattoo, Jesus) and as Yev says he's been bollocks for England including the World Cup (although he was alright against Croatia were he stretched them a bit) and yet Ian Wright can't understand how he could be criticised for his performances. I think people are calling a spade a spade.
Absolutely electric for Man City though.
He's not being criticised for performances though.
He's being criticised for buying his mum a house. Then for being cheap and shopping in Primark. Then spending too much on his car. Then for being cheap by flying on EasyJet. This has been going on for years.
I don't think it's all racism, I think part of it is having the temerity to leave Liverpool but there is a large part of the MailOnline SEO types that target him.
Well that shits mental (who the fuck would have a problem with him buying his own Mum a house ffs) fair enough.
He's a high-profile figure who lives large and shags about. As far as tabloid fodder goes he could be Chinese for all it matters.
Nah, the articles about him are proper fucking odd. The gun tattoo isn’t even bad when explained.
You're somewhere near the bottom of the tattoos opinion list with that leopard bloke.
The explanation does mark him out as a moron though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
My John Cena tattoo is awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Unless it's on their face, don't judge people for their tattoos.
Dont judge people for their tattoos other than the one specific way I want to judge them!
The media attention towards Sterling 100% has racist undertones.
I don't think he's a wanker at all. He comes across as very likeable in interviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
It's unknowing racism, in that they're not specifically targeting him because he's black, but the boomer generation definitely has a subconscious issue with black people attaining money and success.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy
I reckon it's not only that he's black, he also sort of fits your standard "poor kid from rough background" stereotype. No education (cause he's a footballer, duh), got a kid when he was like 17 right? Seems to have had a troublesome childhood with no proper father figure, etc.
Now for sure a lot of people will see things like this and start using them as a basis for their machinations rather than maybe admire the fact that despite having not the best conditions to succeed, he's not only become very successful very realy in his life, but also seems to handle his fame (and even all this unwanted attention he's getting without really doing much to merit it) and fortune relatively demurely (compared to many others anyway).
Oh and also the fact that he's been falling off the pitch quite a few times doesn't really help his case with a lot of people, I suppose.
Liverpool man stay snithcing
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Break out the t-shirts.
I can't wait for everyone to suddenly be an expert in this very specific part of the law.
It’s still trippy for me, even after a full summer in London, that cars in the UK have steering wheels on the right side
The correct side.
Omg we're not capitulating.
lol at Celtic.
Happy days seeing Burke scoring this early on. Hadn't expected him to get much action at all.
Rodgers is surely gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Ah here comes the capitulation.
Would be a bit of a daft wouldn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by dino