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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.

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    The MOTD commentator is for some unknown reason pronouncing Sokratis as 'Socrates'. I mean, you are literally paid to pronounce footballers names.

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    That is Greek for Socrates. It's no worse than people saying Robert Pires instead of Robeeerrrr.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    The MOTD commentator is for some unknown reason pronouncing Sokratis as 'Socrates'. I mean, you are literally paid to pronounce footballers names.
    They were doing the same on Sky Sports, it was incredibly annoying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    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.
    Agreed.

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    MotD 2 unbearable. Ten minutes of verbal diarrhea from Jenas/Keown on the giant iPad for the Liverpool game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    That is Greek for Socrates. It's no worse than people saying Robert Pires instead of Robeeerrrr.
    Surely more like commentators calling Jurgen, George...
    Last edited by John Arne; 12-08-2018 at 10:45 PM.

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    That’s the worst example of commentators mispronouncing a name you could have given.

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    First weekend has been a direct continuation of last season, nothing’s changed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    Surely more like commentators calling Jurgen, George...
    He's not Georg Klopp.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    That is Greek for Socrates. It's no worse than people saying Robert Pires instead of Robeeerrrr.
    And Pires is more Pear-sh (hard to type the sound) as it's Portuguese.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    Surely more like commentators calling Jurgen, George...
    Yeah. You never get other Greeks having their forenames translated.

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    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.

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    Papastathopolous needs to be chanted from the terraces. Preferably to the tune of 'Baby, Give it Up'.

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    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.'

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    38,000 tickets sold already for the Liam Miller tribute game. Wasn't expecting even half that for 3pm on a Tuesday afternoon.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    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.

    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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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45177178

    Ian Wright has played the racism card for Sterling.

    Moron.

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    It’s not like he’s wrong.

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    There's some pretty clear racist overtones to it all, I'm not sure what you're annoyed about?

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Well that shits mental (who the fuck would have a problem with him buying his own Mum a house ffs) fair enough.

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    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.

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    Nah, the articles about him are proper fucking odd. The gun tattoo isn’t even bad when explained.

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    You're somewhere near the bottom of the tattoos opinion list with that leopard bloke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Nah, the articles about him are proper fucking odd. The gun tattoo isn’t even bad when explained.
    The explanation does mark him out as a moron though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    You're somewhere near the bottom of the tattoos opinion list with that leopard bloke.
    My John Cena tattoo is awesome!

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    Unless it's on their face, don't judge people for their tattoos.

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    Dont judge people for their tattoos other than the one specific way I want to judge them!

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    The media attention towards Sterling 100% has racist undertones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    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.
    I don't think he's a wanker at all. He comes across as very likeable in interviews.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy View Post
    The media attention towards Sterling 100% has racist undertones.
    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.

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    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.

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    Break out the t-shirts.

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    The correct side.

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    Omg we're not capitulating.

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    lol at Celtic.

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    Happy days seeing Burke scoring this early on. Hadn't expected him to get much action at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    lol at Celtic.
    Rodgers is surely gone.

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    Ah here comes the capitulation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dino View Post
    Rodgers is surely gone.
    Would be a bit of a daft wouldn't it?

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