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    If so then English football deserves a slow death.

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    Pontus Jansson disagrees.


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    Didn't Hazard have that one year under Mourinho where everyone thought he LOST IT! or am I mis-remembering how that went down?

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    He disappears for vast tracts of time most seasons, although I think you may be referring to Mourinho's last season in charge where he did nothing for about 8 months.

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    I’m rolling through but I’d Bielsa going through a PowerPoint presentation on what information he found out from spying on people?

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    He's basically done a SNAP press conference in order to get all the Spygate information out there, and then won't answer anything on it tomorrow, meaning that the nationals/TV haven't had time to get there.

    He's a one-off genius, the last of his kind and we should enjoy him while he lasts because the red-faced Proper Football Men are thunderously unhappy about him and will hound him out soon enough. Stuart Pearce should get a life ban for his comments yesterday about reversing the result.

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    He's such a boss. Emery out, Bielsa in. At least get an interesting nutjob in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    He's basically done a SNAP press conference in order to get all the Spygate information out there, and then won't answer anything on it tomorrow, meaning that the nationals/TV haven't had time to get there.

    He's a one-off genius, the last of his kind and we should enjoy him while he lasts because the red-faced Proper Football Men are thunderously unhappy about him and will hound him out soon enough. Stuart Pearce should get a life ban for his comments yesterday about reversing the result.
    Stuart Pearce almost ended the career of a 22 year old striker who couldn't get a club after leaving Man City because, "Pearcey thought you were so shit that using a goalkeeper was an improvement on you."

    Took him 5 years to find a permanent club. From Premier League to League One Barnsley. He was definitely crap but that's way worse than watching set piece routines.

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    He's teaching us (including me) a valuable lesson about the dark side of prevailing English culture, one which none of the Remain idiots have managed to do in all their sarcastic polemic over the last two years. I suppose it takes an unhinged outsider.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    He's teaching us (including me) a valuable lesson about the dark side of prevailing English culture, one which none of the Remain idiots have managed to do in all their sarcastic polemic over the last two years. I suppose it takes an unhinged outsider.
    Also the national media who spend their entire careers trying to leak England teamsheets at tournaments getting on their high horse about this is nuts. I saw Henry Winter stopped replying the moment Neville brought it up.

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    He hasn't quit.

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    Henry brought it up because Frank Lampard is SEETHING and they (and Rooney, and Gerrard and Terry, and all the big names from the failed Golden Generation) have a great relationship with Winter. I think he assumed we were still in 2006 and everyone still hero-worships these people, but we're not. The backtracking was glorious, Winter would have 100 for Pomposity on his top trump card where Bielsa has 0.

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    Just an absolute legend.

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    I'm pretty sure this is the greatest press conference of all time.

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    I'm reading this guys feed for a rundown btw: https://twitter.com/apopey

    By the looks of it. Entry to this press conference is more valuable to coaching than the entire UEFA B License.

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    It descended into outright double-think on 5 Live, the reporter actually said that while watching videos of training/matches etc was an accepted method of scouting, someone being there in person to watch 'somehow makes it different'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    It descended into outright double-think on 5 Live, the reporter actually said that while watching videos of training/matches etc was an accepted method of scouting, someone being there in person to watch 'somehow makes it different'.
    It's classic English 'ungentlemanly conduct' stuff being applied to a game that is corrupt to it's core. Like the whole kicking the ball out of the game despite knowing the bloke on the ground is fine.

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    Phil Hay (who reports on Leeds for the Yorkshire Evening Post) has a good transcript of the press conference on his Twitter:

    https://twitter.com/PhilHayYEP

    The man is a God, and has essentially highlighted the absurdity of Derby crying about somebody watching them train for a bit by slamming down a dossier that his team have compiled on all FIFTY ONE games that Derby played last season, right down to the individual minutes each player still in squad spent in each position and the types of play they instigated when in those scenarios.

    The "it's not the way we do things in this country" brigade can fuck off. No, it isn't. It’s of a far, far higher standard than anything we're used to in this country. If they want to get on his level then they better start working a lot fucking harder. Now leave him alone and let him get on with getting us back in the Premier League, thank you very much.

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    If you're involved in running a multi-million pound business and you aren't looking at what your opposition is doing (especially in the context of sport) then you should be sacked immediately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    If you're involved in running a multi-million pound business and you aren't looking at what your opposition is doing (especially in the context of sport) then you should be sacked immediately.
    This is basically at the heart of it - the lazy 'who you know' club that runs English football have had their pants pulled down on this particular occasion and been exposed as completely inadequate. Are you telling me that none of the previous Leeds spies at other teams have been spotted? Of course they have, but only Frank Lampard (from the Redknapp crime family) was entitled enough to cry about it. And I say this as someone who cheered his name for 15 years.

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    Please tell me that press conference is on film somewhere.

    As for Henry Winter, he's clearly aware that print media is dying if not already dead and is desperately trying to keep his trade relevant by supporting the big guns that he he's been fellating for over 20 years now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    This is basically at the heart of it - the lazy 'who you know' club that runs English football have had their pants pulled down on this particular occasion and been exposed as completely inadequate. Are you telling me that none of the previous Leeds spies at other teams have been spotted? Of course they have, but only Frank Lampard (from the Redknapp crime family) was entitled enough to cry about it. And I say this as someone who cheered his name for 15 years.
    Shortly after the game, a 2011 Telegraph interview with Andre Villas-Boas resurfaced, during which he admitted that while working under Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho he would "travel to training grounds, often incognito" to secretly watch opposition in training to illicit further information.
    Frank Lampard's response was 'I don't think that's true'

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    Bielsa seems ace.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Clark?
    And Lascalles.

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    Shite.

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    Bielsa is such a don. That was glorious.

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    I quite enjoyed this comparison.


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    Frank being donned by VAR.

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    I actually agree with the pundits on that one. If it's not clear after 3 replays and takes 2 minutes to figure it out, it's not a clear and obvious error.

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    For all the rubbish soccer I sit through, this is the worst game I've seen in a long time. There is absolutely nothing happening.

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    That Bielsa stuff was so good. I'd love for him to come in at Man Utd if I'm honest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    For all the rubbish soccer I sit through, this is the worst game I've seen in a long time. There is absolutely nothing happening.
    Jaysus I turned it off for five minutes.

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    FA Cup?

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    Slight clip

    West Yorkshire Sport (@WYSdaily) Tweeted:
    🎥 WATCH: Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa on his approach to tactics & analysis in the wake of Spy Gate.

    Hard to do this justice in two minutes (he spoke for well over an hour) but here’s a snippet.... #lufc https://t.co/hnluD564Vh https://twitter.com/WYSdaily/status/...205340679?s=17

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    For all the rubbish soccer I sit through, this is the worst game I've seen in a long time. There is absolutely nothing happening.
    Been pretty fucking lively since this post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    Been pretty fucking lively since this post.
    I wish that always worked.

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    He's bang to rights to wonder why this is such a tempest in a teapot. Is just putting together some footage or watching on telly the norm now?

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    Probably more sour grapes on Lampards side.

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    Chelsea have signed Higuain on loan according to Sky Italia. He was a don under Sarri at Napoli - not sure if a fat cunt like him would fit on the operation table so he might be fine.

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    If Derby’s goalkeeper makes a save he’ll be lucky if it isn’t retaken, running out like he did for the 1st one.

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    Jimmy's going to be boiling.

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    Higuain might be alright, in that he's a big of a unit.

    The funnier story is them trying to squeeze £40m out of someone for Batshuayi

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    Is Higuain as slow as I think he is? He does have capacity for THOSE finishes though so if that happens I'm all for it.

    Meanwhile:

    Toggle Spoiler


    'smiles Lampard'

    God bless the pair of them seething their actual faces off.

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    He’s not especially slow but not exactly speedy. His link up play is decent.

    He’s exactly as you think he would be, a classic poacher who will score loads against the shit and miss the big chances when they matter.

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    Leeds have signed Casilla from Madrid. Champions League by 2021

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    I dont beleive in Higuain at all anymore. He was good, but at this point in his career. Any new team is asking him to be Zlatan.

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    You have to laugh at the "this is not what VAR is meant to be for" hand-wringing (head-shaking?) from the BBC's resident div panel last night.

    They're probably going to have to change the laws of the game, or maybe use the GPS tacker things they all wear in their little man-bras these days to make VAR fully functional for the offside law. Probably have to have some sort of sensor in the ball as well to identify the exact millisecond it gets 'played' at. It's fucked. Put the cat back in the bag.

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    Or you could just make offside less stupid by just saying the whole players body needs to be offside not his little toe.

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    Well, yeah, that's changing the rules, like wot I said.

    But unless the little toe (or whichever other extremity you care to choose) doesn't count as part of the body then that alteration isn't going to make any difference.

    DAYLIGHT!

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    The parade of ex players who are coming out seething about Bielsa is amazing. Pearce, Collymore, now Martin Keown calling him 'despicable', it's like a who's who of inadequate wankers.

    I was pleased to see Tim Sherwood joining the dark side though and perhaps surrendering his PFM status in the process.

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