Football

Premier league is going to go pop soon.
It's no longer about the game, more about "the personalities".

Phil Redmond is writing the script on behalf of UEFA.

Although that doesn't help explain why Liverpool haven't won the Prem.

brian clough

"Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job."

On getting things done

Why on earth anyone would be interested in that guff is beyond me. Football is played on the pitch and that's it for me. Relationships between managers, staff etc. don't interest me one bit.

totally this.

Brilliant

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/early-doors/police-rocket-speed-escalators-control-rowdy-fans-084402071.html?vp=1

I bet health and safety would have something to say about this. You could probably sue the OB over here

Jaw, I'm hear you, but sport isn't just about the formations, or tactics, or possible outcomes, it is about the people, the characters and how they interact. How different personalities at the helm of their respective clubs, get the best out of the football players they work with.

How would you or I respond to Mourinho's coaching, or to Pellegrini's or Moyes' or AVB's, which would we be more receptive to? How would our performance dip or rise depending on how we engage with them. If top class sport is as much played in the mind, as with the body, then the character and personalities matter as much as the skill, tactics, and formations

Fuck me that was an expensive championship game to go to, to see two teams that I don't support play some footie.

I knew we should have taken the train in the first place. Pre booking for the win.

bloody hell, cornface, count the togan you nicked from tin and you got off the lightest of all!

battery, alternator and three hours waiting for a tow truck in some pus-hole in the middle of nowhere was exactly how i wanted to spend my saturday. although, it was probably lucky i was getting a towtruck home.

Fuck all compared to what it cost me - petrol to go down the M1 and back to pick up your sorry, stranded butts because of Richie's rust-bucket braking down; 3 points for speeding so we got to the game on time; speeding fine; flowers for my mum to apologise for the court summons she came back from holiday to, because I'd 'borrowed' her car and didn't know about the speeding ticket...

And it's fucking WIMPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fuck, talk about bad press...

sorry corny i didn't read the article. i assumed it was just about how they used to suck each other off but don't anymore.

blackfoot - honestly could not care less. All that guff about Ferguson intimidating other managers, Mourinho calling Wenger a voyeur and all that other bollocks. I don't bother with it. It's only there to sell advertising space and get the clicks that papers need in order to stay alive. I'd much rather read an opinion piece or something by Michael Cox that's actually based on the game.

Tit for that articles like that are for a rag like the Sun or the Daily whatever.

Jaw, read a couple of similar ones, in different papers, that one has much more background info and actual interviews/quotes with mourinho and AVB.

And most of what you want to read will be reactive, coming after the match has been played, won or lost. Wilson will do previews, but haven't seen and from Cox.

Each to their own though. I'll read both, because I want to see the game from all angles, not just the x's and o's but also the people that make it, what it is. the characters and the workers. Managers have come more to the fore, but I'd like to see more about players, not just puff pieces, but interesting under the skin bits to see how they overcome adversity and express themselves on the pitch. But those usually come when a career is over..

If you want puff piece, did you read this from Mourinho's autobiography about how he wept like a child after being beaten to the Utd job and the machinations and maneuverings of agents to spin the news a different way..

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/26/jose-mourinho-cried-manchester-united

Christ. It's like an amateur dramatics play.

battery, alternator and three hours waiting for a tow truck in some pus-hole in the middle of nowhere

Leicester was miles away.

Ramsey's numbers have been astonishing. Previously his 11 goals across five seasons for Arsenal had been notable for a grisly quirk. When Ramsey scored, a famous person died. Osama bin Laden, Steve Jobs, Colonel Gaddafi and Whitney Houston each met their maker shortly after Ramsey found the net. This season Ramsey has seven goals in eight club appearances. They have been marked by power, precision and the absence of a celebrity body trail.

He shoots, he scores, they die.
Great pub quiz question there.

Good that EA Sports have seen sense:

messi in front of the beak today
wonder if he could actually go to jail ?

Good that EA Sports have seen sense:

Because the only chance Liverpool have of actually winning a trophy is on a video game?

If so, you're probably right.

Good that EA Sports have seen sense:

Because of the proportion of scousers unemployed with now't to do all day but sit at home playing video games pretenting they are managing Liverpool.

Makes sense

http://www.easports.com/uk/fifa/custom/fifa14-club-packs

Everton.
LOL

Because of the proportion of scousers unemployed with now't to do all day but sit at home playing video games pretenting they are managing Liverpool.

Makes sense

That's complete larrup! We all know that Norway is a very economically sound country so they'll all be at work
Liverpool FC has 4% scouse fanbase

Ah! another arsepicked FACT

They knew about Pisti.

http://www.easports.com/uk/fifa/custom/fifa14-swindon-town-club-pack

blackfoot - honestly could not care less. All that guff about Ferguson intimidating other managers, Mourinho calling Wenger a voyeur and all that other bollocks. I don't bother with it. It's only there to sell advertising space and get the clicks that papers need in order to stay alive. I'd much rather read an opinion piece or something by Michael Cox that's actually based on the game.

Tit for that articles like that are for a rag like the Sun or the Daily whatever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24301460

Although when Mourinho's trolling is this good...

That's complete larrup! We all know that Norway is a very economically sound country so they'll all be at work
Liverpool FC has 4% scouse fanbase

You don't even live up here anymore so your opinion is invalid.

And while I am here most Evertonians come from the Wirral...Fact.

weartheshirtdwerfboy.

Millwall v Leeds today, naughty.