Give Mr Tan a pile of heart attacks by selling to Cardiff those players with as many 4s in their birthdate as possible.
Just saw David Baddiel on The World's Most Dangerous Roads saying he's an Atheist. Last time I checked, Atheists don't persecute other people, so that;s yet another reason to drop his vendetta against Honorary Jews of N17 .
"Just saw David Baddiel on The World's Most Dangerous Roads saying he's an Atheist." If said roads are in the Bible Belt, and Baddiel stays still long enough, then that will only leave Herbert to sort out.
BBC has just announced Ray Wilkins is now assistant coach at Fulham. They are a bit behind in reporting this as one paper mentioned this yesterday and another one did today. Whatever, this is an unusual couple of appointments by Fulham, as Curbishley has been away from the game for ages and Wilkins has been away for about 3 years.
Old square ball Wilkins. Never saw him pass or move forward for Utd, yet he was the Lampard of his day for Chelsea. Fulham are welcome to him. Relegation certainties, I think.
"Old square ball Wilkins. Never saw him pass or move forward for Utd" Or England. How did he go under the radar of AVB ??
Kept Hoddle out of the England team too. I remember the opening match of the World Cup when we went with Robson, Wilkins and Rix. Brian Clough was on the ITV panel and said he would have dropped Wilkins for Hoddle - Brian Moore thought that was ludicrous! That's why we never win the thing - always choose safe players rather than the talented ones. Its a cup FFS. You don't need consistency, just your most talented players to scrape through the group stages and then win 4 matches.
Can you imagine how the media would have reacted if Adam had clattered say, Rooney, in the way he did Paulinho? You would be hearing nothing today but cries for retrospective punishment. The Stoke Chairman was on TalkShyte yesterday talking about how small clubs don't get the decisions against larger ones (and to be honest there is a case for that Fryers challenge early on), and in general there is a point to be made, but Stoke are not exactly the team to champion in this. They have got away with murder in recent years - and some ludicrous decisions against us! As far as the thug Adam goes, well let's say he has form for this and this should be taken into account. But it won't of course, because he didn't do this against certain teams (and ironically in this respect, the Stoke Chairman is right).
"As I recall, wasn't he nicknamed "The Crab"?" He was in the RDBD household ( "square ball, Ray" used to be the cry) .
This is a really interesting dichotomy. Hard players for top clubs are often regarded as thugs who don't need to play like that whereas the same type of players (often a lot harder) are lauded as 100 %ers who give their all and cannot be faulted for commitment. This is perhaps the wrong forum to say it but the Shawcross "tackle" on Ramsey was a prime example - the media portrayal was of a good lad who just got a little over eager. If that had ben one of the "enforcers at the bigger clubs such as a Keane or Vieira all hell would have let loose. As a Watford fan i'm always going to moan that we don't get the decisions in the penalty box whilst the bigger teams do against us but it is defintely true that by and large bad tackles seem to count less or are waved away as lack of experience or over exuberance. I'd never really thought about it till your post!
I'd have gone with Wilkins as well,to save Glen for the knock out stages,would'nt have wanted him injured in a group match
While Don "work rate" Howe was part of the England setup, Hoddle was never going to be an England fixture. Cloughie saw the game fundamentally differently.
"Chelsea have announced losses of £49.4m for last season. What a surprise." Source (their financial reports just been released etc) ??
They seem to be spouting a load of bull to somehow try and convince people they are on the way to financial stability. What is also alarming is Bolton declaring a cumulative debt of £164m. I can't see how they can be trading legally if that is the case.
