Off Topic International Break Thread
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Yeah, that's always good. I like Gibraltar. One of the apes bit my mother-in-law - true story.
Mother-in-law had a tetanus shot and got a bloody good telling off for her bag containing the chocolate bar she was told not to have with her.
I am still supporting the ape in the total luxury it fully deserves.
I am still supporting the ape in the total luxury it fully deserves.
Gerard Pique can do that with his shirt...
Here's a photo of the guy who designed that mascot costume...
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Andre Silva scores a hat trick in 37 minutes against the Faroes, but nobody pays attention.
If it was the greasy rat, on the other hand, pundits would literally be tripping over each other as they put fruit up each other's bottoms in celebration of this momentous feat - as evidenced by their having that exact response when he did so against Andorra. Score a hat trick, I mean, not put fruit up another man's bottom in celebration...
If it was the greasy rat, on the other hand, pundits would literally be tripping over each other as they put fruit up each other's bottoms in celebration of this momentous feat - as evidenced by their having that exact response when he did so against Andorra. Score a hat trick, I mean, not put fruit up another man's bottom in celebration...
Nah, they left the choice of mascot up to a vote by the students (I think because they’d had an offensive one), with predictably bad results for everyone who takes college sports too seriously. A banana slug is notable for being slow, soft, slimy and incapable of doing any harm to anything that moves.
Heard Rooney (again) described as the best player of his generation this morning on radio 5. I disagree, in fact I would argue that Rooney is the best example of a player as being hyped to be potentially the best player of his generation, failing to live up to expectation, but the media and pundits going with the perception rather than the fact. It's almost as if the story was written years ago and his career since has been set along that path regardless of any evidence to the contrary. There are countless examples of where the few good things he's done have been completely over praised whilst the bad has been continually ignored. And the pundits are almost treated as going "off script" should any alternate suggestion be made.
Any success he did have was by the luck that he got bought, as a good young player, by the best manager around. And then played regularly for that team.
Imagine how different it would have been, had it been Wenger buying him......
Well Varney will know a thing or two about parked buses
I say he's been a truly effective flat track bully, no more and no less. Not a world class player, but one who was really good at pouring it on against weaker teams, and helping his team take points from them consistently. The same qualities, along with an obnoxious on-field personality, that made him so effective for Man U made him drag England down, despite being one of their better players. When the going gets tough, he complains.
For all of his god-like status with pundits and the media, he's only scored 20+ PL goals twice in his career (in 09/10 and 11/12). That's five years since he achieved the feat. On top of that, he's only scored 15 or more on a further 2 occasions (in 05/06 and 13/14). For a first choice striker in the most successful club side in the PL during that period, that's distinctly underwhelming.
In the same number of games, Shearer scored 66 more goals (260 v 194) for a far worse team. His strike rate (0.44 goals per game) is the almost exactly the same as Andy Cole (0.45), Michael Owen (0.46), Robbie Fowler (0.43) and Les Ferdinand (0.42). Three of those had very limited international careers.
He's nowhere near the record of Henry (0.68) and not particularly close to Shearer (0.59).
He's 6th in terms of strike rate for England behind Greaves (0.77), Lineker (0.60) Hurst (0.49), Shearer (0.48) and Charlton (0.46). Over a third of his goals have come against the true minnows of the game, most of which didn't exist when other top scoring internationals were playing the game.
He's been a long-serving England player and much of that during a time when we haven't been very good. However, the reaction of the hacks in the media says more about their need to sensationalise everything than it does about Rooney's career, both domestic and international.
In the same number of games, Shearer scored 66 more goals (260 v 194) for a far worse team. His strike rate (0.44 goals per game) is the almost exactly the same as Andy Cole (0.45), Michael Owen (0.46), Robbie Fowler (0.43) and Les Ferdinand (0.42). Three of those had very limited international careers.
He's nowhere near the record of Henry (0.68) and not particularly close to Shearer (0.59).
He's 6th in terms of strike rate for England behind Greaves (0.77), Lineker (0.60) Hurst (0.49), Shearer (0.48) and Charlton (0.46). Over a third of his goals have come against the true minnows of the game, most of which didn't exist when other top scoring internationals were playing the game.
He's been a long-serving England player and much of that during a time when we haven't been very good. However, the reaction of the hacks in the media says more about their need to sensationalise everything than it does about Rooney's career, both domestic and international.
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So Horrendo is captaining England in Rooney`s absence...... that confirms he must have some dirt on somebody high up at the FA.
Coincidentally, six of the PL goals he scored in 2011/12 were penalties - as laid out by Transfermarkt: http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/wayne-rooney/elfmetertore/spieler/3332
It's because he was on the cover of last year's FIFA.
Marcus Edwards made his U19 debut last night and scored in the first ten minutes:
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A bit scrappy, but a reasonable finish.