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Wandering Yid said:
I hope you’re not suggesting Guardiola and Zidane aren’t great managers <whistle>

Problem with most good players switching to management is that as fan favourites they get shoe horned into top roles which they’re not ready for, never get a chance to learn from their mistakes, and can’t handle being criticised for the first time in their lives.

Imagine thinking you’re the dogs bollocks at football for your entire life and then realising knowing how to play the game well is a fraction of the difficulty of knowing how to man manage, train, develop tactics, strategise, handle the media etc etc
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Zidane a great manager? There's still hope for me then, just need the Madrid job
 
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Wandering Yid said:
I hope you’re not suggesting Guardiola and Zidane aren’t great managers <whistle>

Problem with most good players switching to management is that as fan favourites they get shoe horned into top roles which they’re not ready for, never get a chance to learn from their mistakes, and can’t handle being criticised for the first time in their lives.

Imagine thinking you’re the dogs bollocks at football for your entire life and then realising knowing how to play the game well is a fraction of the difficulty of knowing how to man manage, train, develop tactics, strategise, handle the media etc etc
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In Italy, they have some kind of manager school, I saw a TV documentary on it a long time back. It is obviously not the answer to everything, but it helps ex players avoid many of the pitfall that you have descried above.
 
Wandering Yid said:
I hope you’re not suggesting Guardiola and Zidane aren’t great managers <whistle>

Problem with most good players switching to management is that as fan favourites they get shoe horned into top roles which they’re not ready for, never get a chance to learn from their mistakes, and can’t handle being criticised for the first time in their lives.

Imagine thinking you’re the dogs bollocks at football for your entire life and then realising knowing how to play the game well is a fraction of the difficulty of knowing how to man manage, train, develop tactics, strategise, handle the media etc etc
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I didn't say all, I said most great players as there are always exceptions.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Lazio fans being Lazio fans again

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Lazio players will wear a picture of Anne Frank on their shirts in their cup game tonight.

This whole thing kicked off when Lazio ultra fans were made to sit in the Roma stand when theirs was closed( this is what happens when you share a ground )

Also , before the next games , passages will be read from the diary over the tannoy system before kick off.

And finally, Lazio fans are going to be taken on a tour of Auschwitz.
 
Blue and White said:
Lazio players will wear a picture of Anne Frank on their shirts in their cup game tonight.

This whole thing kicked off when Lazio ultra fans were made to sit in the Roma stand when theirs was closed( this is what happens when you share a ground )

Also , before the next games , passages will be read from the diary over the tannoy system before kick off.

And finally, Lazio fans are going to be taken on a tour of Auschwitz.
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Some Juventus fans turned their backs and sang the Italian national anthem during a minute's silence to remember the Holocaust before the Serie A game against SPAL.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41762423
 
Blue and White said:
Some Juventus fans turned their backs and sang the Italian national anthem during a minute's silence to remember the Holocaust before the Serie A game against SPAL.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41762423
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Desperately depressing. If we somehow avoid destroying this planet, I hope that the next inhabitants are less despicable and dangerous than the human race.
 
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Blue and White said:
Some Juventus fans turned their backs and sang the Italian national anthem during a minute's silence to remember the Holocaust before the Serie A game against SPAL.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41762423
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Desperately depressing. If we somehow avoid destroying this planet, I hope that the next inhabitants are less despicable and dangerous than the human race.
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It's enough to make you weep.
It ain't ok to be that much of a **** and then claim it's your democratic right to behave like that. You can't jail people for ignoring a minutes silence to pay respect to the victims of the Holocaust but you can punish the ****ers in another way. If that were Spurs fans I would support us being made to play games behind closed doors. Juventus should be made to play the rest of their home matches for 2017 behind closed doors and be given no away tickets for the same period.
I know some things are down to people needing to be educated but this ain't one of them. They are souless ****s and I hate that they get to watch the game I love at one of the great European clubs while acting so ****ishly
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Desperately depressing. If we somehow avoid destroying this planet, I hope that the next inhabitants are less despicable and dangerous than the human race.
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I don't think that we will destroy the planet, although we will probably make it unfit for habitation by about 90% of species that currently live here, particularly mammals and reptiles. However, this planet is quite resilient, if one looks at it from a geological perspective, at one stage there was an atmosphere of over 90% CO2 and surface temperatures hot enough to dry the oceans and that did not destroy it. Providing a few plant species survive, evolution would kick off again.
 
deedub93 said:
I don't think that we will destroy the planet, although we will probably make it unfit for habitation by about 90% of species that currently live here, particularly mammals and reptiles. However, this planet is quite resilient, if one looks at it from a geological perspective, at one stage there was an atmosphere of over 90% CO2 and surface temperatures hot enough to dry the oceans and that did not destroy it. Providing a few plant species survive, evolution would kick off again.
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You cannot keep nature down.
 
bigsmithy9 said:
Where are these "inhabitants" coming from Brian?
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We weren't the first dominant species on this rock. I sincerely hope that we won't be the last. Something will supercede us if, as deedub says, some plant life survives. At this point in history, the human race is a blight on this planet.
 
Blue and White said:
Some Juventus fans turned their backs and sang the Italian national anthem during a minute's silence to remember the Holocaust before the Serie A game against SPAL.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41762423
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This is a Spurs/Juventus 'friendship hat'. It is on sale in the Spurs Shop...........

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It's bonfire night next week..............time for some stock disposal, methinks.
 
Mad start to the game. Billy Sharp puts Sheffield United ahead. Carter-Vickers, then kicks the ball with his standing leg when trying to clear and then his swinging leg clatters the Leeds player just outside the box. Somehow the ref gives it as a freekick to Sheff though, awful decision.
 
No Kane No Gain said:
Mad start to the game. Billy Sharp puts Sheffield United ahead. Carter-Vickers, then kicks the ball with his standing leg when trying to clear and then his swinging leg clatters the Leeds player just outside the box. Somehow the ref gives it as a freekick to Sheff though, awful decision.
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Playing for Leeds is a greater foul than being clattered outside the box.
 
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