On 24th March 1985 Steve Bruce won the League Cup with Norwich. Hopefully one day we can win something like that. He had played 249 games for Gillingham before joining Norwich. That win helped him move to Man Utd and a career and earning he could never have dreamt about during his time at Gillingham.
Just a reminder, as the bizarre bashing of him crops up now and again, that Steve Bruce is our greatest ever manager and took us to heights we never thought possible. No idea what he's like as a person but I don't care. If you want to slag him off, the mackem and geordie forums are that way.
What's that got to do with him being a fat ****? Great playing career - tick. Fat **** at the beach - tick as well. The photo is right there, admittedly a few years old but nothing wrong with having a laugh at it, as those beach pictures were well used for quite a while.
Nothing. Just mentioning the anniversary of the win which propelled him into a successful, well paid career. Was it Norwich winning something we have never won which triggered you?
There are some on here who would look far worse on the beach, Only difference is they have won, or done, **** all in comparison.
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Just saw this , and couldn’t agree more . I’d go for most football , not just premier league as it filters downwards with copycats ..
I feel part of this is nostalgia. I can remember a lot of games in the early years of the prem being fairly dross. Granted the sport has evolved into a very athletic and robotic sport recently thanks in large to Pep. But, I would say we are now going against that with more direct counter attacking teams like Forest and Bournemouth finding success.
ive genuinely thought it for a while, most teams played with proper wingers, 2 centre forwards, got the ball forwards faster , etc, how often do you see a whipped in cross and a bullet header these days. i genuinely find the Pep way boring, as succesful as it is, i think ive watched 5 full 90 mins of football this seaosn outside of City Games, i just genuinely dont find football entertaining anymore, but maybe thats just me. i didnt watch the England games, but ive heard everytime Foden got the ball he just cut back and passed to walker?? he is supposed to be one of the maverick/geniuses , and its just safety first, scared of giving it away. hope you are right and people are now moving away from it again, i personally hate the way everyvbody copies, like anybody wantig to play 4-4-2 is a dinosaur these days, but give it a few years and a top coach will start playing it every week and that will be the way to play again, i wish more teams and countries would just play the way they want too, not what the latest fashion is.
If you watch a highlights reel from 2003 you are going to see an avalanche of great goals. Because that's what highlights reels contain.
Games like the recent internationals are hard to base against. You’ve got such a talent gap between someone like England and Latvia that they’re just going to sit back and leave no space. There was a lot of risk taking but it’s only entertaining once it works. Football is always evolving. It will evolve again really soon and move away from Tiki-Taka pep ball.
its just nostalgia anyone 30-40 or so wil have great memories of the late 90s early 2000s henry,zola, shearer etc i grew up watching henry every sunday morning, my fav player, but the quality of teams now is far higher its fine to be nostalgic personally i barely watch football outside of city, just rather do other things these days
maybe it is nostalgia, i just used to be able to watch most football, as i found football good to watch and now it isnt. when you are trying to get a young child into football, it really hits home how little amount of time something interesting actually happens in a game, weird really to think of the hours we sit watching something and 90% of that time nothing that good is actually going on... its why id take Darts every day of the week now , which is proof that not everything is Nostalgia, i loved the glory days of Bristow and John Lowe, watching it with my dad as a young kid brings great memories, but it is 1000 times better to watch with the standard these days. footballs standard maybe higher, but it isnt better to watch. not for me anyway, everyone is different.
Was quite young between 1996 and 2004 but I remember quite a bit from the time immediately after. Some of the football, even in the Prem, from 2005-2015 was turgid. The ‘cold, rainy night in Stoke’ meme didn’t come from nowhere; Pulis’ football was absolutely honking, as were a few other managers’.
Quite a few teams still play 4-4-2, especially in Spain. Managers/coaches are dinosaurs not because of a formation but for saying things like ‘I don’t do tactics, just work hard’ to their players or going on holiday during international breaks and not having the team train for two weeks.
