Absolute hypocrite. Wants to "kick bad language out of football", yet when Tosan Popo made his first team debut (vs Preston at home in a cup-game) the first thing Carlisle did was give him a cheeky kick and swear at him.
Never understood this "smartest man in football", all because he was on countdown. Always ran his mouth and got under players skin to make up for his limited ability.
I have no justification for this whatsoever, but Clark Carlisle rritates me. He seems like a decent bloke but I just can't take to him. Think its his voice. He also doesn't strike me as being as clever as some of the other "clever" footballers I remember like Gordon Taylor or Steve Coppell. He was on Question Time a year or so ago and I found it quite cringeworthy. But as I say, I have absolutely no reason at all other than instinct.
Not the sharpest knife in the box but good with crosswords and anagrams!. He certainly was mouthy when he played against us last season but was probably only imitating his manager at the time. However, I do tend to agree with the statement that the refs should clamp down on the over abusiive sledging that goes on the pitch. You will never completely stop foul and abusive language from the spectators particulalrly that aimed at one eyed referees but it should either be stopped or taken into account in some of the subsequent tackles that are made by iritated players who receive the abuse. The better referees used to prevent it and I recall a story that a referee (i think it may have beens David Ellery) once cautioned a player with "until you can spell the words you use or at least understand their true meaning and origin I would stop making yourself look stupid"
He is an idiot. Right out of the Chris Eubank mold. I like swearing. I love it. I don't swear at home or at church or even in front of women but at football matches I sit and swear me f......g head off. Its a right that I have as a frustrated football fan. Sensitising a crowd to behave like choirboys is like pissing in the wind...see I can't help myslef. Who has decided that footballers are suddenly tbe paragons of virtue and manners!! If hip hop artists can get awards from Royalty and the Broadsheet press for 'singing' about gun crime and bitches and hoes why cant a footballer say bollox...I cant stop....What next? are footballer going to stop gobbing? are we going to insist that they have hankerchiefs tucked into their shirtsleeves?
I just watched Clark Carlisle on the highly uninformative and totally irrelevant pile of non story 'is football racist' on bbc 3 poor Clark did an admiral job reading from a script trying to look spontaneous but the whole thing smacked of hypocrisy and double standards. Take John Barnes now John reckons he did not get a fair crack at being a manager because he was black....erm perhaps it's because John you were absolute garbage and shockingly bad at management that you were sacked. Celtic fans tell there kids that unless they eat their greens you'll be coming back as their team manager. Celtic and tranmere fans routinely cite you as their worst ever manager. No story there. Next up was Clarks dad who came across really well, he suffered real racial abuse, however, he never made the cut as a pro and offered no real evidence that anything more than a lack of talent stopped him fulfilling his dream. No story there just a missed opportunity. Stan collimore got all misty eyed when he relayed stories of being called all sort of racial names. He forgot to mention being called a woman beater and dogger. No story there. The real turd in the swimming pool was a football team called punjabi wolves, a team exclusively of Asians where the inference was that whites and blacks were excluded. No attempt was made to question the wisdom and obvious racial discrimination of having a team that excludes other races but an interview with one kid that thought he should be in the premier league but had been overlooked because he was brown. Yeah....football scouts do that. Once again another BBC documentary proves that we are wasting our time paying a license fee. Scare mongering and stirring shat for the sake of it. Next thing you know we will have to appoint another met commissioner on the basis of his skin colour. Or should we wait until the last one gets out of the nick.
I didn't see all of it but agree very much with the objective of the programme. For being a non politician Clark Carlisle did very well on Question Time, maybe politics could be his calling. Paul Elliott is doing some great work on these issues with various initiatives.
Perhaps the BBC could make a programme named 'Have Black People Ruined London?'. Of course not all black folk have contributed to our capital city's downfall, much in the same way that not all white folk involved in football are racist. But as the liberal media have a habit of ignoring all the good things that we do together, regardless of colour, creed, and religion, they can just focus on the less admirable parts of society. Therefore, my idea for the BBC's new programme can look at - 98% unemployment within the Somali community, Gangster culture and prolific rates of knife and gun crime, The ever increasing numbers of black drug-dealers, The fact that all black areas of London are absolute hell-holes, The ubiquitous black-on-white murders which lack investigation and resources, Black societies, foundations and clubs that exclude all others, This programme must have white presenters with right-wing viewpoints so that they can patronise the black viewers and increase the divide between the different races. This idea should go some way towards addressing the balance. I shall send a detailed plan to the BBC and offer my services as a researcher, talking-head etc.
