My list for Room 101 1. Roy Keane for obvious reasons 2. Andy Durso 3. Ian Crook 4. Reading - ****ing hate them for some reason! 5. Plastic 'Glory Hunting' fans 6. Lego land stadiums like the Ricoh and Madjeski 7. All ITV Football coverage 8. Drawing the next round ties before all the ties have been completed in the current round of the FA Cup 9. Mike Walker Apart from that I am quite happy with loife!
1) People who insist that technology should be implemented in Football It's not necessary. Things are fine and dandy as they are. 2) Danny Guthrie He kicked Craig ***an in anger and broke his leg. Poor sportsman, poor human being. 3) Marlon King Wonderful footballer and a fantastic goalscorer, but a sick and twisted man. 4) People who insist Gary Speed was a legend If he hadn't killed himself at 42, nobody would be saying that.
The mind boggles. Budgie Grudgies and hardcore? Remind me not to watch the film when it appears on the internet.
Sorry Erik, I have to take issue with your first point. Football is a results based business and one wrong decision can drastically affect a team's cup run, league position, qualification chances etc. You'll never rule out human error, but it can be minimised. If it can be implemented in Rugby, Cricket etc, the technology is in place already and it just needs those stuffy assholes that constitute FIFA/EUFA to cut a bit of slack for it to be trialled properly, even if not introduced overnight. Sorry to rain on your parade
err, i think they would! the word legend get overused but gary speed was a legend. didn't he make the most premier league appearances for an outfield player? won the league title with leeds, manager of his country etc
Pele, Moore, Maradona, Di Stefano, Eusebio, Zico, Zidane, Yashin, Charles, Beckenbauer, Cruyff, Best, B Charlton, Puskas, Platini... All legends. Speed? Pfft. Nice bloke - really nice bloke, but he was a 'good' footballer at best.
Let's not start the Gary Speed thing all over again! I want this to be the final post in this good thread to include his name! Any others will be deleted!
Legends are in the eye of the beholder. For example Johnny Wark, Ray Crawford, Ted Phillips, Kevin Beattie and Alan Hunter are all Ipswich Legends but they don't resonate outside of Suffolk! Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson are the 2 exceptions and ones we are rightly proud of being associated with. Legendary status can be used to describe ex players from all football clubs even Norwich! Mind you judging by their complaints about who should be in their hall of fame i'm not so sure!
I have come to the conclusion that Alan Green actually hates football. I always seem to get out of work on Sunday when he begins to commentate on 5live, and I have never heard anyone moan as much as him about the game he's watching . Without fail he will say something along the lines of 'Well, there's nothing much happening, its about 15 degrees below zero on this gantry and the game has been dire.' I'm sure the game is bad every once in a while, but every sodding game?
Yeah obviously clubs have their own 'legends', but nobody in their right mind who isn't Welsh or an Everton, Newcastle or Leeds fan would call He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named one.
I want Andy Johnson in there. I'm pretty sure his triple flip dive into pike with peferct entry cost us prem survival in 2005.
Adrian Durham and Darren Gough on Talksport drive time? two of the most opinionated people on the planet and obviously set up to give differing opinions to argue.
1. Adrian Chiles The man is one of the dullest presenters to ever host a football programme 2. Colin Murray Knows little to nothing about football and seems to serve no purpose other than to wind up Lee Dixon 3. The British Media For their reluctance to accept that there is football outside of the Premier League 4. Anyone who uses the phrase 'he played for it' or 'he's entitled to go down' Don't tart it up, just say they dived 5. TV companies moving fixtures They're entitled to a certain amount every season so why not pick all the games they want when the fixture list comes out to save buggering about fans. 6. The FA Appeals process A complete waste of time having it as 99% of the time the appeals are thrown out to save making the refs look bad
DJ ****in Spoony. That knob gets in on everything. ProAm Golf, celeb football where a load of no mark celebs who make Christopher Biggins an Oscar contender, smile through gritted teeth when they've been substituted cos their ****e, charity cricket matches wearing stupid cream jumpers and running like a cross between Bambi and Robocop. I just put the recycling outside and he was staring at me from the bin! I think he was stood on Stan I'm scouse so I must be funny Boardmans head!
One thing I do remember is a celebrity heroes match between England and Germany, Boris Johnson was brought on as a sub, obviously knew **** all about football and spent his whole time on the pitch chasing the ball and steamrollering straight through whoever had it! My sides ached! Pure entertainment!
