Well, the dinosaurs were seen off and it's only a matter of time before the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have their day.
I remember those magic sponge days!The first time I saw a "trainer" with other things for an injury was watching this "trainer" for Brazil many years ago run on to the field with a variety of bottles.We wondered what on earth he was about to do to the player!!!!!! But things have come a long way since Cecil Poynton retired!Didn't seem to be so many injuries as there are today.Is it the speed of the game or too many games? Perhaps there's to many things to do today on their backsides then in the past.I think people walked a lot in the past while today were mostly couch potatos (and I'm guilty of this).
Think i should have a go, and don't worry, despite me being a gooner, you lot don't make the list. 1. Sky's northern bias. We get that Liverpool used to be a big club, shut up about it. Also, there is no way the Manchester derby is a bigger game than the NLD. 2. Liverpool. We get that you used to be a big club, instead of droning on about it, how about try becoming a big team again. 3. Barcelona. I hate how everyone thinks they're better than everyone else. They play a style of football stolen from both the dutch and Arsenal, they just combined it, they are a bunch of hypocrites, and this "more than a club" motto is total BS. On that logic, everyone is more than a club. 4. The Society of Black lawyers*. Firstly, what a stupid and possibly racist organistion. If i started a "society of white lawyers", i'd be branded a pathetic racist, and rightly so. And the fact they always get involved in footballing matters they have no knowledge about just drives me up the wall. 5. Trophy cabinet jokes. They were funny at first, but when the same boring jokes are recycled for 8 years, it gets tedious. Especially when you consider the Emirates trophy cabinet is not empty, what, do people think that Arsenal sold all the trophies that were won at Highbury? 6. Positive discrimination. This whole "y*d" debacle is further proof. If spurs fans are happy using it, then given their clubs strong Jewish links, surely it's OK to be used? It should really be up to the individual. I can understand banning the N word and the P word, but Y**? 7. Quiet stadiums. This is a real gripe, especially being a gooner, and the fact that the emirates sometimes sounds like a library. If you've paid good money to support your side, at least support them. I go to games, i get very drunk, and i sing my heart out. Would be nice if others did the same. If you compare the PL to the Bundesliga, the PL looks pathetic in comparison. 8. The Idea that the PL is the best league in the world. It's not. For sheer entertainment (as a fan), the Bundesliga is miles ahead, in terms of footballing quality, the Bundesliga is miles ahead. Why do you think teams are buying from Germany and not Britain? 9. Home grown players being overpriced. Never understood why british players cost so much. For the price of 1 Andy Carroll, you could get 3 Santi Cazorla's. All British players seem to cost more than their better foreign counterparts, and because of that, teams will just buy the cheaper and better foreign players. Look at Swansea as an example 10. The FAW. You English are lucky, at least your FA doesn't pick managers solely on a nationality basis, regardless of ability. Meanwhile in Wales, if it were between me and Jurgen Klopp for the Wales job, i'd get it because i'm Welsh, despite Klopp being better than me in every single way. * Couldn't bold it in case they thought i was being racist. Or some such drivel.
Barcelona stealing styles from the Dutch AND Arsenal.Well,I've got to laugh!If any football club has had a style it would be Spurs,known for it's football not it's crunchers .Now if we had crunchers we'd be more successful......like United who can buy who they like when they like! As I've written before,crunchers and goalscorers win trophies.Ask United and Chelsea fans!Very rarely will a pure football team be successful.Nice to watch as Spurs are we need more bite!
Also the magnetic field generated by the Earth is weakening, without which we would be exposed to solar radiation which would sterilise the planet. All very rosy the future, isn't it.
This makes footballers look like complete amateurs. You are in a no-pressure situation and yet scores of "professional" footballers can't even accurately deliver a football. Don't they ever practice. Take snooker. Players practice the same types of shot time after time after time to ensure that it becomes almost second nature to them when it comes to a match. Hell, Ronnie O'Sullivan even trained himself to pot left-handed to get an advantage over his rivals. In rowing, rowers just keep training until they collapse, Johnny Wilkinson just practiced kick after kick after kick from every conceivable distance and angle until he was almost robotic in his kicking. Why are footballers just so **** at the basics these days. Too much money and not enough dedication?
Too much focus on athleticism and not enough on skill, in my opinion. Neil Ruddock made a (rare) good point a while ago when he was asked what the difference was between players of his, admittedly recent, era and the modern footballer. He said that they used to take kids with talent and turn them into athletes, whereas now they take athletes and try to turn them into players.
Not sure if it's been mentioned but defenders running the ball out from half way across the pitch, its just blatant obstruction
Too true BS, initially instigated by Peter the Great, (Peter McWilliam) , Spurs manager 1912-1927 and 1938 -1942. Arthur Rowe, Bill Nicholson and Vic Buckingham all learnt total football from the great man. All starting in the Spurs youth development team at Northfleet. Everyone knows the Arthur Row and Billy Nick stories but the Vic Buckingham is a little more obscure, despite almost winning the double with West Brom and taking total football to Ajax in 1959 and even managing Barcelona in 1970 where he won the Copa del Rey. Barcelona didn't steal it from the Dutch Mr Gruber, they employed a manager who learnt it at Tottenham and took it to Ajax in 1959. Barcelona didn't steal it from Arsenal either, Wenger is/was a big fan of Rinus Michels at Ajax, who learnt total football from Buckingham, who learnt his football from Peter the Great, all roads lead back to Tottenham. As the more than a team motto at Barcelona, you have to go back to the Spanish civil war for that but the penalty for speaking Catalan was death under Franco during the Civil War. The stadium was the only place the it was relatively safe to speak Catalan, hence the more than a club motto.
* The term "assistant referee" not drawing a chant of "Who's the assistant bastard in the black?" at any point in time
Probably very sadly true. Why is it blindingly obvious to most people in the street but to the people it matters, they just keep making the same mistakes. Even Spurs were/are doing it with Carroll. Didn't we give him extra gym training a while back to bulk him up? Even though we had Modric at the club at the time who used skill to overcome the bruisers of the Premier League rather than trying to play them at their own game?
1. Not signing Ozil when he was offered to us (according to Balague) 2. potentially being 8 points behind Liverpool before we next play in the League 3. "they could have been 2 0 up by now with them 2 chances". No the game would have changed had they taken the 1st 4. Tottenhams EL home camera angle 5. ESPN/BT for using a more zoomed out camera angle than sky for PL games 6. Media saying Chelsea will win the league now that Mourinho has returned
Not sure where you've got that from. Almost every Sky/BBC pundit has said City will win it when prompted. As for the Spurs TV camera angle, it does my head in as well. Really hope BT Sport don't do the same thing.
...because its not 'almost every', one of these links is 3 pundits to 1 in Chelsea favour, then you have a fan poll, one main presenter from Sky Sports and one from BT Sport, so its quite easy for most to see where Dave got his idea to post from. http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/...ague-fan-panel-predict-chelsea-for-title.html http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/...ays-premier-league-2013-14-pundits-picks.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/jamie-carragher-its-chelseas-title-1967214 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...itys-season-Liverpool-make--MICHAEL-OWEN.html
On SNF, every pundit was asked and only Jamie Redknapp said Chelsea would win it. Similarly on ESPN, the majority agreed it was City's title with Hislop saying Chelsea and Smyth saying United. Michael Owen being an ex-United player probably has a lot to do with why he wouldn't pick City for the title and similarly with Janie Carragher and United. Chelsea are the safe bet for both. In all my time I don't think I've ever heard any ex-United player predict City will win the league, or Liverpool for that matter.
A lot of people thought/think that Chelsea are a good shout for the title this season. I was one of them. It's still early days, but they certainly haven't clicked yet and Mourinho looks a little out of sorts at the moment, for some reason. Hangover from Madrid and all the stick he got, perhaps? Might not be his usual supremely confident self right now.
DL please read daves post again, he says 'media', not 'all media', why split hairs?. You've been given some media quotes backing his rather simple and correct statement, and stop trying to discredit the people that have backed you....can't handle the pressure or something!? I suppose all the fans in the PL poll should all be ignored for petty reasons....stop acting your age!
