If anything inadvertently described everything that's wrong with English football then this is it. Makes my stomach turn. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25400583
"And to trace the roots of Villas-Boas's demise requires a journey back to the summer and the sale of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid in an £85.3m move." Because he had no idea Bakle was leaving when he took on the job
to sight that is stupid, to say he could not be replaced is even stupider, SAF managed it when he sold ronaldo. AVB is nothing but a croaking meercat and i for one am quite happy that i will no longer have to watch him perched like a twat on the sidelines or have to listen to that fookin voice for a while meanwhile doing the rounds from last night please log in to view this image
From nufc.com. Corrections to multiple errors in brackets Hants rants miss mark The Southern Daily Echo published the following article on Friday under the headline "Saints' youth policy puts Toon to shame" which raised valid arguments about our squad. Unfortunately though, the paper chose to illustrate their piece with a pile of garbage masquerading as statistics - our comments are in red: Saints have won widespread praise from all quarters this season for their desire to promote young English talent this season. Tomorrow they come up against a club who have been the polar opposite to them. Ex-Saint Alan Pardew this week celebrates three years in charge of Newcastle United. In that time he has become the Premier League’s second longest serving manager, behind Arsene Wenger. On taking over, Pardew said: “I intend to focus on developing exciting young players through the club’s excellent Academy and development squad.” Though we cannot doubt his words, his actions have spoken louder than his stated ambition of promoting young home-grown talent. Amazingly, Pardew has only fielded three English-born players in league or cup action this season – and all three are in their thirties. That's an interesting calculation - here's our version with the relevant age in brackets: Mike Williamson (30) Dan Gosling (23) Rob Elliot (27) Steven Taylor (27) Samuel Ameobi (21) James Tavernier (22) Paul Dummett (22) (Gael Bigirimana is also an England youth international) Can that be of any help to Roy Hodgson and the national team? Of course not. One of those three is former Saints academy defender Mike Williamson, the only Englishman who started last weekend’s historic win at Old Trafford. Another is ex-Everton defender (he's a midfielder) Dan Gosling, who is now on loan at Blackpool after managing just two League Cup outings for the Toon in 2013/14. The third is defender Steven Taylor, who has not appeared since the opening day of the season, when he was sent off in a 4-0 loss at Manchester City. Pardew has handed young Welsh full back Paul Dummett three Premier League appearances, but by and large has placed his faith in overseas talent. (Dummett is still eligible to play for England). Remarkably, Pardew has 12 French players in his first team squad while a 13th – Mehdi Abeid – is on loan at Panathinaikos. (It's just the 12 including Abeid and fellow loan player Romain Amalfitano) Six of the French contingent (no it's five) – Lioc Remy (that's Loic), Davide Santon (he's Italian), Moussa Sissoko, Yoan Gouffran, Yohan Cabeye (that's Cabaye) and Mathieu Debuchy – started at Old Trafford. Pardew also fielded two Dutchmen, keeper Tim Kruhl (that's Krul) and Vernon Anita (that's Vurnon), one Argentinian (Fabricio Coloccini) and an Ivorian (Cheick Tiote). And an Italian. Two of his three used subs were also French – Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa and Hatem Ben Arfa. The other was Nigerian-born 32-year-old striker Shola Ameobi. In contrast, Mauricio Pochettino started with six Englishmen against Manchester City last weekend – Calum Chambers, Luke Shaw, Jay Rodriguez, Jack Cork, Adam Lallana and James Ward-Prowse. Two more – Rickie Lambert and Harrison Reed – came off the bench. Clubs are free to pick and choose who they want, but hopefully more will want to copy Saints’ template than Newcastle’s.
Spurs a a point better off at this stage without Bale. I could rewrite that article with one sentence. Levy is a prick! There yo McNulty, wasn't hard was it?
He seems to expect some kind of sympathy for Spurs or the manager who's off home, for Christmas, with £4 million in his sack
