HanoiVillan Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 This obviously isn't particularly important, and I'm letting this bother me way too much, but this line on F365 really pissed me off: 'As for Ederson, one can only hope that his recovery is as quick as his reaction times . . . The key point is obviously the keeper’s health, but this was perhaps his best performance for City yet, even if it was cut disappointingly short . . . His bravery and anticipation in challenging Mane for the ball should also not be overlooked. “I take risks but I’m aware of the situations,” Manuel Neuer, Guardiola’s keeper at Bayern Munich, once said in December 2014. “I always try to make the right decision when I’m in a dangerous position,” he added, in a line that sums up Ederson’s game perfectly. City’s high defensive line requires a keeper to think quickly to thwart any and every counter-attack, and the 24-year-old carried out his job to the letter.' 'Trying to make the right decision' isn't the hallmark of excellence, it's a baseline for sanity. It's like giving someone credit for taking their shoes off before getting in the bath, or remembering to exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide when opening their mouths. Even Peter Enckleman *tried* to make the right decision in dangerous positions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sne Posted September 23, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted September 23, 2017 Pretty scathing and accurate piece about some of the English pundits in one of the Swedish papers today. The guy who wrote it is one of the few really good and insightful football journos is Sweden. Paul Merson is dubbed as "The Emperor of Ignorance" For me it's pretty spot on Quote Today it's Saturday. For millions of people all over the world, it means making a bench in front of the Premier League. For us, as in any case, to some extent follows the English reporting, today and all other saturdays, the question is: How long will nonsense rule and set? Let me tell you about another Saturday. "I could win the league with Olympiakos. They have won it 107 times and it has only been in 106 years! Paul Merson knocks out with his arms. In the Sky Sports studio it's high pitch. Program leader Jeff Stelling has asked his expert panel to comment on the choice of Marco Silva as a new coach in Hull. Silva had begun his career in Estoril, a small club that plays at its height in front of 8,000 spectators. He had won the Portuguese second division on the first try and won the award as the coach of the year. As a newcomer to the High Court, Estoril became femma and qualified for the Europa League. On the way, it became the first team to abandon Porto in four years. The following year, the fifth place improved to a fourth place before leaving for Sporting Lisbon. Once there he would win a cup title, the club's first trophy in six years, and finish three in the league before the trip went on to Greece. During his only season in Olympiakos, Silva won the league title after, among other things, 17 straight victories. Now he had come to Hull City. - Why must it be a foreigner? I do not mind foreigners, but English ex-players spend a lot of time on training courses without getting the chance. What does Silva know about the Premier League? What does he know? "Merson was desperate before the next falling comment fell in the box and the laughter faded through the speakers. Hahaha. Banter. The lads. Looking for each other in agreement. Not against foreigners, but ... But what? But here is everything as usual. Does English football hostage hold Paul Merson's last coach job took place in 2006. He was fired after 94 matches in Walsall. When he took over the low club in The Championship, when he left the team in 19th place in League One. It really does not matter to him that he was a good football player, because either a successful or failed coach career or gambling career serves as a guarantee that you are a good expert. That's how it works mostly in England, but people usually go before things: It's not what you say is important, what information and knowledge you use to support your argument, but who says it and how upset it is. It has created two separate national talks about football: one among a mostly younger generation, mainly journalists at The Guardian, The Times and independent websites such as Football365 - and one that has the power to dictate the public opinion from their platforms, mainly under Sky Sports tv broadcasts and on many of the tabloids. Sincerity, limited nationalism, repetitions of ancient clefts, pub jargon and high laughter are the most desirable features of this world. In their network - or rather tyranny - ex-players and old foxes on tabloid newspapers have created a kind of shield against development. By repeating and confirming each other in an ecosystem of ignorance and fake performances, you are holding English football hostage. Statistical analyzes are for nerds. Tactics are southern European fathers. Do not have any litter in stock? Emperor of ignorance This season has started in furious speed on all sides and edges. A common grip on this gang is how ignorance is often used to substantiate arguments. In July, Ray Wilkins declared that Victor Nilsson-Lindelöf had "did not do anything at all" (winning the U21-EM, league title with Benfica and playing the Champions League quarterfinal), unlike the player himself preferred in Manchester United: Michael Keane (played for Burnley). Paul Merson, the emperor of ignorance as a feather in his hat, had never heard of Tottenham's Ajax midfielder, Davinson Sanchez, and was therefore seduced by the transfer sum. That sounds like that. I remember when my biggest idol, Alan Shearer, regular bite in the Match of The Day, perhaps the most "people-forming" football forum in England, was amazed at Newcastles scouting of the deceased Yohan Cabaye a couple of years ago (the team captain of Lilles championship from 2011 and French internationals). "No one had heard of him," shearer said. No. No. Sunkiga stereotypes Another grip is the constant recurrent use of sunk, age-old and incorrect stereotypes. This week, ex-player Phil Neville explained that he saw great similarities between South Koreans Ji Sung Park (hardworking midfielder with his greatest strength in the game without a ball) and Heung Min Son (witty, technically good finisher). What a coincidence, right? That span followed only a couple of weeks after another discussion occurred in England. Ex-player Danny Murphy had stressed that Paul Pogbas's "physical strength is his greatest asset" (not Pogbas's distinctive technical talent) while newcomer Sky expert Alan Pardew called on Romelu Lukaku to "apply more intelligence in his game". According to many testimonies and interviews, Lukaku spends hours studying patterns of movement, opponents and other attackers in front of each match, called "a big thinker" by Roberto Martinez, who, like his mature thinking courses with a coach, played less role. The comments appear instead to follow a pattern of templates for players with Pogba and Lukakus skin color. Round-off of strunt chat A third thing is a strange contradictory nationalism, based on the notion that foreign influences in English football are a trendy concoction that destroys. When Crystal Palace kicked Frank De Boer after three games, John Cross from The Mirror was out fast. Följ John Cross ✔@johncrossmirror Frank De Boer lasted 85 days at Inter Milan. 77 days at Crystal Palace. But he's Dutch so he must be good. That's right, because there's an unfair tendency to sneak on coaches outside of England instead of giving dumb English (what?) Chance. Forget Englishman Steve Parish, chairman of Crystal Palace, who is responsible for three of England's 15 shortest coaches. He is English, so he must be good. And we were back in Paul Merson's world, an echoing round of still-standing, inward-looking chatroulette. An extinct species What one gets through following the biggest platforms in England is scary often the opposite of expertise. The basic idea of journalism's popular education ideals has been kidnapped for a long time, instead, a clan of prejudice, joke and guess has taken command of the mission to explain football. This is a whole culture. A way to talk and write, thus also a way of thinking and a way to not create forums where one's embryos to discuss how English football can be developed occurs. The national team goes the same to me every championship, English coaches are an extinct species (outside Sweden) and the club team has been desperate in Europe. It's probably not going to start with the medial fury of nonchalance, but it will never end as long as it does not fall. http://www.expressen.se/sport/kronikorer/noa-bachner/sunkigt-och-alderdomligt-de-haller-fotbollen-gisslan/ Yes, it is google translated. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 (edited) I was actually impressed with Emile Heskey's punditry on the Leicester - Liverpool cup game. He was telling it how it is, slated Oxlade-Chamberlain's performance, no sugar coating at all, and had some pretty decent insights. Edited September 23, 2017 by Dr_Pangloss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 2 hours ago, Dr_Pangloss said: I was actually impressed with Emile Heskey's punditry on the Leicester - Liverpool cup game. He was telling it how it is, slated Oxlade-Chamberlain's performance, no sugar coating at all, and had some pretty decent insights. So he wont be hired again for not following the Liverpool agenda 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 (edited) Just had a quick look at the football stories on the sky sports website and there is yet another story with the headline 'Kane again proving world class status'. I won't bother linking the story because its no different from every other Kane story over the last 12 months or so, and thats my point really. Why do the media have this bloody obsession with labelling him world class whilst constantly talking about the possibility of the ballon d'or whilst playing for spurs. The kid is an absolutely wonderful player but the obsession is typical of the media, the same media who will be on his case the minute he goes through a bad spell. And It would piss me off if i were a spurs fan reading how he needs to leave spurs in order to win the ballon d'or. Edited September 27, 2017 by av1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted September 27, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted September 27, 2017 4 hours ago, av1 said: Just had a quick look at the football stories on the sky sports website and there is yet another story with the headline 'Kane again proving world class status'. 5 live on the way home last night were giving him the bumming of a lifetime. He has already been anointed as one of the greatest ever players to play the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Agreed. Thankfully from a England perspective he seems to have a good head on his shoulders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 5 hours ago, av1 said: Just had a quick look at the football stories on the sky sports website and there is yet another story with the headline 'Kane again proving world class status'. I won't bother linking the story because its no different from every other Kane story over the last 12 months or so, and thats my point really. Why do the media have this bloody obsession with labelling him world class whilst constantly talking about the possibility of the ballon d'or whilst playing for spurs. The kid is an absolutely wonderful player but the obsession is typical of the media, the same media who will be on his case the minute he goes through a bad spell. And It would piss me off if i were a spurs fan reading how he needs to leave spurs in order to win the ballon d'or. Yes and he has done absolutely nothing to warrant winning the ballon d'or as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 1 minute ago, Dr_Pangloss said: Yes and he has done absolutely nothing to warrant winning the ballon d'or as well. I agree that at this stage he is quite some distance away from consideration. What i don't like is this constant undertone that he could come into consideration if he left spurs. The notion you have to be playing for Madrid or Barca pisses me off. If the kid ever does get to the stage where people consider him to be the worlds best, the colour of his Jersey should be irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 It is almost as if all the pundits ( 90% man united and liverpool it seems) want to push Kane out the door and have an upstart like Tottenham cut off at the knees...but we know they would never do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 7 hours ago, av1 said: I agree that at this stage he is quite some distance away from consideration. What i don't like is this constant undertone that he could come into consideration if he left spurs. The notion you have to be playing for Madrid or Barca pisses me off. If the kid ever does get to the stage where people consider him to be the worlds best, the colour of his Jersey should be irrelevant. If you believe Neymar it's the reason he moved to psg, if Spurs win the prem and the CL and he scores 50 goals he'll probably win it, decent World Cup and he'll definitely win it move to Madrid or Barca score 50 goals and still be the 3rd best player in that team and he'll never win it theyre desperate to sell more players to Madrid and Barca, it's the go to reference, probably because a fair few English fans won't consider a move to say juve or Bayern as the peak, it'll be seen as sideways or backwards 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 not football but i stuck talksport on the news and ended up listening for 10 minutes because of the ben stokes story durham is giving an absolute masterclass in not saying that ben stokes smashed a bloke up in town and took the piss out of harvey price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 just seen sky are trying to put arsenal vs liverpool on tv, 4pm christmas eve rocket polishers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 SKY didn't extend David Beckham's 4 year contract worth £20m. Money well spent that is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 dont remember him doing anything on Sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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villa4europe Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 (edited) picked up a red top this morning that was lying around real madrid are going to offer spurs modric, bale and benzema in exchange for harry kane **** me how do they get away with it Edited October 13, 2017 by villa4europe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 On 9/10/2017 at 16:05, Keyblade said: I'm watching the Championship highlights on Channel 5 and I'm pretty sure that's old Jack Woodward's voice I hear narrating some of the quick highlights. I follow him on LinkedIn and it is indeed him! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 18 minutes ago, villa4europe said: picked up a red top this morning that was lying around real madrid are going to offer spurs modric, bale and benzema in exchange for harry kane **** me how do they get away with it This was 'reported' in BBC's rumours section as well, quite possibly the most idiotic transfer rumour that I've ever heard in my entire life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 I know Tim Lovejoy was never really that funny but **** the current Soccer AM makes him as funny as Richard Pryor. garbage 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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