Anyone hear Zabaleta and his English accent during his post match interview today?
Anyone hear Zabaleta and his English accent during his post match interview today?
Will it be farewell Big Sam or just a slap across the wrist? Either way, what a plonker! (as Dell Boy would say)
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
I can't help feeling some sympathy for the eejit but it's way beyond a slap on the wrist I'm afraid.
Swansea manager sacked and replaced by Bob Bradley. Interesting choice as ever at Swansea.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Well Sky-hype were at it again. "Red Monday", "massive", count down clocks in the background and "it's live!!" only for two teams, neither of which is playing in the Champions League, to come up with a 0-0 borefest. Now on to "The Return" as Mourinho goes back to Chelsea on Sunday. A friend of mine had said to me before the game "Games don't get any bigger in the Premier League!" and he believed it. He was a bit deflated when I told him I'd sooner watch Stoke v Everton to see how the Irish got on. Oh Sky, I haven't decided yet whether your hype is good for the English game or whether in the end it will kill it. The advertising on radio that it shows "the games that matter" intimates that only the "big clubs" matter to Sky. We sort of knew that but to actually state it?
p.s. I only saw snippets of the game as there was Coronation Street and Red Rock to watch. The reports say it was a bore.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
It was absolutely dire.
But for two moments of magic from De Gea I couldn't tell you what happened. The skill levels on show were abysmal and the sheer one-footedness of some of the players out there is beyond acceptable. It started to make me angry as the game wore on
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Poor standard but interesting that Mourinho was able to set United up in such a water tight fashion so early in his tenure. I've heard many people say that the easiest thing in fotoball is to just throw players behind the ball and defend but that's nonsense really. It's easy to do it, but difficult to do it so effectively. The tactical planning and mental discipline it requires must be pretty intense. It would have probably been a winning performance if they had a better link between defence and attack. They'll need to spend really big to find a player that should be able to provide that... oh wait...
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From a defensive point of view it was great in that sense. But as I've no skin in the game I wanted to try enjoy it. But as I said above, as turgid an affair as it turned out (and the lord knows I love a good example of defensive play) the absolute awful skill levels on show were the real shock. No ability to keep the ball at feet or to slow play down. It was embarrassing.
At least I had the option of Spurs-Leverkusen last night or sorry Spurs v Hernandez + 10.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Yeah although I don't think he really set them up to park the bus on Sunday, and even if he did it was gone out the window after a few seconds.
Well you are probably right there, but they could have done with parking it up at some stage but the handbrake eluded them collectively and individually
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2016/...hester-united/ Any number of puns spring to mind but I'll just say that I suppose they are used to watching sh*te this season.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Had to build a lot of graphs in work lately, so used what I've learned to build this graph of final Premier League standings, using points on the Y-axis instead of final position: https://tetsujin1979.github.io/finalstandingsGraph/
Pity you didn't start in the season 1991/2
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Before football began?
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
I enjoyed this-
Pep Guardiola: A Continental Success and English Soccer’s Measuring Stick
Great line-
"it is, after all, curious that a league so bombastic in its self-promotion should appear to be so desperate for validation"
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