loki679

He's a professional athlete in mid season, did you think he was going to go back to Paris and slob out on croissants and beer all day?

Jozy

Never a penalty that.

This is it like, at the end of the day there's no one who ever made the top grade in football who didn't push themselves as far and father than anyone else. Messi has "dropped off"* as his work rate and attitude have seemingly taken a nose dive. If Benny has the attitude he'd have been at the top, it's really that simple. *in relative terms before anyone starts lol, you'd rather have Ryan Taylor than Messi

If we're at our most dangerous without the ball then we're gonna be fucking nails in this game. Optimus Prime on steroids nails.

Deserves it tbh. We had a good run of form and some decent results.

Great job by Derek Wright maybe he isn't so shit aft- God damnit Derek.

Ridiculous decision. They're the police ffs. The police can't just throw a tantrum and say 'fine, you lot sort it out yourselves'. It's going to be bad.

I'd rush him back as quickly as possible even if it means risking him breaking down again because i'm a fucking idiot who can only rely on a bit of magic to save my job.

How much of the job do you really think that is though? Getting the ideas through to the players and coaching them how to put them into action on the pitch is the important part of that which is missing. Any of us could sit here and come up with a system and formation in about 5 minutes.

All the best managers call their players shite in public.

Reads like his mum wrote it. Or Stifler.

As if Ronaldo would stand for having his name second in the title

There's absolutely no reason a nobody who plays football manager couldn't make a career out of it if he studied the game enough IMO. It's the same with anything really, if you work hard enough at it and learn the craft you can do it. But fact of the matter is you'll never get a chance based on that alone. I personally never understand the mindset that "he's played football so he knows his stuff and you didn't so you know f*** all ". Sky and BBC prove on a weekly basis that isn't the case if anything in some cases it's the complete opposite. That Secret Footballer guy/Dave Kitson is obsessed with telling people that only people who have played the game can truly understand the tactical nuances etc and that fans generally don't know anything. Which is quite frankly a load of crap, but his view nonetheless. It's in his interest to maintain the glamour and illusion around the profession that keeps it a closed shop.

Mourinho played for the team that his dad managed, then two others and then quit because he wanted to be a manager. The point being, they're lowly teams. There was the whole 'Arsene who?' thing because in terms of being players, they were complete outsiders. On a personal note, I was speaking to a Championship player not long back, some of the things he was telling me about the backwards management really does open your eyes to the living these blokes are stealing. Go on....

This despite his backing of a manager that wanks over stats rather than using their gut. No chance of getting it in your belly button if you use stats.

You need to have studied the game for years and been involved at the top level to understand that playing Shola Ameobi right wing is a bad idea like.

Yeah, goalkeepers generally don't go for that much. Think Buffon is still the most expensive at about £30m (?) but after him I can't think of many that have gone for even £20m. De Gea maybe? That Chelsea lad? Think we'd be lucky to get £10m for Krul.

Aye, we should all get together and send him a nice big spam hamper.

Season lasts more than one game.

Had to deal with Pardew and Bruce and Deschamps and Blanc and Perrin and Domenech and Gerets.

Nothing player. If the team does alright he looks decent, if the teams does shit he looks shit. That's because he contributes fuck all apart from making up the numbers. He's like a bland, tasteless sauce.

The cross for the goal should have been easily dealt with by Cahill, I could have cleared that one. Don't think your mobility scooter would have got you there in time.