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ponsaelius

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Shearer is a poor pundit but he certainly isn't the worst (Bright). Listening to him and Lawro on 5live yesterday he came across a bit better than on MOTD.

 

I don't particularly rate his punditry but the way that article rips into him is pathetic. He's hardly an idiot, infact he sounded far more relaxed and articulate on that Shearer special on 5 live.

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Hanshithispantz

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Bit of a pointless article realy, admitedly he's a pretty shit pundit (as 90% of them are) but calling him an over-paid child and taking the piss out of the blokes hairstyle is not realy needed (especialy when the reporter is sporting an awful barnet himself with a rediculasly camp pair of spectacles).

 

 

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That article is spot on. He offers zero insight, which is what we all want, and he can't deliver a sentence without it being full of mistakes. Read the quotes the huy puts in there, Shearer doesn't even know how to express himself in the correct tense nevermind being able to describe something of importance in a match.

The minimum requirement for a pundit should be the ability to express himself.

Great goalscorer and player though...

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A good pundit for me would be someone that recognises what diving twat's Torres and Gerrard are.

 

Someone who speaks for what the fan's are saying.

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That Jonathan Liew guy is a f***ing pathetic writer though. Remember one of his crap articles at the back of the telegraph, didn't even have anything to do with football. It was just him trying to be funny. Another example of this

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/7958790/Jonathan-Liew-Move-over-Gary-Lineker-lets-give-George-W-Bush-a-go-on-Match-of-the-Day.html

 

What the f*** is that? Why is that in the sports pages? Gimp.

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That Jonathan Liew guy is a f***ing pathetic writer though. Remember one of his crap articles at the back of the telegraph, didn't even have anything to do with football. It was just him trying to be funny. Another example of this

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/7958790/Jonathan-Liew-Move-over-Gary-Lineker-lets-give-George-W-Bush-a-go-on-Match-of-the-Day.html

 

What the f*** is that? Why is that in the sports pages? Gimp.

 

He's a massive twat like. Boring, bland, pathetic and ill informed.

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Ketsbaia

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Nelson Valdez seems like a proper nice guy. After listening to the Football Ramble, I read this fantastic Sid Lowe article regarding Barcelona 0-2 Hercules.....

 

Nelson Valdez hails a 'dream come true' as Hércules shock Barcelona

 

By the end of the first month the others had given up, unable to take any more, but he stuck it out – lying exposed and alone in the dark, 25km outside Asunción. At the tiny Estadio Ypané, a makeshift bed of blankets and cardboard lay in a stairwell beneath the stand, at the mercy of tropical heat and tropical storms. The boy from San Joaquín was 15 when he arrived; almost two years later, he was still there. Homeless, sleeping rough. He says it was "hell", "frightening and horrible." 250km away, his parents, poor land workers, were none the wiser: he never told them. By night, he paced about, drank cane liquor – "I was almost an alcoholic" – and slept. Or tried. By day, he did shifts at a sawmill. When there was work going. Which wasn't often.

 

That wasn't all he did. Nelson Antonio Haedo Valdez also played football, training with the Estadio Ypané's other tenants, second division side Atlético Tembetary – quite literally his home team. He had a promise to keep: his mother cried when Laurent Blanc knocked Paraguay out of the 1998 World Cup, so he vowed to make amends by scoring at the World Cup himself. And although he says he was "never a very good player", he has certainly never lacked character. Or heart. This is the man who, gun in hand, chased off thieves stealing his car and ran into his blazing home to save his dog; the man who sends €10,000 (£8,285) a month to his home town, where a community depends on him, and buys presents for 1,500 kids every Christmas.

 

The fact that these days he can owes much to a man called Jurgen Born, who worked for Deutsche Bank in Latin America. Thanks to him, instead of continuing to live under the stands like a troll under a bridge, Valdez crossed to Europe. "I saw a madman who never stopped running," Born remembers of youth team games in Ypané. One day he bought Valdez a ticket to Germany and got on the phone to Werder Bremen. They had no idea who he was but the president's wife, a fellow Paraguayan, convinced them to give Valdez a chance. He scored four times in his first game.

 

Yet while Valdez went from Werder Bremen's youth team to the first team, winning the league in 2003-04, while he played for his country and went from Borussia Dortmund to Spain this summer, becoming the most expensive player in Hércules' history, at €3.8m, he has rarely proven a prolific goalscorer. Generous and tireless, with shoulders almost as broad as his head, running through from deep, dropping off the front, focused more on aiding others, goalscoring has rarely been his role. He got a goal every four games for Bremen, 16 in 113 for Dortmund and nine in 38 for Paraguay. And when he did fulfil the promise he made his mother, against Spain in South Africa, they only went and took the goal off him. And a semi-final place with it.

 

On Saturday night, Valdez took revenge. Nine weeks later, nine years after he last lived under Atlético Tembetary's stands, Valdez got his goal. His goal -suh. Two of them. And not just any goals, either. Massive ones. The goals that sunk Xavi and Piqué, Iniesta, Pedro and Villa. Implausible goals. Impossible ones.

 

Because however much Herculés coach, Esteban "Sardine" Vigo, a former Barcelona player, predicted that his side would beat FC Barcelona 2-0 this weekend, most people thought he was off his head. Barcelona are the league champions; Herculés are making their first appearance in the first division since 1997 – in fact, they've spent just two of the last 26 years in the top flight. Hell, they've spent half of the last decade in the regionalised, four group, eighty-team Second Division B. And Barcelona had not been beaten by a newly promoted side for a decade.

 

Barcelona had won 17 out of 18 at home last season, drawing the other. They had not lost a league game at home for 16 months – and that didn't really count, what with it being a who-cares-we've-already-won-the-title defeat against Osasuna. You have to go back to February 2009 for their last 'real' defeat at home – and that was a miracle. Since Pep Guardiola made his managerial debut in La Liga they have not once been beaten by two goals in the league. And Valdez, the goalscorer who doesn't score, was making his La Liga debut. 2-0? To Herculés? With Valdez getting them both? On Catalonia's official holiday, too? No chance.

 

 

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/sep/13/hercules-stun-barcelona-sid-lowe

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Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Apoula Edel has been interviewed by police over claims he lied about his age and identity.

 

Edel’s former coach and agent Nicolas Philibert, who claims that he is owed 30,000 euros by the player, is reported to have accused the 24-year-old of actually being a 29-year-old named Ambroise Beyamena.

 

French magazine Le 10 Sport had published documents accusing the Cameroon-born Armenia international of lying about his age and identity, documents handed to the authorities by Philibert.

 

These included a copy of a request for a Cameroonian playing licence for an 'Ambroise Benyamena' in 1998, with his date of birth given as April 19 1981.

 

Philibert claims he coached Edel in Cameroon, lending him money and helping him move to Armenia, and that he is actually Benyamena.

 

PSG have released a statement saying they were "dismayed" by the reports and claiming that the article "added nothing new" to the case, which was first brought to light last year.

 

The club have also made a claim of defamation against Philibert.

 

Sevilla, beaten 1-0 by PSG in the Europa League group phase last Thursday, have complained to UEFA about "a possible irregularity" concerning Edel's registration with the French club.

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Village Idiot

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Casillas' GF (and world's hottest sports journalist) has slammed Cronaldo on TV saying he is "egoistical and shelfish, but he's always been that way and we knew it".

 

She's criticized his BF in the past too mind, but I'm still amused by all this weird sudden wave of Madrid media hostility regarding Cronaldo.

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Hanshithispantz

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i heard some pundits on the tv say, newcastle are doing better away because they are less cautious than at home

 

Yeah that was Paul Merson.

 

And he based this on the fact that we we're beaten by Blackpool at home 1 week and then won away the next, so logicaly, using his own punditry skills he came up with the idea that Newcastle will be better away from home this season :facepalm:

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Ketsbaia

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Just a random thought: since this is the first generation of footballers since people like Wenger revolutionised footballer's diets, does that mean the era of most players retiring near 35 is over? will we see carrying on until 39 or 40 as the norm?

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