The College Dropout Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Oh and former alcoholic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 The blazers at the FA always chose the most influential/safest individual to hold the role of captain of the English football team. They're about as risk-adverse a group of dinosaurs as you're likely to get. Proper establishment figures and the qualities you'd look for in a captain weren't particularly relevant when choosing who'd do the job. Safe pair of hands, uncontroversial, clean and unlikely to cause any waves at all. They've always been the same. Went to court for assault. Shagged his team mates wife. Made a racist remark. Cheated on his wife. Being black. I'm not talking about being THE captain either. I meant the decision to choose Owen over Campbell when I posted it really but that's a good point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Is there bollocks. Better players, better people or better leaders. Nowt to do with skin colour. Have to agree with you here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughesy Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2572412/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Sol-Campbell-wasnt-captain-cruel-injury-not-FA-racism.html This basically. There were plenty of justifiable reasons why Campbell was never captain. Racism wasn't one of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Btw I'm not agreeing wit he the 10 years shit. I'm not even saying he should have ever been THE England captain. But from '98 to '06 he should've captained England more times than he did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UV Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Is there bollocks. Better players, better people or better leaders. Nowt to do with skin colour. Martin Keown, Michael Owen and David Seaman? Nothing wrong with Keown or Seaman. Owen was obviously an abysmal choice of captain but it wasn't just the international manager who made that horrific appointment. Campbell was ahead of Keown in the pecking order at international level when he was given the captaincy over him. Campbell had already amassed 2 of his 3 caps by that point. I'm sure someone will think of an excuse though. Is the fact that Campbell was injured & not in the squad when Keown got his solitary England captaincy a good enough excuse not to captain him for that game? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Btw I'm not agreeing wit he the 10 years s***. I'm not even saying he should have ever been THE England captain. But from '98 to '06 he should've captained England more times than he did. Arguably yes. However, I am loathe to believe it was anything to do with his skin colour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 The blazers at the FA always chose the most influential/safest individual to hold the role of captain of the English football team. They're about as risk-adverse a group of dinosaurs as you're likely to get. Proper establishment figures and the qualities you'd look for in a captain weren't particularly relevant when choosing who'd do the job. Safe pair of hands, uncontroversial, clean and unlikely to cause any waves at all. They've always been the same. Went to court for assault. Shagged his team mates wife. Made a racist remark. Cheated on his wife. Being black. I'm not talking about being THE captain either. Who shagged a team mate's wife? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Terry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Girlfriend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 IIRC there were already split and Bridge was at Man City at the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I see Nasri has joined into this by claiming Yaya is underrated because he's African. As f*cking if man for starters everyone and their mother wanked over Drogba and last time i checked he's African. And besides he's not underrated anyway, he's rated just fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Everyone thinks he's the best midfielder in the league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettNUFC Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I see Nasri has joined into this by claiming Yaya is underrated because he's African. As f*cking if man for starters everyone and their mother wanked over Drogba and last time i checked he's African. And besides he's not underrated anyway, he's rated just fine. You'd argue overrated if it had to be one or the other But like you say, he's rated just fine really. Some of the shit that gets pulled through racism is unbelievable, like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 IIRC there were already split and Bridge was at Man City at the time. Former team mate then and an international team mate at the time. Terry was also married at the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 The best African players technique is slightly under-rated. He's not directly African but Benteke scored an overhead kick the other day and all I heard was about his power, this was after his goal. Same thing Yaya gets. Talk all day about his power and athleticism but truthfully his footballing skills are under-rated. This year he's scoring and assisting like a prime Gerrard/Lampard with quality finishes/final balls but you'll sooner hear about his athleticism. I wouldn't call it racism. Just lazy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnbull2000 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 http://www.themag.co.uk/the-mag-articles/shocking-behaviour-racist-fan-enbarrasses-us/ Language warning... http://www.themag.co.uk/assets/Newcastle_United_Roy_Kaviani_NUFC.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/sep/03/racist-discrimination-on-rise-in-football-complaints-kick-it-out Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 This has exploded into a massive hysteria. I'm out. Hysteriception. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chicken little Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 http://i.imgur.com/knxmD2a.jpg :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toon Hoser Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Yep, racism completely sorted. Especially in Russia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 http://i.imgur.com/VDjowbk.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 It's been fixed guys! Everything is good now. Just like corruption in FIFA. Nothing to see here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Wj6_KgWC--/1433837383949431621.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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