General Football Nonsense

Hursty

Smallman1 I think Madrid will give Chelski a right kicking tonight, based on being outclassed by titans of the English Premier League, Brentford at the weekend.

Wally

Smallman1 UKRAINIAN BLOOD ON OUR HANDS?! NO THANK YOU. GOOD DAY SIR!

(not got any room left on my hands with all the Saudi blood apparently)

hugopal

Smallman1 Is there a thicker pundit than Rio Ferdinand?

Jamie Redknapp.

Jermaine Beckford whenever he occasionally gets trotted out as well.

Martin Keown also gives Rio a run for his money.

alistair

hugopal the world is full of them. Jenas is truly anodyne too

hugopal

alistair if you had to play a drinking game where you did a shot every time Jermaine Jenas said “like” then you’d be hammered in 2 minutes.

alistair

hugopal Yup. Throw Danny Murphy, Michael Owen and Jimmy Floyd in there too. I actually used to quite like Collymore. Yes, he was a nob but he was opinionated and interesting, hence he is out of a job.

hugopal

alistair Yup. Throw Danny Murphy, Michael Owen and Jimmy Floyd in there too.

I actually think Michael Owen gets a lot of unfair stick and is one of the better pundits around.

His voice is dull enough to send most people to sleep, but his actual analysis is often legit unparalleled. I don’t recall hearing any other pundit being so precise when dissecting shooting technique and what players do well and not so well when presented with a scoring chance. He sounds like he’d make an excellent coach (not manager) as well if he could be bothered.

-si-

Good result in the end last night. Start of the second half didn’t look too promising, they came flying out of the blocks. That boy nunez looks some player. Could do worse than look at him over the next season or two.

Can’t wait for sunday now! The reason you follow the beautiful game is for this stage of the season. It may well go absolutely tits up and city win 7 nil but it’s the hope that kills you!

Smallman1

Chop Souey is my favourite pundit.

And I like Roy Keane too.

Like me, they’re both cut from granite.

bosstrabs

Smallman1 Chop Souey is my favourite pundit.

And I like Roy Keane too.

Like me, they’re both cut from granite.

Key difference, though, unlike Ed Smallman, Roy Keane didn’t have an absolute magic wand of a left peg.

Nor a headwand, come to think of it.

Amps

Smallman1 cut from granite.

Scanned that as ‘giraffe’ and then realised it’s still accurate.

-si-

That would be some midfield trio, the game would be won before a ball is kicked. Souness, keane and smallman.

Smallman1

bosstrabs Key difference, though, unlike Ed Smallman, Roy Keane didn’t have an absolute magic wand of a left peg.

Nor a headwand, come to think of it.

A lol for Dave!

Amps

bosstrabs Nor a headwand

Scanned that as ‘headweave’, and then realised its probably still accurate.

bosstrabs

hugopal but his actual analysis is often legit unparalleled.

To be fair he is more cogent than many of the thick as pigshit pundits.

Seemed to me to be just about spot on analysing United recently, although he was possibly stating the obvious.

alistair

TBF, Souey, Keane and Neville would probably be the ideal three for Super Sunday but that’s at least one too many men, not to mention they’re all white

alistair

bosstrabs that is a good bit of punditry that would be beyond most of the phone it ins. I am still seeing him alongside Darren Ferguson in the BT commentary box.

hugopal

bosstrabs a lot of that particular clip is stating the obvious, but he still gives extra details such as the point of pressing often being to herd the opposition into areas where they might lose the ball, rather than over-committing in trying to make a tackle then getting easily bypassed.

He’s definitely one of the few who seems to really understand what he’s talking about and often gives bits of additional insight you don’t get elsewhere.

Mad_Cyril

Fuck me. Has this entire thread turned into a gigantic fishing expedition?

#insight

loopdokter

ScottBailey assuming he’s modelling Everton’s 2022/23 home kit…

AKA the ‘Canadian Tuxedo’?

loopdokter

More Canada nonsense. Ignore as much as you feel necessary…

Canada has been without a fully national professional footy league since the early 1980s. We’ve had a few semi-pro things come and go, along with individual teams based in US leagues like the PDL, USL and MLS, but the Canadian Premier League is the first league that’s from coast to coast and fully Canadian run and based. Incidentally, the last time we qualified for the World Cup was when we had a professional league in Canada. The first Canadian Premier League season began in 2018.

Each team has to have at least 6 Canadian starters. They can only have a maximum of 7 foreign players out of the 23 man roster. 3 of the Canadians have to be under the age of 21 and play at least 1,500 minutes.

They started out with 7 clubs in 2018 and have already expanded to Ottawa (who’s co-owned by Atletico Madrid) and three more to come shortly in Sasketchewan, Windsor (Ontario - Richie Hawtin’s hometown) and Vancouver, BC. They’re also looking to expand beyond with a team based in my hometown of Kitchener-Waterloo, which would be nice to have an actual hometown club to put support behind instead of having to to to Hamilton (45 minutes) or Toronto (an hour away).

A women’s league with sister clubs is scheduled to launch in the next five years.

The quality of the football is meh, but it’s still a new league and is meant more as a developmental path for players. This is a rather good documentary about the first year.

bosstrabs

loopdokter Shut up, Loopdoktee

loopdokter

bosstrabs

No.

SM001

bosstrabs You started it you twonk…

https://jaded-clubbers.com/d/1657-for-the-fao-of-jayford-loopdokter

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