Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Tue May 20, 2014 10:21 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

"Don't take words that don't come from my mouth seriously"

...

"Everything he said is true"

Eh?

Yaya - Don't take words that don't come from my mouth seriously.
Agent - Thanks Yaya, you've made me look a right tvvat. You whined about it, you okayed me going to the press about it.
Yaya - Everything he said is true.

Toure is being a complete div. His agent is an even bigger div because he allowed Toure's childish complaint to be broadcast, when what he needed to do was slap a bit of sense into him.

I don't think Toure and his agent are any worse than many footballers. They are all deluded, spoiled children who really need to spend 5 minutes in the real world to show them how lucky they are. I just think Man City are pretty bad at letting their players loose with their stupid thoughts.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Tue May 20, 2014 10:46 pm  

I've never had a cake from my employers for my birthday, he's a lucky boy!

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed May 21, 2014 6:36 am  

100% Wire wrote:

I've never had a cake from my employers for my birthday, he's a lucky boy!

Where I worked you were expected to buy cakes all round on your birthday

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed May 21, 2014 11:49 am  

What I can't understand about Toure is why would he move back to Barcelona he wasn't even in their midfield when he left?!

He is throwing a strop because he is treated as an employee at City (£200k a week wages should soften the blow you'd think) and his greedy parasite of an agent wants his 10% from a potential move.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed May 21, 2014 12:18 pm  

duke street 10 wrote:

What I can't understand about Toure is why would he move back to Barcelona he wasn't even in their midfield when he left?!

He is throwing a strop because he is treated as an employee at City (£200k a week wages should soften the blow you'd think) and his greedy parasite of an agent wants his 10% from a potential move.

Players and agents will have seen how Rooney and Suarez put in transfer requests last summer and ended up with improved contracts. There was a time when players would think twice about doing this because of the fans reaction. But nowadays players can do more or less what they like off the pitch and still be forgiven if they perform on the pitch. As were Rooney and Suarez. And most City fans accepted Tevez back after his golfing holiday.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed May 21, 2014 10:14 pm  

Looking at England retaining, not just winning, the Under 17s European Championships gets me wondering if the FA have just made the biggest mistake they've ever made?

All the recent upheaval and major changes made to junior football in this country were designed to have us match the Dutch and Spanish. Seems that as at the age of 16 we're already doing that. The guys that are winning these trophies for us now were brought up on the old school systems.

I've watched a fair bit of under 7s football this year and it's utterly farcical watching the basketball style games of kick off / shoot / block / run / shoot / block / run / shoot / goal. All it does is makes it ridiculously easy for the athletic kids.

As we're the best in Europe at 16, would a more suitable quota to get English players playing in the Premier League not have been a more suitable change than tearing the junior game to pieces?

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sat May 24, 2014 4:47 pm  

Looks like Sky Sports News' wankfest with that melted candle faced prick will be in overdrive for the next 12 months.

Great.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sat May 24, 2014 9:31 pm  

Where did the officials find 5 minutes of injury time at the end of the 90 in the Champions League final?

Feel for Athletico Madrid

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun May 25, 2014 1:54 pm  

duke street 10 wrote:

Where did the officials find 5 minutes of injury time at the end of the 90 in the Champions League final?

Feel for Athletico Madrid

Never mind the 5 after 90 minutes, where did they find 5 minutes after the 2nd 15 minutes of extra time?

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun May 25, 2014 2:35 pm  

duke street 10 wrote:

Where did the officials find 5 minutes of injury time at the end of the 90 in the Champions League final?

Feel for Athletico Madrid

I'd guess about half of it for the various substitutions, the other half for their time-wasting, which they spent most of the second half doing.

As for the five at the end of extra time, then I'd say that was for Simeone playing the prick.

I don't feel for them that much - Yes, the timing of the equaliser was cruel, but the best side did eventually win.