Re: Close Season Football Chat : Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:48 pm  

Cibaman wrote:

They've paid their money, undertaken a lengthy round trip to get to watch a match that they could have watched on the telly in a pub. If they want to go home early in those circumstances then fair enough. Better than staying and jeering the team.

I don't have a problem with people leaving early, although it's something I wouldn't do myself.

It was the third game in a row that they've been to SJP and sold nowhere near their allocation. After the way they 'celebrated' sending us down, it was nice to exact some revenge yesterday and see their fans squirm.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:49 pm  

OoOGazOoO wrote:

Was nice to hear Robbie Savage back tracking on MOTD2, he's a f*cking idiot that fella.

I couldn't stop laughing at his prediction that we'd go down a couple of weeks ago, based on the sole fact that his Derby team beat us 3-0 last season.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:53 pm  

Ski wrote:

You mean like Toon fans leaving at halftime in 2008? Yea, suppose it is.

We played you twice at Old Trafford in 2008. The first game was 0-0 at half time. The second game was 1-1 at half time.

If you're going to bullshit, at least do some research first so that you don't make yourself look stupid.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:03 pm  

ash4hullfc wrote:

We played you twice at Old Trafford in 2008. The first game was 0-0 at half time. The second game was 1-1 at half time.

If you're going to bullshit, at least do some research first so that you don't make yourself look stupid.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:35 pm  

LFCRhino wrote: Dont managers have to give interviews from this season or the club gets fined? Im sure I read that somewhere a while back but whether or not its come into force yet I dont know!?! EDIT: found something "New rules have come into force this weekend supposedly compelling Premier League managers to provide post-match interviews to the media. If they refuse, their club will be fined. If they refuse again, the fine will increase with every non-appearance." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... k-BBC.html One of the most ludicrous of all the new rules brought in to play recently. Unless they are going to relax bans/fines on managers speaking out and/or make referees do the same then I think it will be totally unworkable. What's to stop Ferguson (for example) just replying with "No Comment" to every question???

LFCRhino wrote: Dont managers have to give interviews from this season or the club gets fined? Im sure I read that somewhere a while back but whether or not its come into force yet I dont know!?! EDIT: found something "New rules have come into force this weekend supposedly compelling Premier League managers to provide post-match interviews to the media. If they refuse, their club will be fined. If they refuse again, the fine will increase with every non-appearance." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... k-BBC.html One of the most ludicrous of all the new rules brought in to play recently. Unless they are going to relax bans/fines on managers speaking out and/or make referees do the same then I think it will be totally unworkable. What's to stop Ferguson (for example) just replying with "No Comment" to every question???

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:18 pm  

Think id sooner leave early than be pictured at the end,sat in a empty stand crying.....everytime i see that its always some sad geordie 2@.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:54 pm  

Ordsall Quays Red wrote:

One of the most ludicrous of all the new rules brought in to play recently. Unless they are going to relax bans/fines on managers speaking out and/or make referees do the same then I think it will be totally unworkable. What's to stop Ferguson (for example) just replying with "No Comment" to every question???

Because the rule you state is that managers have to provide post-match interviews to the media. Would you consider Fergie saying "No comment" to every question to be providing an interview? I wouldn't, I don't think many people would, so Fergie doing that would be treated as a refusal to give an interview.

Personally I couldn't really give a to55 about interviews with footballers and managers. They're a complete waste of TV air-time IMO. But I'm in a minority in that and TV companies give a lot of money to televise football which massively benefits every top level player and manager. TV companies feel that the best coverage includes interviews with the important players and managers and they are right to insist that they give them.

Fergie's acting like a child with the BBC. He's got away with it for far too long.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:21 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

Fergie's acting like a child with the BBC. He's got away with it for far too long.

No he's not, he's sticking to his guns and rightly so

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:28 pm  

1-0 Citeh. Barreh.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:20 pm  

Am I being harsh when I say that, in my opinion, a goalkeeper who is apparently the best in the world should be doing a lot better with that 2nd City goal?