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Anon

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  1. This is pretty much spot on. Personally I prefer a mix of opinions like you get on some of the radio discussion programs where journalists and ex pros offer their opinions. I couldn't tell you the last time I actually sat through and paid attention to the post match analysis on a TV broadcast. As others in this thread have pointed out, I think the way people consume football coverage has changed with the ready availability of highlights and streams and that's driven some of the changes we see in punditry. Roy Keane's frequent hot takes whilst Micah Richards cackles maniacally in the background aren't just because Roy is a miserable curmudgeon. He's incentivised to create reactionary short form content that will be clipped and shared online.
  2. I don't know if it's due to less fully trained medical professionals being on hand at that level? The last game I went to, a Halifax player went down near the end of the game and they were so reluctant to move her that the ref ended up blowing full time a few minutes early after agreeing it with both managers. Was Tinsley moved off the playing surface at all until the ambulance arrived?
  3. I don't agree with this line of argumentation. You don't have to have played the sport to be a good commentator or pundit in my opinion. I'm already fed up at the prospect of listening to ex footballers like Gary Neville, Jamie O'Hara, Chris Sutton, Gabriel Agbonglahor forever more. I quite like the balance provided by someone who didn't play professionally. Where I do agree is that I don't see how ex female players would have any unique insight into the men's game. Perhaps it doesn't matter, but we'll see when a panel of exclusively male footballers commentate on a women's game, because that will definitely happen right? Seeing as these picks are apparently made on merit without any thought towards hitting diversity quotas. Statistically we will surely see an all male punditry team for a women's game fairly soon. Right?
  4. I couldn't disagree more with the points you've made in this thread. You don't fix or atone for racism with more racism. You have a generation growing up in this country who have been taught and (mostly) believed that everyone should be treated equally and judged as individuals, yet now they've had the rug pulled from under them because older generations feel guilty about how they previously behaved. For any older people who feel like they've been disproportionately advantaged in their lives I suggest you give away your house(s) and your money to minorities, rather than blithely stymie the career prospects of your children/grandchildren.
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    Wayne Rooney

    Clough's struggles? The struggle of consistently finishing mid-table? It's laughable that you'd even try to make the comparison. I appreciate they walked into very different situations at Derby, but all I've heard about Rooney since he usurped Cocu is excuses. You can't criticise him because we were bottom of the league when he took over. You can't criticise him because the players aren't being paid on time. You can't criticise him because of the points deduction. So now he's had a chance to prove what he can do at a club without all those issues, and he proved to be even worse than he was here. And the excuse now, he's not been afforded the ability to waste loads of money. Will Rooney's shockingly poor managerial record ever be his fault?
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    Wayne Rooney

    It's not that simple though. If he'd done that those players would be left wondering why the guy that had got them playing that way had been binned. Rooney was in a tough situation because I think 6th was a false position and there's no way Brum could've maintained that, but he only has himself to blame. No one forced him to take the job. No one forced him to elbow Eustace out of the way and take on unrealistic expectations. He's been deservedly punished for his hubris.
  7. Not keen on Queen to be honest, but I wish I could give more likes for you pointing out that The Killers suck donkey nuts.
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    Wayne Rooney

    Cheers. I'd had this comment saved from earlier. It's edited now.
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    Wayne Rooney

    By sacking him they only highlight how clueless and deluded they were to appoint him in the first place. Anyone with a functioning brain could look at his first season here to see what Rooney was capable of with an average championship team, a relegation battle.
  10. Personally I like Steve Bloomer's Watching. I agree with many of the problems you've highlighted with the song, but I like that we have our own song about club legend rather than recycling other clubs' chants or crap pop songs. The idea that a f****** U2 guitar riff of all things would inspire or intimidate anyone is unbelievably quaint.
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    Liam Delap

    Going to Man City was the sensible move. You'd be crazy to turn it down. Delap's done ok, but let's say worst case scenario in that the player doesn't continue to develop and even goes backwards. They'll still get more opportunities, better loans, more offers upon their release if they're coming from a top Premier League club. Tom Carroll for instance has coasted his entire career on being good in Spurs' youth team. If he'd been the exact same player, but a product of a league 1 academy, he'd be non league by now. What rankles is the way those top clubs put pressure on the football league to revamp the tribunal system so they could pillage young talent on the cheap before they can be signed to a pro contract. Even more annoyingly those same managers who hoover up all these young players are incessantly whinging about the number of games, yet barely ever use the talent they hoard in their reserves.
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    Nathan Tyson

    I try to forget that this guy ever played for us. He was one of Clough's worst transfers and he came on a free.
  13. I agree Abba are rubbish. It's not just because it's Abba though. I dislike all musicals where they awkwardly shoehorn a plot around a group of songs that were never intended to have a connected narrative. I like the Proclaimers, but the film Sunshine on Leith is crap. It's just so lazy and pointless. If I like a band or an artist I want to hear them performing their own work, rather than a load of b list actors doing karaoke versions of the songs.
  14. My 6 would've been; Mason Greenwood Joey Barton Toni Minichiello Ivan Toney John Yems Chijindu Ujah
  15. Is that away at Newcastle in 2007? We deserved a win. Viduka spared Newcastle's blushes with a late equaliser. I often wonder if we'd picked up the three points here, plus a deserved point from Liverpool, whether Jewell would've gone quite so crazy with his desperate January transfers.
  16. You're missing out on some crucial character development. Some of the plot twists leave you on the edge of your seat. I'm pretty sure that's where the term edging comes from.
  17. It's an odd decision. Having said that you could just as easily frame it as the owners appointing a guy who led Sheffield United to a 9th place finish. I hope Wilder does well. Pissing pube head gibson's money up the wall and leaving the sanctimonious smoggy Bamfords in the relegation zone particularly endeared him to me.
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    Ravel Morrison

    Being a certified imbecile is kind of a disability.
  19. My dad isn't a Derby fan, but he took me to this game and developed what can only be described as a man crush on Ron Willems.
  20. It's very difficult to judge the consensus for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the footage for anyone who doesn't watch hockey looks awful. If you don't understand hockey it looks like Petgrave makes a beeline for Johnson and karate kicks him in the neck. This, along with the nature of online discourse has polarised discussion. There are people who think it's horrific that the authorities would even investigate and there are people who think Petgrave should be tried for murder, never mind manslaughter. Second, many of the more balanced forums have banned discussion both due to the emotive nature of the incident and the fact that there's an ongoing police investigation. No way was Petgrave trying to maim Johnson, but I do think it's the correct decision to properly investigate. Petgrave is a goon. He's had disciplinary issues in numerous leagues, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything since this is a legitimate role in hockey and pen minutes/suspensions are expected. There is footage of Petgrave leading with the knee in other challenges. I think it will be extremely difficult to prove recklessness or criminal negligence. Not the same sport, but if Kevin Muscat was never criminally charged I think they will have to dig up a crazy amount of footage to establish a pattern of behaviour for Petgrave.
  21. Because it's interesting, and because we'd have no business commenting on the challenge if we hadn't watched it. For what it's worth Johnson comes out of the footage looking like a hero. He doesn't panic and immediately skates across to the bench, giving himself the best possible chance of survival in the circumstances.
  22. No, it isn't common. Skates will rarely get up that high. Normally when they do it's a result of a player being sent flying by a check. Every player understands that everyone is skating around with deadly weapons on their feet and it's possible to lose control of your body when skating at speed. Having said that, I don't fully understand why the leg gets raised in this instance. The clip that causes the defensive player to lose control seems pretty innocuous, but momentum does weird things to the body.
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