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Reply | Leicester defeat a disaster??
at 23:44 21 Jan 2025
Nor me, and Dave B is bang on! If anything, it's Marti who should have apologised to us. That's the other side of taking the plaudits. [Post edited 21 Jan 23:47]
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Thread | Fine margins
at 22:24 21 Jan 2025
Fantastic to be at such altitude, of course, but, Gino Bambino, with four points between us in 9th and Preston in 16th, this league's tighter than a duck's bottom!
Should we be looking up, looking down, or just not looking? |
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Reply | Lloyd and saito
at 22:06 21 Jan 2025
Unfortunately, he sometimes also reminds me of Steve Slade - he's really one of those players with whom you feel the ball's never quite under his conscious control. But he's got guts, legs, and passion, and that's a proper base to work from. |
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 22:03 21 Jan 2025
Marti really needs to wake up and keep them both away from the first team - they're both that bad and, I feel, irredeemable! But an excellent, if not flawless, 2nd half, and Saito' s 'statement' first goal was more lovely than falling cherry blossom in a Kyoto garden. |
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 21:26 21 Jan 2025
We're ninth! Ninth! And four points of the playoffs! Four!
I'm bleeding from my nose! |
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 20:46 21 Jan 2025
Good shout - he's playing like he's about 50! We should be turning Japanese (I really think so)! |
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 20:43 21 Jan 2025
I suppose the best one can say is we're impressively mediocre. The table doesn't lie! [Post edited 21 Jan 20:50]
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 20:43 21 Jan 2025
Strangely laborious game, with them on top at the start, roasting us down our right again, and us having a little spell halfway through of pretty passing and a header off a post. Varane, Field, and Morgan are al playing about 10 yards in front our box, weirdly, preumably under perplexing and tiresome instruction, while the clearly less than electric Chair has been stuck out so wide on the left he's virtually off the pitch at times. Meanwhile, Kolli's hirsute flower looks a little limp. All in all it's a bit of a much of a muchness.
Pick of a mediocre bunch probably Edwards - is he now keeping JCS out of the defence, or has the latter reverted to fragile type? |
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Reply | Pat Nevin's The Accidental Footballer
at 01:09 21 Jan 2025
Good for you, sir, for pointing up how, in the words of Billy Bragg, there are two (if not two hundred and two) sides to every story, as any decent journo knows. |
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Reply | Pat Nevin's The Accidental Footballer
at 01:07 21 Jan 2025
Who said he was a 'decent bloke''? It's just more black and white thinking, exaggeration, and caricature. What I've pointed out is that no one here who has an 'opinion' on Terry (in a culture where people think just because they have a hole in their face, their voice is as valid as anyone else) (i) knows him as Nevin does, (ii) who (Nevin, that is) has described how/why he changed, or at least complicated, his view of him and (ii) who (still Nevin) is a decent guy - if apparently somehow too trendy for one or two - confronted Chelsea fans' racism in the 1970s when I bet no one else here was sitting down at a table with the NF or putting their head dangerously above the parapet.
Suddenly, apparently, that makes one an apologist for Hitler!
It's liberal fascism at its most disingenous, and utterly embarrassing to what is normally, one or two goons excepted, an intelligent messageboard. |
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Reply | Pat Nevin's The Accidental Footballer
at 21:05 20 Jan 2025
And thanks for it, Mr Counsellor. Pity one or two felt the need to hijack it with their impermeable loathings of (the admittedly unappealing) Terry and/or inverted snobbery/nit-picking at Nevin himself, but the book's as worthwhile as you say. [Post edited 20 Jan 21:39]
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Reply | Cian Dillon goals reel
at 21:02 20 Jan 2025
His reel's at low/youth levels, of course, but there looks like a promising player there. Let's hope he can make a big step up when the time comes! |
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Reply | Pat Nevin's The Accidental Footballer
at 18:40 20 Jan 2025
Ooh - things like 'There are no subtle nuances to John Terry. He is a racist, bully, greedy, egotistical, adulterous scumbag'. Comparing him (and Nevin's intelligent/informed/nuanced view of him) to Hitler liking animals. Little things like that. |
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Reply | Ruben Amorim
at 18:12 20 Jan 2025
In the 'un' or 'dis' sense, though? |
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Reply | Pat Nevin's The Accidental Footballer
at 18:01 20 Jan 2025
Some of the hate and prejudice here (for both Terry and Nevin at the same time in some cases - you really couldn't make it up!) makes me just as ashamed for the people behind it. Meanwhile, my being called a 'clown' and contrarian for excavating Nevin's detailed, informed and valid opinion about an apparently unattractive bloke like Terry, with reasoned journalistic reference/support etc., tells its own depressing story. Haters hate etc. Me, I like to live dangerously and try to think a little for myself. [Post edited 20 Jan 18:24]
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Reply | In other news !!!
at 00:43 20 Jan 2025
Are you Alan Shearer in disguise?
No, it isn't, it's about playing with joy and creativity, entertaining, and trying to win.
Even though we didn't win in 1976, I still think we won the season morally, and I'd rather have been us playing as we did, and finishing runners-up, than that merely efficient Liverpool machine. [Post edited 20 Jan 0:44]
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