Football Banter Thread
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Caporegime
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Bah, I was about to go to bed, that's worse than going in the gif thread and seeing something to do with spiders right before you go to bed 
Caporegime
Why did we sell Gervinho? So much talent!
Soldato
Wasn't sure where to post this. But I'm watching the 'Official World Cup Films' on BT Sport just now. Currently on France 98. Looking at the various squads, you have guys like Dechamps, Klinzman, Leonardo et al (now in management) Ronaldo, Owen, (retired) and then theres Zanetti, still playing for inter! Legend!
Consigliere
Henry and Trezeguet were part of the winning squad and they are still playing as well. There's a few others from other WC'98 squads still playing at the highest level i.e. knockout phase of CL (Ferdinand, Buffon etc).
Man of Honour
John Terry has been blamed for all sorts of things but this beats the lot:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-JOHN-TERRY-countrys-political-troubles.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-JOHN-TERRY-countrys-political-troubles.html
Soldato
'Brechin Bad'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nxzdr
Was told about this last night, the full 'Only an Excuse?' programme is on the link as well but the clip implies shady goings on at Glebe Park
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nxzdr
Was told about this last night, the full 'Only an Excuse?' programme is on the link as well but the clip implies shady goings on at Glebe Park
Man of Honour
'Brechin Bad'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nxzdr
Was told about this last night, the full 'Only an Excuse?' programme is on the link as well but the clip implies shady goings on at Glebe Park
It's not you is it?
Soldato
It's not you is it?
Funnily enough, I saw the online order for the hats and scarves that the BBC made on the Supporters Club Shop but didn't put two and two together until i saw the sketch! Plus that was filmed in Glasgow, no way is our pie shop that big
Man of Honour
Man of Honour
ManU fanzine Red Issue wants club diving culture stamped:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...er-Moyes-rids-club-diving-culture-leaves.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...er-Moyes-rids-club-diving-culture-leaves.html
We should be getting rid of Young anyway because he's largely rubbish, not because he's a cheat.
Januzaj will hopefully 'grow out of it'.
Caporegime
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You can't use a yellow card table for diving as proof when every other thread on here is all about horrendous refereeing decisions in almost every game let alone just every week.
Some of Bales were deserved, some weren't, he had more that went unpunished. Welbeck dived and didn't get a yellow card, so we know already that those tables are wrong. Players, not rightly or wrongly, only very wrongly, dive all the time, all up and down the league and the vast majority either go as penalties or get ignored by ref's. Every other game you hear the commentators saying along the lines of "surely he has to give the penalty or a card... he's done nothing about it". Because most dive's like Welbeck's get ignored by the ref, they just run off without carding. I'd honestly say it's something like 1 or 2 out of 10 dives actually get a card.
One player every year gets the media attention of being the diver, at which points ref start carding them for almost everything, dive or not.
Some of Bales were deserved, some weren't, he had more that went unpunished. Welbeck dived and didn't get a yellow card, so we know already that those tables are wrong. Players, not rightly or wrongly, only very wrongly, dive all the time, all up and down the league and the vast majority either go as penalties or get ignored by ref's. Every other game you hear the commentators saying along the lines of "surely he has to give the penalty or a card... he's done nothing about it". Because most dive's like Welbeck's get ignored by the ref, they just run off without carding. I'd honestly say it's something like 1 or 2 out of 10 dives actually get a card.
One player every year gets the media attention of being the diver, at which points ref start carding them for almost everything, dive or not.
Soldato
How many years has he been in the uk play football?