Cunnyfunt Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 19 hours ago, cityexile said: Do not follow the premiership to much, but would find it amusing to see both Manchester players miss out on the top four. A derby nowadays for them consists of is our Spaniard better than your Argentinian, or whatever. You're that out of touch it's no longer called the Premiership. It's now the Premier league. Sorry to be pedantic. To argue your case a young Salford lad got the winner yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 5 minutes ago, Cunnyfunt said: You're that out of touch it's no longer called the Premiership. It's now the Premier league. Sorry to be pedantic. To argue your case a young Salford lad got the winner yesterday. Granted he should of got a pen but disappointing to see him throwing himself to the ground time after time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCulturalBomb Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 19 hours ago, ChippenhamRed said: Indeed; a far cry from 2007-08, when we had three of the four Champions League semi-finalists. People talk about the Premier League as the "greatest league in the world" - in reality, Aguero is probably the only one of the world's top 15 or 20 players who plays here now. Absolutely, all of the 'world class' players either got old and retired or went to a Barcelona or Bayern. Maybe on their day we have a few world class players, Aguero, Kompany, De Gea, De Bruyne and 3 or 4 others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne allisons tongues Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 People saying Man Utd are playing the kids and well done LVG. If they didn't have such a big injury list those youngsters wouldn't be anywhere near the 1st team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coach Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 5 hours ago, Portland Bill said: I get the part where you say he took over 2 world class sides. But it's his tactical awareness that has taken those sides to a different level that sets him apart.He's made the football pitch bigger without making a football pitch bigger, if you get what I mean. Maybe I am being too harsh. Yeah understandable what you're saying. He encourages his players to move towards the ball, rather than players spreading out waiting for the pass. He encourages such basic football any team could do it. Move towards the ball, receive the ball, look again for an incoming player, and pass. Keep doing this until a slot is open to either have a shot on target, or towards a man running towards goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 44 minutes ago, TheCulturalBomb said: Absolutely, all of the 'world class' players either got old and retired or went to a Barcelona or Bayern. Maybe on their day we have a few world class players, Aguero, Kompany, De Gea, De Bruyne and 3 or 4 others. Harry Kane is getting close. Only the 5th Englishman to score 20 goals in consecutive Premier League seasons I believe. That's some going for a 22 year old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCulturalBomb Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 1 minute ago, glynriley said: Harry Kane is getting close. Only the 5th Englishman to score 20 goals in consecutive Premier League seasons I believe. That's some going for a 22 year old. Yeah he is getting close for sure, can score in the big games too. Him and Vardy top of the top scorer charts makes it good reading for the English game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craven arms Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 21 hours ago, reddogkev said: Can't even score against Norwich. Can't even beat Man ure. Humiliated by Leicester. Will they finish out of the top 4 this season? The Hammers to pip them? And they spent 50 million on Sterling... ha ha ha! My god, Pep's got his work cut out for him! Did you lose on a accumulator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheatus59 Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 21 hours ago, reddogkev said: Can't even score against Norwich. Can't even beat Man ure. Humiliated by Leicester. Will they finish out of the top 4 this season? The Hammers to pip them? And they spent 50 million on Sterling... ha ha ha! My god, Pep's got his work cut out for him! Im not sure , but the name of this thread tells me something fishy is going on there ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 What really is world class, because I think it has been diluted in recent times? To many good players are all too easily talked up to be world class, when they are nothing of the sort. The amount of money sloshing around at the top end of the game has created a situation whereby the general public feed on news/information/gossip/speculation about top flight football. This in turn creates an industry in itself, with journos and pundits on Tv and radio feeding the insatiable appetites prepared to take it all in. You only have to look at something like Talksport to see this in action. (For Talksport, read TalkPremierLeague). Guys like Durham provoke fans to phone in and how often do you hear fans of the top clubs saying that where their club has gone wrong is not signing world class players, and they then trot out the names of these so called world class players they should be buying ( some of whom I confess I have often hardly heard of). You can bet your boots that agents are feeding into the media and talking up their players, as they want to create the next big money move and a player being regarded as "world class" adds a load of millions to transfer value and also wages, all of which adds to the amount going into the agents' pockets. Even on OTIB we get posts about who we should be signing and quite often it an obscure player from league 1 that the poster believes is the next big thing, but we've all seen a catalogue of the "next big thing" come and go to and from Ashton Gate. There is far too much hyperbole in football nowadays, and too many fans and TV viewers ( not necessarily the same thing) swallow it hook line and sinker, so believe their club has to pay £65m as a fee and offer £200,000+ per week wages in order to attract such and such a player, because they've been told he's world class. How many top players now measure their success by the size of their bank balance but not by what they have achieved in the game? A few years ago the rewards followed on from success but it often now seems to be the other way around. Me cynical? You bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 Just read Richard hairy hands Keys blog and he points out a interesting stat. Chelsea , Arsenal , Man City, Man U , Liverpool and Everton have a smaller combined points total than Leicester, Stoke,Bournemouth, Watford, Southampton and West Ham ...! Imagine the odds on that in August . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 56 minutes ago, Cunnyfunt said: You're that out of touch it's no longer called the Premiership. It's now the Premier league. Sorry to be pedantic. To argue your case a young Salford lad got the winner yesterday. To destroy yours, Rashford was born in Wythenshawe not Salford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Dawe Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 2 hours ago, Robbored said: Why don't you lot grow up? Cos we're not ready for bowls just yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunnyfunt Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 2 hours ago, One Team In Keynsham said: To destroy yours, Rashford was born in Wythenshawe not Salford. Close enough but you get the point I was trying to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portland Bill Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 8 hours ago, Robbored said: Who said anything about having millions to spend equals success? I think the last 25 years in the ££££ league has proved that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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