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Post by dixinormus on May 14, 2019 8:15:54 GMT
Rugby World Cup - a whole month when the Kiwi media analyse every single kick of the ball by the All Blacks. National misery and grumpiness if they don’t win. All a bit ott.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 9:24:09 GMT
World's most boring rugby fans. I've been to their matches a few times, never in NZ of course as I've never been there, but their fans are utter mutes who just sit there in the expectation of victory. The Aussie ones are poor too, but nothing like as bad as the Kiwis. All the European nations seem to manage to create an atmosphere, and the Special Effort award has to go to Argentina fans, who are brilliant in the face of strong odds against them usually.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 0:00:53 GMT
I thank you....
A great game, great season and a fantastic manager. Record breakers....!!
See you next season..
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 7:30:58 GMT
May well have been a great game from your point of view, but for the rest of us it was one sided and boring. Biggest winners were the Watford fans. Epic display of passion and loyalty from them throughout the hiding they received.
I wonder if Pep will now go on to manage a club where his supposed skill can really shine through, i.e. one without a bottomless player budget. Until he manages to win major honours outside of the wealthiest, most successful clubs in the world, I'm not sure he can be called a great.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 8:55:58 GMT
You will never see him manage a poor club. But it is clear that he is a great manager.
In his first season with us we won nothing. He was building a team; not necessarily buying one. He has transformed the way City play and made us almost unbeatable. The only teams that get close, really set themselves up either to score on the counter or go toe to toe as Liverpool do.
He took players who had been with us for years (Kompany - bought for £6M; and Aguero) and they did far more under him than previous managers. So you can't say we bought our success any more than Spurs or Liverpool (£75M for Van Dijk).
City play a football that is not simply whack it up the field and see what happens; it is cerebral, careful and incisive. I get bored with a goal kick where all the players simply move up the pitch and hope to head on; I love it when the ball stays on the ground and moves forward at the feet of a swift running player, with an urgency and support of his team mates. That is why City are good; its not money, it's method and style. It is keyhole surgery compared to the open wound surgery of days gone by.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 9:05:32 GMT
Oh I don't disagree that others are purchasing success, it's been that way since the Premier League was formed. It seems to have got out of hand now though, competition from below the top 6 is pretty much zero, barring the Leicester fluke. It's become a boring procession. I like a bit of hoof and hope as well, I expect I shall be fully catered for on that score following my team next season.
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Post by Humph on May 20, 2019 9:19:26 GMT
I know I must be wired up wrongly, and I'm sort of at peace with that I suppose. I've never really understood the attraction of being an avid spectator. Not that I'm immune to mildly admiring someone or a group/team of people, being very good at what they do, for a while anyway. But then, in truth, I fairly quickly lose interest. It's almost certainly a personality disorder, but I've never been any different and can't see how it's going to change now.
I prefer instead to spend my precious free time trying to be a little bit better at something I can do, or want to learn to do, rather than watching others being good at what they do.
If that makes any kind of sense.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 9:29:00 GMT
Dude, we're all different. Football spectators are a small minority of the population when you look at it, so it's probably us who are wired wrongly.
I really ought to pick up one of my previous sporting hobbies again, (tennis or hockey, or maybe squash if I really want to give myself heart failure), but I'm just too time-poor at the moment. Pathetic excuse really, I'm sure I could find the time, but I'm a bit of a slugabed.
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Post by Humph on May 20, 2019 9:53:23 GMT
Aye indeed, "normal" life has a bit of a habit of robbing you of the time to do the things you'd prefer to be doing. And then, the great unfairness is that when, eventually, you do find yourself with the time, you're too knackered from doing all the other stuff, to do it !
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 21:51:53 GMT
There is a herd mentality of being with like minded people, jointly experiencing the pain or joy of your chosen team failing or succeeding. It's odd as really we should be playing rather than watching but I'll never be any good and watching a good game is exciting, even if we lose.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2019 5:08:39 GMT
Anyone watch England last night? Rather a poor display with no strength in midfield, and defensive howlers.
Perhaps also a reflection of tiredness at the end of a long season - the ManCity players had 61 games plus England appearances last term...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2019 7:30:52 GMT
More concerned by the behaviour of so-called fans in Porto. Scum. You just don't get this shit with any of the other Home Nations. Why do they still do it? Why doesn't the FA/UEFA do something about it?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2019 11:51:14 GMT
It's not the fans who do it. It is idiots who go to the city where the match is being held without tickets intent on getting drunk and causing mayhem. The fans in the stadium are very unlikely to be connected to those who got arrested.
It is a huge shame but little you can do to stop people doing this if they have no connection to the FA or EUFA. They make sure that only responsible fans get tickets. Remember the Chelsea fan who abused the balck lady on the Paris Metro - they knew who he was and was banned. Can't do that if you have no season ticket or membership number but just turn up in a fake England shirt...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 8:04:56 GMT
Rather shocked by the sacking of Pochettino. Not sure Jose is the person who is going to revitalise Spurs..
Levy needed to be freer with the purse strings and bought some new players.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 8:57:33 GMT
Spurs are, and always have been, a massive joke. Horrible club. This idiocy kind of proves it. He's had them punching above their weight - a European Cup Final ferchrissakes, just a few months ago. Similar decision to my club sacking Jokanovic to be honest. Morons, morons everywhere.
Mourinho is not anyone's answer now. The game has moved on.
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