TheTeapot Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Hmmph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stinking enigma Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Alan shearer. Complete twot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 4 minutes ago, the stinking enigma said: Alan shearer. Complete twot. Surely you mean Alan Shearer. Football Genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 9 hours ago, TheTeapot said: Surely you mean Alan Shearer. Football Genius. His comments at half time were spot on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stinking enigma Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 A poor man's Tony Mepham. All this guff about the importance of the fa cup. It's absolute bollocks. The fa cup used to be a big event but only because that was one of the only times football used to be on the telly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 1 hour ago, the stinking enigma said: A poor man's Tony Mepham. All this guff about the importance of the fa cup. It's absolute bollocks. The fa cup used to be a big event but only because that was one of the only times football used to be on the telly. If you are a professional footballer on ludicrous amounts, every cup should be important. Not like they have feck all else to worry about in their pampered lives. Fans deserve better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stinking enigma Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Speaking as a fan, i'm not sure they do. The fa cup is still loved by some of the oldies but ultimately even winning it is meaningless. Shearer is a server of platitudes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 It's not the players that are to blame when the manager decides to rest them. The Liverpool players yesterday didn't fail through lack of application or form, but because of lack of experience or form. Fans deserve better? I think Liverpool fans can live with going out of the FA Cup if they win the league this season. The Wolves fans looked delighted. Shearer is a terrible pundit, just an old man moaning about how things were better in his day. But how many FA cups did he win? And the one year he won the league - they went out in the third round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Declan said: It's not the players that are to blame when the manager decides to rest them. The Liverpool players yesterday didn't fail through lack of application or form, but because of lack of experience or form. Fans deserve better? I think Liverpool fans can live with going out of the FA Cup if they win the league this season. The Wolves fans looked delighted. Shearer is a terrible pundit, just an old man moaning about how things were better in his day. But how many FA cups did he win? And the one year he won the league - they went out in the third round. Moreno/Sturridge/Mignolet/Origi - hardly lacking experience. As for form, they are pro footballers for heavens sake. The youngsters out on that pitch were on a mission to impress the boss. The four aforementioned muppets just sulked their way through the game. Any football fan wants their club to win as much as possible so yes, on the performance last night, we do deserve better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 24 minutes ago, Neil Down said: Moreno/Sturridge/Mignolet/Origi - hardly lacking experience. As for form, they are pro footballers for heavens sake. The youngsters out on that pitch were on a mission to impress the boss. The four aforementioned muppets just sulked their way through the game. Any football fan wants their club to win as much as possible so yes, on the performance last night, we do deserve better. I think the four named tried their best. They're not playing very well or regularly, it's not as simple as "try harder". There didn't seem to be much in the way of tactics and there was a bit of bad luck (Loveren injury, Shaqqirri hitting the post). If there's blame it's for Klopp for picking a reserve team against a top half of the Premier Division side. But I doubt any Liverpool fans who bought tickets expected him to pick a different team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Big clubs don’t care about the FA cup. I’d go as far as saying they see it as a distraction and extra unnecessary games that get in the way of the premiership and champions league. It started some years ago when Man U were kings and didn’t even enter the competition to concentrate on the world club championships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stinking enigma Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Liverpool lost 2-1 away to a side that turned a full strength spurs team over 3-1 only a couple of weeks ago. I don't think it was a bad result, ashley cole has won the same amount of fa cups as liverpool have in their entire history. just need to get rid of international games as well now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxman1980 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 3 hours ago, wrighty said: Big clubs don’t care about the FA cup. I’d go as far as saying they see it as a distraction and extra unnecessary games that get in the way of the premiership and champions league. It started some years ago when Man U were kings and didn’t even enter the competition to concentrate on the world club championships. That is a falsehood... "The club's chief executive, Martin Edwards, and their manager Alex Ferguson put on a united front with David Davies, the FA's interim executive director, as they tried to justify the unpopular decision. In the background the recurring theme was of England's 2006 World Cup bid and the guidance from the Government which persuaded United to ditch the game's oldest domestic tournament for its newest global prize because of fixture congestion. United say they were left with little choice when the FA told them of the possible risks to England's hopes of staging the World Cup if they did not take part in Fifa's new tournament, the World Club Championship in Brazil next January." https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-united-withdraw-from-fa-cup-1103601.html It was the FA and not United that pressed for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 That was a turning point in how the cup was viewed, if the FA didn’t support it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 4 hours ago, manxman1980 said: That is a falsehood... "The club's chief executive, Martin Edwards, and their manager Alex Ferguson put on a united front with David Davies, the FA's interim executive director, as they tried to justify the unpopular decision. In the background the recurring theme was of England's 2006 World Cup bid and the guidance from the Government which persuaded United to ditch the game's oldest domestic tournament for its newest global prize because of fixture congestion. United say they were left with little choice when the FA told them of the possible risks to England's hopes of staging the World Cup if they did not take part in Fifa's new tournament, the World Club Championship in Brazil next January." https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-united-withdraw-from-fa-cup-1103601.html It was the FA and not United that pressed for this. Tony Blair involved in yet another clusterfuck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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