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He's one of a few who accepts when his side has been soundly beaten, giving credit to the opposition where due and not looking for excuses nor scapegoats placing fault with himself and with his own and his own players so in that sense he can come across as not really caring and a bit aloof. He's not been a world-beater but not many who are appointed to an International management position have been. Different skill set between club and international management I would have thought?

Should be in your divers/cheats thread this one.... never touched him...

Definitely voted this up.... You've made my night

Started with something from football but there must be some to see from Rugby and American Football. Don't have to be nasty, like this one, could be brilliant.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJuiK4iAxS8

Cheers

It's not Everton who've gone stale it's the fans. There is so much fear of failure amongst fans of Premier League teams a lot of fans are almost "well I went to the game but I'm not really bothered because money is spoiling it...." on the outside when they're screaming on the inside that their team can't compete. That's why the crowd go bonkers when something good (or contentious) happens having spent the rest of the time holding their breath and expecting the worst to have to try and explain why they support that team even though they're not really bothered (dying inside). A lot of European teams' fans don't shut up from start to finish and we (English PL supporters) console ourselves with "listen to those nobheads" when we wish we were exactly like them in the support of our team. The crest. Not overly bothered. It's a crest but I am fed up with Rupert's Stump being on there. Treatment of away fans. Go to that plastic dump across the park and sit in one of the 'severely restricted views' they charge away fans £50 for, or to Chelsea where they'll charge you £60 for the same view, or to Newcastle where as an away fan you can watch your favourite players magically transformed into subutteo size, or to Villa or West Brom where the stewards think they're part of some sort of SWAT team. The list goes on...... As for the rest of it..... I haven't got a frigging clue what you mean. Welcome to the forum, btw.

Fifty-one academies have entered the U21 Premier League Cup Now I'm lost. Are there 51 teams (or more) in the U21 Premier League or isn't it linked to the Premier League? Is this a different U21 Premier League than the one set up last season or are the U21 Premier League just giving their name to the cup and the competition is open to any academy that fancies entering? Every Midlands club except Aston Villa are in North, Villa in South. Have they moved? Genuinely confused as I'm sure this has nothing to do with money! The organisation of it sounds like something one of the characters David Walliams does in Little Britain - the one who invents things.

I've gone for Gareth Barry, now he's here. He's played loads of games and quite a few for England, too. Smart haircut and I've read somewhere this week he's got an oversized arse which he uses to move opposing players out of the way. He'll sign permanently at the end of the season on a free and will become a cult hero, in the mould of Phil Neville, until he becomes even slower than he is now in which case people will hate him and wonder why we ever bothered but until then and until he signs on a free on a rumoured £100k p/w, which will increase to £150k p/w for discussion purposes when he becomes shit and as people hate him more, he's the man for the job for me. This will take the pressure off the man who should be captain, Phil Jagielka, who can be left alone to concentrate on his own game and get his form back as the armband is clearly too much responsibility for him and I would sooner he played well than start fretting about what everyone else is and isn't doing.

That's not in doubt, maroon - Everton have a lot to be grateful for to Scotland, The Golden Vision, Sharp ('lowly' Dumbarton), Ferguson, Weir..... to name but a few. As for Gary Naysmith - things could have been so much better for him. In my opinion he was never the same after that shitbag Gerrard nearly split him in two while he was lying on the floor!

None really, maroon, as haven't followed Scottish football closely enough or got a particular affiliation with any area of Scotland to link myself to a team or club. I used to look at the attendances for Saturday's matches in the lower Scottish divisions in the Sunday paper when I was a kid to see who had the lowest and would imagine what it was like in the ground with Att: 58 and a scoreline of Arbroath 4 Queen of the South 7, or whatever. I know we've also played Hearts in a couple of friendlies in fairly recent years but don't know what the connection is there for those matches to be set up? If anything I used to look for St Johnstone and Caledonian Thistle results. St Johnstone because I drove past their ground on the way to Aviemore in the late 1970s and remember seeing ST JOHNSTONE almost hand-painted in about 30 feet high letters down the whole of one side of their ground which from memory was in the middle of nowhere on top of a hill? I just thought "It must be fucking freezing in there" and looked to see how many were there each week and what the score was. Caledonian Thistle was because I heard their fans sang a song, to the tune of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, to wind Celtic fans up and part of it went "Super Cally go ballistic Celtic are atrocious.........." and so on, which I could see Celtic being well pissed off about, not that I dislike them either.... just funny a 'small' team taking the piss out of a 'big' one in that way. Do Hearts still have that Eastern European gangster as an owner (it was you wasn't it?)? Put all the players up for sale, refused to pay wages?

This was on the hill outside my house when I got home from work this evening.

He's OUR lazy shite now, like many before him and I'm sure many after him, so like everyone else he's got the benefit of the doubt. As he's our lazy shite I want him to succeed more than I want him to fail and I feel a bit more positive about him as I never thought I'd see the day where Zinedine Zidane is mentioned in a thread about Gareth Barry. As for our captain, our rock. Where's Phil, The Gazelle, Neville when you need him?

Things change. He says so himself. New manager, club going in a different direction. He seems resigned to the fact he hasn't got the ability, if ability is the right word, to fit in with the new system and he seems disappointed in himself because of this. He's hardly been a great servant to the club, without being a disruptive influence either. I'm sure everyone at West Brom will do their best to help make him feel at home as that seems to be what he wants. He seems resentful he has had to move but I had to learn how to use the laminator in our office yesterday to help with an urgent job to enable some new people to get what they need to do their job and for someone of my intelligence and length of service that's not on. Don't they know who I am? I would also think Vic's birth certificate is much the same format as mine so he could do with having a look at his - I've just had a look at mine and I can't find anywhere on there where it says life will be fair so dust yourself down you whingeing fucking lump and get on with it. I wish you all the best and think it's a waste you are unable and unwilling to take the opportunities you have been and continue to be given, injuries aside.

OK, thanks Dalziel

I knew that, too...

Ah shite! Cheers Mike - I still can't get rid of that warning points sign below my photo - seems like I'm the only person in the entire world with this.... :major overreaction alert:

Nothing now. We have Gareth Barry.

I don't know if it's loyalty with Baines or he just likes an easy life and just isn't arsed about being able to say he played for Man Utd, or whoever is BIG. He seems like he'd rather keep the peace than make a fuss; Baines, "Boss, I want a transfer to Utd" Boss, "Fuck me Bainsey, you trophy-hunting, money-grabbing wanker! After all we've done for you!?" Baines; "Oh alright then, I'll stay. Bought any good albums recently?"

I like this (seeing as my like button has gone?) :dont know:

I wish him well. He's made no secret of his desire to play CL football almost since the day he got here and he's handled himself very professionally and shown our club respect, as far as I can see, through all this transfer madness. I liked him best when he threw a wobbler, almost Basil Fawlty style, when he'd won the ball in a tackle, laid it off and ran 40/50 yards into a great position only for Neville or someone to slice it into the stand. He gave possibly his best rendition of this at home against Southampton, last season - I thought he was going to throw himself on the floor and start smacking his head off the pitch, or something! Petulant but showed he cared. His goal celebration had as much pent up frustration whether he'd lashed it in or punched it over the line He was ace with his elbows and is the last player I can think of who was able to literally put the ball out of Goodison Park from an almost standing position without the ball touching the roof (vs Chelsea, League Cup, season before last, over the roof of Gwladys Street / corner of Upper Bullens - Hansen would have called it "a great hit", only we were defending!). All the best!

Pulis on BBC TV; "I can't believe Everton have signed McCarthey without selling Fellaini" What the fuck would you know, paedo!?

Former Wales midfielder Robbie Savage on Football Focus, BBC Radio 5 live "I am gobsmacked about Manchester United. There was no creativity in the middle of the park against Chelsea and Liverpool, they have nobody who can go past a man. "They need somebody. I do not think Marouane Fellaini is the answer for them."