Football Thread 2020/2021

[SaintAnselm]

4 minutes ago, Danster said:

 

Who played at the highest level for ~12 years and got capped by England 21 times...

 

Personally I quite like him.

Me too, he’s articulate - something an awful lot of pundits aren’t these days and comes across as a fairly intelligent guy.

 

He wasn’t a bad footballer either, while he never quite fulfilled his early potential, calling him a no-mark footballer is pretty disrespectful.

[Art Vandelay]

I doubt he'll read this so it should be OK.

[dizogg]

30 minutes ago, bradigor said:

 

I watched that last week and how the buggery doies Jamie Carragher not know what a Jurassic Park is?

 

I really do not get Gogglebox.

Sorry I’m not having this. Gogglebox is genuinely one of the best shows on TV. Celebrity gogglebox is nowhere good as normal gogglebox though, granted.

[Chindie]

I genuinely thought Carragher and Richards were one of the best things on Celebrity Gogglebox last week. They had genuine chemistry with each other (since they're colleagues) and they're still fairly normal people so have a more relatable approach than some celebrities.

[Stopharage]

7 hours ago, Art Vandelay said:

Jermaine Jenas is the worst. Absolute no-mark footballer who somehow became the face of BBC football. Like being lectured to by a Top Man shop assistant who allegedly had trials with Stevenage in 2002.

Next time he’s on, just listen to the amount of times he paraphrases the answers everyone else makes. It’s infuriating. He adds so little insight, just parrots others. 
 

I’d far prefer it if they went for a couple of ex-footballers and someone like Michael Cox or Jonathan Wilson. 
 

Maybe it’s a generational things and Jenas’ analysis is more directed at a younger audience - his MOTDX persona seems ideal for that format, less so for an analytical role. 
 

Nonetheless, has been good to see a lot of fresh blood in recent years. Different sport, but Ebony Rainford-Brent has been superb on the cricket in recent years. Hope she becomes a key figure on TMS.

[Loik V credern]

I like Jermaine Jenas on 5 live on a Friday with Darren Fletcher because he's so angry and short to everything Fletcher says it's sort of interesting for that alone. Don’t know if anyone has noticed. It'd go like, Fletcher; 'Kane says he wants to leave then?' and Jenas will snap; 'it doesn't matter what he wants he has a contract!', but more angry than I'm making that sound. It is genuinely tetchy like he hates Fletcher and resents the decent talking points that are brought up. 

 

I think he was chirpier when he first became a pundit, i just assume that he gets fed up of being contracted to appear late at night probably more often that he'd want. Maybe we'll see Micah go the same way, from someone who laughs his head off every few seconds (which was endearing and infectious but does get a bit annoying) to being surly and combative. 

 

I like the rapport of the espn guys, and i liked Barney Ronay and Barry Glendenning recently. 

[ryodi]

The European Football Show on BT Sport a few years ago with what is now the Totally Football Show European Edition line up of Jimbo, Honegstein, Laurents and James Horncastle was great and preferable to their Premier League coverage which is filled with a load of ex Liverpool and Man Utd players who offer no insight or analysis at all. It's to Micah Richards credit he's managed to get a job as a pundit having never played for those two clubs. 

[SeanR]

oops!

[dizogg]

24 minutes ago, ryodi said:

The European Football Show on BT Sport a few years ago with what is now the Totally Football Show European Edition line up of Jimbo, Honegstein, Laurents and James Horncastle was great and preferable to their Premier League coverage which is filled with a load of ex Liverpool and Man Utd players who offer no insight or analysis at all. It's to Micah Richards credit he's managed to get a job as a pundit having never played for those two clubs. 

The coverage of the World Cup/Euros on the BBC/ITV will never be like this as it’s aimed at the broadest possible audience. Of course we’d prefer it but they’d never go in that direction.

[neoELITE]

BRING BACK JIMMY HILL

[Mike1812]

3 hours ago, neoELITE said:

BRING BACK JIMMY HILL

And big Ron!

[feltmonkey]

I'm not sure how well linking to streamable works, but here's a video of a goal that nutmegs four players on the way in.

 

https://streamable.com/a50k40

 

 

[dr_manhattan^]

Sounds like Nuno is off to Everton again

[Mike1812]

 

[SeanR]

Haiti’s Canadian-born goalkeeper scored conceded an own-goal against… Canada

 

 

[disperse and recoagulate]

Uh god that commentary 

[neoELITE]

On 16/06/2021 at 08:38, disperse and recoagulate said:

Uh god that commentary 

 

It's like WWE 

 

Poor bastard. 

[Oh Danny Boy]

Rafa to Everton? The world is going mad 

[Mr Do 71]

 

[Dudley]

Well that's one way to make him think back fondly of his time at Chelsea.

[Plissken]

Picking the right thread for this.

 

 

[Jammy]

I should be on there somewhere

[Dudley]

Point of order, that's not a virtual wall, it's just a wall.

[deerokus]

Strange game for Celtic, we've been pretty awful but should still have score 3 or 4 were it not for incredible goalkeeping. Leverkusen also got a penalty for the ball hitting Carter Vickers in the ribcage/back, which absurdly wasn't overturned.

[deerokus]

I'm officially off the Ange bus. The great exciting football is basically just playing 1920s 2-3-5 tactics. Like he read the first bit of Inverting the Pyramid but never finished it.

 

[deerokus]

Time is a flat circle