Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:11 pm  

2-0

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:16 pm  

Very good Nicosia

[John_D]

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:45 am  

Had to flick over to APOEL v Lyon after Tyldesley's blind assertion that Mascherano has been Barca's best centre-half this season, with nary a cursory glance at the Bielsan tactics that see Guardiola deploy him there. More Cypriot sides in the last of the Champions League than there are English - well, providing Napoli finish the job next week which they surely must.

Speaking of Bielsan tactics, Aupa Athletic

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:03 am  

I see Glen Johnson has thrown another spanner into the Suarez/Evra works, this time accusing Evra of setting up his team mate in a massively contrived, fake-offered-handshake....

You really have to wonder who is advising these players sometimes, as surely Liverpool will have to drag the guy into the office pretty sharpish for a carpeting, considering all the grief the club took during this whole circus??

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:45 am  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

I see Glen Johnson has thrown another spanner into the Suarez/Evra works, this time accusing Evra of setting up his team mate in a massively contrived, fake-offered-handshake....

You really have to wonder who is advising these players sometimes, as surely Liverpool will have to drag the guy into the office pretty sharpish for a carpeting, considering all the grief the club took during this whole circus??

Is there anyone in football more mentally lacking than Johnson? What an absolute baffoon. He is claiming Evra stayed up all night then faked his handshake offer and that poor Luis had no chance to shake his hand. Is he for real, does he actually believe what he's saying or has he been brainwashed by that pathetic club? His little rant at Paul McGrath shows he thinks like a 9 year old, trying in as childish a way as possible to twist it round onto someone else.

His revelation that the 'free the racist' t-shirts were the clubs idea and not the players. That is very poor form from the club, but then again that is to be expected from them.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:06 pm  

Fair play to Glen, at least he has an opinion and doesn't just repeat the bile printed in the media.

His point on McGrath was right, why did McGrath have to single Glen out for wearing the t-shirt and have a go at him over it? Race shouldn't matter in today's sport, it shouldn't matter that Glen is black, but McGrath had to single Glen out. Hardly fair. McGrath's response is pathetic to it to be honest, he's come out and said 'it saddens me that Glen Johnson has called me a racist', then proceeded to retweet somebody calling Glen Johnson a muppet. The man can't defend himself because Glen makes a valid point, all he can do is make points about 'bringing it up again'.

Glen doesn't say Luis didn't have a chance to shake his hand, Glen said Evra clearly didn't want to shake his hand, so why would Luis shake it? I'm tending to agree, to be honest, it wasn't as one-sided as the media made out, but then it never is.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:33 pm  

Having met him yesterday, Phil Dowd is a quality bloke on and off the pitch. Took banter with good humour, gave us some back and even gave us a dodgy penalty in the varisty match. (We missed it, but it still annoyed Keele )

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:34 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

Fair play to Glen, at least he has an opinion and doesn't just repeat the bile printed in the media.



Glen doesn't say Luis didn't have a chance to shake his hand, Glen said Evra clearly didn't want to shake his hand, so why would Luis shake it? I'm tending to agree, to be honest, it wasn't as one-sided as the media made out, but then it never is.

Fair enough having an opinion, but is it that wise to come out with it, just weeks after your employer has had to carry out a huge PR exercise, trying to distance themselves from those very views?

As for the handshake and whether Evra was that keen to 'make up' with Suarez??....Well, considering it was Suarez who was the guilty party in this whole episode and Evra the offended upon, I'd be very surprised if Evra didn't harbourd a little resentment to the Uraguayan, and wouldn't expect a beaming smile and a lustily offered hand on his behalf.

Also, considering Suarez came out and admitted his refusal to shake, I'd say that Johnson's story is just a little far-fetched??

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:12 pm  

What happened to 'moving on'?

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:35 pm  

You cannot move on when such an outrageous injustice has been carried out.