Football season 24/25

[jukel123 8,009]

1 hour ago, WILF said:

Big Bill Wobernieck drinking 30 pints a day at a world championships snooker tournament…..those were the days mate !

Jimmy White coked out of his head. Douglas Mountjoy coalminer. Joe Johnstone, came from nowhere, won it, never saw him again. Terry Griffiths bus conductor. John Virgo, he played in a club 75 yard from my childhood house where I learned to play ( sort of) and won amateur billiard championships with an old schoolmate of mine Paul Medarti. Paul blacked Alex Higgins's eye after they disagreed. It was front page of The Sun. It happened during championship,week. I remember Higgins playing as normal on telly. He just brushed off the incident. Although Higgins did threaten to have fellow Irishman Denis Taylor shot during that week. Just normal life for Alex. Lol

Edited August 15 by jukel123

[NEWKID 27,152]

1 hour ago, WILF said:

Big Bill Wobernieck drinking 30 pints a day at a world championships snooker tournament…..those were the days mate !

My kind of athlete!

[jukel123 8,009]

8 minutes ago, NEWKID said:

My kind of athlete!

He said he used alcohol to control a " tremor". What he meant was he had a tremor because of alcohol.lol

I was always amazed he could lift those tree trunk legs off the ground and onto the table. Although on at least one occasion, he did famously break dramatic wind. Great entertainer.

Edited August 15 by jukel123

[eastcoast 4,121]

Not exactly what I was expecting to see at St. James' today. Newly promoted Southampton came with a game plan that included getting under our skins. Very surprised that our players allowed that to happen. Have they turned into self entitled prima donna's already? Looked like it until the sending off. Schar of all people, cost no money, couldn't get a game under Bruce, but has since gone on to prove himself a genuine EPL player and held his own in the Champions League. Allowed that Cameron Diaz or whatever her name is to stitch him up like a kipper. Reality check time I think. 3 points though 

[belucky 744]

14 hours ago, eastcoast said:

Not exactly what I was expecting to see at St. James' today. Newly promoted Southampton came with a game plan that included getting under our skins. Very surprised that our players allowed that to happen. Have they turned into self entitled prima donna's already? Looked like it until the sending off. Schar of all people, cost no money, couldn't get a game under Bruce, but has since gone on to prove himself a genuine EPL player and held his own in the Champions League. Allowed that Cameron Diaz or whatever her name is to stitch him up like a kipper. Reality check time I think. 3 points though 

Schar ? Best 3 million we have spent in a long time 

[chartpolski 23,479]

14 hours ago, eastcoast said:

Not exactly what I was expecting to see at St. James' today. Newly promoted Southampton came with a game plan that included getting under our skins. Very surprised that our players allowed that to happen. Have they turned into self entitled prima donna's already? Looked like it until the sending off. Schar of all people, cost no money, couldn't get a game under Bruce, but has since gone on to prove himself a genuine EPL player and held his own in the Champions League. Allowed that Cameron Diaz or whatever her name is to stitch him up like a kipper. Reality check time I think. 3 points though 

Handsome Dan looked like he was going to chin someone !

“You can take the boy out of Blyth, but you can’t take Blyth out of the boy” ! LOL !

Cheers.

[WILF 46,787]

17 hours ago, eastcoast said:

Not exactly what I was expecting to see at St. James' today. Newly promoted Southampton came with a game plan that included getting under our skins. Very surprised that our players allowed that to happen. Have they turned into self entitled prima donna's already? Looked like it until the sending off. Schar of all people, cost no money, couldn't get a game under Bruce, but has since gone on to prove himself a genuine EPL player and held his own in the Champions League. Allowed that Cameron Diaz or whatever her name is to stitch him up like a kipper. Reality check time I think. 3 points though 

To be fair, if that’s a sending off under the slow motion eye of VAR then they both should have gone, if anything the Soton player dipped his head in first !

But we are discussing utter minge stuff, it’s never a sending off in big boys world but that’s where the game is at.

Happy with what I seen in the limited match of the day way with my little hammers.

Plenty of positives, playing a lot higher and more positive.

A few that obviously won’t make the grade under this different style….Antonio, Soucek….can’t see them lasting.

A decent lesson for a few of the new signings in what to expect in this league, even the ones that didn’t play….I think that’s pretty thoughtful.

Defence still needs practice, if it all clicks it will decent all over the pitch.  

Edited August 18 by WILF

[WILF 46,787]

Jamie Vardy giving the yids some shithouse…..fantastic 

[jukel123 8,009]

19 hours ago, WILF said:

Jamie Vardy giving the yids some shithouse…..fantastic 

Jamie Vardy is the kind of bloke that could start a rammy in an empty house. Terrible taste in women too. That creature that held the nation's attention  with  a fellow WAG non entity. A dispute about something. Cost Vardy millions in legal fees.

Helluva player Vardy though. Can't take that from him.

[WILF 46,787]

1 minute ago, jukel123 said:

Jamie Vardy is the kind of bloke that could start a rammy in an empty house. Terrible taste in women too. That creature that held the nation's attention  with  a fellow WAG non entity. A dispute about something. Cost Vardy millions in legal fees.

Helluva player Vardy though. Can't take that from him.

Good to have him back in the top flight, I have a lot of time for him as a player and his whole story as a player mate. 
 

[jukel123 8,009]

2 minutes ago, WILF said:

Good to have him back in the top flight, I have a lot of time for him as a player and his whole story as a player mate. 
 

Yep. 38 now and still a top player. Helps other former non league players like himself to realise their potential as well.

[jukel123 8,009]

I've always been convinced a lot of top players are filtered out of the system. Every box must be ticked to progress.

Example. A mate of mine had a son who was courted by several top clubs. But, at the end of the day, he couldn't take the pressure and wasn't enjoying it. Training, being bollocked, being away from home, all took their toll.

 So with his dad's blessing, he became a PE teacher. I met him in Madrid where now works about twenty years later. Really happy and convinced he made the right decision. He said it was great that all that manic pressure had gone.

He said there were several lads better than him in the same boat. A lot couldn't handle mad dads roaring at them. He said one black lad crumpled when he was both racially abused by an onlooker and publicly criticised by his dad within minutes. Jacked and went home on the train rather than travel in the family car with his dad. Never went back.

There's a lot of wastage in the recruitment of young footballers. Some of it necessary, some of it could be improved.

Personally, I think it's a sin to bollock a kid when playing football. When it's a dad doing it, it says a lot about the dad's hang ups.

Same as dads who insist their kids become tough. Shows inadequacy on the father's part.

Edited August 21 by jukel123

[chartpolski 23,479]

One of my godsons played Premier for Southampton alongside his mate Shearer.

His son had the makings of a top footballer but is now one of the top dancers on Strictly Come Dancing !

I don’t know if his dad is happy or not ….

Cheers.

[eastcoast 4,121]

54 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I've always been convinced a lot of top players are filtered out of the system. Every box must be ticked to progress.

Example. A mate of mine had a son who was courted by several top clubs. But, at the end of the day, he couldn't take the pressure and wasn't enjoying it. Training, being bollocked, being away from home, all took their toll.

 So with his dad's blessing, he became a PE teacher. I met him in Madrid where now works about twenty years later. Really happy and convinced he made the right decision. He said it was great that all that manic pressure had gone.

He said there were several lads better than him in the same boat. A lot couldn't handle mad dads roaring at them. He said one black lad crumpled when he was both racially abused by an onlooker and publicly criticised by his dad within minutes. Jacked and went home on the train rather than travel in the family car with his dad. Never went back.

There's a lot of wastage in the recruitment of young footballers. Some of it necessary, some of it could be improved.

Personally, I think it's a sin to bollock a kid when playing football. When it's a dad doing it, it says a lot about the dad's hang ups.

Same as dads who insist their kids become tough. Shows inadequacy on the father's part.

Fine margins and all that. So many different factors in play for a kid to progress making his living as a professional footballer. In my far less glamorous world see kids who fail in becoming sparks or plumbers. A lot easier to get back into it once you've experienced a bit of the real world in my world than in football of course, so many of the planets must be aligned for a career in football I would think. 

One of my brother in-laws was offered an apprenticeship with Blackburn Rovers, knocked it back on his dad's advice as Sunderland FC were interested, both Mackems. He missed out at Sunderland and Blackburn won the EPL about 5 year later  

[eastcoast 4,121]

5 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

One of my godsons played Premier for Southampton alongside his mate Shearer.

His son had the makings of a top footballer but is now one of the top dancers on Strictly Come Dancing !

I don’t know if his dad is happy or not ….

Cheers.

Shearer often says that there was a lad same age as him at Southhampton who was a better striker than him at the time, fine margins, planets not aligned?