Originally posted by saptastic
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Fear not we have Gareth Southgate 
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Just what we need with the jocks coming up. Gareth Southgate v Gordon Strachan. It's not even worth discussing who'd win that fight. I wouldn't be surprised if the Scottish FA have already requested that the match be settled by a 12 round encounter between the two managers. Allardicci would have pissed it, given the obvious weight and height advantage. Now, my money would be on the small angry jock, all day long. Probably wouldn't even get to the second round...His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain... -
Perhaps you misread the thread, the whole point is that the football team is not really a top team, whereas the rugby team is - regularly making finals and winning tournaments even if they have slumps in form.Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostOriginally posted by MaryPoppinsOriginally posted by vetranComment
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No need to rub it in, he knows the jocks are crap at rugby, which is why he pretends not to care. When it comes down to football, we acknowledge that we English are mostly tulipe, but the jocks are worse, and that somehow softens the blow.Originally posted by d000hg View PostHis heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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The English team is tulip because the top teams buy foreign and very few English players go abroad to progress their skills. Very few of the players look interested and I think they know that if they did put in the effort they still would be tulip.
You are at the stage where the purpose of English football is to get the public to buy a sky subscription, not to produce good teams.Comment
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The football team used to regularly win the home nations comps but were found out when they went further afield. So we've made three rugby finals, won one and were outplayed in two. You're struggling to get through that bit but if you keep repeating your usual tripe, someone might eventually crumble and believe you but that's doubtful.Originally posted by d000hg View PostThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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So in a sport that is played by, at best a couple of dozen teams or so worldwide, England have won the World Cup ONCE by pedantically abusing the rules to gain various penalty advantages or drop-kick opportunities that were converted by the metronomic Jonny Wilkinson. Well done.Originally posted by d000hg View Post
As the thread was about the England football manager, something you clearly know hee-haw about, and you have raised the subject of Rugby Union, something else you seem to know little about, it appears to be YOU that has "misread" the thread. Nothing new there I suppose, you could get hold of the wrong end of the stick if it only had one end!
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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To be fair, that was one hell of a match.Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostSo in a sport that is played by, at best a couple of dozen teams or so worldwide, England have won the World Cup ONCE by pedantically abusing the rules to gain various penalty advantages or drop-kick opportunities that were converted by the metronomic Jonny Wilkinson. Well done.
As the thread was about the England football manager, something you clearly know hee-haw about, and you have raised the subject of Rugby Union, something else you seem to know little about, it appears to be YOU that has "misread" the thread. Nothing new there I suppose, you could get hold of the wrong end of the stick if it only had one end!
Still prefer Rugby League but we're nowhere near the Aussies at that either
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Didn't think it would take you long Shaun. Still, in a "who's won the World Cup" contest, you're 2-0 down. Not getting any easier, is it?Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostSo in a sport that is played by, at best a couple of dozen teams or so worldwide, England have won the World Cup ONCE by pedantically abusing the rules to gain various penalty advantages or drop-kick opportunities that were converted by the metronomic Jonny Wilkinson. Well done.
As the thread was about the England football manager, something you clearly know hee-haw about, and you have raised the subject of Rugby Union, something else you seem to know little about, it appears to be YOU that has "misread" the thread. Nothing new there I suppose, you could get hold of the wrong end of the stick if it only had one end!His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Saw Big Sam score a wonder goal circa 73/74 against Sunderland at Burnden in the Embankment End, corner, he ran into the penalty box at full pelt, leapt, and powered a thunderous header from just inside the pen. box, must have been 20 yards, we used to replay it on the football pitch/West Ward Labour Club Car Park in Halliwell. Can still hook a football stuck from under a car exhaust with my left leg. No finer feeling than car park grit embedded in your knee....
42,000 on that day....
Was on The Big Match but not online anywhere, the one he scored a season or two after is, but that was rubbish and was in the Great Lever End....
Great End names, not like now, KitKat Stand, Sponsored by Nike Stand, JD Sports Stadium....
We had those two, Manchester Road North, Manchester Road South, Wing Stand, and my spot, The Burnden Paddock.....Comment
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