Monday, 4 February 2013
Top, Top pundit
Jamie Redknapp nonsense:
Glenn Murray scored two more, so that’s 23 league goals for the season, but it was the No 9 alongside him — Kevin Phillips — who might just give
Crystal Palace that extra edge in the Championship run-in.
Crystal Palace that extra edge in the Championship run-in.
My old England team-mate has scored everywhere he’s been. An inspired loan signing in the window
So a 39 year-old man with 2 goals in 18 games will give his team the edge? Not the player with 25 goals in 28 games this season?
Stick to the boring platitudes Jamie.
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Mike Celizic - HatGuy
Once upon a time I used to read a wonderful blog called firejoemorgan. That blog is the reason I write what you are reading now. They haven't updated that site for years but this glorious day they have returned on Deadspin
Firstly I implore you to click the link and also to read their original blog which should be on your screen somewhere to the right of this post. Secondly a word about a sports journalist that they used to write about.
Mike Celizic, known as HatGuy wrote some absolute rubbish about baseball for a long time, and FJM rightly destroyed him for it. He was recently diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma and sadly today he died. His last blog post was beautifully written and felt to me like a farewell from a warm old friend. A man whose ideas on baseball I couldn't have agreed less with, but a witty and intelligent writer who will leave the world a less interesting and fun place.
Perspective is a wonderful thing. Mike Celizic wrote the kind of stuff I regularly abuse people for on this blog, but as a man he was deserving of nothing but praise. So remember that some crappy sports journalism does not mean I hate the person, just I think what they wrote was garbage.
So raise a hot fudge sundae and say farewell to HatGuy, proof that a person and their work are not the same. Except for Piers Morgan, the twat.
Firstly I implore you to click the link and also to read their original blog which should be on your screen somewhere to the right of this post. Secondly a word about a sports journalist that they used to write about.
Mike Celizic, known as HatGuy wrote some absolute rubbish about baseball for a long time, and FJM rightly destroyed him for it. He was recently diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma and sadly today he died. His last blog post was beautifully written and felt to me like a farewell from a warm old friend. A man whose ideas on baseball I couldn't have agreed less with, but a witty and intelligent writer who will leave the world a less interesting and fun place.
Perspective is a wonderful thing. Mike Celizic wrote the kind of stuff I regularly abuse people for on this blog, but as a man he was deserving of nothing but praise. So remember that some crappy sports journalism does not mean I hate the person, just I think what they wrote was garbage.
So raise a hot fudge sundae and say farewell to HatGuy, proof that a person and their work are not the same. Except for Piers Morgan, the twat.
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Alan Shearer is the worst pundit floating in a sea of crap
Last night on MOTD Alan Shearer said the following about Hatem Ben Arfa: "no one knows much about him"
This is the Hatem Ben Arfa who has played several times and scored twice for France and won about 5 Ligue One titles so far in his career.
Add the fact that he has just signed for the club Shearer supports and was manager of only 2 years ago and you get a perfect example of why Alan Shearer is the worst pundit in the history of MOTD. He has managed the incredible feat of talking for what I suppose must add up to days of BBC broadcast time and not once say anything interesting or insightful.
That is all.
This is the Hatem Ben Arfa who has played several times and scored twice for France and won about 5 Ligue One titles so far in his career.
Add the fact that he has just signed for the club Shearer supports and was manager of only 2 years ago and you get a perfect example of why Alan Shearer is the worst pundit in the history of MOTD. He has managed the incredible feat of talking for what I suppose must add up to days of BBC broadcast time and not once say anything interesting or insightful.
That is all.
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Evra v Thuram
Intelligent footballers at war with each other?
While the French FA and it's players continue to destroy each other, let's remember this classic line from Manchester United's most erudite player. In response to Lillian Thuram's negative comments we get this beauty
Walking round with books on slavery in glasses and a hat does not turn you into Malcolm X
I'm willing to bet that 90% of the British media's target audience have no idea who Malcolm X was, so it was kind of lost in the Daily Mail of all places. The Mail do know that Malcolm X was a Muslim right? Strange that they mention one without use of the word terrorist or extremist.
While the French FA and it's players continue to destroy each other, let's remember this classic line from Manchester United's most erudite player. In response to Lillian Thuram's negative comments we get this beauty
Walking round with books on slavery in glasses and a hat does not turn you into Malcolm X
I'm willing to bet that 90% of the British media's target audience have no idea who Malcolm X was, so it was kind of lost in the Daily Mail of all places. The Mail do know that Malcolm X was a Muslim right? Strange that they mention one without use of the word terrorist or extremist.
Soccer ball II
I have been meaning to re-post this one for a while. Here is evidence that the mainstream US media is still somewhat ignorant about soccer. Theirry Henry interview in which he is named as having just won the World Cup and it is suggested he has moved to New York to avoid racism on the terraces!
Set your cringe factor to 10.
Set your cringe factor to 10.
Monday, 28 June 2010
Soccer Ball
Yes this is a real headline, and even though it is tongue in cheek it deserves reprinting.
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