Asia Cup
How has it happened that such a small sandy state (which has never produced even so much a reserve in any of the world's top leagues) has suddenly become the future of football.
I would guess that the arabs are so rich from selling oil that they've been able to buy their way to the top of the diplomatic football ladder. It's the only explanation.
It's a shocker and another indication of the stunning inequalities which exist in the world. Maybe someone should invade Qatar, redistribute the world cup to a more deserving nation and relieve the arabs of their oil and the profits.
How did it happen that the world let a few arabs in a few desert ridden regions across the middle east control so much of the worlds wealth without showing even the slightest bit of inventiveness, creativity, tactical nous, heart, desire, passion and now we're letting these same people take over our game as well.
It is sad indeed.
How did it happen that the world let a few arabs in a few desert ridden regions across the middle east control so much of the worlds wealth without showing even the slightest bit of inventiveness, creativity, tactical nous, heart, desire, passion and now we're letting these same people take over our game as well.
It is sad indeed.
Andy Gray
I don't think anyone is particularly heartbroken by Andy Gray's sacking. I don't think there has ever been any doubt about his knowledge of the game (though there is I think some justified scepticism over trying to predict the outcome by moving arrows around the screen).
He was never liked either though- certainly not by Liverpool fans. He famously said at half time of the 2005 Champions League with all the relish of the toffee bastard that he is that "it's all over now and I hate saying that". You didn't really Andy you loved it and in some ways, that's why you were such a watchable old fucker because you were old school and you were football.
You understood the rivalries and what's more is that you believed in them in spite of yourself. Unfortunately the game changed and you did not keep up with those changes.
It is possible that you also mistook your workplace for a dressing room and that you treated your colleagues as you might have an apprentice back in the day, thereby making enemies for yourself of people who can work technology and don't care what your standing is within the game.
Nevertheless your sacking was harsh and unwarranted but I guess if we scratched the surface a little bit, we'd have found that most people didn't really like you and so you had to go. In football, it's ok to be disliked. Oftentimes, it is even a positive but in work, the very same type of behaviour can get you sacked.
He was never liked either though- certainly not by Liverpool fans. He famously said at half time of the 2005 Champions League with all the relish of the toffee bastard that he is that "it's all over now and I hate saying that". You didn't really Andy you loved it and in some ways, that's why you were such a watchable old fucker because you were old school and you were football.
You understood the rivalries and what's more is that you believed in them in spite of yourself. Unfortunately the game changed and you did not keep up with those changes.
It is possible that you also mistook your workplace for a dressing room and that you treated your colleagues as you might have an apprentice back in the day, thereby making enemies for yourself of people who can work technology and don't care what your standing is within the game.
Nevertheless your sacking was harsh and unwarranted but I guess if we scratched the surface a little bit, we'd have found that most people didn't really like you and so you had to go. In football, it's ok to be disliked. Oftentimes, it is even a positive but in work, the very same type of behaviour can get you sacked.
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Andy Gray, undone by a video replay. Oh, the irony. Take a bow son, take a bow!
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