I doubt José Mourinho has...Has anyone ever told Alex Ferguson that ultra-competitiveness, egomania, and ambition are detrimental to being a successful manager?
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Has anyone ever told Alex Ferguson that ultra-competitiveness, egomania, and ambition are detrimental to being a successful manager?
I doubt it's come up.
Does anyone know what he'll be wearing on the sidelines? Will he go for a nice dark suit, a tracksuit with his initials on it, or shorts and boots ala Owen Coyle?
I imagine a tracksuit/benchcoat combo. After all, he is still part of the playing staff so rather thrillingly we currently have a player/manager. Well, occasional player/caretaker manager.
I imagine a tracksuit/benchcoat combo. After all, he is still part of the playing staff so – rather thrillingly – we currently have a player/manager. Well, occasional player/caretaker manager.
I love the concept of the player-manager. It sets up so many strange possibilities.
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Blatter is disgusting, a stain on the sport.
The corrupt nature of FIFA is the result of Blatter's incompetence or, worse, his own corruptness. Unfortunately what FIFA needs is a root-and-branch purging, and that is not going to happen.
The corrupt nature of FIFA is the result of Blatter's incompetence or, worse, his own corruptness. Unfortunately what FIFA needs is a root-and-branch purging, and that is not going to happen.
I know it's been a long time since we had one in a US major sport. I'm thinking Pete Rose was probably the last one. Maybe that's why there hasn't been another!
I can't think of the last time a player-manager won major silverware either - I'm sure it happens in lower league football, but in in the top divisions in Europe it must be pretty rare, especially in the modern era of hyper-athleticism.
The Suarez-Evra case drags on. If the FA are charging him one has to assume they think he's guilty. Then again, he must be innocent because Sepp said so.
The only thing I am sure of is that the FA and FIFA will bungle things in the end, one way or another.Yeah, that's even rarer. Bill Russell for the Celtics in the late 1960s. In baseball you probably have to go back at least 60 years to Lou Boudreau. Maybe that's why no one does it anymore.
Ruud Gullit lifted the FA Cup as Chelsea's player/manager back in the 1990s, and — a little closer to home for you your Lordship — Uncle Kenny did the double with Liverpool in the 1980s whilst performing dual duties.
Piece of cake for our Nick, then.
Piece of cake for our Nick, then.
Ruud Gullit lifted the FA Cup as Chelsea's player/manager back in the 1990s, and a little closer to home for you your Lordship Uncle Kenny did the double with Liverpool in the 1980s whilst performing dual duties.
Piece of cake for our Nick, then.
Apples to apples, obviously.
The Suarez-Evra case drags on. If the FA are charging him one has to assume they think he's guilty. Then again, he must be innocent because Sepp said so.
It would appear that the Terry case is ramping up as well, with a few tabloid headlines suggesting the police want him charged.
As for everyone's favourite lunch buddy Sepp, he's said sorry so it's all ok now
Add Graeme Souness for Rangers to that list as well. He certainly played a few games as a manager and I remember Rangers winning a trophy with him on the pitch.
Breaking news from Pride Park, regarding Nick Barmby's apparel!
As I predicted he's sporting trainers, tracksuit bottoms and a big Hull City benchcoat.
Great result for us then – a 2-0 win – and if the radio commentary and comments from twitter-toting Tigers in attendance are anything to go by it was a very fine performance indeed.
As a further pleasing sub-plot, our second goal was scored by young Cameron Stewart – not only was it his first senior goal but he scored it on his comeback from a serious knee injury sustained nine months ago this very day. Superb.
Oh, and we wore never-before seen amber shorts as an alternative to our usual black, so as not to clash with Derby's monochrome arsewear.
All in all, a good afternoon by all accounts.
As a further pleasing sub-plot, our second goal was scored by young Cameron Stewart – not only was it his first senior goal but he scored it on his comeback from a serious knee injury sustained nine months ago this very day. Superb.
Oh, and we wore never-before seen amber shorts as an alternative to our usual black, so as not to clash with Derby's monochrome arsewear.
All in all, a good afternoon by all accounts.
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FAO:Jaffa thought you might get a kick out of this...
The team I played on this summer and now again for indoor wears a this kit:
sadly we are not named smyrna city tigers... we are smyrna united... =(
The team I played on this summer and now again for indoor wears a this kit:
sadly we are not named smyrna city tigers... we are smyrna united... =(
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Fine colours indeed, and I'm sure you cut a stylish dash whenever you take to the field. Just make sure none of your team mates refer to your shirts as being yellow or gold you wear amber. Amber.
Our five-a-side colours are white shirts we don't have a proper kit as such, we just wear something white. I tip up wearing my white 2010-11 City away shirt, as modelled by erstwhile Tiger and industrial-strength irritant Craig Fagan...
Just make sure none of your team mates refer to your shirts as being yellow or gold you wear amber. Amber.Our five-a-side colours are white shirts we don't have a proper kit as such, we just wear something white.
I tip up wearing my white 2010-11 City away shirt, as modelled by erstwhile Tiger and industrial-strength irritant Craig Fagan...
Fine colours indeed, and I'm sure you cut a stylish dash whenever you take to the field.
Our five-a-side colours are white shirts we don't have a proper kit as such, we just wear something white.
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love it!
crushed it 6-1.
we are 3-0-0 =)
Good stuff our loss-win record currently stands at around 6-1. We're really not very good.
Tranmere 1 -2 Sheffield Wednesday
Jose Baxter (38') Chris Lines (45')
Ryan Lowe (80')
...
GOALS
11 Madine
2 Bennett
3 Marshall
3 Jones
2 Reda
2 Lowe
1 Prutton
1 Sedgwick
1 Morrison
1 Palmer
1 McGoldrick
1 O'Connor
1 Buxton
1 O'Grady
1 Semedo
1 Lines
ASSISTS
5 Marshall
4 Semedo
2 Bennett
2 Morrison
2 Buxton
1 Prutton
1 Lines
1 Madine
1 Palmer
1 Jones
1 O'Connor
....
3rd: 1O-4-4
......
11/26/2O11
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UP THE OWLS!
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