Ravel Morrison is some nasty piece of work.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ex-united-star-ravel-morrison-accused-7577229
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ex-united-star-ravel-morrison-accused-7577229
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gooner said:Ravel Morrison is some nasty piece of work.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ex-united-star-ravel-morrison-accused-7577229
Amsterhammer said:Couldn't agree more. Do you happen to know why Pep refused to shake hands after the Bayern game?
Sunil Gulati @sunilgulati · 9h
All good with Pep Guardiola and Caleb Porter. With them for nice handshake outside the locker room after the game. #MLSAllStar
David Ornstein @bbcsport_david 5 mins
#AFC & #FCB agree fee around £15m for Vermaelen. Terms & medical over weekend. #MUFC ended interest after refusing player swap #bbcsportsday
When it was clear that UEFA was opening an investigation, Celtic had the opportunity to tell UEFA to cancel proceedings and let things as they are. Before UEFA reached their verdict, Legia indeed tried to contact Celtic to discuss the matter in those terms , i.e. to ask for leniency in the spirit of fair play.The Hitch said:Talk about being screwed on a technicality
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Warsaw-kicked-fielding-ineligible-player.html
Legia won 6-1on aggregate but result overturned because a substitute that came on in the last minute of the 2nd leg who had no impact on the result was still serving a suspension from last season. His suspension should have been over but Legia didn't fill in the paperwork the previous time or something.
As a result UEFA swing the tie 5 goals and send Celtic though on away goals.
I get why the decision was made but since the infraction Legia commited was something so minor that has no impact on the result, it feels real harsh. It would sort of be like taking the tdf away from Nibali and handing it to Peraud because they found out that on the champs elysee stage one of his teammates had a bike that didn't meet uci requirements.
sniper said:When it was clear that UEFA was opening an investigation, Celtic had the opportunity to tell UEFA to cancel proceedings and let things as they are. Before UEFA reached their verdict, Legia indeed tried to contact Celtic to discuss the matter in those terms , i.e. to ask for leniency in the spirit of fair play.
However, Celtic didn't answer any of Legia's phonecalls/emails.
TANK91 said:And their completely right with that. Would Legia do it? No of course not the money is huge. Scottish football is probably biggest laughing stock these days anyway it is like a pub league. You know something is wrong losing 6-1 to some crap Polish team. I think the ruling was very harsh though not like the players makes the AGG score that high. I could sort of understand if he gets the winner.
The Hitch said:He wasn't on the field for any of the goals.
kingjr said:Transition phase, isn't that what the English national football (soccer) team has been going through for the past 44 years?
Gavandope said:Hopefully we will copy you and the Belgians but I'm not holding my breath as we are too short term. Rather like many people who want doping in sports gone totally. It's going to happen too slowly for many but I can clearly see the shade overall is getting whiter in cycling..
No_Balls said:You cant just copy a model and be fine with it. You need the various players as well. Ze germans and the belgians (although mind-blowing overrated as a team) has a fine generation footballers from back to their youth days. Englands problem is as i believe besides lack of a winning mentality, also lack of a gameplan and has many onedimensional types of players. You have too many Lampards, Gerrards and Rooneys of this world.
Gavandope said:Copying their model of youth coaching and qualified coaches with kids is exactly what needs to be done. Our golden generation was 86-96 when we had players who were skilful, had talent and vision. Ever since then just these workhorse clones. Even Rooney has got far, far less talent than Gazza had in one leg!
The end of 'kick and rush' 4-4-2 for kids instead of learning to love the football and playing 4-3-3 will be a great start. Would be nice if we subsidised the uefa badges for coaches like the Germans too. Us having 2,000 uefa badge coaches and the Germans 40,000 says it all and now they are reaping the rewards.
They realised that you have to turn a footballer into an athlete. Our attempts at turning athletes into footballers simply doesn't work hence why we are a load of old pony in the international game! I sound like Chrissy Waddle on the radio cos he's 100% right!
RownhamHill said:We're way off topic now, but I can't resist. You're obviously too young (or perhaps too old?) to remember Euro 1992, or our attempts to qualify for WC'94 if you think a midfield of Geoff Thomas, David Batty, Andy Gray (not the cheeky Scottish misogynist, but the Crystal Palace bruiser) and Carlton Palmer was in any way 'golden'.
I actually watched the QF game in 1990 again recently - and while I don't particularly subscribe to the revisionist England were dead lucky in that game (we had a stonewall penalty turned down at 1-0, after which Cameroon went down the other end and got their own penalty (which, incidentally was the result of shocking defending, and not good attacking play), and we had a 10 minute dodgy patch), the overall standard was shocking. Completely shocking. We also ended up with Mark Wright playing wide right for the whole of extra-time in that game.
If you exclude Gazza (and ignore his alcoholism and injuries and pretend the '91 cup final didn't effectively end his time as a world class player) the idea that we had a golden generation in the early '90s is laughable. Properly laughable.
Le Tissier and ??del1962 said:England 1990 team had basically two of the most skilful players after Gazza disbanded by Taylor, both who should have at a future with England, one was even picked by Venables in 1996.
Instead we had Carlton Palmer and Geoff Thomas under Taylor.
RownhamHill said:Le Tissier and ??
del1962 said:Not thinking Le Tiss(not part of 1990 squad), more the ditching of Beardsley and Waddle
No_Balls said:You cant just copy a model and be fine with it. You need the various players as well. Ze germans and the belgians (although mind-blowing overrated as a team) has a fine generation footballers from back to their youth days. Englands problem is as i believe besides lack of a winning mentality, also lack of a gameplan and has many onedimensional types of players. You have too many Lampards, Gerrards and Rooneys of this world.
RownhamHill said:Fair enough. They were both great players, and yeah, Waddle definitely should have played more for England at the time (Beardsley less so as I remember - there's a reason Liverpool got shot of him in 1991 - Ian Wright has more of a shout for being hard done by as a striker who didn't get picked by Taylor imo). But since both players came through in the late '70s, and were in their 30s in the early '90s, calling them part of a golden generation of 86-96 is a stretch.
But yeah, the Graeme Taylor year's are best forgotten, and make my laugh when people complain about Rooney now, or the noughties team that could only get to the QFs of major tournaments. . .