In case they haven't mentioned it yet it's from the 1979 Alan Parker musical 'Bugsy Malone'I enjoy the thread title, without knowing what you're talking about
Have a like
Disgraceful all around tbh..... Sam for being so naive to not realise this would happen, the FA for not doing their homework and the Telegraph for the way they actually did this (ie a trap)
I for one will no longer be watching or give 2 shits about the circus that is the FA or the England team anymore....
Im half Welsh anyway.... I am gonna support Wales from now on (at least they seem to know how to run a national team correctly).
If the source had gone to the FA, nothing would have happened to that fat fuck. Rather the whistleblower would have been fired, driven into depression and possible suicide. That's how the FA like to run things, as do most other organisations. So it's not a disgrace if people would rather lurk in the shadows and lay a trap, instead of coming out into the light and getting shot for their trouble.
I was at a delightful country wedding a few weeks ago, and he was there at another wedding reception. To be honest I always thought he was a bit of a fucking knob and his little outburst at the press conference when he was the Leicester manager mostly confirmed that. He did nothing at the hotel to disabuse me of that opinion - speed drank Stella like a fucking alchy, made everyone wait for photos whilst he meandered about and got himself another drink at the bar, drove a shit spec Rangie Sport with a totally shit "private" plate. Basically came across like an arrogant knobhead - but Iain Dowie on SSN last night assured us all that he was a quality manager, and one of the good guys in football...Pearson suddenly suspended from Derby County too.
Thats madness!!!!!The reason the Telegraph didn't go to the FA is because they wanted to publish the story in the Telegraph.
The reason the Telegraph didn't go to the FA is because they wanted to publish the story in the Telegraph.
Indeed. But somebody else went to the Telegraph first and told them what was going on with football. It could have been you for all we know.
It's always been thus. There's a powder keg under every England manager, even though he doesn't know it, and all the hacks have to do is get the nod to spark it into action.
Take Hoddle. His 'religious' views were well-known long before he took the England job and were treated as something comical, until the FA got irritated with his treatment of players and his commercial deals. Then Matt Dickinson, a young hack of no fixed ability who was one of the most amoral and ruthlessly ambitious little twats I've ever encountered, was handed the means to make a career for himself simply by interviewing the hapless Hoddle and encouraging him to say what he had been saying for years. Bingo. Shock horror and out the door he went. Dickinson won Sports Journalist of the Year for that.
With Allardyce I can only assume the FA appointed him and then immediately decided they'd made an horrendous mistake. Maybe it was the fact that he wanted a veritable village of assistants to come in with him, or maybe it was his desire to ignore St George's Park (which the FA adores but the players hate), or maybe some players rebelled, but there was nothing about his character or behaviour that the FA didn't already know about when they signed him, so it's hard not to think that they were all too eager to go along with the media storm.
On the proper football side, it's quite astonishing when you look at how low England has sunk as a managerial job. The bookies favourites are:
Gareth Southgate
Steve Bruce
Alan Pardew
Eddie Howe
Glenn Hoddle
Jurgen Klinsmann
Mark Warburton
What a bunch.
All you need to do now to become the media's darling for the job is to play vaguely pretty football and seem youthful. Eddie Howe: a manager for a mere eight years, only one and a bit of which have been spent in the top division, winning nothing and getting beaten so frequently by the biggest teams that he reacted to defeating Everton at home as if it was a cup final. His only time away from Bournemouth was a couple of seasons at Burnley where he failed to stamp any kind of signature on their style of play and left to the regret of no one. His record in the Premier League so far is Won 13, Lost 21. And this is England's great hope?
I actually quite like him, and thought he might be a decent gamble as coach under an experienced manager, but to put him in charge of a team that clearly needs to improve, more than anything else, its discipline and mentality in tournament conditions is frankly ridiculous.
England is a team of inexperienced and mentally weak players. You progress in baby steps with a team like that. First you work on the basics. You don't jump immediately to the tiki-taka stuff. This is a team that collapses under the most minimal kind of competitive pressure. If you don't sort that out, nothing will follow but yet more ignominious defeats.
The FA, in a stunning moment of reason, actually seemed to realise that, by appointing a manager who seemed set to offer that and only that, in terms of making the players mentally tougher and more disciplined. Much as I've always loathed Allardyce, I was quite interested to see what that experiment would do in the short team, because they've tried just about everything else. At least there was some kind of logic in terms of a reaction to what happened n France.
But now what? A return to the absurd and arrogant idea that it will only take a few tweaks to turn the national team into a fabulously stylish footballing side that wins loads of stuff whilst the world stands by and cheers? England is the Sunderland of international football. The FA needs to find someone who can cope with that.
I was at a delightful country wedding a few weeks ago, and he was there at another wedding reception. To be honest I always thought he was a bit of a fucking knob and his little outburst at the press conference when he was the Leicester manager mostly confirmed that. He did nothing at the hotel to disabuse me of that opinion - speed drank Stella like a fucking alchy, made everyone wait for photos whilst he meandered about and got himself another drink at the bar, drove a shit spec Rangie Sport with a totally shit "private" plate. Basically came across like an arrogant knobhead - but Iain Dowie on SSN last night assured us all that he was a quality manager, and one of the good guys in football...
Dowie has always seemed sound. Pearson has always seemed to be a total whopper, as described above.
But I'm not sure the timing of this suspension/ sacking has anything to do with Allardyce. He's exactly the sort of manager that would just get sacked for being a massive cunt.
Good article in the Guardian today, very balanced:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/sep/27/sam-allardyce-arrogant-clot-england-manager
Just feel sorry for these poor souls that don't know Bugsy Malone.Why dont you go and fuck your fucking self.
I've seen a few people having a go at the journalists, saying it's unfair framing him like that.
I don't. There are some types of investigative journalism that step over a line that is unacceptable but in this case they've obviously had a tip off and found him out.
It's greedy arses like Allardyce with no scruples that are killing the game.
Unlucky porky.
Towards the end of last year, Morrison was invited to a meeting with the football agent Mark Curtis to see if he wanted to become one of his clients. Curtis does this a fair bit with Allardyce's players. At West Ham, he either represents or has links with Allardyce, Kevin Nolan, James Tomkins, Jack Collison, Matt Jarvis, Andy Carroll, Jussi Jaaskelainen and Adrian. Look through his history and there is a fairly astounding pattern of players signing up to him from Allardyce teams. He also has a chequered past of his own, with an official warning from the Football Association after the 2008 investigation into Luton Town's illegal transfer dealings.
Morrison was not keen but, since then, his complaint is that he has felt under considerable pressure from Allardyce and Nolan to change his mind, claiming it is brought up on an almost daily basis. His grievance is that he wanted to go into training to learn and improve, not to have endless conversations about an agent he did not want to employ.
West Ham have put this to the relevant people and they strenuously deny it. Curtis says it is "nonsense", and there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing. But Morrison has become disillusioned with his manager and captain. Allardyce has talked of Morrison complaining about a groin injury when the medical staff could find no problem. Relationships have broken down. A few months ago, Morrison appeared to have the keys to the football universe. Now he cannot wait to get out of the club.
If the source had gone to the FA, nothing would have happened to that fat fuck. Rather the whistleblower would have been fired, driven into depression and possible suicide. That's how the FA like to run things, as do most other organisations. So it's not a disgrace if people would rather lurk in the shadows and lay a trap, instead of coming out into the light and getting shot for their trouble.
Wasn't your best comment, but for me the privilege of giving you your 10,000th "like".Thats madness!!!!!
Thank God he's gone and now the FA hopefully will go for someone who will play attacking football. Harry Redknapp is a good stop gap solution
Sorry, but in my eyes the cunts who setup people in such ways are no better than the people they are stitching up....
Sorry to say so, but setting them up so everyone can see this seem to be the only way that warrants more than "I can't comment on that!" answers from those in charge.
Sorry, but in my eyes the cunts who setup people in such ways are no better than the people they are stitching up....
The Telegraph article describes one of the eight as a manager known to be a "wheeler dealer", so more than a bit unlikely.Ha, you seem to be assuming that Harry won't be on the list of managers The Telegraph has. Unlikely.