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Modric wasn't playing in a friendly (as you said yourself Harry) you stupid cunt.
Is this from his Scum column, by any chance?
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Is this from his Scum column, by any chance?
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Nope, think its from pre-Arsenal match press conference. Probably got asked about his opinion re club v country.
Is this from his Scum column, by any chance?
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Nope, think its from pre-Arsenal match press conference. Probably got asked about his opinion re club v country.
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Redknapp wants the England job, and is also a cunt, so lets ignore everything he has to say on the matter.
It's also worth noting that Spurs have got nobody as good as Gerrard and have a very deep squad.
It's also worth noting that Spurs have got nobody as good as Gerrard and have a very deep squad.
Crump's made up quotes :-
[quote author=crump link=topic=42826.msg1220185#msg1220185 date=1290035474]
Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson distances himself from comments made on social-networking site Twitter earlier tonight by Liverpool's Head of Fitness and Conditioning (HFC) coach, Darren Burgess. Angry Burgess had claimed that Capello had backtracked on a verbal agreement that Steven Gerrard would only play 45 minutes in tonight's friendly against France.
Burgess had stated on Twitter: "Completely amateurish and now we pay for their incompetence". Burgess also called it, "absoloutely disgraceful".
The Liverpool manager, Roy Hodgson, who was at Wembley to watch the game, was concerned when Steven Gerrard pulled up with what appeared to be a hamstring injury. Hodgson said: "We have to accept these things happen. Fabio has a job to do, and a squad to use, and it's not for me to tell him how to use that squad and what players to pick". Hodgson added: "There was no absoloute agreement in place, and I refute those claims by Darren. Hopefully Steven will be back fully fit soon, but we have to accept he's an important player for Fabio; and an important player for England".
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The Guardians actual quotes :-
Roy Hodgson declined to enter the row over Steven Gerrard's hamstring injury yesterday after the Liverpool captain urged him to draw a line under Fabio Capello's costly decision to persist with the midfielder against France.
Liverpool expect to be without their influential captain for four weeks after he suffered a hamstring tear in the 84th minute of England's friendly defeat on Wednesday, despite a pre-match agreement between Franco Baldini, the general manager, and Damien Comolli, Liverpool's new director of football strategy, that he would play only an hour.
Hodgson called Darren Burgess, Liverpool's head of fitness and conditioning, naive and foolish for the Twitter outburst that labelled England and the Football Association amateurish and incompetent in the immediate aftermath of Gerrard's injury. However, after a personal intervention from Gerrard, the Liverpool manager refused to reveal his true feelings on the matter, other than to say he was "disappointed and a bit angry" and did not expect an apology or a call from Capello.
"My interest is Liverpool FC and Steven Gerrard is very much an important part of that," Hodgson said. "When I spoke to him this morning he was at pains to say to me: 'Don't prolong this debate, please say as little as you can and be as diplomatic as you can, I know how you feel.' He feels, like me, that it's a sad thing to have happened and he's very disappointed about it, but he doesn't want to give even more reasons for a debate to rage.
"I respect that and secondly I understand it's going to happen and there's going to be debate and discussion about the value of friendly matches. I'm not stupid, I just don't think it's a good thing for me to get involved in, especially in this situation."
Gerrard has already begun rehabilitation work to recover within four weeks. "He doesn't accept for one minute that this will take a month," said his manager. Though Liverpool remain privately aggrieved at Capello's handling of the issue, and the FA has confirmed its insurers will reimburse the club for Gerrard's wages while he is sidelined, Hodgson said there is little to be gained by prolonging the dispute.
"You have to accept when there are midweek international games and your players are called up that it's a fear you always have. I don't know that I'm being diplomatic, I'm simply refusing to prolong a debate. Our fitness coach, Darren, in his naivety and his frustration was foolish enough to voice an opinion on a Twitter page and that's led to these two days of vitriol and I think it's time that it stopped.
"I can do nothing about Steven's injury, he can do nothing, it's a fact of life and we've got to live with it. I'm just determined to focus on a very important game against West Ham."
Seems Crump wasn't a million miles off then....
[quote author=crump link=topic=42826.msg1220185#msg1220185 date=1290035474]
Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson distances himself from comments made on social-networking site Twitter earlier tonight by Liverpool's Head of Fitness and Conditioning (HFC) coach, Darren Burgess. Angry Burgess had claimed that Capello had backtracked on a verbal agreement that Steven Gerrard would only play 45 minutes in tonight's friendly against France.
Burgess had stated on Twitter: "Completely amateurish and now we pay for their incompetence". Burgess also called it, "absoloutely disgraceful".
The Liverpool manager, Roy Hodgson, who was at Wembley to watch the game, was concerned when Steven Gerrard pulled up with what appeared to be a hamstring injury. Hodgson said: "We have to accept these things happen. Fabio has a job to do, and a squad to use, and it's not for me to tell him how to use that squad and what players to pick". Hodgson added: "There was no absoloute agreement in place, and I refute those claims by Darren. Hopefully Steven will be back fully fit soon, but we have to accept he's an important player for Fabio; and an important player for England".
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The Guardians actual quotes :-
Roy Hodgson declined to enter the row over Steven Gerrard's hamstring injury yesterday after the Liverpool captain urged him to draw a line under Fabio Capello's costly decision to persist with the midfielder against France.
Liverpool expect to be without their influential captain for four weeks after he suffered a hamstring tear in the 84th minute of England's friendly defeat on Wednesday, despite a pre-match agreement between Franco Baldini, the general manager, and Damien Comolli, Liverpool's new director of football strategy, that he would play only an hour.
Hodgson called Darren Burgess, Liverpool's head of fitness and conditioning, naive and foolish for the Twitter outburst that labelled England and the Football Association amateurish and incompetent in the immediate aftermath of Gerrard's injury. However, after a personal intervention from Gerrard, the Liverpool manager refused to reveal his true feelings on the matter, other than to say he was "disappointed and a bit angry" and did not expect an apology or a call from Capello.
"My interest is Liverpool FC and Steven Gerrard is very much an important part of that," Hodgson said. "When I spoke to him this morning he was at pains to say to me: 'Don't prolong this debate, please say as little as you can and be as diplomatic as you can, I know how you feel.' He feels, like me, that it's a sad thing to have happened and he's very disappointed about it, but he doesn't want to give even more reasons for a debate to rage.
"I respect that and secondly I understand it's going to happen and there's going to be debate and discussion about the value of friendly matches. I'm not stupid, I just don't think it's a good thing for me to get involved in, especially in this situation."
Gerrard has already begun rehabilitation work to recover within four weeks. "He doesn't accept for one minute that this will take a month," said his manager. Though Liverpool remain privately aggrieved at Capello's handling of the issue, and the FA has confirmed its insurers will reimburse the club for Gerrard's wages while he is sidelined, Hodgson said there is little to be gained by prolonging the dispute.
"You have to accept when there are midweek international games and your players are called up that it's a fear you always have. I don't know that I'm being diplomatic, I'm simply refusing to prolong a debate. Our fitness coach, Darren, in his naivety and his frustration was foolish enough to voice an opinion on a Twitter page and that's led to these two days of vitriol and I think it's time that it stopped.
"I can do nothing about Steven's injury, he can do nothing, it's a fact of life and we've got to live with it. I'm just determined to focus on a very important game against West Ham."
Seems Crump wasn't a million miles off then....
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Squiggles
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What the fuck is Roy and Liverpool FC supposed to say on the subject?
In my mind Roy has been nothing but fair and reasonable on this subject. Where the fuck is the vitirol towards Steven Gerrard? There isn't any. It's bullshiit.
As if a Manager can stop a player as important as Steven Gerrard from deciding what he wants when it comes to international football. This is yet another example of finding fault for no reason.
In my mind Roy has been nothing but fair and reasonable on this subject. Where the fuck is the vitirol towards Steven Gerrard? There isn't any. It's bullshiit.
As if a Manager can stop a player as important as Steven Gerrard from deciding what he wants when it comes to international football. This is yet another example of finding fault for no reason.
[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=42826.msg1221182#msg1221182 date=1290232682]
What the fuck is Roy and Liverpool FC supposed to say on the subject?
In my mind Roy has been nothing but fair and reasonable on this subject. Where the fuck is the vitirol towards Steven Gerrard? There isn't any. It's bullshiit.
As if a Manager can stop a player as important as Steven Gerrard from deciding what he wants when it comes to international football. This is yet another example of finding fault for no reason.
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Calling our HFC coach "naive" and "frustrated" doesn't strike me as appropriate though I agree that Roy shouldn't necessarily have thrown a tantrum over the issue.
What the fuck is Roy and Liverpool FC supposed to say on the subject?
In my mind Roy has been nothing but fair and reasonable on this subject. Where the fuck is the vitirol towards Steven Gerrard? There isn't any. It's bullshiit.
As if a Manager can stop a player as important as Steven Gerrard from deciding what he wants when it comes to international football. This is yet another example of finding fault for no reason.
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Calling our HFC coach "naive" and "frustrated" doesn't strike me as appropriate though I agree that Roy shouldn't necessarily have thrown a tantrum over the issue.
Crump's version was pretty much spot-on, except that the real-life Hodgson is more irascible. I can't believe I used to think he was a nice guy.
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[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=42826.msg1221182#msg1221182 date=1290232682]
What the fuck is Roy and Liverpool FC supposed to say on the subject?
In my mind Roy has been nothing but fair and reasonable on this subject. Where the fuck is the vitirol towards Steven Gerrard? There isn't any. It's bullshiit.
As if a Manager can stop a player as important as Steven Gerrard from deciding what he wants when it comes to international football. This is yet another example of finding fault for no reason.
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Calling our HFC coach "naive" and "frustrated" doesn't strike me as appropriate though I agree that Roy shouldn't necessarily have thrown a tantrum over the issue.
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But the Head Fitness Coach spouting off in public is appropriate?
He (Burgess) really should have kept his thoughts private. It was unprofessional to use Twatter to say what he did.
Hodgson isn't good enough we all know and he comes out with some odd statements at times but EVERYTHING he does or says, it's analysed, scrutinised and dissected to levels akin to a biopsy on a gnat's rectum just so the tiniest thing can be used to twat him over the head with.
[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=42826.msg1221182#msg1221182 date=1290232682]
What the fuck is Roy and Liverpool FC supposed to say on the subject?
In my mind Roy has been nothing but fair and reasonable on this subject. Where the fuck is the vitirol towards Steven Gerrard? There isn't any. It's bullshiit.
As if a Manager can stop a player as important as Steven Gerrard from deciding what he wants when it comes to international football. This is yet another example of finding fault for no reason.
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Calling our HFC coach "naive" and "frustrated" doesn't strike me as appropriate though I agree that Roy shouldn't necessarily have thrown a tantrum over the issue.
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But the Head Fitness Coach spouting off in public is appropriate?
He (Burgess) really should have kept his thoughts private. It was unprofessional to use Twatter to say what he did.
Hodgson isn't good enough we all know and he comes out with some odd statements at times but EVERYTHING he does or says, it's analysed, scrutinised and dissected to levels akin to a biopsy on a gnat's rectum just so the tiniest thing can be used to twat him over the head with.
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