Hansen to retire after World Cup

[dee]

Time marches on and even heroes as great as Alan Hansen get old. He's announced his retirement from TV presenting next summer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23968628

"You can't win anything with kids"

One of THE all time greats


Using my ipad so apols for any shitty ios spelling 'corrections'

 

[Woland]

Thank fuck.

 

[Judge Jules]

I like the idea of "retiring" from a cushy number like that. But then Jocky always knew how to make stuff look easy.

 

[localny]

"I also turned down Manchester City in 1995 after Brian Horton was sacked, simply because I never wanted to be a manager," he said.
"When I left Liverpool in 1991, I was in the frame for the job at Anfield, but if I wasn't going to take the Liverpool job, I wasn't going to take any job. It was as simple as that."

Liverpool till the end

 

[gkmacca]

I don't why they persist with that stupid 'you can't win anything with kids' jibe - Hansen was responding to the hype at the time that suggested Ginsoak was going to fill his team with more of the same where Beckham and Neville and Scholes had come from. And as he rightly pointed out, the men who were going to steer the kids to the title were Pallister, Bruce and several other very experienced pros. Nothing wrong with his comment at all but, as usual, it was twisted to create a myth that served Ginsoak's interests.

As for Hansen now, he's been bored for ages, that's the problem. When Des Lynam was presenter he pushed Hansen to make insightful critiques of matches and players. Since that jug-eared twat Lineker has been in charge he doesn't ask Hansen any sensible questions and settles for bluenose-influenced 'banter'.

 

[juniormember]

I don't why they persist with that stupid 'you can't win anything with kids' jibe - Hansen was responding to the hype at the time that suggested Ginsoak was going to fill his team with more of the same where Beckham and Neville and Scholes had come from. And as he rightly pointed out, the men who were going to steer the kids to the title were Pallister, Bruce and several other very experienced pros. Nothing wrong with his comment at all but, as usual, it was twisted to create a myth that served Ginsoak's interests.

As for Hansen now, he's been bored for ages, that's the problem. When Des Lynam was presenter he pushed Hansen to make insightful critiques of matches and players. Since that jug-eared twat Lineker has been in charge he doesn't ask Hansen any sensible questions and settles for bluenose-influenced 'banter'.

Probably true but it's obviously the job of an incredibly well paid pundit to be as insightful and interesting as possible regardless of the presenter.

 

[gkmacca]

Probably true but it's obviously the job of an incredibly well paid pundit to be as insightful and interesting as possible regardless of the presenter.

Yeah but they can't just come up with stuff. MOTD is incredibly tightly managed and every bit of analysis has to be in place long before the programme starts. And Lineker spends most of that time chatting about golf. When an ex-pro is in charge there's barely anything that he finds surprising in a game, and that means he hardly ever thinks of an interesting question. You need a journalist type who'll ask the kind of questions viewers would want asked.

 

[juniormember]

Yeah but they can't just come up with stuff. MOTD is incredibly tightly managed and every bit of analysis has to be in place long before the programme starts. And Lineker spends most of that time chatting about golf. When an ex-pro is in charge there's barely anything that he finds surprising in a game, and that means he hardly ever thinks of an interesting question. You need a journalist type who'll ask the kind of questions viewers would want asked.

True. If it's that meticulously planned the producers and directors are at fault for not giving Jug Ears good scripts and/or instructions for to focus on the interesting bits.
MOTD is well behind the times anyway. Much prefer some of the analysing on sky sports these days. It was a massive blessing for them that Gray Keys scandal.

 

[Silver Sean]

I'd prefer they showed more of the actual football, instead of talking more about the highlights than there are actual frigging highlights.

 

[mark1975]

I'd prefer they showed more of the actual football, instead of talking more about the highlights than there are actual frigging highlights.

I feel kinda like that, but I don't think it's really down to the analysis, they just seem to have a tendency of showing little of our games. I don't mind listening to analysis on TV, it's occasionally insightful and sometimes an opportunity to rip the fuck out of a so-called professional opinion.

Listening to Danny Murphy after our match at the weekend. he didn't half go for the typically media-bias view on many points, to the extreme that he was getting things catastrophically wrong over player roles and being far too generalistic about players. And I like Murphy and have enjoyed his punditry in the past. But moments like that kinda adds fuel to the fire when you hear idiots on here asking people how many coaching badges they've got, just because they disagree with a professional's methods. You can play the game as much as you want but it equates to fuck all for many when it comes to analysing it.

PS, I loved Hansen as a player and pundit.

 

[gkmacca]

I must be one of the last people on the planet who still does that Likely Lads thing of trying to avoid the scores until MOTD is on. These days I'm not interested enough in matches other than ours unless I don't know the score, so I try to dodge the scores but it's nearly impossible!

 

[Judge Jules]

Interesting you should say that. I haven't bothered for ages but, when the "Look away now" bit arrives on the news, they never seem to me to give anything like enough time for anyone watching to take proper prophylactic measures.

 

[gkmacca]

Too right!😀

 

[Whirly]

I thought it said @Hansern was retiring at first

 

[Stulikesdrums]

I thought it said @Hansern was retiring at first

This wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

 

[peterhague]

I thought it said @Hansern was retiring at first

That was just a twitter rumour.

 

[redhorizon2]

BT, ITV, Sky or Al Jazeera will offer him big money, will he have the resolve to say no?

 

[FoxForceFive]

If they offer him anything like the amounts & lifestyle they offered keys & gray he'd find it hard to say no.

 

[gkmacca]

Maybe he'll come in off the golf course every now and again to improve LFCTV, which is an even worse shambles now than before Barwick supposedly suggested improvements. They now review the weekend match on a Thursday instead of a Friday - which makes no sense at all - and force all guests to try to chip a ball into a dustbin, which must be some Downing-related joke but makes for some agonising telly.