He was their captain but they signed Tiago Silva so he was relegated to the bench. Their loss our gain.
Sakho got mad skills bro
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He was their captain but they signed Tiago Silva so he was relegated to the bench. Their loss our gain.
I can vouch for this because I was in Paris when we signed him. They all loved him there. I can't remember how much he cost but it was a lot I recall - I think they needed to balance the books with FFP and all that.
Is it Alan Smith (or some other commentator who speaks in a depressing west midlands drone) that spouts about Sakho every game – that he doesn't like the ball at his feet, and the opposition know they can get at him – only for Sakho to confound his comments every single time. You'd think he would then qualify his opinions for the next game, but oh no, it's the same nonsensical epithets trotted out every time we play. It makes me want to hurt him.
There are one or two with that type of accent on the radio but Smith's the only one on the telly that I can think of. He actually has a languages degree, if you can believe it.
Cheating b@stard also never touched the ball which went into the net straight from an indirect free-kick for the Arse's first "goal" in that game in 1989.
Cheating b@stard also never touched the ball which went into the net straight from an indirect free-kick for the Arse's first "goal" in that game in 1989.
It was funny hearing Owen last night, suddenly 'opining' as if his life depended on it. Apparently BT have grown tired of him spending more time watching the horses than working on his commentating, so he's belatedly realised his job's on the line. I guess that's one reason for his sudden realisation that Sakho isn't the hopeless liability he was claiming in previous games.
I realise I'm blowing against the wind here a bit - But in my opinion I don't think Owen is that bad at all. There are certainly worse anyway. Waddle being one. It's not like I think he's amazing but he doesn't annoy me.
But when BT bring in Trevor Francis - Trevor fecking Francis!! - to give you some competition, you know you're in trouble.
Hargreaves is terrible. Phil Neville was awful as well, didn't he get loads of complaints the last time he was a co commentator for being so boring.
There's a small band of us brothers all nodding in agreement.
Sorry mate but Owen is just a complete idiot. Listening to him makes me want to punch the fucker every time he spouts shite (which is far too often, and then he repeats himself ad infinitum) !
Yesterday was the perfect example. "Yes it was a foul and you can see the scratch marks on the back of his leg .. but it wasn't a penalty". Aaaaaaagh !
Aye - I'll give you that one. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard him! It was all rather tragic I thought. At one point he said "I haven't been a manager for a long time but when I was a manager....." And then proceeded to follow it up with a point that was precisely why he isn't a manager any more.
Yeah that's a good point - A pretty moronic comment for sure. He wasn't that bad during the Chelsea game. Thing is the whole of BT are a bit of a shower. Although surprisingly David James and Macca seem to know their onions. Rio as well but he sounds so fucking thick when he says them it's hard to take him seriously. Harry Redknapp looks like someone has slipped him a tamazepam into his cup of tea before kick off. By the time it's half time and needs to comment on the game he looks like all he wants to do is go to bed!
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The whole idea of bringing in famous footballing faces to do punditry is flawed by the fact that most footballers aren't particularly erudite or insightful by virtue of the fact that they're taken out of education relatively young and put into an environment high on banter and the like. People such as Neville and Carragher are the exceptions really.
Him and Bellers would make a good duo in the booth.
I don't think they needed to balance the books that much, but I think the prospect of getting £16m for a player out of contract the following summer was too good to resist, and he was also not in the first team anyway, with Marqhinos and Thiago ahead of him.
They should get someone intelligent like, I don't know, Clarke Carlisle to commentate on the games.
Oh wait...
Were you on holiday!?
5 Live used to have some decent co-commentators actually, but this was a few years ago now. Some footballers can do it, but I don't really get why some are recruited. I can understand former footballers as pundits because they at least have famous faces, but very few have famous voices, and anyone with the cursory knowledge of football would have known Owen would be forensically dull.
Nah - I was living in Monmatre and working as a tour guide. I was as surprised as anyone that there would be a niche market of people that were interested in Louis XIV manhole covers. What a crazy summer..... All escargot and wrought iron.... *goes misty eyed*
Remember? How could we forget sure? I wanted to have your internet license revoked because of it. I'm pretty sure you claimed we would have would won the league if Agger started the Chelsea game as he wouldn't have made that pass to Gerrard.
Disclaimer : this is not an invitation to revisit old debates. 😉
Agger has played 7 seasons for us and never has he played as badly under Rodgers. He likes to step it up against Chelsea...in contrast Sakho was a new boy. I do think we would have given ourselves a better chance if Agger started tbose crucial games. Rodgers did not handle Agger well....he was loyal to the core and in some ways has the right to feel bad about his career cut short by Rodgers. Hindsight of how Rodgers has managed other defenders including Sakho who succeeded Agger has only gone and reinforced my view.
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