All I can visualise now is an episode of The Young Ones running through my head.
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All I can visualise now is an episode of The Young Ones running through my head.
I haven't yet summoned the courage to watch yesterday's episode.
This has been a disaster. I don't think I'll ever feel the same way about the club again. The mystery is shot to hell and it's like a bad marriage now, I'm just putting in the time until one of us dies. I've had the euphoria of early romance (1977-1989), the years of growing up in harder times and slowly getting familiar with each others flaws (1989-2004), one last extraordinary but short period of passion (2005), years of real struggles where it was hard but we seemed to be working through it together (2006-2012) but now it feels totally bereft of mystery and wonder. I can't love another, it's too late for that, but the best days are gone now.
"You just need a hug Gene. That's all you need, okay? A hug, and a little stroke on your cheek. Just those two things okay?"
Low points this week:
Kirby's Hallmark Cards 'rhymes': e.g.:
"I often look out across the Kop
To the right-hand corner, at the top".
Cringetastic moment when Fudgie 'reveals' - with a game show-like dramatic pause - that 'three people are going to let us down this season, and I've already written their names down inside these envelopes'. Then he warns everyone not to be one of them, which suggests he's not quite worked out the predestination angle. (That's the problem with most of Fudgie's portentous pronouncements - it rarely sounds as if he's checked they make sense.)
They're STILL showing clips from the West Brom game.
Ayre talking shite as usual.
High points:
Fudgie talking through the DVD clips for the squad.
The Shelvmeister enthusing about playing for LFCTV and generally being his usual endearingly gormless self.
Carra watching his kid at the Academy.
A glimpse at the inside of the team bus.
Borini moving into his new apartment, which looks like a bloody warehouse.
Footage at Melwood.
Fewer hugs and kisses.
In all: far and away the best episode so far, IMHO. More structure and much better clips.
Kirby's Hallmark Cards 'rhymes': e.g.:
"I often look out across the Kop
To the right-hand corner, at the top".
Cringetastic moment when Fudgie 'reveals' - with a game show-like dramatic pause - that 'three people are going to let us down this season, and I've already written their names down inside these envelopes'. Then he warns everyone not to be one of them, which suggests he's not quite worked out the predestination angle. (That's the problem with most of Fudgie's portentous pronouncements - it rarely sounds as if he's checked they make sense.)
They're STILL showing clips from the West Brom game.
Ayre talking shite as usual.
High points:
Fudgie talking through the DVD clips for the squad.
The Shelvmeister enthusing about playing for LFCTV and generally being his usual endearingly gormless self.
Carra watching his kid at the Academy.
A glimpse at the inside of the team bus.
Borini moving into his new apartment, which looks like a bloody warehouse.
Footage at Melwood.
Fewer hugs and kisses.
In all: far and away the best episode so far, IMHO. More structure and much better clips.
Yes. It's one of the most excruciatingly embarrassing things I've seen about the club. You could see he was so proud of it, too. I'm sure he's a decent bloke but he really has to cut those stunts out. Horrible.
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i wonder do the players buy into that sort of motivation . I mean they're a young lot mainly and perhaps not the brightest so they might lap it up . I think i'd just walk out of the room .
Yes, I think if any David Brent type tried it in a normal company he'd lose most of his staff immediately. Then again, some footballers are so stunningly thick they might think it's the cleverest thing they've ever witnessed. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if one or two of our more mature players didn't secretly think, 'What a TWAT!'
Haven't watched it, but Macca's description to me sounds like he's telling the players to prove him wrong, should their names be in the envelope.
It's not all that bad, to me anyway.
It's not all that bad, to me anyway.
Yes, well that's obviously the point of it but it's insulting to normal people's intelligence. It might have worked when Rodgers was working with Chelski youth players but he's working with grown-ups now and those stunts aren't viable. By the way, he also looked at the coaching staff (when he was saying some players will let us down) and said 'and the staff...' - I bet that went down well. No wonder the odd one's left since that!
Hahaha.
Not to mention the fact that he himself brought them in from Swansea!
Then again if that's his usual antic and they followed him to the club, maybe it's something that works? Who knows.
We really have to keep in mind people in football, the majority of them, are absolute thick cunts who haven't developed thei brains since their teens due to their surroundings.
Maybe it really works.
Not to mention the fact that he himself brought them in from Swansea!
Then again if that's his usual antic and they followed him to the club, maybe it's something that works? Who knows.
We really have to keep in mind people in football, the majority of them, are absolute thick cunts who haven't developed thei brains since their teens due to their surroundings.
Maybe it really works.
If he'd said he'd written down the names of the three people who'll excel this season, that might have been a bit of incentive. Unless he's made a deep study and critique of Max Weber's theory of the protestant ethic, I can't see what he expects to encourage by saying he already knows who'll be crap. Or maybe that explains our defence: they all think they'll get a prize if they're in the bottom three.
I thought the exact same thing about the bizarre concept of the elect. Even the most hardline preachers made the elect the good envelope though, not the bad one.
That was absolutely mental, but still not as funny to me as "you can only trust one thing" *counts off three things on his fingers*.
Still, the show makes me feel bad for our band of mostly idiots.
I'm guessing the twist is that the envelopes contain more meaningless middle management jargon.
Alright boys, okay, it's the end of the season now, we've managed to avoid relegation. Remember at the beginning of the season, I impressed you with those envelope things. Let's have a look inside. INSIDE EACH IS A MIRROR!!
Then Carragher watches ruefully as Shelvey's head explodes.
Alright boys, okay, it's the end of the season now, we've managed to avoid relegation. Remember at the beginning of the season, I impressed you with those envelope things. Let's have a look inside. INSIDE EACH IS A MIRROR!!
Then Carragher watches ruefully as Shelvey's head explodes.
Yes. Or the envelopes contain psychological players in the game of group motivational therapy like:
FEAR
EGO
THOUGHTFUL
FEAR
EGO
THOUGHTFUL
Wait that last one belongs in the three things I like about myself envelopes.
THOUGHTFUL
TACTILE
HAM
TACTILE
HAM
Wait that last one belongs in the things I like to eat envelopes.
CHEDDAR
SILVERMINTS
NURISAHIN
SILVERMINTS
NURISAHIN
Wait.....
Oh no that's right actually.
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