Given permanent England U21 Captaincy...
This lad is going to be a beast of a defender.. Let's hope we don't stunt his development..
This lad is going to be a beast of a defender.. Let's hope we don't stunt his development..
Wisdom
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I think a few of us said ages ago that he'd end up as England captain at senior level. He just has that natural authority about him, and his leadership qualities grow stronger and more visible with every season. He also seems a really down-to-earth, modest, guy, so he deserves all the positive things that happen.
You haven't seen his instagram account then. He kinda looks like chav prick tbh.
http://instagram.com/andrewisdom47
Stalker? Moi?
He's putting it all out there.
Now that Illori fella, that there is a model professional.
I know I'm right.
Kinda did a 180 after reading this article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...om-fast-learning-liverpool-trade-8477968.html
It is not that I have to seek out these things. It is because I feel compelled to - for your benefit. Now, in this instance, I have very little doubt that this...sportsman...Mr Wisdom - oh, the irony! - is a reprobate of the worst kind. He wears no tie, he shows no obvious curiosity about the history of the Royal Family, no evident interest in fine English china, no appreciation - avid or otherwise - of the insights of Walter Bagehot, not even a sliver of a fondness for PG Wodehouse. I even doubt that he could whistle a happy tune from the oeuvre of Gilbert and Sullivan. All of this, tish and pish, when said rapscallion is on holiday - the very time when prosaic leisure can engorge itself with special culture! And as for his - quite frankly - scandalous penchant for al fresco posturings,let me quote our old friend Thackery - [continued on page 67]
can't find p. 67 despite the caffeine infusion
That is an excellent read. Thanks for the link Modo.
despite following Richards through the Leeds City Boys ranks and spending intermittent spells at Leeds United, where Richards was another one they let get away. Wisdom was 14 when Bradford City spotted him and brought him into a youth system that has also produced Tom Cleverley, Aston Villa's Fabian Delph – and was at Rafael Benitez's Liverpool within six months, learning from the Academy's Dave Shaddon, Hughie McAuley and, the much-missed Gary Ablett, who ran the reserve team who won their league for two years running.
..... his football svengali was Rodolfo Borrell, whose low profile belies his vast significance as Academy director at Liverpool. With his exhortations to Wisdom, Conor Coady, Suso, Raheem Sterling and others to move the ball fast when they could, but to play a different, more physical way when required, Borrell was the one who "turned me from a boy to a man", Wisdom says.
"His physicality and his attitude were his two big qualities," one of the backroom staff from the Benitez era says of Wisdom. "Of all those kids, he was the most mentally strong."
Though Benitez and his staff decided that Wisdom was a right-back, having not quite grown tall enough to continue in central defence, it has been Jamie Carragher who has deftly guided him, these past months. "I remember one game he was on the bench and I looked across and he was telling me to 'push in' and 'drop back'," Wisdom says. "Whenever he's playing he's always talking, sometimes talking when he doesn't need to – which is great for me. No one's there to hurt you or knock your confidence or anything like that. He's got a way of expressing what he has to say in the right way."
Borrell does not let Wisdom switch off. They speak every other day and there was a text message awaiting him after the 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford last month, pointing out that he had turned his back on a cross. "That's good. As a player you need the positives but also the things you might not want to hear."
It is not that I have to seek out these things. It is because I feel compelled to - for your benefit. Now, in this instance, I have very little doubt that this...sportsman...Mr Wisdom - oh, the irony! - is a reprobate of the worst kind. He wears no tie, he shows no obvious curiosity about the history of the Royal Family, no evident interest in fine English china, no appreciation - avid or otherwise - of the insights of Walter Bagehot, not even a sliver of a fondness for PG Wodehouse. I even doubt that he could whistle a happy tune from the oeuvre of Gilbert and Sullivan. All of this, tish and pish, when said rapscallion is on holiday - the very time when prosaic leisure can engorge itself with special culture! And as for his - quite frankly - scandalous penchant for al fresco posturings,let me quote our old friend Thackery - [continued on page 67]
Well, really. Suggesting that Starkey would misspell "Thackeray". The very idea!
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HAHAHA post of the year for me
It is not that I have to seek out these things. It is because I feel compelled to - for your benefit. Now, in this instance, I have very little doubt that this...sportsman...Mr Wisdom - oh, the irony! - is a reprobate of the worst kind. He wears no tie, he shows no obvious curiosity about the history of the Royal Family, no evident interest in fine English china, no appreciation - avid or otherwise - of the insights of Walter Bagehot, not even a sliver of a fondness for PG Wodehouse. I even doubt that he could whistle a happy tune from the oeuvre of Gilbert and Sullivan. All of this, tish and pish, when said rapscallion is on holiday - the very time when prosaic leisure can engorge itself with special culture! And as for his - quite frankly - scandalous penchant for al fresco posturings,let me quote our old friend Thackery - [continued on page 67]
HAHAHA post of the year for me
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