Footballing Myths

[Tony Towner]

Coutinho and Suarez went for nearly £140m. Not sure City have sold anyone from their first 11 under the Sheikh. Sane at an absolute stretch

 

[PuntsWolf]

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Coutinho and Suarez went for nearly £140m. Not sure City have sold anyone from their first 11 under the Sheikh. Sane at an absolute stretch

Plus Sterling

 

[jd1981]

Coutinho and Suarez went for nearly £140m. Not sure City have sold anyone from their first 11 under the Sheikh. Sane at an absolute stretch

Even still it’s made out like things have been done on a shoe string,

 

[Tredman]

It’s definitely not a myth that other fans are weirdly obsessed by Liverpool though..

 

[jd1981]

It’s definitely not a myth that other fans are weirdly obsessed by Liverpool though..

A lot of fans will have obsession with clubs they don’t like especially when they’re successful. Man Utd were despised by many during the 90’s.

 

[Tredman]

A lot of fans will have obsession with clubs they don’t like especially when they’re successful. Man Utd were despised by many during the 90’s.

I don’t disagree, but Liverpool seem to be particularly abused. Their fans do some great stuff, such as the food bank & banning the sun, might be a bit deluded but so are most fans.

 

[Johnny75]

It’s definitely not a myth that other fans are weirdly obsessed by Liverpool though..

Hard not to be when they infest schools and social media. The amount of bandwagon jumpers when I was at school was nauseating.

I’m old enough to remember Hysel too.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

As am I. Liverpool fans have had some awful times but that one was all on them. Remember when they played Juventus a few years ago and the Kop held up banners saying Amicazia and all the Juventus fans turned their backs on it?

 

[jd1981]

As am I. Liverpool fans have had some awful times but that one was all on them. Remember when they played Juventus a few years ago and the Kop held up banners saying Amicazia and all the Juventus fans turned their backs on it?

I think some ex Liverpool players and Liverpool based journalists don’t help matters and rile up fans of other clubs in the wrong way to. One of my earliest memories of watching live football was Liverpool v Forest at Old Trafford in the rescheduling of the Hillsborough disaster. John Aldridge ruffling the head of Brian Laws after he’d scored an own goal was pure classless. Same bloke who refused to shake the hands of Arsenal players after they won the title at Anfield.

 

[big mean bunny]

Coutinho and Suarez went for nearly £140m. Not sure City have sold anyone from their first 11 under the Sheikh. Sane at an absolute stretch

Because City don't need to sell players, I get that is a money thing but Cities best players have almost never asked to leave?

I have massively softened my stance on LFC, but like Johnny it's linked to being at school and having kids who were Liverpool fans taking the piss out of me for being a Corby Town season ticket holder and liking Wolves etc. Their success currently covers some of the things that annoy me, which is their false hero worship where they think anyone who plays for them is therefore the best in the world, previously my mates were telling me neither Jota or Neves were good enough for the prem, then they weren't good enough for a top team etc. I get all clubs are like that but I have heard this from them since 94, the difference now is they actually do have some of the best players in the world, instead of Rigobert Song and Sami Hyppuia etc.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Wolves fans will always cut players plenty of slack if they try their hardest, week in week out.

Wolves fans will always support local young players who've come through the youth system above others.

Wolves played really attractive, exciting football under Nuno until this season.

Matt Doherty (career high: 4 league goals) is a goalscoring freak of a defender.

Football fans are hilarious. They demand loyalty from managers and players yet they're the most ruthless people at the club. Fans will worship a great player but they'll want them out the second they stop doing it.

 

[leedswolf]

A lot of fans will have obsession with clubs they don’t like especially when they’re successful. Man Utd were despised by many during the 90’s.

I have despised ManU since the 70s. Nothing to do with titles and trophies.

 

[Tony Towner]

The European Super League is going to destroy football

 

[jd1981]

Someone Twitter just and a comment I see regularly “Pep Guardiola has just got lucky with the clubs he’s managed and is just a cheque book manager, he’d be crap with no money”
For starters this is the same bloke who works 14-15 hours daily.
He didn’t just win the Barca job on the back of a cornflakes packet. Did work with Barca B and youth players prior to that.
Regardless of the quality at your disposal isn’t just a case of chucking a load of players together and sitting back whilst they work it out for themselves. If anyone thinks it’s a fluke the way his sides play at times I really can’t help you.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Pep is an exceptional coach. I would personally love to see him in charge of a mid table side just to see the difference in results and league position he could manufacture. It will never happen as he has no need to move down but it would be fascinating.

 

[Tredman]

It’d need to be a ‘project’ with long term backing and committed owners

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Would be interesting to see if he could manage with a more limited set of players, might just end up hanging them out to dry every week by asking too much of them. It's not like he's never fucked a game by over thinking things.

 

[big mean bunny]

He has made most players (particularly non defenders) better that he had worked with.

You only need to look at Arteta at Arsenal, not had "his signings" apparently but he hasn't made the players that are there any better at the system he had been trying for over a year now, and he himself hasn't adapted to fit what they can do. I don't think that would happen with Pep, he is too methodical.

 

[jd1981]

The above has a lot of myths attached to it, even John Motson patronising comments are completely wrong.
Zaire qualified on merit ahead of Morocco, they were also ACN champions at the time.
Backdrop to this was Zaire was under the dictatorship of Mobutu at the time.
Zaire played Scotland first and lost 2-0 but caused Scotland a lot of nervy moments.
Mobutu was heavily pissed off tho all the funds that had been put aside for players whilst in Germany vanished. They initially refused to play Yugoslavia in the second due to this only because of threats to family back home did they play but were not arsed and lost 9-0.
The final game v Brazil was a dead rubber for them and they were threatened if they lost more than 3-0.
They lost by that scoreline, the player who kicked the ball away Ilunga Mwepo was very vocal in the players protest and it was believed he want to get sent off in a way of protest.
What it does is it puts the myth to bed that the Zaire players didn’t know the rules and were at the World Cup on some sort of charity qualification.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Only just seen this thread, some good ones in here,

That Wolves fans booed Bully in the FA Cup game against Notlob.
We’d thrown the kitchen sink at them and missed chance after chance. Howls of derision at not scoring against a shit side rather than anything else. Those fuckers that clapped Notlob off just because the Scousers did the week before should hold their heads in shame too - they were crap (wasn’t it a Wolves fan who scored their goal just to run more salt into the wounds of the day?)

I had managed to get a ticket thinking we were going to see us play Liverpool and was excited to see us against a top team. I was pissed off that Bolton won the replay and even more pissed at us loosing it.

Should have cut my losses then

Lescott and the Johnsons

It was Dewolf and the Johnsons

Lescott was someone else and yes there was an incident where him being cocky about a girl led to him being filled in.