Mick Dennis really needs to get out more.
"[David Beckham] has given me my finest moments as an England fan"
Beckham's England career is effectively over as Cappello has the temerity to suggest that at 37 David will be 'too old' when the Euro Championship comes round in two years time. Wedderburn pointed out that he simply gave a straight answer to a straight question, but Mick wasn't having that - it's a question of respect. It was like a conversation between two 14 year olds.
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Tabloid Review 11/08/10
Short one today 'cos the England stuff is getting rather tedious.
Paul Lewis reviewing, renowned psychology & body language expert, gives us insight into the captain's press conference:
"You could tell Steven Gerrard would have rather been anywhere else by his body language, arms folded, chin buried in his chest...". So no flies on Paul.
MON gets second billing as Villa start to spin against him, for want of a better expression:
The O'Neill backlash begins
There hasn't been any direct word from O'Neill or Villa in the press until now, but this will probably sting Martin into action and ratchet things up a notch. Expect paragraphs on the chairman's megalomania in the not-too-distant future.
Final story, Craig Bellamy's frank interview on Sky yesterday regarding his untenable & precarious position at City. It's a tough one for a journalist this, but Paul eventually decides to blame Craig. Well done, Paul!
Paul Lewis reviewing, renowned psychology & body language expert, gives us insight into the captain's press conference:
"You could tell Steven Gerrard would have rather been anywhere else by his body language, arms folded, chin buried in his chest...". So no flies on Paul.
MON gets second billing as Villa start to spin against him, for want of a better expression:
The O'Neill backlash begins
There hasn't been any direct word from O'Neill or Villa in the press until now, but this will probably sting Martin into action and ratchet things up a notch. Expect paragraphs on the chairman's megalomania in the not-too-distant future.
Final story, Craig Bellamy's frank interview on Sky yesterday regarding his untenable & precarious position at City. It's a tough one for a journalist this, but Paul eventually decides to blame Craig. Well done, Paul!
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
SSN tabloid review 10/08/10
Steven 'Steve' Curry's ample bottom in the hot seat today, and only 2 stories in town.
Firstly, Martin O'Neil's surprise resignation yesterday. Steve informs us this is because the club weren't willing to give him the proceeds from the likely sale of James Milner to bolster his squad, which is plausible enough. However, of greater interest to Steve is the revelation that certain Villa players, upon hearing the news MON had gone, were texting pictures of champagne bottles being opened to each other. So assuming this is true, genuinely earth-shattering news that some of the workers don't like the boss.
Final story, Cappello. Steve refers to his friend & ours, Henry Winter, sticking the verbal boot into Fabio: "Henry's a conservative, thoughtful journalist, so this isn't like him". I think I may have spat some of my breakfast out at that point. After a bit of prompting by Mike Wedderburn, Steve elucidated with the following comment and our 'journalist, in the 3rd person, quote of the day' : "Capello has got onto the wrong side of the press, and as we know once that happens your days are numbered". So there it is in black and white, the press certainly believe they can get the England manager sacked.
Monday, 9 August 2010
Sunday Supplement Podcast - 08/08/10
Lots of talk about Cappello obviously after the World Cup debacle; after a very poor campaign I think there is a genuine desire for the squad to change - new blood, building towards the next World Cup - the 'golden generation' should be pensioned off having consistently underachieved.
Seems sensible, doesn't it?
Not to the assembled journos. Apparently, he shouldn't have discarded the squad players who didn't feature at the WC for the upcoming friendly. They weren't really good enough to play in the starting eleven at the WC, but they are good enough now. And by apologising at his press conference last week (not his idea, but he felt like he had to say it, under instruction from the FA apparently) he's become the press's poodle.
"Cappello got the worst out of the players" according to The Sun's Dr. Evil, Rob Beasley.
And
"JT was absolutely right to speak out" - yet the papers panned him for it afterwards, if I remember correctly.
And why do these journalists refer to their colleagues & the rest of the industry in the 3rd person, like things appearing in the press have nothing to do with them?
Plenty of excuses for Rooney's form, largely centered on England "playing in the wrong way". Did England really change the way they played from the successful qualification campaign? If they did it's no wonder the panel were slagging Cappello off.
Onto Liverpool's impending takeover, possibly by the Chinese state. Roy Hodgson gets a glowing report following a routine passage through the first qualifying round of the Europa cup as his tenure begins at one of the established "Big 4" clubs. Not a great deal of concern about the ownership passing to a foreign state, but we're still at the conjecture stage with this. Expect some human rights based hand-wringing should this come to pass... we shall see.
Cesc Fabregas was next up for discussion. He's "totally committed" to the Arsenal cause apparently. No real mention of a summer's worth of tapping-up from Barcelona, which would have been big news if it had been a British club naturally.
Which leads nicely onto Tottenham; the Harry Redknapp love-in continues, but being a friend of the sports media helps dissipate any criticism. Three players will be bought when Tottenham get past Young Boys according to those in the know - no names are mentioned, but 'Arry's hardly behind the door when it comes to discussing transfer targets.
And finally Manchester City. It's been another bumper transfer window for City as they try and force there way onto the Premier League's top table. Rob Beasley "fears that Manchester City are going the same way as Chelsea". As a Manchester City fan, so do I...
Here's a long but interesting piece written by fellow blue Howard Hockin, regarding the MCFC bullshit-merry-go-round which deserves a mention here to illustrate a point regarding City "distorting the transfer market"
http://www.footballfancast.com
Obviously I'm biased, but surely the football glitterati have always distorted the transfer market for everyone below them? It's the law of the jungle, and I can tell you now it's much more fun being at the top of the food chain than the bottom.
MCFC bollocks quote of the day was "It looks like Adebayor is through the door", despite City saying very publicly last Friday that he's wearing the number nine shirt this coming season and will definitely not be leaving.
Some other noteworthy quotes - "Mancini to be out of work by bonfire night" according to Beasley, "City blew Chelsea out of the water" with a £24m bid for James Milner (has Abramovich finally run out of money?) "Craig Bellamy would love to go to Tottenham" but "would he take a £40k pay cut?"
I think that's a bit of a 'no brainer' lads.
Seems sensible, doesn't it?
Not to the assembled journos. Apparently, he shouldn't have discarded the squad players who didn't feature at the WC for the upcoming friendly. They weren't really good enough to play in the starting eleven at the WC, but they are good enough now. And by apologising at his press conference last week (not his idea, but he felt like he had to say it, under instruction from the FA apparently) he's become the press's poodle.
"Cappello got the worst out of the players" according to The Sun's Dr. Evil, Rob Beasley.
And
"JT was absolutely right to speak out" - yet the papers panned him for it afterwards, if I remember correctly.
And why do these journalists refer to their colleagues & the rest of the industry in the 3rd person, like things appearing in the press have nothing to do with them?
Plenty of excuses for Rooney's form, largely centered on England "playing in the wrong way". Did England really change the way they played from the successful qualification campaign? If they did it's no wonder the panel were slagging Cappello off.
Onto Liverpool's impending takeover, possibly by the Chinese state. Roy Hodgson gets a glowing report following a routine passage through the first qualifying round of the Europa cup as his tenure begins at one of the established "Big 4" clubs. Not a great deal of concern about the ownership passing to a foreign state, but we're still at the conjecture stage with this. Expect some human rights based hand-wringing should this come to pass... we shall see.
Cesc Fabregas was next up for discussion. He's "totally committed" to the Arsenal cause apparently. No real mention of a summer's worth of tapping-up from Barcelona, which would have been big news if it had been a British club naturally.
Which leads nicely onto Tottenham; the Harry Redknapp love-in continues, but being a friend of the sports media helps dissipate any criticism. Three players will be bought when Tottenham get past Young Boys according to those in the know - no names are mentioned, but 'Arry's hardly behind the door when it comes to discussing transfer targets.
And finally Manchester City. It's been another bumper transfer window for City as they try and force there way onto the Premier League's top table. Rob Beasley "fears that Manchester City are going the same way as Chelsea". As a Manchester City fan, so do I...
Here's a long but interesting piece written by fellow blue Howard Hockin, regarding the MCFC bullshit-merry-go-round which deserves a mention here to illustrate a point regarding City "distorting the transfer market"
http://www.footballfancast.com
Obviously I'm biased, but surely the football glitterati have always distorted the transfer market for everyone below them? It's the law of the jungle, and I can tell you now it's much more fun being at the top of the food chain than the bottom.
MCFC bollocks quote of the day was "It looks like Adebayor is through the door", despite City saying very publicly last Friday that he's wearing the number nine shirt this coming season and will definitely not be leaving.
Some other noteworthy quotes - "Mancini to be out of work by bonfire night" according to Beasley, "City blew Chelsea out of the water" with a £24m bid for James Milner (has Abramovich finally run out of money?) "Craig Bellamy would love to go to Tottenham" but "would he take a £40k pay cut?"
I think that's a bit of a 'no brainer' lads.
Friday, 6 August 2010
Marlon King currently on Radio 5 live...
As we know the prison system is full of innocent men...
Interview after being released from his sentence for sexual assault, sounds like fun.
Interview after being released from his sentence for sexual assault, sounds like fun.
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Damn! Nearly forgot...
What got me re-motivated last night about the blog was Keith Harris's enormous U-turn of a Sky Sports News interview re. the self-styled Red Knights -
As reported in 'print'
I've tried to avoid taking an angle (I did say 'tried') on the whole Red Knights thing as it would have got a bit too partisan which was not my intention when I started the blog... however, followers of the story will find this interesting to say the least.
The interview itself was rather cringeworthy, to be honest, watching the Keith flippantly cutting the umbilical cord to the foetus of the consortium of 'serious businessmen' he was fronting, whilst a framed ManU shirt of yesteryear hung proudly on the wall behind him.
I'm sure at one point he uttered the phrase "it's just business". Blimey Keith. Bit of a change of heart there. Or maybe Orville was hidden behind Keith winding his neck in?
As reported in 'print'
I've tried to avoid taking an angle (I did say 'tried') on the whole Red Knights thing as it would have got a bit too partisan which was not my intention when I started the blog... however, followers of the story will find this interesting to say the least.
The interview itself was rather cringeworthy, to be honest, watching the Keith flippantly cutting the umbilical cord to the foetus of the consortium of 'serious businessmen' he was fronting, whilst a framed ManU shirt of yesteryear hung proudly on the wall behind him.
I'm sure at one point he uttered the phrase "it's just business". Blimey Keith. Bit of a change of heart there. Or maybe Orville was hidden behind Keith winding his neck in?
Summer hols / world cup over...
Sorry for the extended break, not sure if I'm going to renew my sky subscription for the new season so will be doing this from the SS podcast which is DREADFUL, I know. Still, £20.50 per month (plus an extra £7 if I want the pleasure of watching in HD) means I'll be doing the decent thing and watching dodgy internet feeds instead.
Anyway, I'm assuming the series starts up again next weekend so hopefully the bullshit brigade will run true to form and give me plenty to moan about...
Anyway, I'm assuming the series starts up again next weekend so hopefully the bullshit brigade will run true to form and give me plenty to moan about...
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