Danny Mills’ Vendetta against Vardy: Part 12

[Phube]

Just listened to 5live’s Podcast from last night. They were discussing merits of Vardy vs Sterling: 

 

Mills: People say Sterling isn’t a great finisher. And Vardy’s has had great form, but he’s not a great finisher. He just tends to put his foot through it to hit the back of the net!

 

Warnock (Stephen): Yeah he’s not a natural finisher.

 

Just made me swear whilst listening...

[AKCJ]

What the ****  

[yorkie1999]

None of them like vardy and i think it's because he hasn't come up through the system.

[ozleicester]

Bollocks and reminiscent of.......... "He only scores goals"

[AlloverthefloorYesNdidi]

Had at least 2 goal of the season contenders, including the winner, this season, and he's not a natural finisher?

 

Suck my ****

[AlloverthefloorYesNdidi]

Plus, Sterling is about as far from a natural finisher as it gets.  He can miss an open goal from 2 yards out

 

This particular comparison highlights strongly Mill's bias

[RumbleFox]

Sterling is a fine player and one could argue quite reasonably that in many ways he is superior to Vardy but to claim he is a better or more natural finisher is not only stupid but objectively wrong.  Vardy has on of the best conversion rates of any striker in the world over the last three years.  This kind of thing does make me angry even though I should rise above it.  What I can't understand is why "the system" doesn't like underdogs or "the little man".  I thought we were supposed to get behind the romance of stories like Vardy's?  Very weird.  X

Edited 7 June 2018 by RumbleFox

[StanSP]

Mills is a proper melt. 

[Facecloth]

You'll also notice, I'm sure, at some point people will start talking about Vardy as only being useful if the opposition push up and we can get him in behind. It's bollocks, Vardy scores various types of goals. He's got in behind, he's scored headers, volleys, tap ins. I've seen in smash in from 30 yards, I've seen him score against West Brom with one of the hardest bits of skill ever, I've seen him dink the ball over the keeper, I've seen him bend one into the far corner. He's not a one trick pony and he's not someone who just blasts the ball, he's one of the deadliest strikers in Europe.

[jammie82uk]

I don’t see much Top class clinical finishing here 

 

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

29 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

None of them like vardy and i think it's because he hasn't come up through the system. he's jealous of his success 

 

[An Away Move]

10 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

You'll also notice, I'm sure, at some point people will start talking about Vardy as only being useful if the opposition push up and we can get him in behind. It's bollocks, Vardy scores various types of goals. He's got in behind, he's scored headers, volleys, tap ins. I've seen in smash in from 30 yards, I've seen him score against West Brom with one of the hardest bits of skill ever, I've seen him dink the ball over the keeper, I've seen him bend one into the far corner. He's not a one trick pony and he's not someone who just blasts the ball, he's one of the deadliest strikers in Europe.

Dead on. I watched a Youtube video yesterday about non-league footballers who've made it and Steve Walsh is on it talking about the impact Kevin Phillips has had on Vardy, a process that wasn't without frustration apparently. Vardy did used to love smashing it actually, but Phillips drummed into him that many of his goals were first time passes into the net. It was an interesting video actually with players talking about how each league is like a new mountain with regard to the the different levels of technique required to scale each peak. Vardy himself in another video talks about how it took him a season to adapt to the Championship and then another season to adapt to the Premier League. seems like Phillips might have been a key factor in Vardy's development.

Edited 7 June 2018 by SydenhamFox

[Jon the Hat]

I've always liked Kevin Phillips.

[Guest Foxin_mad]

Who the fvck is Danny Mills anyway? Why do people care hat this irrelevant former Leeds tosspot thinks? what has he ever achieved in his life to make him able to make judgements on others?

 

Mills wasn't a natural defender either. 

 

Even worse who the hell is Steven Warnock? does he play in the Unibond division or whatever they call it now?!

[shen]

It's all because Vardy is so direct and doesn't have that 'technical flair' about him. He doesn't stroke the ball or play sumptuous raking passes, placing balls into the top corner.

But the way he strikes a ball with such fruitful results; his always-dangerous low crosses; his audacious attempts that we've seen on several occasions; they're all proof that looks are deceiving and that he is, in fact, very good at striking a ball instinctively.

Honestly, I still struggle to believe how good he has become. Like, how has his talent not been noticed much earlier in his career? How has he adapted to top football so quickly and developed his skills so fast that he's gone on to break records?

[David Guiza]

3 minutes ago, Foxin_mad said:

Who the fvck is Danny Mills anyway? Why do people care hat this irrelevant former Leeds tosspot thinks? what has he ever achieved in his life to make him able to make judgements on others?

 

Mills wasn't a natural defender either. 

 

Even worse who the hell is Steven Warnock? does he play in the Unibond division or whatever they call it now?!

Played in a World Cup Quarter Final? Granted it was a problem position in an otherwise decent side and he was hardly a footballing icon - but he did achieve more internationally than the whole of our squad (currently).

 

Not so much Mills, but I generally find that some of the less successful players tend to be better pundits too. Perhaps because they're not simply selected on the basis of their reputation (see Henry for example). Same seemingly goes for management too, the Zidane's of this world are far outweighed by Fergie, Mourinho, Wenger etc. 

 

 

 

[peterborofox]

Always hated Mills. Real cock

 

 

I've always thought he doesn't like Leicester

[RowlattsFox]

This opinion has been spouted a lot over the years, Michael Owen is another one who comes out with this quite often, and at one point I used to half agree with it but his finishing has improved incredibly. Anyone who scores the amount of goals he does for a team that creates **** all most of the time is a ****ing good finisher.

[RoboFox]

He just couldn't take it when we won the league.

 

Absolutely rustled his bald jimmies.

[Tuna]

Boils my piss that our licence fee money pays this bald headed arrogant snide twat. I have no idea whatsoever what makes the BBC employ him.

 

 

[foxy boxing]

These types of commentators just have the big club and the big players mentality and they can't stand it when something like we did upsets the applecart!. Vardy offers a lot to the England team that players like Sterling just can't understand.

[Dan]

What Danny Mills knows about football you can write on the back of a stamp, and you probably won't need a pen either.

[davieG]

No surprise really as the whole media circus is based on clicks, viewers and listeners and they get loads more when they employ people that are prepared to say outrageous, controversial, non-sensible rubbish rather than rational, objective well considered views.

[breadandcheese]

Wasn't Danny Mills on an FA commission to improve English football?  If ever there was a demonstration as to why England will never win a major tournament, that's it.

 

He's just a BBC version of Peter Beagrie.

Edited 7 June 2018 by breadandcheese

[truebluethroughandthrough]

The goal he scored against Liverpool, the volley against West Brom, the volleys against Chelsea and the sublime back heel against Germany. Just those five goals show that he absolutely is a natural finisher and match his goals to shots ratio against sterling, and tell me that nonsense again. The stats, the facts and what we see week in week out helps  form my opinions. Wtf does Danny fecking Mills base his on ?

I wonder.

Edited 7 June 2018 by truebluethroughandthrough