Wymsey Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-35830051 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danizen Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 The way Barton destroy Mills is majestic. I don't like him as a player, but as a pundit I'm warming to Joey quite a lot. Mills on the other hand is an absolute waste of space. Agree with this completely. He thinks about what he says and clearly does a lot o research which should be the bare minimum for a pundit but so many (like Mills and Owen) just don't bother and trot out the same cliches and uninformed opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thybluefox Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Agree with this completely. He thinks about what he says and clearly does a lot o research which should be the bare minimum for a pundit but so many (like Mills and Owen) just don't bother and trot out the same cliches and uninformed opinions. Despite some of Barton's antics on the football field - he's clearly an intelligent guy. Far more so than Owen or Mills. How Mills and Ferdinand ever even got considered for their current role in shaping youth football I'll never know. FFS - Mills actually used the argument that his kids were in the youth system to support why he was a good choice for that kind of role. How embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-35830051 Jokes about the Holocaust are always funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket-Ron Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 It seems as though the " elitists " involved in the English league, like to create a disregard for what we might prevent from happening, rather than applauding and encouraging the changes and beauty of it. Respect for Barton by the way, proper lad with a mind of his own. And here lies the problem with English football, Unwilling to change for the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post evertonfc Posted 17 March 2016 Popular Post Share Posted 17 March 2016 alright - i'm talking about you just a word to say i hope you go all the way and finish the job it's so refreshing and really puts the cats among the pigeons in relation to united, chelsea and liverpool all not being in the CL again - in some ways the only way i thought it would be shaken up is if we went down to 3 clubs in the CL from England if the coeffiecients meant italy overtook us as an older fan, i remember derby, forest winning it and QPR Watford and Ipswich having a go for it so this is just the way it was in the 1970s and if you look at the early 60s it was even madder, with Burnley and Ipswich getting a look in but the thing i most enjoy is knowing there will be loads of loyal Foxes who have watched them year in year out and will find this mental when everton won the title in 85 i'd put up with years of that shower over the park and we stole a march with cheap misfits and young kids to win it was nothing like the fans of City, Blackburn or Chelsea felt because it was signposted with money enjoy the ride and you'll need bert kassis' site for next year's adventure: http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/ 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manwell Pablo Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 (edited) He might be correct, but would he be saying it about Arsenal if they ended up winning it this season, or Liverpool, or Man City by one point from us come the end of the season? Doubtful. It's the same bias as you get from most of them, it's Leicester... ergo... they can't be very good. Did anyone say the league was poo last year? Not that many as far as I can remember. Now we're top, just three points off what Chelsea had this time last season, everyone man and his dog says it's a shit league. If it wasn't us there with Spurs and you had the usual suspects, they wouldn't be saying it. Oh, Spurs would be one of the worst sides to win it if we don't, easily. I think it's safe to say if someone like that does win it they will have to hold their hands up and admit the same, pretty much guaranteed to by far lowest points total ever if anyone bar Spurs over takes us. And again I don't know it's been getting worse for years, European exploits I've our apparent super clubs highlight that perfectly. Not to take away anything from us (or indeed Spurs, lets remember there would be significant fuss made about them doing so well if it wasn't for us shocking the world) it aint our fault the rest of the league is in a mess and we have been brilliant at times this season. We are grinding now, but that is fine, whatever gets us over the line. Edited 17 March 2016 by Manwell Pablo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaphamFox Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Jokes about the Holocaust are always funny. Holocaust comedy is a much-neglected genre. I mean, it's been like 70 years or something - isn't it about time we all agreed to see the funny side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 My biggest worry every year is that nobody will watch the Charity Shield so he has a valid point there. For the good of English football Watford and Leicester should roll over so Arsenal win the title and Man Utd win the FA Cup and the world can have the Charity Shield it so much desires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Holocaust comedy is a much-neglected genre. I mean, it's been like 70 years or something - isn't it about time we all agreed to see the funny side? What sort of logic is that? Slavery was a long time ago, lets make a joke about black people being slaves then shall we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buce Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Holocaust comedy is a much-neglected genre. I mean, it's been like 70 years or something - isn't it about time we all agreed to see the funny side? Visit the Holocaust Museum, then tell us there's a funny side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanguedocFox Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Visit the Holocaust Museum, then tell us there's a funny side. Better still, go to somewhere like Dachau. Not far from Munich and on the outskirts of a pretty little village. Stand there in a wooden hut, and imagine that you're going to be stripped naked and taken from there to a gas chamber. Then tell us that holocaust comedy is a much-neglected genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tuna Posted 17 March 2016 Popular Post Share Posted 17 March 2016 Fairly sure Clapham fox was being ironic. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaphamFox Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Thanks Tuna - at least somebody got it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Thanks Tuna - at least somebody got it I got it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark 'expert' Lawrenson Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Read numerous times in the media that we have to travel to Chelsea for our last game of the season and how difficult it's going to be for us and yet not much regarding Spurs having to go there a couple of weeks before we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buce Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Thanks Tuna - at least somebody got it Maybe you need to review your use of emojis. 'Unsure' was hardly indicating irony. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalis Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 God damn this is brutal. Barton absolutely destroys him. Not the biggest fan of Barton but didn't even need to listen to it to guess Danny Mills would get completely destroyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Webbo Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Are those teeth metal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/17/premier-league-couch-potato-european-stage Going to link this article, it's not really about us although worth a read regardless. However this passage is another good counter point to all the Danny Mills nonsense: For example it has been suggested Leicester City will struggle in Europe next season. But why would they? Right now Leicester look a bit like the kind of team that regularly bamboozles, or keeps pace with, English football’s richest clubs in Europe: well-organised, tactically coherent, a team not a collection of soldered-on stars. Intangibles of stage fright and inexperience aside, why would Leicester fare any worse in European competition than the eight teams they currently lead in the league? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fez of Mahrez Posted 17 March 2016 Popular Post Share Posted 17 March 2016 I'm normally a pessimist about us but it's hard to stay pessimistic this season. There's so much evidence to the contrary. Tens of millions of pounds at our disposal, a whole team full of great players (many of whom, crucially, have been brilliant but still probably won't be of interest to bigger clubs - the likes of Fuchs, Morgan, Simpson, Albrighton, Drinkwater) and, perhaps most importantly of all, a manager with a wealth of experience of European football. The argument that bigger clubs would do better in Europe shows exactly the kind of complacency and lack of detailed thought that shows our teams up in European competition year after year. People talk about teams who are confident in possession as being set up to do better in Europe, but if anything it's teams like Arsenal who aren't as good out of possession that are constantly shown up by the elite European teams because they're even better with the ball and Arsenal aren't used to having to defend and counter attack for 90 minutes. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Finsbury Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 I'll be very disappointed if he doesn't become a James Bond villain's henchman when he hangs up his elbows. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1966fox Posted 17 March 2016 Share Posted 17 March 2016 Crikey, respect to Joey Barton, talking a lot of common sense, (not just about Leicester) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanguedocFox Posted 18 March 2016 Share Posted 18 March 2016 Not seen this anywhere else, but there's a piece on BBC Breakfast about City, featuring a young Gary L, Richard III, Stringer, Sam Bailey and Chris Prike (the guy who cashed in his £100K bet for £31K). I guess it will be repeated through the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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