Guardian have this story
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/20/manchester-united-jose-mourinho-criticism-luke-shaw-efl-cup-northampton
Manchester United are not concerned about José Mourinho’s outspoken manner despite reports that Luke Shaw is unhappy at the criticism his manager levelled at him after the defeat at Watford on Sunday.
real cloak and dagger shit
― Number None, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
is rooney starting as a forward tonight a sign of support or a sign he won't play vs leicester i wonder?
― pandemic, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
the latter. We're into the endgame here
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cs52mlTUEAAZw20.jpg
<3
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
ya
there'll be a belter of a Rooney compilation to come too
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
lol City in the next round
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
Hopefully featuring the bit where he 'controlled' the ball about ten yards off the pitch to break down an attacking move
― Ireland's Industry (that is what we are) (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
^ somewhat mangled and ambiguous, but I know what I meant
― Ireland's Industry (that is what we are) (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
this whole campaign of luke shaw abuse over the years seems to have completely passed me by. handy limping labrador puppy for someone to hide behind tho i'd imagine
Given the quote in the article, there aren't many Fergie-era remnants left in the squad - De Gea, Valencia, Carrick, TWP, Jones and Smalling. The first two strike me as unlikely, you'd think Rooney would be keeping his head down now, and the last two might still have a bit too much to lose. Has to be Carrick really.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 September 2016 08:38 (seven years ago) link
Carrick is the other suspect alright. In the stories that came out about the players questioning LVG's methods last year it was notable that he and Rooney were the two players who supposedly staged some sort of intervention.
I still think it's Rooney though. He and Stretford are well known for courting the press. Took all the England hacks out for dinner prior to the Euros to get them onside
― Number None, Thursday, 22 September 2016 09:46 (seven years ago) link
Also because Carrick doesn't seem a cunt
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 September 2016 10:18 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 24 September 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
"I think there was a Wayne before the Slovakia-England and a Wayne after the Slovakia-England," Mourinho said.
"I think it was too much but I still think, a big boy like he is, he has to face it in a strong way."
― r|t|c, Saturday, 24 September 2016 08:20 (seven years ago) link
it's a bit early for the kind of paranoid pre-meltdown mourinho is already allowing himself to have.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 24 September 2016 08:30 (seven years ago) link
Keeping an eye on Stormzy's YouTube channel for news of the Rooney benching. I think today might finally be the day.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 24 September 2016 09:09 (seven years ago) link
I'm signing up for every conspiracy theory going if he starts today
― Number None, Saturday, 24 September 2016 10:07 (seven years ago) link
(longtime lurker first time poster here):
this goes more to DGAF conspiracy than anything lizardy or contractual, but (post-brexit) isn't there like to be quite a potent impulse for someone like mourinho just thinking "ok i will give these pigheaded insular idiots EXACTLY what they are demanding, they deserve the consequences, it makes no real different to me now -- i will rub their stupid faces in their parochial stupidity"
he's in the downslope of his days as a manager; no one born outside these islands currently working in them can be finding themselves *more* patient and understanding of britishes delusion since june, surely
or is the football world just disconnected from that plane of politics?
― mark s, Saturday, 24 September 2016 10:30 (seven years ago) link
DROPPED
― Number None, Saturday, 24 September 2016 10:32 (seven years ago) link
kind of annoyed i am going to watch this game and was looking forward to some roo comedy.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 24 September 2016 10:38 (seven years ago) link
when did neville become so overtly daily mail? he just said "i know it's not fashionable to talk about being mean to children nowadays..." before a "players are coddled" rant. i don't mind the latter so much but a seriously freakish intro.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 24 September 2016 11:06 (seven years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5df51f14cc6409ce3c026bfbdffd8c7db621aa0d/0_60_4675_2805/master/4675.jpg
― Number None, Saturday, 24 September 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link
Mourinho's politics are somewhat to the right of Salazar fwiw.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 September 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
for sure -- and my not-very-serious speculation was anyway been roundly exploded abt 1.3 seconds after i posted it -- but i guess i'm just interested in the degree to which the residual cultural sentiment of the football outlander ever breaks into these kinds of situations: there must be a BIT of mourinho just exasperated beyond bearing at the inward-looking idiocy of the world he's trying to establish some sort of professional success in
(of course the portuguese and the english are very long-time allies in terms of european politics -- still tied into the "oldest active treaty in the world", so there's that)
― mark s, Saturday, 24 September 2016 11:49 (seven years ago) link
leicester aren't very good.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 24 September 2016 12:08 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ0n3itoII
― door unlawful carnal knowledge (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 September 2016 12:09 (seven years ago) link
Hohoho
― Ireland's Industry (that is what we are) (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 24 September 2016 12:31 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/piesportsbooze/status/779656176124436480
― door unlawful carnal knowledge (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 September 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 25 September 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/42mVGkLhOW0kU/giphy.gif
― door unlawful carnal knowledge (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 25 September 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
You kidding
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 September 2016 15:00 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 September 2016 08:56 (seven years ago) link
the quasi-religious requirement for people to pay their verbal tithes to rooney is fucking strange. like even lawro's "he is shit" comment here has to be about form and not ability. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37461718
i dunno if i mentioned here that there's an acquaintance of a friend i've met about three times who's an evertonian, a drunk evertonian anytime i've met him. a year or two ago, we were chatting about football and i mentioned having doubts about rooney's ability. it became what i thought was one of those faintly, barely, ultimately not at all worthwhile 10-minute debates about an inane topic in which you engage with strangers, and i toned down my sarcasm and actual views accordingly, or at least i thought i did, a few minutes later he was aggressively demanding we go outside and have a punch-up due to my opinion of wayne rooney.
he's been hugely apologetic the two or three times i've met him since, either because it was out of character, or because he now just realises i was right and is mortified.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 25 September 2016 09:03 (seven years ago) link
like people acting as if "he's going through a bad patch". when i first moved to london my flatmate kept buying these tomato plants. they weren't going through bad patches. they were fucking dying.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 25 September 2016 09:05 (seven years ago) link
Born under a bad patch
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 September 2016 09:05 (seven years ago) link
utterly masterful display of Rooney apologism from Robbie Savage on BT tonight. Completely fluffed a chance which spooned on to Zlatan's head for the goal and Savage spends the rest of the game rhapsodising over his "movement"
He was standing completely unmarked in the middle of the box and took a step backwards
the conspiracy is real
― Number None, Thursday, 29 September 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
Yup. The mismatch between the punditry and yet another woeful performance from him was ridiculous. Not one mention of that great counterattacking move suddenly grinding to a halt when Rooney massively overhit the pass and nearly sent it out for a thrown in.
― Ireland's Industry (that is what we are) (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 29 September 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
Here it is: http://s21.postimg.org/u4yu0zp2f/Rooney_iloveimg_compressed_iloveimg_compressed.gif
― Ireland's Industry (that is what we are) (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 29 September 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
Oof
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 30 September 2016 08:57 (seven years ago) link
the phrase "that's sunday league stuff" is bandied around a lot nowadays, but that...
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 30 September 2016 09:04 (seven years ago) link
lol
― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Friday, 30 September 2016 09:29 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ForzaMundial/status/781606353253068804
― r|t|c, Friday, 30 September 2016 12:17 (seven years ago) link
UPDATE: still dropped
― Number None, Sunday, 2 October 2016 10:14 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUOB8MN4Kc
― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 October 2016 10:28 (seven years ago) link
UPDATE: he's on to save the day
― Number None, Sunday, 2 October 2016 12:24 (seven years ago) link
and he's got another accidental assist lol
― Number None, Sunday, 2 October 2016 12:27 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/04/wayne-rooney-sam-allardyce-england-left-me-battered
― Ireland's Industry (that is what we are) (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
dunno if i've ever disliked a player more.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
he makes shearer look humble
certainly p. extraordinary to see him talking about "being given the chance" to play in midfield as if he were a 12 year old wanting to transition to a new musical instrument
― Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
... from his own trumpet to second fiddle.
― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 23:11 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kFy6SuH.png
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link