The whining, the blame-shifting lies, the football, the rubbish decisions for no reason, and where mourinho's steez is trolling that makes me lol, rafa's steez makes my teeth grind.
all high level managers are shits, fine- i just have a personal favourite.
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 09:09 (thirteen years ago) link
hey remember when he generously gave sami hyypia a whole eight minutes at the end of a meaningless home fixture for his final appearance? great guy, good times.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 October 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
they'd still be in the CL if they kept hyypia
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 8 October 2010 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i watched a leverkusen game last year and he could certainly still cut it. dunno about now but in any case that's the kind of guy you keep around the club, or so you would think.
― r|t|c, Friday, 8 October 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Roy Hodgson said he wanted to bring him back.
― san te cross (onimo), Friday, 8 October 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
he was offered a contract with a coaching role at the end of it but he wouldn't have been guaranteed a game every week. great player.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Friday, 8 October 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
he's less of a shit than most high-level managers
he's dangled the carrot and i've had a big wet bite. go on then nakh, like who? if people are going to be cunts then being upfront about it should count for something i feel.
― r|t|c, Friday, 8 October 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Giving you a good honest bollocking >>>>> passive aggression and silent treatment.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 October 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
zactly
― r|t|c, Friday, 8 October 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, you KNOW Fergie will be a complete cunt to you if you're not playing well but at the same time how often do you hear players whingeing about having to play for him? Same with Mourinho.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 October 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i would agree except it'd make me a massive hypocrite. give 'em a hell they can barely notice Raf!
― sock lobster (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
josé mourinho is a complete cunt, remember his comments re ronaldo circa 2007 about his lack of class and education (like....almost all footballers from poor backrgrounds ie 90% of them)
ferguson by all accounts is extremely unpleasant
mancini is similar
advocaat / spalletti are happy to work for zenit who refuse to sign black players
lippi tried to force players to sign for his son's agency
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Friday, 8 October 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
mircea lucescu burns down orphanages
manuel pellegrini denies the armenian genocide, just for the lulz
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Friday, 8 October 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
for all his 'issues' benitez is supposed to be fairly humble/affable at a personal level
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Friday, 8 October 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Trying to think of actually successful managers that aren't complete cunts. Guardiola and Ancelotti seem alright. Hiddink maybe, apart from the whole sex tourism thing.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 October 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
robson, rijkaard, hodgson, aguirre, pellegrini, ranieri, trapattoni maybe (have managed at a high level although 'successful' is arguable)
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Friday, 8 October 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
think wenger is 'unjustly maligned', shares some of benitez' thin-skinned aversion/paranoia but is personally honourable and sincere....too honest in his dishonesty tho
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Friday, 8 October 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Hiddink maybe, apart from the whole sex tourism thing.
^^^how do you guys even hear about these sort of things? Like I still am unsure of what the CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT to do with Keegan is let alone everyone elses dark secrets? i.e. i want into the secret underbelly goddamnit!
― http://tinypic.com/r/s0wvar/7 (a hoy hoy), Friday, 8 October 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno about hiddink but the two i cited were in jest......
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Friday, 8 October 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
see with football increasingly turning into professional wrestling storylines, i couldn't tell :( just assumed they were actually that evil
― http://tinypic.com/r/s0wvar/7 (a hoy hoy), Friday, 8 October 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i think if lucescu rly did do that, you would have heard
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Friday, 8 October 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys. Would imagine Hiddink keeps quiet about the armenian genocide though tbh
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 October 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
arry redknapp is a d-day denier
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 October 2010 08:33 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a nicer person than fergie, who is obviously a mean, rude, classless bastard. but i'd imagine fergie is a "nicer" read as fairer manager. rafa has fucked up some careers.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 9 October 2010 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i think it's not enough to just say 'irl' about this as if that's what we're all gonna make the call on.
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 October 2010 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"I think that Mr Hodgson, he doesn't understand. Every single press conference is even worse than the last one. He's talking about things that he doesn't know. And some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar."
no idea what this means but it's a classic.
― r|t|c, Monday, 1 November 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub8NeH_eQ8k
ay! el azucar robado!
― r|t|c, Monday, 1 November 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow that is the best quote. Gonna start using "cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar" in regular conversation.
This guy is batshit mental, esp. considering I think every press conference of his Liverpool career was kinda worse than the last one form.
― O holy ruler of ILF (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
is it sort of a "some people wouldn't know a x if it hit them in the face"?
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't think Rafa made a weekly habit of offending the fans and playing staff in public. Hodgson lied about Rafa banning Kenny from Melwood and implied that Rafa didn't want anything to do with him. Not got a problem with Rafa setting the record straight and telling Roy to button it. In fact I'm fucking delighted.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 11:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not over the moon with roy and have serious doubts about him, but looking around forums etc there is quite a vitriolic hatred for him from liverpool fans. it's not going to do us any good....
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
liverpool fans/fans on forums in acting ott shocker
― O holy ruler of ILF (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 12:07 (thirteen years ago) link
yes unlike the moderate and civilised debates of other football fans. on arsenal forums it's a furious struggle to decide if wenger is more ornette coleman than pharoah sanders...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"/fans on forums"
― O holy ruler of ILF (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Also Wenger is so more Pharoah than Ornette.
― O holy ruler of ILF (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
football forums are like some outer circle of hell
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
tb
― O holy ruler of ILF (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP
just in case i'm not online when the inevitable happens
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 November 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/yRLsi.jpg
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 November 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
he'll leave football a very rich man. Astounding, tbh.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
He'll get them knocked out of everything else but end up appeasing the fans by winning them the World Club Cup, essentially condensing his Liverpool career down into six months.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
this week: spurs win group, rafa fucking things up, jol out, devil with dmac's soul
― zvookster, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
jol quit, but yeah the hens are repatriating in order to chill
― chortlin acoleuthic (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Every time this thread is bumped and he hasn't been sacked breaks my heart a little bit more.
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Threads needs my favourite banner for completeness:
http://imgur.com/QaPhC.jpg
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.footballfancast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Ferguson-and-Benitez.jpg
― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Sunday, 12 December 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2010/12/15/1292453643310/Rafael-Benitez-001.jpg
― mizzell, Thursday, 16 December 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
only a matter of time before he's in a thomas the tank engine movie imo
the fat controlfreak
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.iol.co.za:80/polopoly_fs/intermilan-1.1002782!/image/3240558531.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_300/3240558531.jpg
best manager to win the biggest prize in club football, I think that settles it
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
fuv. This cun that is all imll
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link