"For me, he is Sir Arsène Wenger, he is really something, I love him," Klopp adds, before miming a polite handshake. "But I'm this guy, with high fives. I always want it loud. I want to have this … " Klopp makes the sound of an exploding bomb. (An article with him demands stage direction).
"If Barcelona's team of the last four years were the first one that I saw play when I was four years of age ... with their serenity, winning 5-0, 6-0 … I would have played tennis. Sorry, that is not enough for me. What I love is that there are some things you can do in football to allow each team to win most of the matches.
"It is not serenity football, it is fighting football – that is what I like. What we call in German – English football … rainy day, heavy pitch, everybody is dirty in the face and they go home and can't play football for the next four weeks. This is Borussia.
"When I watch Arsenal in the last 10 years, it is nearly perfect football, but we all know they didn't win a title. In Britain they say that they like Arsenal but they have to win something. Who wins the title? Chelsea, but with different football, I would say. This is the philosophy of Arsène Wenger. I love this but I cannot coach this because I am a different guy. You think many things are similar? I hope so in some moments, but there are big differences, too."
Klopp will face Wenger in Dortmund on Wednesday night, in Champions League Group F, knowing that a repeat of the victory at Emirates Stadium the week before last would put his team in the driving seat to qualify. That 2-1 win was built on trademark pressing and quick transitions but what appeared to please Klopp the most was the statistic that said his players had run a collective 11.5km more than their opponents.
"Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more and they prefer to make games the right way," Klopp says. "I want to make games only the right way and run 10km more. It's a rule to give all and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don't have to give all and you still win, what's this? You don't like this game? It's like this [Klopp yawns]. What, you can win Wimbledon like this?"
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:39 (ten years ago) link
this prob goes here as well:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2513409/Tony-Pulis-takes-inspiration-Churchill-Napoleon-lead-Crustal-Palace-battle-relegation.html?ito=feeds-videoxml
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:49 (ten years ago) link
lol crustal palace
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
"I’ve read loads of books on loads of leaders all the way through; Genghis Khan, the lot."
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
And he did it while having to deal with continuous criticism about his perceived long-ball style; in many ways, like Napolean, Pulis became the Premier League outsider.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link
Headline obv written by a New Zealander
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:24 (ten years ago) link
This thread also requires a nod tward shane longs goal being 'up there with bergkamp' tbf
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
it was p sweet
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:32 (ten years ago) link
i mean gary neville scoffing at it. he's hardly got two goals to rub together.
scored a peach against Paul Robinson that time
― i like the jabberwock and it likes me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:35 (ten years ago) link
Mates of mine saw problimson in an italian on the south quays last month, three plates in front of him, they banged on the window and mimed enormous stomachs at him and he got so enraged he ate six desserts
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:42 (ten years ago) link
same as lloris then
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link
Boom
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/06/article-2519609-19DFFDFD00000578-333_634x423.jpg
How the English game lacks players like Martinez and Lahm. People talk about a lack of technique but, for me, the bigger problem is the understanding of the game our players have, which enables them to play in a variety of positions during the same game. There are players in England who could play with such flexibility. Steven Gerrard, for instance, could play as a sweeper and adjust like Martinez, but too many English players cannot.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:01 (ten years ago) link
Sherwood, who said he would not accept serving as a No2 to another manager, intimated that he could have a similar effect on Tottenham to the one that Brendan Rodgers has had at Liverpool, the club whose 5-0 triumph at White Hart Lane last Sunday triggered the ejector seat under Villas-Boas.
"From what I've been doing and my experience, I think I'd be a long-term appointment but I'm realistic enough to know that you can't just lose games," he said. "I don't want to insult the intelligence of the punters by saying: 'Don't worry, I'll turn it around in a minute.' They ain't got time for that. It's about the club sticking with you. I think Brendan [Rodgers] is a good example of that. He's done it at Liverpool. The sun wasn't always shining there but it seems like he's turned it around now and is doing very well.
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 December 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
there's a return of the repressed ambience about tim sherwood, get rid of the technocrat and appoint mediocre expro with no experience, who loses first game at home playing a 442 with two forwards and touchline wingers under orders to 'fill up the box' but thinks he deserves the job fulltime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clNcoUfAjzg
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 December 2013 03:55 (ten years ago) link
How come he hasn't got the requisite coaching badges yet?
― pandemic, Sunday, 22 December 2013 11:57 (ten years ago) link
QPR did very well in the transfer market but the club which impressed me most on deadline day was Stoke.
They spent more than £20m on Peter Crouch, Wilson Palacios and Cameron Jerome and their manager Tony Pulis just keeps adding quality to his squad. The Britannia Stadium was already a hard place to go before they brought those three guys in, and it will be even more difficult now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14811107
― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 January 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
Now 46, Ince reacted as he usually does. “It’s made me more determined. If I felt I couldn’t do the job as a manager I’d go and work on TV. Every club I have been to has involved firefighting: Macclesfield, MK Dons, Blackburn, Notts County, Blackpool. I’ve managed to steer them away from trouble. I know what I’m doing. I work hard. I have an eye for good players.’’
― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Thursday, 6 February 2014 04:58 (ten years ago) link
Blackburn have sacked manager Paul Ince after less than six months in charge with the club second-bottom of the Premier League.
― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Thursday, 6 February 2014 04:59 (ten years ago) link
Surprised to discover Mark Hughes (who Ince replaced) has the highest win % of any Blackburn manager since Dalglish.
― I am a 'music' fan. Revolutionary, isn't it? (onimo), Thursday, 6 February 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Ince says the club have no leaders and have not replaced ex-captain Roy Keane.Full story: the Sun
yeah incey theyve been lacking leaders since that one guy left and its only lead to 5 titles and 1 cl. a team rudderless for the past 9 years.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 13 February 2014 08:34 (ten years ago) link
Alan Hansen on Man City's CL campaign - "This year we all thought City would win it but they will have learned from their experience. "
― pandemic, Monday, 24 February 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
Domínguez, 32, scored the first before Joel Campbell escaped from Carrick to curl in the second. Such was Wayne Rooney’s respect for Domínguez’s shift of work that he handed the Olympiakos No 35 his shirt after the final whistle.
Only Rooney, who ran more than anybody on the pitch (12.06 km), seemed aware of the need to show some urgency.
Only Rooney seemed to appreciate that United’s darkening season depended on a splash of colour here
twp getting fawned over by henry winter after another game where he was virtually useless
― Joyeux animaux de la misère (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
the shift which was put in
― the immortal jellyfish will never die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 07:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah but he ran around
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 11:59 (ten years ago) link
RVP only gave him the ball once, may he was running too much to be picked out.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhWhCNxCEAAh2W-.jpg
― every time you sneer at "white boys with guitars" a Ramone dies (onimo), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Crocker explains that no stone has been left unturned. "The biggest thing we're looking at in addition to what other countries are doing is research innovation. How Apple or Nike take an idea or a concept, put it into some type of process and it comes out the other end as ingrained in their culture. So it's massively broader than football. This is where Dave Reddin coming in [as head of performance services] is brilliant. We've opened our minds to all kinds of things that football would have probably frowned upon a few years ago."
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/mar/03/fa-matt-rigg-matt-croker-english-football
the aidy boothroyds of the next gen
― Joyeux animaux de la misère (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 01:42 (ten years ago) link
A while back, this column revealed that the FA, for all its talk of moving into a modern era, had employed John Beck to take the next generation of coaches through their Uefa B-level badges.
Beck has a devoted group of younger followers and many have pointed out it is a long time now since the days when he went by the nickname of Dracula (on the basis that so many people thought he was sucking the blood out of the sport) and awarded cash bonuses to the players at Cambridge who kicked the ball the furthest. However, he does apparently still reference his tactics at Cambridge – gems such as "zig-zag to the onion bag", meaning to knock it up to the far post – during those courses at St George's Park, the place the FA trumpets as the future of English football.
Equally, it is not entirely clear whether the FA is operating to a clear and concise plan, or if it even understands its own philosophy, when Aidy Boothroyd, another manager synonymous with long-ball football, is suddenly deemed the best qualified candidate to manage and improve England Under-20s.
At Watford, Boothroyd took the team into the Premier League, which was a wonderful achievement. But it was not exactly progressive football. One of the team's sayings used to be "put it in the cage". The centre-halves would roar it during matches. The cage was the penalty area. Stop messing around, and put it in the cage.
Boothroyd is not remembered with huge fondness at Colchester or Coventry either and his latest appointment, I am reliably informed, has bemused some of his colleagues in other departments of the FA. Within his own profession, the words "numbing shock" have been used. Boothroyd once worked with Dan Ashworth, the FA's director of elite development, at Peterborough. A few years later, he appointed Ashworth to help him run West Brom's academy. Now, it is Ashworth's turn to do the hiring.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/mar/08/football-association-fa-england-under-20s-steven-gerrard
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 March 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
is this the aidy boothroyd who was steering northampton town out of the league or are there two aidy boothroyds
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Sunday, 9 March 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgMfdabYkUU
this is hilarious, aidy boothroyd talks neurolinguistic programming
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 March 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
i know what organized, athletic, committed human beings can do
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 March 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
a lot of players say "what's a mortgage?"
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Sunday, 9 March 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
the most important space on a football pitch, make no mistake, is between a player's ears
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 March 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii15pCuIWXY
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Sunday, 9 March 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
when marlon king points to his own head in an effort to calm you down
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Sunday, 9 March 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
Spanish football writer Andy West at the Camp Nou: "Two defensive errors - one from Martin Demichelis two weeks ago and one from Joleon Lescott tonight - were punished by two goals from Lionel Messi, and that was the essential difference between the sides. Forget refereeing controversies: the main lesson City should take from the tie is that they're not too far away from competing with the elite."
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
the only english midfielder that could work at barca is huddlestone
― beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 June 2011 11:46 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
Rooney has the talent to join Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on that elite platform close to football utopia. He just doesn’t show it consistently enough. He has the vision, the individual talent and creative football brain to try what he did at West Ham on Saturday. Hodgson needs to get that out of him this summer.
Don’t stick him in a 4-4-2 and ask him to run channels. Let him play, make him smile, and that way we’ll get the best out of Rooney. I want a smiling Rooney, not a snarling one.
Messi and Ronaldo are the very best, but neither has taken a World Cup by storm. If Rooney does it this summer, he can suddenly elevate himself to their level.
Rooney scored a cracker in the Maracana for England last June. There are many who still doubt his world-class quality. Only he can prove them wrong.
This is Rooney’s time to shine at a World Cup. Show us what you can do Wayne.
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tog_GYFHbMA
Published on 9 May 2013
Sport football pundits Alan Hansen, Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Mark Lawrenson give their thoughts on how David Moyes might get on at Manchester United.
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
By way of proving he could most definitely finish what he started, Barkley concluded matters by curling a left-foot shot beyond Krul's grasp and into the roof of the net. It is not too much of an exaggeration to say the goal contained shades of Maradona and his exploits in the 1986 World Cup.
― treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
if maradona shit where a lightsource could intercept the dropping droppings as they fell, those shades would still be demonstrative of more skill and guile than the very sub-bale rush-and-cunt effort from barkley tonight
― treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
lol i missed this, good response to dumb qn
Speaking to The Daily Mail ahead of Brazil's friendly with England, he said: "Messi for the last three or four years has been the best player in the world - he has been at a level of consistency I don't think the world has seen before.The 32-year-old also denied that he regrets not choosing to play in England, but expressed sorrow having not played with former Barca team-mate Messi for longer.He added: "Do I regret not playing in England? No, because I have played for some of the biggest teams in the world and won everything.
The 32-year-old also denied that he regrets not choosing to play in England, but expressed sorrow having not played with former Barca team-mate Messi for longer.
He added: "Do I regret not playing in England? No, because I have played for some of the biggest teams in the world and won everything.
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
ronaldinho obv
Retired defender Jamie Carragher says he played in better Liverpool teams than the one currently challenging for the Premier League title.Full story: Sunday Times
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 30 March 2014 08:08 (ten years ago) link
Carra OTM
― pandemic, Sunday, 30 March 2014 11:40 (ten years ago) link
PSG's second goal was just unfortunate from Chelsea's point of view, and I didn't think the French side were that good in any department.
In midfield they were average and the number of times they got caught with the ball showed that, in terms of quality, Ligue 1 and the Premier League are a million miles apart.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26810322
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 April 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
i'm into nakh's dn in the first post
― markers, Saturday, 5 April 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
yeah i did a thread about those
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhiteAmericanFolks.jpg
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 April 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
BBC FOOTBALL EXPERT
― twistent consistent (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 April 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link