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….has officially lasted longer than Martinez’s Everton, in this years FA Cup. :cheer:
Oh no they haven’t!
Officially, Wigan still haven’t got any further than Everton this year.
But Uwe and Wigan will have their chance tomorrow.[/quote]
You are there again jumpin in! :P . I said lasted longer not gone further. We have indeed lasted longer. :lol:[/quote]
We certainly have now, whichever way you want to argue it!
Get in Arsenal. Now just the genuine cup holders left in the FA Cup. That’ll pi55 off the Martinez loving media who seem to think it’s still his cup too.I think that’s the point. I don’t see why people are having a pop at Martinez. It is the media that keep peddling all this Martinez’s Cup shite, not the man himself.
Record of it or no record of it, whatever the result tomorrow we are in the competition longer than Everton. And, although I don’t agree with it, we’re in the draw for the semi and knowing who awaits us may just work in our favour.Now that’s a man who thinks positively. Not sure I get the logic behind it but I like the cut of your jib.
God knows what happened wit my ‘Results Today’ postPerhaps the site has got confused between your post title and the Results page of the site? There’ll be a logical, if no doubt bizarre, explanation somewhere
No, it is you this time that has spectacularly missed the point. It was not the fact that you dismissed AF as a potential manager in your little team but the manner in which you did so.Contrary to what you might think, there are a fair few people who frequent this forum whose opinion I value/respect/take note of.
You most certainly aren’t one of them, so save yourself the effort of trying to give me the benefit of your ‘wisdom’. You really are wasting your time.
All non wiganers will say it is a home banker, for sure. Only heard one pundit say Wigan will win, and that was Adrian Durham from Talk Sport. Now I don’ t really like the bloke cos he can talk some real nonsense, but he did go up a little in my estimation when he said that :)He was probably only saying it to get a rise. Prize prick, that mon.
One player I think should have been considered for this team could be Stan Bowles, I thought he was class, if he was good as some of the others I am not sure but you could include him instead of Maradonna to make it a British XI.If anyone doubts Bowles level of addiction to be included I would point anyone to the stories about him sitting in the pubs near Loftus Road until 20 before kick off on match days watching the racing on TV while drinking Whiskey, add this to his serial Alcohol abuse, womanising and gambling and he certainly meets griffs criteria.
Yeah, but does he though? When we first started to talk about this last week, we were considering people who had a really serious problem that ended up in treatment or rehab or even death! By that yardstick, wasn’t Stan Bowles just a bit of a lad, compared to come of the others? A bit like SAF, who undoubtedly likes a glass of wine, I don’t think anybody would really put him up there with Cloughy or even Kendal*.
It’s not a bad shout though, perhaps he’d make the bench. ;)
* which is exactly what I was saying in response to Edinburgh’s post earlier but he was too busy throwing his toys out of the pram to realise that.
I believe Sir Alex likes a glass of red wine, but is he really addicted to it?He’s not a candidate for manager in my eyes.
But then, I haven’t been out on the town with him. Others may know him better.
My point exactly.
Shakes head and walks away.Do you ever wonder why people turn away from this site.
Yes, I very often wonder why I don’t turn away form this site
During a conversation at our Thursday Night Football last week about my 5-4-Friday, we digressed to a Football XI of players known for addictions of some sort, or at least a very well documented liking for something they shouldn’t.
We came up with a decent team – if only you could keep them out of the pub/bookies/pharmacy!
GK – Peter Shilton
RB – Gary Charles
CB – Tony Adams
CB – Paul McGrath
LB – Kenny SansomRM – Paul Merson
CM – Bryan Robson
CM – Paul Gascoigne
LM – George BestFW – Diego Maradona
FW – Jimmy GreavesManager – Brian Clough/Howard Kendall
Any improvements?
Apart from a quite ridiculous suggestion of Alex Ferguson, nobody has managed to come up with anyone that we hadn’t already considered. However, I should probably have pointed out that selection for the team was based on a vague formula comprising a combination of quality of player and level/notoriety of alleged addictedness. That’s why Roy Carroll/Warren Aspinall were considered, for example, but were ultimately rejected in favour of better players.[/quote]
Shakes head and walks away.
Do you ever wonder why people turn away from this site.[/quote]
Spot on observation there edinburghlatic. Maybe his closing line should have read: Right this is our defining team, don’t bother with adding to it as we’ve made our mind up that there can be no changes because I/we know best for everbody. After all it’s only a bit of fun, my fun. And he was doing ok for a couple of days as well. Leopard and spots comes to mind.[/quote]
Of course it’s only a bit of fun. Nowhere was I suggesting that “there can be no changes”. What drugs are you on? So, yet again you have spectactularly misunderstood what I was saying. Perhaps it’s best if you stop responding to my posts if you can’t understand them.
“And he was doing ok for a couple of days”? Who do you think you are, you arrogant get?! You seriously think I have ‘changed’ under pressure from you? Give your head a shake.
Barnsley has aleready pointed out why I think that Alex Ferguson was a ‘ridiculous’ suggestion. I’ll patiently await your ‘but I was only winding you up” post once it sinks in how you have made yourslef look like a chump. Very angry, all you old men aren’t you?
During a conversation at our Thursday Night Football last week about my 5-4-Friday, we digressed to a Football XI of players known for addictions of some sort, or at least a very well documented liking for something they shouldn’t.
We came up with a decent team – if only you could keep them out of the pub/bookies/pharmacy!
GK – Peter Shilton
RB – Gary Charles
CB – Tony Adams
CB – Paul McGrath
LB – Kenny SansomRM – Paul Merson
CM – Bryan Robson
CM – Paul Gascoigne
LM – George BestFW – Diego Maradona
FW – Jimmy GreavesManager – Brian Clough/Howard Kendall
Any improvements?
Apart from a quite ridiculous suggestion of Alex Ferguson, nobody has managed to come up with anyone that we hadn’t already considered. However, I should probably have pointed out that selection for the team was based on a vague formula comprising a combination of quality of player and level/notoriety of alleged addictedness. That’s why Roy Carroll/Warren Aspinall were considered, for example, but were ultimately rejected in favour of better players.[/quote]
Apart from my suggestion of Garrincha you mean?[/quote]Sorry, didn’t notice that. What was he in to?
I went to watch United at OT once and McGrath played the full 90 minutes. At the end of the game, I left sharpish as I wa smeeting someone in a pub in Sale to go some party or other. I made good time getting to the pub and when I walked in McGrath was already sat at the bar and was reportedly on his third pint.
You should read his autobiography – very dark.
I’m not normally a reader of autobiographies but as I rate him as the best defender I’ve ever seen play I picked up this one when it came out & you’re right it makes for very dark reading. His upbringing was hardly a bed of roses
Its frightening to think of the states that he used to play in & still play as well as he did & I think the club’s he was at have got to bare some responsibility coz because he was able to play so well despite hsi issues they just let him get on with it whereas I think they’d have done more if it had effected the way he played. There’s the story that he was so sloshed in one game that he wanted to come off & feigned an injury to get the physio on to tell him – the physio told him he couldn’t, he replied that he could see 2 of whichever player he was marking & teh response he got was “Well tackle both of them then”
The guy oozed class on the football pitch though[/quote]Yeah, just think how good he’d have been sober and with two working knees?
