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”He fits Roberto’s style of play perfectly”
That is what worries me coz “That” style of play aint workin at this club thats for sure because as you prob already know you cant polish a turd !
You can Fil, but you do need a facemask and goggles.
Whelan will sack him now….if we were getting beat by 1 or 2 Bobby might survive but a 9.1, 5.0, 4.0 etc are just unacceptable and untenable…I can see Bobby at Preston within the week…What, and give a currently redundant manager 24 hours to get to the club, bring his staff in, and recruit a new team? Get real.
Correct Garswood.
It is just over 24 hours to the start of the transfer window. Pointless getting a new manager in as he’s got a month to get a new team in and totally change things around. Let’s see what happens after January, as Martinez has said it will take three transfer windows to get things working (that’s the second). If nothing improves come the end of February, fine, ring the changes and see what a new man can do.
out whelan out whelan out whelan out .Whelan’s not a player, Whelan’s not one of the coaching staff, Whelan’s not a player, Whelan’s not one of the coaching staff, Whelan’s not a player, Whelan’s not one of the coaching staff. (repeat mantra)
this mon will still be here in the championship ,but dont think many of us will be untill the fooker whelan pops his cloggs .Where does Whelan come into this? What position did he play?
Yes it was poor tonight, but the blame is with the coaching staff and players, not with the owner.
never know they might have a trevor brooking in the locker somewhere :roll:No chance. They’d have sold him by now.
Wasted? Not yet mate, but if I get my temporary release papers stamped by Mrs Standish, I might well be in the next three or four hours.
Aye, understood. Off swimming now with Mrs and Young Griff to secure safe brownie-point passage to the pub for tonight’s disappointment/massacre/humiliation/shock*
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I’m the optimistic type Griff, so I’ll go for the ‘disappoinment’ option.
Wasted? Not yet mate, but if I get my temporary release papers stamped by Mrs Standish, I might well be in the next three or four hours.
Second song from my forthcoming album.
Sung to the tune of ‘The Blaydon Races’
Hooray it’s Vlad
Stojkovic the keeper
Brought him in to stop the team
From sinking any deeperTo stand between the goals
When Kirkland isn’t playing
Cos Kingston gone to Africa
And we hope that’s where he’s stayingSung to the tune of ‘She’ll be coming round the mountain’
Stojkovic was riding on his bike
And said ‘Wigan is a place I really like
The people have f*ck all
And I think that Norley Hall
Is like Belgrade after the UN airstrikes’Don’t think it will catch on, but I’ll sing it quietly to myself at games.
Is there a rule that every second Wigan Athletic song has to be based on something written by Black Lace?
GPS tracking devices fitted to rugby players? Surely that is just wrong.
What are they going to have: a computer game type of power display for each player, so they know to bring Sam Tomkins off when his power level falls into the red?
Next is it going to be Kris Radlinski and his team radio controlling cyber rugby-bots, who’ll smash each other to pieces with their titanium fists?
I did see the museum / trophy room. Very impressive.
They had a programme, ball and shirt on display signed by all the Busby Babes just before they left to catch their flight back via Munich. Those items alone must be worth a fortune.
Loads of shirts from across the years, some strange looking trophies, and then an old bike propped up the middle of the room that they won at the turn of the century. (That’s as good an explanation as we got).
There were that many gold and silver torphies in there that the whole foyer lit up when the caretaker opened the door.
Great trophy room, but the city, in the most part, is still a pit.
It’s a pity I’m not in touch with my old pen-pal from Serbia. We corresponded on a weekly basis in the late 90’s. It got difficult after the NATO bombing, and he actually telephoned me at one point, (with air-raid sirens very audible in the background during the call!) and asked me “David, why do you bomb us?” I couldn’t answer. Then the telephone exchange in Belgrade got took out and it was a while before we spoke again. But he was ok.
His name was Branko Vucinic, and he was a big face in the Red Star ultras. He used to send me all kinds of photo’s, magazines, scarves, etc. Even sent me a shirt he reckoned had been worn by Sinhisa Mijhailovic for Red Star, in 1990-91. Quite possibly, as it was numbered authentically and looked the part. I can’t find it for love or money now.He had invited me over there, to watch the Belgrade derby. I really thought about it, but as I was with a bird at the time, decided not to. Good job, as it all kicked off with NATO at the time I would of been there.
Eastern European goalkeepers are traditionally very good. They are brought up playing sports such as handball and basketball, giving them great ability and agility. Lev Yashin, Groscics (Hungary), are two that spring to mind.
I went to Red Star’s stadium three years ago, and the whole area around the two Belgrade stadiums is as intimidating as f@ck.
As you walk into the main entrance at Red Star, they actually have a sign instructing you to hand in all weapons to the security staff on duty. A nice picture under the sign details that by weapons, they mean knives, guns, grenades, and petrol bombs.
At UK grounds, they stop kids going into grounds with closed bottles of water and pointy sticks on their flags. In Serbia, they fully expect a fair percentage of those going through the gate to have at least a knife tucked into their sock if not a self-loading rifle hidden down a trouser leg. There’s not a health and safety chimp in sight.
It wasn’t high on my list of fun places to visit, and I shall not return there in a hurry.
