Captain America Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 WTF Smalling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 That's just insane. How did someone that much in the public eye get anywhere near thinking a suicide bomber costume was a good idea? Not only is that a personal blunder but you have to put some blame on the club - their media training or whatever you call it (and I know this is a big deal for football clubs nowadays what with your twitters and whatnot and young players being foisted into the limelight so quickly) has utterly failed. It's obviously impossible to totally control everything players do outside the club but you would have thought there would be some level of responsibility drilled into someone like Chris Smalling who has been at the club for a good while now. Football constantly baffles me. It sometimes seems like it's all just an elaborate joke - like a bunch of kids messing around with something the general public takes pretty seriously. It's not just this kind of thing... it's the way you hear about clubs being bought and sold like they're toys, it's the way managers get hired and fired like primary school romances ("you're dumped... tell your mate I fancy her though"), it's the ridiculous contracts, the recruitment of players seemingly based on name alone, it's the fact there's a smash and grab twice a season where everyone faxes their transfers through at midnight... I mean what the fuck! Fucking love it though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Some irate West Ham fan on Talksport last night. You have to do the cockney accent in your head: "Big Sam's apparently the firteenth best paid manager in the wooorld - he's not even the firteenth best manager in Landan, mate." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 To use a cliche it appears Moyes has "lost the dressing room". That can't be good. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/08/manchester-united-players-manager-david-moyes-credentials-champions-league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 To use a cliche it appears Moyes has "lost the dressing room". That can't be good.http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/08/manchester-united-players-manager-david-moyes-credentials-champions-league To be fair, its such a non story. Any time a club goes through bad form the accusations are that the manager has lost the dressing room. They then take a few half stories and attach them to the theory he has lost the dressing room to make it look like they have any substance. Lets be fair, Evra, Rio and Vidic have looked out of form for a long time now, them leaving United wont be the worst thing in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 I love the term "lost the dressing room". It makes me envisage a completely befuddled David Moyes, wandering the hallways in a flustered fashion, trying door handles, but they're all locked. I hope he manages to find the dressing room again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) Also, don't see the hubbub about Smalling. He's dressed as a Jagerbomb. Good cozzy that. It was also a private party in his own home. Edited January 9, 2014 by Joda Serk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 He's still an idiot not to think that posting a picture of it online could get him into trouble though. The guardian has been printing some terrible comment bait pieces in regard to Moyes lately. Their sports sections has a lot of brilliant stuff and many great journalists contribute to it but they're just as bad as a tabloid when it comes to filling space on slow news days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Totally agree, JS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Did he upload the picture himself? I haven't read that anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Good point, I actually haven't heard one way or the other about that. Whoever did it is an idiot then. Smalling could have still said to whoever took the picture not to share it but then we're starting to get to the point of giving too much credit to the thought process of a premiership footballer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 What so he holds a private party, and he should have to make sure and tell everyone when they arrive that they shouldnt be sending pictures of him to the Sun? Come on!He is free to do whatever he wants in his own house, what he needs to do is weed out the cunt that sent the photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) I didn't notice the Jager bottles... fair enough. Good costume. Edit: The part that gets me is that he didn't think to just choose a less emotive costume... just in case something like this happened. I generally don't care about offensive costumes, it's more the stupidity that baffles me. Edited January 9, 2014 by ca_gere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Its not like he is the first to make a Jager Bomber costume, but surely he is free to wear one as long as he feels his friends wont mind? Again, this wasnt a public appearance, it was his own home, with his supposive friends. If i want to sit in my flat wearing my white gown and pointed white hat that covers my face then i dont expect my mates to photograph me and sent it to the Evening Express. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsum_Fantastic Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25670678 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 So it's ok to be an insensitive, ignorant bumhole, even if you have an enormous responsibility as a top sportsman and role model... just as long as you do it in the privacy of your own home surrounded by mates who can 'take the banter'? That's not how I see the world I'm afraid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25670678 Wrong thread, you want ridiculous news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 So it's ok to be an insensitive, ignorant bumhole, even if you have an enormous responsibility as a top sportsman and role model... just as long as you do it in the privacy of your own home surrounded by mates who can 'take the banter'? That's not how I see the world I'm afraid.Talk about an over-reaction. Its not often i can say that about yourself tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsinho Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Talk about an over-reaction. Its not often i can say that about yourself tbh. Who let Brendan Rogers in here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Talk about an over-reaction. Its not often i can say that about yourself tbh. Gawanshite! No but seriously, I wasn't really reacting, over or otherwise. More just responding to your point, which I disagree with but am cool to not debate. Either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Wrong thread, you want ridiculous news. United were in good form in December with 4 solid wins in a row. It's the new year where the wheels fell off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Howard Webb "photobombs", as the young people would say. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Photobombing Sam Dingle by the looks of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladstone Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 I kind of missed the Walcott gesturing thing. It always throws up the argument of the responsibility that highly paid professional footballers should have. I agree with that to a fairly large extent in that such public figures should be setting a good example to those that idolise them - particularly thousands of kids. But it always bothers me far more that Theo Walcott can't jokingly make a 2-0 gesture to opposing fans without inciting a riot. Football fans are fucking ridiculous. The vast majority are grown men who should be more than capable of going no further than laughing it off and calling Theo a "cheeky cunt" or something similar. But instead, there will be absolute rage from the stands with people shouting (probably) racist abuse and how they hope he dies of cancer and all that lovely stuff that football fans seem to think is fine to shout when they are within the confines of a football stadium. It reminds me of that video doing the rounds of the Rangers fans after Artur Boruc crossing himself at Ibrox. Now, I know as well as anyone that Boruc loved it and made a big thing about making sure he did it right in their faces but the blindness by the Rangers fans who were posting that video to show the "terrible crime" that Boruc was committing was remarkable. All he did was cross himself. And hundreds, if not thousands of Rangers fans basically wanted to kill him or at least stamp on him repeatedly. Fuds. The lot of them. Football would be a much better sport if Walcott was able to have a laugh and wind up the fans light-heartedly with that 2-0 gesture without inciting a riot. But in the real world, he gets all the pelters whilst the fans throwing coins (for fuck sake) at him and showering the stewards in the process barely get a mention. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted January 10, 2014 Report Share Posted January 10, 2014 There's a really good piece in the Times/website on Ryan Gauld and the Dundee United youth academy today. Nice to see such a positive piece on us in the national media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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