Thierry Henry Interview In July British GQ

[jegerpenge]

It's on my site. Mods, you can delete this if you consider it spamming. The interview is pretty interesting. Even a few quotes from Saha who graduated with Clairefontaine with Henry. Again, I'm just informing you guys. The link is in my sig.

[Danks81]

That's a hell of an article. Grazie.

[Mac_Howard]

GQ? :rolleyes:

He prefers fashion to cricket? He should get together with Vicky Beckham. No wonder he thinks "the head is for thinking" is just a joke ;)

[jegerpenge]

Heh, I prefer fashion to cricket as well. Although I don't really understand cricket no matter how many times I read the rules or try to watch a match.

[Mac_Howard]

I once had a debate on Compuserve with a San Francisco sports journalist on the relative merits of baseball (his favourite game) and cricket. After a long haul and considerable description about what went on with cricket he admitted that, as bat hits ball games go, baseball was positively two dimensional compared with cricket ;)

[jegerpenge]

Well, I hate baseball, so I think that if I were forced to choose I would have to go with cricket. At least it would be intellectually stimulating trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

[Mac_Howard]

Only pulling your leg, jegerpenge (though what I said was true).

I recall watching a UK Saturday night talk show (Parkinson for UK guys) with Beckham and Vicky. I remember almost choking on a chicken bone when Vicky said that they had new interests now - that they were into cosmetics and women's fashion. I can only imagine Alex's reaction :D

[Achtung]

I once had a debate on Compuserve with a San Francisco sports journalist on the relative merits of baseball (his favourite game) and cricket. After a long haul and considerable description about what went on with cricket he admitted that, as bat hits ball games go, baseball was positively two dimensional compared with cricket ;)

Oh I'd be more than pleased to have a go. As an American of Indian descent, I've had to (mostly successfully) convince many a newcomer to this country that baseball is anything but the unsophisticated, childish game you Commonwealth folk make it out to be. ;)

Fashion over cricket though? How long before they make a very special "Queer Eye" where the Fab Five are replaced by metrosexual soccer players? Becks and Ljungberg were shoo-ins, hopefully we don't have to add Henry.

[johno]

I watch both Cricket and Baseball...

I am partial to Cricket, not simply because it is played where Im from, but it was my first love when it came to sports...

Both games require an understanding of them and a love for the sport to truly be a hardcore fan... there is no way u can appreciate Cricket if you dont understand it... unfortunately many people never try to understand it, not past, hit the ball with the bat...

Although I love football and the drama of the world cup Cricket for me is the sport with the most potential to make me want to shoot someone...

Also, in the One-day version of the game, the nailbiting situations make it the most exciting sport in the world (at times, tests are rarely as exciting and many one dayers never climax, but when they do, man o man.)

I think any guy who admits to prefering fashion over cricket is clearly asking to be hit by a 99mph Bret Lee bouncer square in the jaw...

[jegerpenge]

He's Thierry Henry, he could just dodge the ball and be right back in place before you blink. He probably just doesn't understand it, and with an English wife, he probably has tried. I can only watch it for about 30 minutes before I lose interest. Would much rather watch some football. Everything else just seems more boring to me.

[Coach_McGuirk]

All you guys need to do is watch some Stanley Cup Playoff hockey and you'll forget all about cricket, baseball, or any other 2nd tier sport. You just can't beat 30 mph+ collisions, lost teeth, and stitches for sporting entertainment.

[Motterman]

You just can't beat 30 mph+ collisions, lost teeth, and stitches for sporting entertainment.

Hell, if I wanted that, I'd just watch Martin Keown highlights....

[Coach_McGuirk]

Hell, if I wanted that, I'd just watch Martin Keown highlights....
30 mph+ , not 3 mph, Motterman.

;)

[Motterman]

30 mph+ , not 3 mph, Motterman.

;)

Ok, fastforwarding through Martin Keown highlights then....

:p

[Achtung]

All you guys need to do is watch some Stanley Cup Playoff hockey and you'll forget all about cricket, baseball, or any other 2nd tier sport. You just can't beat 30 mph+ collisions, lost teeth, and stitches for sporting entertainment.

Sorry but I don't think I'll be able to wait until 2007. ;)

But seriously, the thing that annoys me about American sports leagues that you never hear about in soccer is labor trouble. Pretty much every sport here has had to deal with that on some level over the past decade, and it can get to be like a large clous looming over the sport. I hope the NHL can come to some sort of deal before the season starts, but I'm not optimistic.

[Coach_McGuirk]

Sorry but I don't think I'll be able to wait until 2007. ;)

But seriously, the thing that annoys me about American sports leagues that you never hear about in soccer is labor trouble. Pretty much every sport here has had to deal with that on some level over the past decade, and it can get to be like a large clous looming over the sport. I hope the NHL can come to some sort of deal before the season starts, but I'm not optimistic.
I think one of the reasons that you don't hear about it in soccer is because there is always a place to play. There's no way that every footballer in the world will go on strike at the same time. The leagues being in different nations helps, too. If the players don't like the way something is done in one league, move to a new one in another country. Hockey and American Football players don't have that option, so they have to strike to change things, although I absolutely hate them for it.

Hopefully the WHA gets their sh!t together if the NHL goes on strike so I can get my fix. I'd hate to have to start hanging out at Central Hockey League games all next year.

[Potomac Red Devil]

It would be kind of neat if USA, Canada, Russia, Finland, Sweden, etc., had their own hockey leagues, then they had a "Champions League" to determine the real world champion.

Not gonna happen, I know, but it would be neat.

[Achtung]

That's probably part of the reason, although it happened in baseball when those players could go to Mexico or Asia, and in basketball when they could go to Europe or South America. Not that those leagues are anything near the quality of the ones here, plus they could end up voiding their contracts if they play somewhere else.

I think the WHA might be good, but most of the European guys might prefer to play in their home countries. I know Forsberg and Jagr hae expressed interest in that, and even guys like Roenick might look into that. As bad as the 1994 baseball strike was, this has the potential to be much much worse. :(

[Coach_McGuirk]

It would be kind of neat if USA, Canada, Russia, Finland, Sweden, etc., had their own hockey leagues, then they had a "Champions League" to determine the real world champion.

Not gonna happen, I know, but it would be neat.
I think we can rest easily knowing that the NHL Champs are the best club team in the world, no offense to any European leagues, but the best players come to the NHL.

[Motterman]

That's probably part of the reason, although it happened in baseball when those players could go to Mexico or Asia, and in basketball when they could go to Europe or South America. Not that those leagues are anything near the quality of the ones here, plus they could end up voiding their contracts if they play somewhere else.

I think the WHA might be good, but most of the European guys might prefer to play in their home countries. I know Forsberg and Jagr hae expressed interest in that, and even guys like Roenick might look into that. As bad as the 1994 baseball strike was, this has the potential to be much much worse. :(

They should have all listend to Brett Hull two or three years ago... :rolleyes: