electrickeeper
25 Jan 2009, 05:09 PM
Read this on another site, but funny by any road.
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/4852/arry2tc2.jpg
DigitalTron
26 Jan 2009, 06:56 AM
ROFL! That is pure comedic genious. :D And I agree with Aud3000, it's pretty much right too.
I will say two things that have seriously changed since Harry became manager:
1) Never a dull moment, and
2) The press love us finally.
-Digital
Phillyspur
26 Jan 2009, 08:25 AM
That's hilarious. Just needs a "Triffic" box.
DigitalTron
26 Jan 2009, 08:47 PM
Oh yes, there is definitely another part of that chart that needs to be written. I'd suggest that at a bare minimum it would include boxes for:
"Triffic" (Phillyspur)
"we're down to bare bones" (Digital)
"" (Digital)
We survived the era of silence under Ramos, and it destroyed the team IMHO, now we're in a full blown era of verbal mastery under Redknapp. Sure, Sir Alex Ferguson is the best at mind games, and Whigner is the best at manipulating the media into getting preferential calls, but Redknapp is in a category shared only by my beloved Warnock as far as verbal entertainment is concerned. :D See what I mean, here is what Harry actually said today ... which is just as entertaining as the flow chart itself:
To avoid being accused of tapping up, Harry reverses the discussion to appear as though he is defending his honesty:
[I]"I wouldn't sit here and say I wouldn't like to have Robbie Keane at my football club, I'd be a liar, but he belongs to Liverpool, so it is not an option unfortunately."
* Also note the artful use of the double negative above. :D
Then he goes on to wrongly discuss another team's player by making it a discussion about "a person" and acting as though he is merely a spectator to the potential transactions (Keane and Chimbonda):
"As a player and a person, I have a lot of time for Robbie Keane. I think he's fantastic."
"The chairman tried to do a deal and spoke to Niall Quinn quite a few times."
Then there is the customary caboose on the tapping up train, designed to absolve himself of any responsibility in the matter and act as though he is courteous and respectful but without any real power to affect the situation:
"They only have to say, 'He's not for sale'. That is all anyone ever has to say."
The saying goes 'if you can't beat them join them,' and it appears that is exactly what Levy has done, first with the Ramos recruitment fiasco, then Capel, and now with the master tapper Redknapp. Harry really is a talented orator, so I'd call this Levy bringing his A game to the tapping up show. :D
-Digital