When Big Sam is your backup plan - OTT 36 [R]

Huh?

To quote an old sig of mine. "If you have to use another sport for an analogy. You don't get it!"

 

I was going to post almost this exact thing.

Seriously though, safe standing at all the grounds would make a huge difference to the atmosphere at grounds.

 

I'd say out of the hundreds of games I've attended at Anfield only about a dozen were seated. I'd love areas in the front of the Kop and Annie Road to be standing. It wasn't so much the safety issue that brought on all seating. It was to control the hooligan gangs.
I don't think in this day and age a few thousand standing down in front would be unsafe. The atmosphere would definitely be better.

 

People stand anyway and with seats, its actually less safe than if they had the rail seating.

 

It was said in days of yore that the Kop held 15,000 standing.
On our very first International Night against Inter Milan they say there were 21,000 and me there.
At times as the crowd heaved and swayed, I would be squeezed up off the concrete. Wierd feeling levitating.

 

One match, a cup game with Cardiff City Every time they attacked the Welsh twit behind me would leap up, to do that he had to come forward to clear his seat so he was all over me. Don't know what he had in his jacket pockets but they'd clap my ears every time. We had a chat about it and it stopped. Can't blame a guy getting excited at a match.

 

LOL. I remember at the end of the game - if you didn't wait for the crowd to thin out, you'd get lifted up off your feet and carried along as the crowd moved forward. tough luck if you wanted to go in a different direction. funny now, but pretty scary then ....

 

those were the days. Happened a lot alongside the Kop in that passageway. I weighed about 230 then over 16 stone.

 

ah, the good old days. sigh ......

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/24/psg-hold-talks-antonio-conte-manager-chelsea

psg talking to conte's reps about a move in the summer.

 

He's a better bet than Mourinho. The latter would turn all those exciting players into defenders and start fights with little provocation

 

that sounds a bit harsh - why would you say that?

 

Nobody will give a crap -- guardiola was so nasty to poor little Ibrahimovic? gimme a break ....

 

I don't much care for all these old school insults-- what are we in the 1870s? As for his client, I struggle to see him when we played Inter both at Anfield and San Siro in the Champions League. Not worth the hype and shown up at Barcelona.

 

An agent whining is news?

 

He likely won't. This story came out some time ago when Ibrahimovic failed to cut the mustard at Barcelona after that block-buster of a move, and was looking for a scapegoat. Guardiola completely ignored him.

 

Yeah, I remember being in Camp Nou when Ibra was introduced to the crowd. We got carried in along with the crowd when they threw open the gates. They claimed 75k in there.
( Just bragging. )
It didn't take long for the love affair to sour when Ibra didn't fit with Pep's ticka tacka tactics.

 

VirgilvD scores for Neds after our old pal Ryan Babel clinched it against CrYNaldo...who cried to the ref for a pen after he missed the ball and kicked the ground!

 

babel. bloody hell. he's 31. who'da thunk he'd be playing for the Dutch team again?

 

Wow, Babel got a call up. Didn't see that coming.

 

don't know if anyone did. is that a reflection of his recent form, or the lack of quality options for the Dutch team these days?

it's strange either way. they're not in the WC so you'd expect them to be developing young players for Euro 2020, WC 2022 and so on - not bringing players back who are a couple of years from retirement ..... especially in friendly games.

 

Nice to see all the young faces on the 'Merican side lining up against Paraguay...except for the "interim" coach...who looks bit...older...