Here is the link for part 1: http://quakemagic.matchnight.com/qmdefault.cfm?page=ARTICLE&show=210 And for part 2: http://quakemagic.matchnight.com/qmdefault.cfm?page=ARTICLE&show=211 Regards, Jefe
Tigana displaying the moronic French quality of hating America for no particular reason.... Funny how we are being loved more now since we pulled our tourist dollars..."Bienvenue mis amis"...
Good interview. I hope Lewis and PNE can make it to the Premier League so he can start on a club in the top flight!
Given Arena's rather childish insults against Tigana you can hardly blame him for not exactly wanting Arena's team to do well.
Which childish insults would those be? I remember Arena calling Tigana "classless" for not releasing Lewis for the world cup camp so that he could play in the last game, even though Tigana hadn't used him all season. Arena was 100% correct and called it like he saw it.
Arena was incorrect because he chose to hold his camp outside of official international dates and then moaned that a player's employer wouldn't release him.
How does that make him "incorrect"? If EL had played one league game all stinking season (until the last one) it might have been a moot point, but he DIDN'T. It was a power thing, plain and simple. As Bruce said, he was a "complete jerk." The fact that Fulham had the "right" to do what they did with Eddie does not change that fact, given the circumstances, that Tigana was a jerk.
and Tig's being a jerk (and I gotta say it sounds like he is) doesn't change the fact that Eddie is a very good Nationwide middie, but an unexceptional EPL middie. It is great to see him playing well at PNE, but his game is one-dimensional. He has a role to play on the USMNT and could help some EPL bottom feeders, but he is a tad limited. (Which is not to say he couldn't have contributed some at Fulham, but I don't think he was ever the right kind of player to be a big contributer on a Tigana team.)
He played regularly for Fulham - in their reserve team. He'd had a long mandated absence for the Gold Cup earlier that season, and there was no reason at all why they should have released him for a training camp that wasn't even during an international window. Fulham was paying his wages, not the US.
Ahhh, everyone's favorite expatriot English troll again..... The facts are that Lewis had not seen 1 MINUTE OF ACTION all season long with Fulham's senior squad. You arguing that he WAS NEEDED for a bunch of U19 players and bench warmers for ONE GAME just shows how much you hate Yank football. Tigana got what he deserved, because what goes around comes around.
Wasn't Fulham missing a bunch of players in that last game through suspension and injury? I think the last game actually may have meant something to the team as well, although I don't really remember that well. Tigana does seem like a jerk, but M's point about Fulham paying his wages is valid, especially if he was needed for that last game. I'm not sure we can blame him for not playing Eddie either -- how many posters rated Eddie worth starting in the EPL back when he was struggling for the National team? If you read the Fulham message boards when Eddie pretty much lost his place with Fulham (didn't this happen before Tigana came in?) -- he was the most roundly ridiculed player by everyone except "Brittany Spears" who had a crush on him. It seems to me that through his experiences in England, he's become more mature as a player and a person - more concerned about defense, less selfish on the ball, less of a "fancy dan", etc. Maybe we have Tigana to partially thank for that? Anyway - great interview. I like the part where he says he'll get chills until the day he dies about the cross.