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Post by podolipotter on Nov 24, 2008 16:39:27 GMT
Excuse if published before but in Mail on Sunday football section Page 5, Ian Ridley published the following
"As the John Sergeant of the Premier League, Stoke City have divided the nation. Purists bill their style basic and heavy footed. The long throws of Rory Delap have been described as like someone hurling out the recycling. Some of the public seem happy to watch a team who play a brand of football they themselves could; others point out this should be a competition about quality. Both camps seem amazed they are getting enough points each week just to stay in it. You suspect that some critics, such as Arsene Wenger perhaps, would even have them resign from the competition. One big difference, though: there is no danger of them winning it"
Not yet maybe, mate, but given a couple of year's of Premiership funding we might surprise even the top four....
Discuss.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2008 16:42:08 GMT
Laboured stuff. "It's supposed to be about quality". Here's me thinking that "quality" extended to scoring more goals and getting more points than your opposition. Ridley is incredibly uppity about aesthetics for a man who's made a career out of fisting Tony Adams.
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Post by Kenilworth_Stokies on Nov 24, 2008 16:51:35 GMT
By whom exactly? Why should somebody's throw-ins be more likened to recycling than everybody elses because they go further?
Sounds like more piss-poor Web 2.0 'jounalism' from somebody who thinks that because they can operate a blog page they are now Oscar Wilde.
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Post by beardofzeus on Nov 24, 2008 16:53:58 GMT
Agree w/ Kenilworth, lazy journalism.
Journo had to make his article current and another article on Rory throwing a ball isn't new. Opted to thinly reference Premier League football to a reality TV dance show. Ridiculous
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Post by stokemark on Nov 24, 2008 17:27:33 GMT
No - Theres no danger of us winning it.
Unless we get bought by a billionaire oil baron or are supported by millions of glory hunters round the world.
Shame we have to rely on a great manager, great team spirit and bags of commitment and effort
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Post by Beloved Monkfish on Nov 24, 2008 17:43:42 GMT
Getting really boring now these articles. Just covering the same ground, which has been covered by so many people, so many times. A bit like ted1965's posts.  |
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