Mourinho to be sacked

bhob wrote:

Interesting opinion on Mourinho by Ken Early

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/english-soccer/ken-early-like-napoleon-mourinho-is-the-outsider-always-trying-to-prove-himself-1.3736207?mode=amp

Mourinho is Trump, except Mourinho speaks five languages, whereas Trump can't even manage to speak one properly.

2016's big three grand follies were Jose Trump, Donald Trump and Brexit.

You not find it interesting PM?

So why did you read it then LOL

pre Madonna wrote:

bhob wrote:

So why did you read it then LOL

I always hope that bad writers, who are making a living from it, will prove me wrong.

Early is a superb writer.

If you're looking for an example of this, read his match report from the Wales v Ireland game in October 2017.

It's not a match report, it's a work of art.

pre Madonna wrote:

I always hope that bad writers, who are making a living from it, will prove me wrong.

What about SlurAlex

"Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex

Gary McKay wrote:

pre Madonna wrote:

I always hope that bad writers, who are making a living from it, will prove me wrong.

What about SlurAlex

Roberto Baggio wrote:

Gary McKay wrote:

pre Madonna wrote:

I always hope that bad writers, who are making a living from it, will prove me wrong.

What about SlurAlex

Remember his piece in the independent, where he constantly spelt Falcao incorrectly, the same way as he did on this forum for years.

Yeah it read like Joe.ie

"Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex

Trap junior wrote:

I couldn't read anymore after the bullsh*t intellectualisation of a bleedin manager getting the sack. Serious self indulgent bollox.

Couldn't have put it better. LOL

Trap junior wrote:

I couldn't read anymore after the bullsh*t intellectualisation of a bleedin manager getting the sack. Serious self indulgent bollox.

Football managers are no longer mere people.

With the decline of religion, they are now our secular Gods.

We invest them with all sorts of powers, we invest irrational belief in them.

They are our messiahs, and when they prove to be false messiahs, we crucify them.

The power and the trust we bestow on them is emblematic of the increasing sense of powerlessness that people in society feel.

Man has always searched for meaning, and hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution have led us to the ultimate search for meaning - the football manager soap opera.

The interviews, the press conferences, the rolled down car windows where we desperately hope our chosen one will reveal an exciting new possible transfer target, the tweets from unofficial "in the know" sources that a manager is about to sign a brilliant new player you've never heard of, the barbs, the mind games, the refusal to shake hands with another manager at the end of a game, the annoyed look on a manager's face after a handshake, the search for thinly veiled discord between manager and star player.

Football managers are the opium of the people.

Edited by sid waddell - 19 Dec 2018 at 3:31pm