"Kolo Toure isn't marking here at all for the CSKA opener" - Liam Brady last night

"If they finish bottom of the group that'll be two years in a row that Pellegrini has done that with City" - Andy Gray on Talksport this morning 

Think I'm done with RTE now. It's an absolute sham.

 

Agreed. Felt like heading to Dublin just slap him

Dunphy on Tuesday night when talking about Pilkington 

Darragh Maloney made a fairly half arsed attempt to correct him a minute or 2 later too

Even the neutrals are calling him clueless for it

Was asked to pick a best XI from using Man Utd and Liverpool players and the result was;

No Di Maria?  Glen Johnson? 

A simple bit of research and look at the group table would tell you that all teams in the group are tied on 2 points with 1 game remaining. 

 

I heard that numpty Brazil saying early on this morning " Has the African Cup of Nations started yet."

Betting man from Coral who's on every morning was talking about odds on the West Ham game tonight. Micky Quinn asks blankly, who are they playing anyway? A good point by the coral man - do your research.

 

Then, when discussing Champions League betting the Coral man asks them who their tip is for this years tournament and says Brazil called it correct last year with Real. Brazil says Bayern, Quinn is asked and said no I think we are due an English winner of this competition, Brazil says well City are bound to look the strongest out of the English 4, Quinn says no I could see Jose giving it a good go.

He was amazed that United weren't in the CL this season when corrected on this, and he wasn't trying to be funny either or taking the p*ss.

 

This is a man paid money to talk about football on the radio.

That is the easy part, it is how the brain reacts when it hears Adrian Durham is the problem.................

 

Discussing Celtic match tonight for 5 minutes, then at the end White asks for a prediction, Cascarino (a former Celtic player) asks are they home or away tonight?

 

How about a bit of research Tony, no? Even have a newspaper or some sort of app or webpage with tonight's fixtures in front of you when discussing them?

 

Saunders then said he played at Celtic Park once and you can't hear yourself when you're on the pitch such is the noise from the stands, and the Moenchengladbach players won't know about that.

 

Yeah, because the noise levels and atmosphere at Celtic Park on a European night are never ever mentioned Dean.

 

 

 Eddie Howe is Dunphy's latest flavour of the month. He should be managing United and England

 

 

Someone needs to also point out to him that this United squad is the most costly ever assembled in football history. They've thrown hundreds of millions at it.

 

If it was 10 years ago it'd be Paul Jewell

 

So basically he wanted Jewell because he never said anything controversial and because Danny Webber & Co were sh*te. 

I think in May only goal difference separated the two sides - 4th and 5th in the league, they both then got new managers, two of the most decorated in the game, who both had big rebuilding jobs on their hands, and spent over £160m each in the summer. The sides were then 1st and 2nd favourites with the bookies in August to win the league, narrowly separated with City 5/2 and United 11/4.

 

Its not as if it would be a giant killing act if United were to beat City.

 

 

I'd have City favourites but not clear  ones either for this tie.  

That old cliche.

Do you really think Zlatan, Pogba, Martial etc give two f**ks about the League Cup?

Not to mention the laughing, joking, hugging etc after the game with the Chelsea players at the weekend?

I'm not picking on United solely here btw, the days of "being fired up" for the majority of players at the highest level are over unfortuntely, I see it with Sunderland players on a weekly basis they really don't give a f**k 

You would see a player from Luton Town being fired up to play Man United in a Cup Tie, but if you think Nolito or Kompany are fired up to play a group of lads they go for dinner and drinks with on a regular basis you would be very mistaken.

If it were a Championship League Quarter Final or a League decider I would say "yeah, they probably would be fired up" but a League Cup tie? No chance

 

 

I disagree there, winning a game in the league cup even if it's against Citeh, won't go a long way to repairing the damage done from that embarrassing defeat on Sunday imo.

Sure it'll be nice to win, but not even the most arrogant manager on the planet could possibly think the general public are that naive to think everything is rosey if they win tomorrow. 

He's viewed by many as the natural successor to Arsene Wenger, same style of football etc - Hence why Wenger recommended Wilshere went to Bournemouth.

Fantastic manager. Turned an absolute tinpot club into a club worth watching playing half-decent football without lumping millions at any random Joe Bloggs. Same goes with Dyche.

There's plenty of decent coaches that can get a team to play good football, until he's proven he can handle the egos of today's superstars he's totally unproven.

I wouldn't put Rogers in that boat. He did extremely well getting the best out of Suarez that season.

Worth nothing to Dunphy's point that Howe is joint favourite to be next Arsenal (7/1) or Man Utd (8/1) Manager which shows how highly rated he is. Dunphy really isn't wrong at all here.

But what's putting people off him as already explained, as to why he's not really in contention for the England job that he's not had to deal with World Class players and big ego's yet.

He's such a knee-jerk pundit.

Praising Victor Moses says he's upcoming English talent. He's 26 with 24 caps for Nigeria.

 

Everton, Stoke or Bournemouth.

All knocked out by lower league opposition in the 3rd round, awkward 

About twenty slow motions of why Mitchell Dijks' 'goal' was disallowed when it clearly came off his hand followed by a debate on if the referee thought it was deliberate or not.

I will give some credit to Glenn Hoddle as when is not contacting the next life can be very perceptive and shows a great understanding of the game, so BT stick 'Macca' next to him. Macca is a man who will use 300 words, often wrongly, where none will do and has an accent that means who have to really listen to hear him say nothing.

At one stage of the Chelsea vs. Spurs game Danny Murphy went on a rant about grass that left me wondering was he trying to give coded signals to his dealer, truly bizarre stuff but at least it broke up the monotony of him pointing out the obvious and getting excited every time Alli touched the ball.

How Andy Walker still gets work at Sky shows how little they care for the game in Scotland, he sounds as if he has just woken up from a coma to find out his family has died, again he is completely devoid of original thought or tactical input.

In Madrid we saw one of the great matches and occasions of the season and all we could get out of Gerry Armstrong was that he thinks that Messi is better than Ronaldo and that Paco Alcacer is quick, while starting and finishing most sentences with the words 'for me'.

And the problem really isn't just in football! While I enjoy Moore and Butler in the 6 nations the two games over the weekend reminded me what a rarity they are. We had 'Drico' and Ben Kay in Dublin yesterday and neither of them said anything of interest to anyone, apart from the odd joke about their playing days. They were nothing compared to the biggest plank on television, one Stuart Barnes. In between calling blatant cheating 'clever', cheating that basically  cost Leinster the game, he went off on one about how "appropriate" it was for Leinster fans to be singing about cockles and mussels in the city of Lyon. That's Lyon, 200 odd miles from the sea.

When you look back on old football and rugby commentary with one good commentator and no more, it was far more enjoyable. Some of the commentary on bet365, such as for the AFCON, is far easier to listen to than the money spent on ickle Mickey Owen and his chums spouting rubbish. Do people really need to be spoon-fed the obvious by a well known former player?

Describes everything as 'Exceptional' 

 

They do realise that Spurs played one up front last season, so it would be one or the other, Kane or Defoe, or else they'd have had to totally change the setup of the team. They think its as simple as adding 20+ goals to Spurs goals for column!

He was more commenting on the fact that they weren't in the Bundesliga 10 years ago. Was pretty clear he had no idea how they had ended up there.

That's a fair comment !

I only usually listen at lunchtime when I'm taking a break as I like Hawksbee & Jacobs who are normally on at that time. Wouldn't really listen to any other shows as most of it is nonsense and the equivalent of tabloid journalism in my opinion.

Maybe they have improved, but the last time I heard that show it was embarrassing. A show for idiots, by idiots. 

Danny Kelly was the only one at that station who could be called terms like 'journalist' or 'broadcaster', is he still there?

Danny Kelly is still there and is excellent.

The reason I like Hawksbee and Jacobs is that it is precisely not a show for idiots and by idiots which makes it stand out from all of the other dross like Alan Brazil etc. They do know their stuff across a lot of sports and have interesting people on there (Lutz Pfannenstiel, for example is a regular on there). 

 

They had Sunderland and Ipswich both relegated from the Championship a few weeks ago before the season even started due to pre season friendly results.

Mick McCarthy wouldn't last too long this season according to Durham

 

 

 

Durham just loves to be Mr inflammatory. He loves a good block on Twitter when questioned

How stuck is he for a few pound?

Asked about Davison Sanchez signing for Spurs and delivered the ultimate typical Paul Merson response;

"I've never heard of him but I think he'll struggle in the Premier League. Spurs will get left behind because of signings like this"

Try 2-1 and 6 years ago Eamonn

 

 

Just criticsed Barkley's rejection of Chelsea because you shouldn't live in Liverpool all your life. 

What a weapon

That's what he said ok. I'm still trying to work out what that even means.

What's up with Kammy?He's very flat,it's like someone unplugged him. Maybe it's being in such close proximity to the merseisms.

Probably lives in Liverpool.

Mark Chapman has had some appalling guests but he's gone as far telling Chris to stay quiet he's that bad.

He's arguing about the red card in the City/Liverpool game now he's arguing with himself about it. It's just 100% fake trying to get himself noticed.

I bet he argues everyday about the new £5 note.

The rule needs to be applied consistency also which makes the Ritchie decision unacceptable

 

How? John Moss was correct and applied the rules.

 

Just because a referee the next day failed to do this, doesn't mean that there's any chance the red card for Mane should be rescinded

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both incidents were second yellow cards and not straight reds so they can't be rescinded

 

And neither can this be rescinded, as it was the correct call by the ref.  

My point is suck it up and get on with it (like the two incidents I talked about) and quit yapping about a correct decision