Sepp Blatter claims Ronaldo is a slave

On Ivan Lendl?

Never saw the headline when he lost the Wimbledon final to an Aussie, but I reckon it would have appeared somewhere... Cash beats Czech.

One would hope so. He was definitely on the nail.

Before or after getting hammered?

Are you having a lendl?

I-van-a, but think you keep Trumping me...

Trump Tower always sounds like a big farting mistake to me.

Zat wrote:

Dello wrote:

Zat wrote: if a national team wants to excel on the world stage, it has to offer pathways for juniors to get to the top level.

Pathway: be good enough to play at the top level.

Aye, and don't give away so many spots at the top level to OS players. Give the local product the chance to learn by playing with some of the best in the world, not by making them watch from the stands or on the teev.

"Local product" has the same chance to make it as anyone else. All the European teams shop abroad. But even though plenty of Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, French and Portuguese teenagers get "poached" right across the board, not one English teenager has been signed by a French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish or Portuguese club since the early 1990s when Reading's James Lambert was taken on by Monaco, even though it's an open market where over 100 clubs are scouting for quality players.

This idea that there's somehow this well of untapped talent in England just bubbling under the surface, waiting to be given a chance to show how f*cking amazing they are is just a myth.

And the name Edward Woodward sounds like someone farting in the bath.

Dello wrote:

Zat wrote:

Dello wrote:

Zat wrote: if a national team wants to excel on the world stage, it has to offer pathways for juniors to get to the top level.

Pathway: be good enough to play at the top level.

Aye, and don't give away so many spots at the top level to OS players. Give the local product the chance to learn by playing with some of the best in the world, not by making them watch from the stands or on the teev.

"Local product" has the same chance to make it as anyone else. All the European teams shop abroad. But even though plenty of Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, French and Portuguese teenagers get "poached" right across the board, not one English teenager has been signed by a French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish or Portuguese club since the early 1990s when Reading's James Lambert was taken on by Monaco, even though it's an open market where over 100 clubs are scouting for quality players.

This idea that there's somehow this well of untapped talent in England just bubbling under the surface, waiting to be given a chance to show how f*cking amazing they are is just a myth.

Fair enough. Your football team's f*cked for the foreseeable future then.

Probably.

Depends how the FA invest the millions of pounds they skim off the game into grass roots football.

If it's with the same level of incompetence and short-sightedness that they're famous for, the best England can hope for is to luck out with a "golden generation" set of players fortuitously plying their trade at the same time.

Right. Zebedee calls ....

Don't let it get you down Jay. There's the potential for cricket to go the same way globally yet.

Good times.

PeterCS wrote:Right. Zebedee calls ....

Not sure if I should be disturbed about PCS fantasizing about a bloke who is essentially a big ball on a spring...

I've been watching Roots, on DVD. Anyone remember that? I thought it had been banned.

United should just let him leave and get 70mil for him. What's the atmosphere going to be like in training when his team mates and his manager know he doesn't want to play there?

Demelza wrote:I've been watching Roots, on DVD. Anyone remember that? I thought it had been banned.

TOBY!

Good memory Zat!
Remember when they cut his foot off?

I was but a lad. I still get squeamish thinking about it.

I'm surprised they haven't dubbed the N word!

It's told from a non whiteys view so its "Ok" to use it ...

Could they have said darkies? OP said that on C4 and got banned for it.

OP was a troublemaker