The way news breaks on twitter before anything else is what has me on there, especially sports related. I don't follow many players, only journos really (and isanyoneup cause chicks post n00dz). It's a great source of information and really good sports analysis if you follow the right people.
Nah there's no substance to that argument. Can't be doing with a carthorse poacher up front in a passing team, it's too much tougher to play possession-oriented football when your least defensive player isn't contributing to the build-up at all. He'd stick out like a sore thumb, his first touch makes baby jesus cry.
Can't decide whether I agree with this or not.
Carroll can pass it simply if he has to move out. But really he's there to occupy the defence rather than to give you another option to pass the ball about. Unless he drops deep he's in a much more pressurised position to dink the ball about anyway. He'd be holding the ball up for people and then knocking a short pass which can do some damage. A good passing team will make the margin for error larger, England and Liverpool make it tiny because there's hardly anyone else up to pass to and they're too knackered from chasing the ball about.
Yeah, that's definitely the upside. Problem is, it's populated by boring kents who post new tweets twenty times a day about how they've just been to see their beauty therapist or burnt their toast. I don't have twitter myself, but I see this kind of thing re-tweeted through Facebook all the time. Mind you, I could always delete this kind of crap from my newsfeed I suppose. Probably says more about the people I keep company with rather than Twitter itself in fairness.
unfollow/block/filter. easy as.
Carroll's hold up play isn't very good though, largely as a result of his comical first touch. You want a Cantona/Llorente type to play that role, not a Tony Cascarino. Also, you're wasting his biggest asset- ability to win long balls- so he's worth more to a side like Newcastle than a passing side. They'll probably get a pretty good deal, especially considering he's already been sold for so much.
Explains why you follow me
Yeah, a few black managers have got sacked just for being crap, Barnes and Ince spring to mind straight away. Chris Powell and Keith Alexander (rip) were different.
Sounds like a £35m version of Kris Boyd.
When was Chris Powell sacked as a manager?
Yeah it is a twitter link https://twitter.com/WhoScored/statuses/222617063120838656 but the people who run this twitter account run the website whoscored.com (a football statistics website). Which is why I believe Downing isn't that bad and the reason he doesn't have as many assists as he should is because of Carroll.