*Official* English Football Season 2013-14

[Jono]

 

[Jono]

While I agree I don't think the celebrations had anything to do with Hillsborough (Gerrard aside), I think they're justified. Particularly when you hear Gerrard's and Rodgers' comments post-game. They know there's a lot to come, but City are seen as our biggest threat, so to beat them is obviously ha-uge. Four Cup Finals left!

Stevie almost had me in tears. Want him to win it so bad.

https://t.co/D3fpOWz9MI

Steven Gerrard Post Man City Interview - YouTube

EDIT: Haha, and they all speak English (although Sakho is not very fluent).

"Listen, listen, this is gone"

Good stuff.

 

[BoyBrumby]

In fairness none of them will have followed football until 2004.

They probably followed Man Utd up till then mind you.

Po-tay-to, po-tar-to.

Fat Gray lives in Surrey, ffs. That's Man U country.

 

[sledger]

Just can't get behind Gerrard myself, have never been able to warm to him as a neutral. Liverpool fans love him in the same way Chelsea fans love John Terry it seems to me, but I've never met another neutral who particularly likes him.

 

[fredfertang]

Just can't get behind Gerrard myself, have never been able to warm to him as a neutral. Liverpool fans love him in the same way Chelsea fans love John Terry it seems to me, but I've never met another neutral who particularly likes him.

It's his accent - if he sounded like Michael Owen everyone would love him

 

[sledger]

Nah, Micheal Owen never beat up anyone in a nightclub.

 

[Eds]

Nah, Micheal Owen never beat up anyone in a nightclub.

 

[Uppercut]

Just can't get behind Gerrard myself, have never been able to warm to him as a neutral. Liverpool fans love him in the same way Chelsea fans love John Terry it seems to me, but I've never met another neutral who particularly likes him.

Yeah same, but for some reason most Liverpool fans are completely oblivious to this and think he's a national treasure.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Yeah same, but for some reason most Liverpool fans are completely oblivious to this and think he's a national treasure.

Yeah, and go mad if you mention the incident in the nightclub mentioned above.

 

[fredfertang]

However eccentric juries' decisions sometimes seem there's no getting away from the fact that Gerrard's heard all the evidence and decided that they accepted he was acting in self-defence which, absent being a scally **** becoming a criminal offence with retrospective effect, makes him innocent

 

[Uppercut]

ZM tearing into Kompany today.

Nevertheless, he was caught out for all three goals – he was unable to track Sterling’s run for the first, lost Skrtel for the second, and sliced a clearance to Coutinho for the third. Kompany’s mistakes aren’t as rare as many suggest...

On his day Kompany is an excellent defender, but there haven’t been many of those days since City won the title two years ago, when the Belgian was the best centre-back in Europe. Kompany remains a fine player, but he’s committed almost every kind of defensive error in the last year or so – vulnerable to pace, capable of scoring crazy own goals, mistiming tackles, getting spun high up the pitch, jumping into tackles two-footed, losing his man at set-pieces, getting caught in possession. English football seems to have a blind spot to his failings, too: one newspaper column declared him the player of the season on the morning of this game, another gave him 8/10 for this display where, again, he was responsible for all three goals. Imagine the reaction had Demichelis cost City three goals in three different ways…

It's strange because until Citeh won the league he was probably the most under-rated player in the division. On his performances over the past two years he's probably one of the most over-rated. It's like he hit his peak right before the media realised he was good.

 

[Eds]

Mark Ogden gave him an 8 in his game ratings too which is just criminal.

Vincent Kompany: 8 – Looked to be troubled by the training ground injury which threatened his participation in the game, but his class and desire came to the fore in the second-half when he was inspirational at the back.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah same, but for some reason most Liverpool fans are completely oblivious to this and think he's a national treasure.

My twitter feed yesterday suggested a lot of non-Liverpool fans think he's great

And he is btw. It's been cool in this thread for about 6 or 7 years to underrate him but he's been one of the very top players of his generation.

 

[sledger]

My twitter feed yesterday suggested a lot of non-Liverpool fans think he's great

And he is btw. It's been cool in this thread for about 6 or 7 years to underrate him but he's been one of the very top players of his generation.

I wasn't getting at whether or not he's well-rated; I imagine it's safe to say he generally is.

What I was getting at was whether people who aren't Liverpool fans like him.

 

[GIMH]

I wasn't getting at whether or not he's well-rated; I imagine it's safe to say he generally is.

What I was getting at was whether people who aren't Liverpool fans like him.

Fair enough was only skimming through. I thought that interview yesterday was class ftr. No major opinion on the bloke as a human being

 

[Tom Halsey]

I don't much like him and have always rated him lower than you as I recall discussing this before, but this season has been his best season that I can remember in ages. I'd probably have him 2nd to Suarez for player of the season.

 

[Ikki]

Just can't get behind Gerrard myself, have never been able to warm to him as a neutral. Liverpool fans love him in the same way Chelsea fans love John Terry it seems to me, but I've never met another neutral who particularly likes him.

He's not comparable to Terry at all. Gerrard is loved by loads of players/ex pros and fans - in our outside of Liverpool - because he is a relatively humble guy, a loyal guy and an incredible player. His charity work also speaks for itself. He's a class act and one night (whether you agree with the ruling or not) doesn't change that.

Not sure in England, but in my group of friends I can say that it's hard to find a neutral who doesn't like him.

 

[sledger]

He's not comparable to Gerrard at all. Terry is loved by loads of players/ex pros and fans - in our outside of London- because he is a relatively humble guy, a loyal guy and an incredible player. His charity work also speaks for itself. He's a class act and one night (whether you agree with the ruling or not) doesn't change that.

 

[Jarquis]

Incredibly loyal player who tried to force a move to Chelsea until he received a million death threats

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Incredibly loyal player who tried to force a move to Chelsea until he received a million death threats

Ding ding ding, we have a winner.