Brian Glanville - World Soccer Magazine

[oakiecokie]

This horrible old twat is at it again.

(Stolen from Twitter)

Well seeing that I know Alan Oakes,Glanvilles grey matter aint what it used to be,as Alan is a born and bred Mid Cheshireman through and through,as is Glyn Pardoe his cousin.

 

[laserblue]

This horrible old twat is at it again.

(Stolen from Twitter)

apart from the ludicrous assertion that colin schindler was 'always a devoted city fan' he makes a fool of himself by suggesting that city 1968 championship winning side was full of mancunians when in fact neil young was the only manc in it. alan oakes, like his cousin glyn pardoe, was from winsford and mike doyle was from stockport.

 

[LoveCity]

Good timing for me as my World Soccer subscription is up and after reading that I will be switching to Four Four Two. Although I did like World Soccer's profile about Montpellier in the latest edition but even that had a shot at rich teams with the giant headline "Money can't buy everything".

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Brian Glanville is a boring ****.

 

[bluenova]

Any Arsenal fan who hasn't been critical of their own team's wealth, but is now critical of City is a huge hypocrite.

They've spent the best part of £1 billion on wages over the last decade - two to three times as much as most Premier League clubs.

Every title for the last 20 years has been 'bought' yet we hear more complaints from "fellow purchasers" than the fans of teams who have really missed out due to football's increasing wealth gap.

 

[Soulboy]

Another dying old man fighting against the dark.

Stuck in the 60's he's failed to adapt to the modern game like so many of his contemporaries. They confuse the times when they were happy as being the best times. I do the same myself. I wistfully remember the great times I had following City, and then realise that they were great times for me, not necessarily City!

The mind plays tricks as you get older, the summers were warmer, the snow always fell on Christmas Day, the football was somehow nobler, more pure, and better than it is now.

All bollocks of course.

Football has pretty much always been bought and paid for since the abolition of the maximum wage in the early 60's.

Is Glanville and his ilk suggesting we go back to those days?

Like I say, these opinions say more about the writers than it does about football nowadays.

 

[laserblue]

Another dying old man fighting against the dark.

Stuck in the 60's he's failed to adapt to the modern game like so many of his contemporaries. They confuse the times when they were happy as being the best times. I do the same myself. I wistfully remember the great times I had following City, and then realise that they were great times for me, not necessarily City!

The mind plays tricks as you get older, the summers were warmer, the snow always fell on Christmas Day, the football was somehow nobler, more pure, and better than it is now.

All bollocks of course.

Football has pretty much always been bought and paid for since the abolition of the maximum wage in the early 60's.

Is Glanville and his ilk suggesting we go back to those days?

Like I say, these opinions say more about the writers than it does about football nowadays.

spot on.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

They confuse the times when they were happy as being the best times.

Great line. Sometimes Soulboy, I feel a little man-love for you.

 

[oakiecokie]

This horrible old twat is at it again.

(Stolen from Twitter)

apart from the ludicrous assertion that colin schindler was 'always a devoted city fan' he makes a fool of himself by suggesting that city 1968 championship winning side was full of mancunians when in fact neil young was the only manc in it. alan oakes, like his cousin glyn pardoe, was from winsford and mike doyle was from stockport.

Plus Tony Book (Bath),Heslop (Geordie), Summerbee (Preson was it), Bell (Geordie),Lee (Bolton) and a full Scouser Coleman !! Can`t remember where Ken Mulhearn was born.

 

[Chris in London]

He is just another bitter gooner who just needs to be ignored.

What is it about gooners? Are they all accountants or something? This idea that a football club's first priority is to balance the books, and only then to win trophies seems to me to be ludicrous.

Imagine gooners running a hospital: 'the most important thing is to make sure that staff costs are met by additional car parking charges. If we cure any patients, that's an added bonus but frankly we're not expecting to.'