Media Thread - 2021/22

[LongsightM13]

If the quad squad fail to win another trophy this season the media will paint them as winners just for their effort.

When we won in 2019 the Times published a pullout supplement on their amazing season as runners up. Obviously hoped/expected them to prevail

 

[Burtonblue]

Presumably we were also lucky to pick up the injuries then….

 

[mat]

Talkshite were about to have a discussion on alleged Hillsborough chanting by rags on Tuesday.

All of a sudden Ashton rings Jim Shite to confirm their new manager.

 

[BlueBlood84]

"Packed defences increase chances of deflections shocker!!!"

 

[Inter Me Nan]

 

[train man]

What did the golfer say 'the more I practice the luckier I get'
(Arnold Palmer ?)

Gary Player, I think...

 

[Claytop]

When we won in 2019 the Times published a pullout supplement on their amazing season as runners up. Obviously hoped/expected them to prevail

Also these..

If Liverpool’s title race is lost it will rank among history’s heroic defeats

My favourite moment of the game between Liverpool and Newcastle United on Saturday wasn’t Virgil van Dijk’s header to open the scoring. It wasn’t the Dutchman’s masterly intervention to insist that Xherdan Shaqiri take the free kick that led to the decisive goal. It wasn’t even the deflected header

www.thetimes.co.uk

A nation’s heart is the only thing that Pep Guardiola has yet to win

The first club to win the Double after the Victorian era was Tottenham Hotspur, in 1960-61. It was the prince of their team, Danny Blanchflower, who said football is not about winning, it is about glory. That concept was embraced and inimitably burnished by Hugh McIlvanney. At a memorial service on

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[moomey]

Gary Player, I think...

Jack Nicklaus

 

[train man]

All of a sudden Ashton rings Jim Shite to confirm their new manager.

I guess it was gonna happen but I would have been happy for ten Hag to stay at Ajax to perhaps provide a relatively smooth transition if/when Pep decides to move on.
However, now he's at the swamp I shall be referring to him as Ethel until I hear of something better...

 

[lancs blue]

Jack Nicklaus

Probably all three of Palmer, Player and Nicklaus said it at some point as they were rarely off the practice ground between competitions.