bigmick wrote:It's an excellent post nan and a really good read. Funnily enough there are huge swathes of it which I agree with. I very much rail against this notion that because a bloke has played football at the highest level it necessarily follows as an absolute certainty that he knows more about the nuances of football than me. Some do obviously, but not all. Similarly, I don't accept for a second that because Rafa is the manager of Liverpool football club and I sell dildo's for a living, it naturally follows that if we disagree on something he is always right. It is an absolutely ridiculous notion, and I've never bought into it. When I said Fernando Morientes woulod never ever cut it in English football 18 months before we sold him, I was right. When i said we rotated too much, I was right. When I said we ought to buy Robert Earnshaw, or that Yossi Benayoun was nowhere near good enough, I was wrong.
Nobody ever is right about everything, and football is no different. The managers job is to be right about most things and get them right quickly. Be right about most signings, be right about most selections, and when he's wrong realise it quickly.
So the bits of the post I disagree with? Well it's the insinuation that people who have a problem with the manager listen slavishly to oiks like Paul Merson and Stan Collymore. I've met Paul Merson and he's a nice lad but an idiot. He was a very talented footballer but so was Paul Gascoigne, it hardly qualifies him to form my opinion on football. No I don't agree with that part at all. Not only do I not listen to Paul Merson and Stan Collymore, I couldn't even if I wanted to. My criticism's are entirely my own work, and I say it because I believe it not because some numpty has fed me a line.
The other bit I disagree with is the idea that 6 points behind Chelsea and 4 behind Man Utd isn't a crisis. It is if you want to win the league. We might be still in it, but only just, by the skin of our fingernails. It's only not a crisis if you don't want to win the league. Concede any more points to those two and we start concentrating on the cups.
I agree
I dont need dumb and dumber to "inform" me with their expert analysis. Two more ridiculously stupid and badly behaved ex players you are unlikely to find.
I also make my own mind up based on what I see, hear and know. I have also made predictions which have come true (I said for a season at least that Riise was not a left back and was a disaster waiting to happen) as well as ones which didnt ( I said Kewell was an absolute steal at £5 mil and he would be one of our greatest ever players).
I think its probably an absolute waste of time going on any forums and expressing opinions thinking that it will have any effect on what happens at the club (are you reading this Rafa?) But that is what we do and that is what they are for. It also lets us know that there are others who feel the same as well as those who have got a Fu*king igloo what theyre on about. I doubt if any forum is looked at by the club to see what the fans are really thinking or gauge their mood. Basically its for saddos who cant be ar'sed talking but want to get their point across without the hassle of listening to people.
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internationals 
cunning plan Rafa!
