On the Ball (new Football Focus)

[matthew123]

Just cancelled my Setanta subscription - no more cr@p from 12th April!

They asked why I was cancelling, so I told them it was the commentary of Craig Burley. The salesman said a lot of people have made complaints over Burley.

[Atila Reincarnate]

I get setanta as part of my Vigin Media package and it is rubbish but sky aren't much better and i've got that as well. Nobody does sport like the BBC.

[matthew123]

I hate MOTD - that Gary Linekar and Alan Hansen are a pair of jokers. Surely it's time to kick those patronising b'stards off our screens!

I think Sky Sports are head and shoulders above ITV, BBC and Setanta. I know Jamie Redknapp can be irritating but their usual Champions League panel of Souness, Gullit and Hoddle is quality.

[Atila Reincarnate]

Lineker and Hansen maybe tools, but the BBC's coverage of ALL sport is far better than anything sky have to offer. Hoddle is probably the most inarticulate pratt I've ever had the misfortune to listen to, this is probably a punishment for him being a twat in a previous incarnation. Irritating is not the word I'd use for Jamie Redknapp, it would be something far, far, stronger. The only advantage for Sky is that they cover footie more than anyone else including Spanish footabll. I'd rather watch most Spanish games than some of the Premiership games on offer like Bolton, or Blackburn et al.

[Jah Lush]

I don't suppose that has anything to do with the fact Hoddle and Redknapp used to play for Spurs is it Atila?

Liverpool 2 v Sunderland 1

Portsmouth 0 v Chelsea 2

West Brom 0 v Arsenal 2

Blackburn 1 v Everton 1

Fulham 2 v Hull 0

Man City 2 v Aston Villa 3

Newcastle 1 v Man Utd 4

Stoke 2 v Bolton 2

Tottenham 2 v Middlesbrough 1

Wigan 2 v West Ham 1

[Atila Reincarnate]

Hoddle was good player but spouts poop evertime he opens his trap, the same as Redknapp. The way Redknapp tried to explain that Nolans sickening challenge on an Everton player whose name escapes me, in the Newcastle V Everton game, wasn't malicious in spite of the fact that he stamped on the guys shin in a two footed challenge with his face contorted in anger, beggars belief. I think he said something like " he's not that kind of player", oh well that's alright then!!! What a load of Ballacks.

[Jah Lush]

Atila tells it like it is. Top man. One slight error though Hoddle wasn't a good player he was great player. If he'd been French or Brazilian he'd have topped more than 100 England caps and had the team built around him.

[Atila Reincarnate]

No doubting the mans ability, but if I remember rightly the England manager at the time thought he was a "luxury" player. I disagree quality is quality, and thought he should have had more games for England but unfortunately our managers at the time were only interested in the work ethic, which has put our national game back many years and goes some way to explaining why our home grwon players don't have the touch, skill, technique, and vision of the foreign players that grace our game currently, and was evident in the England v Spain game.

[Jah Lush]

Exactly right.

[david_carnell]

Le Tissier had the same problem. Any other nation would have used him as a creative lynch-pin. England tried to put him in their B team. Eejits.

[Jah Lush]

We could go back all the way back to Alan Hudson, Rodney Marsh, Stan Bowles Tony Currie and Frank Worthington if you want to. All top quality player who didn't win enough caps for England.

[ratty]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Atila tells it like it is. Top man. One slight

> error though Hoddle wasn't a good player he was

> great player. If he'd been French or Brazilian

> he'd have topped more than 100 England caps and

> had the team built around him.

Can anyone else spot the error in this statement?? ;)

Pompey are gonna get bumfooked tonight. It ain't gonna be pleasant - just hope Chelsea wear condoms!

[Sandperson]

Is it that he couldn't win England caps if he were Brazilian or French? What do I win? :))

[ratty]

A massive kiss from a hairy pompey fan!

[Keef]

Atila, you are right, although lets be honest, most of the current England players don't have the work ethic OR the skills! Oh, and just to go back, I like BBC coverage best, and think Andy Gray is a tool. A funny bloke when not talking football, but just annoys me when on Sky Sports!

[Mikecg]

You wanna hear the drivel thats been sampled on FIFA 2009.

[Jah Lush]

Ratty you're a funny fecker. Well done for spotting stupid error. I much prefer the BBC's sports coverage too. Everything else is substandard.

[Atila Reincarnate]

Does it have the immortal line "take a bow son"?

[Mick Mac]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> We could go back all the way back to Alan Hudson,

> Rodney Marsh, Stan Bowles Tony Currie and Frank

> Worthington if you want to. All top quality player

> who didn't win enough caps for England.

Yes jah. I remember tony currie being a great player. Was wasted with games in the home internationals and then dropped for the real games.

[red devil]

Maybe they weren't picked that much for England because they were either in the bookies or sobering up between matches...legends

[SimonM]

Tony Currie was a Sheffield United star in the days when I never missed a home game. Even when we lost you knew watching him had been worth the price of admission alone. He once came to my local pub with half the United team because Geoff Salmons (United midfielder who had gone to my school) was having a party and the Lads all met up there first. It was rather irksome all the women in the pub swooning and drooling at this long blonde-haired, muscular-thighed Norse God who had entered our presence...with his scowling wife in tow who wanted to move back to London...He eventually went to Leeds but has been back at Bramall Lane a while now, no longer blonde and somewhat portly...

[????]

Tony Currie sitting on a ball smiling infront of defender who couldn't get the ball off him is still a classic image of 70s football..

...Sheffield United still a bunch of excuse seeking not very good northern moaning minnies though

IRONS

[Ladygooner]

Well thats a relief! looks like I will have to renew my season ticket after all

[Mick Mac]

Save you money LG. Its better you save it than Arsene saving it.

[Mikecg]

What I cant work out is that if a club like the gooners had a world class player who performed briliantly for the first couple of seasons and then drought kicked in for 3 years they would sell the player, thats a given. Maybe Arsen has got Teflon shoulders?

Nice blokes don't win premiership titles, maybe a change is in order.