With Pep, I usually talk about it like F1. He has always had the best car, but (usually) drives it superbly and laps the field, setting record lap times. So you know that if you put him in a brilliant car with no mechanical issues, he is going to drive it smoothly and quickly. But you just don't know how he would do if everyone had the same car.
I like to put it as he has never achieved a single thing against the odds, and in an area such as sports where we love the underdog, that's a little uninspiring to many people. Fergie is still the last manager to break the OId Firm deadlock (and won in Europe with Aberdeen too) and was doing well even at St Mirren. Klopp took Mainz from the doldrums to what for them was a great high, and successfully challenged Bayern in the Bundesliga.
I don't think anyone should ever say Pep is anything other than a great manager - just look at how many titles Man City won before and after his arrival - but his managerial story is about as inspiring as Amazon putting a family run furniture store out of business and then boasting about selling the most chairs that year.
It's ok. As long as we only spend millions on infrastructure we can still be 'little Wycombe'. If Lommy goes nuclear and decides to buy Neymar and the like then we are in trouble.
So Iceland and the Faroe Islands were kept apart in the WC qualifying draw because they're deemed the most prone to severe weather, but Serbia and Albania, who generally despise each other, are in the same group... Strong work, FIFA.
I have nothing against Swindon, but I do find it amusing that after Holloway "masterminded" that stunning victory over us in the Pointless McEmptyStadium trophy in midweek, we got back to hammering the opposition in the league, while Swindon lost with no shots on target and Holloway had to be pulled away from his own fans.
It's almost as if there is a difference between first teams playing in the league and rusty backups playing in a trophy no-one wants!
Don't tell the midweek Sky commentator, he'd have had you believe they'd be selling DVDs of that game and talking about it for years to come, I suspect neither side now give a toss about it.
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Messi, Pedro, Pique (was still a kid when he came back from Man Utd), Sergi Roberto, Thiago Alcantara...
With Pep, I usually talk about it like F1. He has always had the best car, but (usually) drives it superbly and laps the field, setting record lap times. So you know that if you put him in a brilliant car with no mechanical issues, he is going to drive it smoothly and quickly. But you just don't know how he would do if everyone had the same car.
I like to put it as he has never achieved a single thing against the odds, and in an area such as sports where we love the underdog, that's a little uninspiring to many people. Fergie is still the last manager to break the OId Firm deadlock (and won in Europe with Aberdeen too) and was doing well even at St Mirren. Klopp took Mainz from the doldrums to what for them was a great high, and successfully challenged Bayern in the Bundesliga.
I don't think anyone should ever say Pep is anything other than a great manager - just look at how many titles Man City won before and after his arrival - but his managerial story is about as inspiring as Amazon putting a family run furniture store out of business and then boasting about selling the most chairs that year.
Doesn't look like much perfection at the moment.
One win in ten is pretty mindblowing, and strengthens the argument that Pep needs everything perfectly calibrated.
It's ok. As long as we only spend millions on infrastructure we can still be 'little Wycombe'. If Lommy goes nuclear and decides to buy Neymar and the like then we are in trouble.
Astana 0 Chelsea 2 after 20 minutes.
The worse Kazakhstan's premier team play, the more chance that Lommy will release 1 billion in funds for a January spending spree.
No?
So Iceland and the Faroe Islands were kept apart in the WC qualifying draw because they're deemed the most prone to severe weather, but Serbia and Albania, who generally despise each other, are in the same group... Strong work, FIFA.
Mehmeti to face England at Wembley, possibly, too.
The relations have been much improved recently but that won’t stop football fans
Heads up all, St Pauli on Sky in 10 minutes.
Just enough time for a cuppa
Kick off delayed by the amount of smoke from the pyro. Love it.
A crafty ploy to get another round in before kickoff?
lol at this.
VAR sucking the life out of football once again in the Forest-Villa game
Looks like it didn't matter in the end. Our Nottingham contingent will be very happy.
Wycombe 1st and Forest 4th must be the happiest day in the Wycombe-Nottingham clique's life.
I have some very happy family members ringing this evening. I will assume all newspaper reports will be about how Villa lost it.
I am indeed living the pre-christmas dream.
I have nothing against Swindon, but I do find it amusing that after Holloway "masterminded" that stunning victory over us in the Pointless McEmptyStadium trophy in midweek, we got back to hammering the opposition in the league, while Swindon lost with no shots on target and Holloway had to be pulled away from his own fans.
It's almost as if there is a difference between first teams playing in the league and rusty backups playing in a trophy no-one wants!
I’m in dreamland too!
…and that VAR offside decision looked very suspicious…what about the defender in the middle playing Elanga onside?
….and the Villa fans will say they were robbed and that Cash was fouled in the build up to the winning goal.
Don't tell the midweek Sky commentator, he'd have had you believe they'd be selling DVDs of that game and talking about it for years to come, I suspect neither side now give a toss about it.
Not one but two 7pm kick-offs in the Prem today. Who gives a stuff about the fans, eh?
What has happened to Pep?
Genuinely not sure Pep sticks with this much longer.
Brilliant goal by Amad
This really is a mad table at almost halfway
Exhausted intern at Skybet pencils Bloomfield in at Evens for Man City job.
Not much better reading for Citeh
A Manchester derby with 6 (?) shots on target. As Neville said more a donkey derby.
This is an absolute mad meltdown from City.
As long as the league don't think they can smuggle their inevitable points deduction in this season when it won't affect anything.