blue horseshoe love anacott steel
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/03112010/58/champions-league-bale-orders-taxi-maicon.html
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 November 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
102 players have more assists in the Premier League than Gareth Bale this season. He has 0. Alex Song more goals too. Hmm.
― cozen, Thursday, 4 November 2010 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link
unfair. Stats also show he's created more chances than any other players, but our strikers have been terrible.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 November 2010 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
where do you get your stats from? been using thishttp://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/stats?id=77653&cc=5739
― cozen, Thursday, 4 November 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
football365 had it in one of their geekstats columns a week ago iirc, caught my eye.
He's also scored and set up a few in europe i think no stats to hand tho
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 November 2010 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
would be interested in seeing that if you can track it down
― cozen, Thursday, 4 November 2010 10:59 (thirteen years ago) link
not on my phone i cant, but will see later on.
Crouch has been awful this year so far, despite a good assists tally for vdv. I think pav would have filled his boots from bale deliveries by now
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 November 2010 11:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'd be interested in that too. If your team has fifteen chances on target and ten off-target, it's nice to be able to see who's setting up those twentyfive chances, rather than just who rolled a ball across for a last minute two-yard in-off-the-arse chance ten minutes after your lazy profligate striker has finally been hooked. Or something.
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― ailsa, Thursday, 4 November 2010 11:12 (thirteen years ago) link
letters page in f365 confirms stat, fyi.
Easier to define an assist than the creation of a chance, i suppose ailsa
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 November 2010 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Aye, I know, but if you can count chances, you can count up who creates them, surely.
Would actually really like a stat to prove rubbishness of wingers' decision-making (i.e. the Aiden McGeady/Giorgio Samaras statistic) , but that's not actually possibly.
― ailsa, Thursday, 4 November 2010 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
only by watching, really. Lennon's regressed quite a bit since his injury but at least he was taking guys on the last night again.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 November 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
McGeady - having seen the first half last night, I endorse everything anyone's said about him in the last three or four years.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 4 November 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.studs-up.com/comics/2010-11-04.jpg
― James Mitchell, Friday, 5 November 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
anti-semite there
― gazza bale flame (a hoy hoy), Friday, 5 November 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
antisemite sam
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 5 November 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
A+
― Stevie T, Friday, 5 November 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
its bounced nicely and i've only just hit it and it's gone straight in innit
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 5 November 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Inter Coach Rafa Benitez has likened Tottenham wing-back Gareth Bale to a Ferrari while comparing his defenders to Volvos.
The Wales international once again ripped Inter apart, this time at White Hart Lane, inspiring Spurs to a historic 3-1 victory.
“We have played many times against Bale,” Benitez said. “We know that he is quick and difficult to mark.
“It's not a question of the wide players covering him, but the problem was that we were losing.
“We needed to attack and when we lost the ball, Bale was quicker in the space and it was tough to contain him above all because he concentrated on the flanks.
“If I drive a Volvo against a Ferrari on a straight, I lose. The Volvo is a good car because it's our sponsor, but the Ferrari races faster.
“It's not a question of help from the wide players. Coutinho and Biabiany have worked a lot to improve in defence and I am happy with them, but they always have a defensive mentality.”
― mizzell, Friday, 5 November 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
benitez is an expert at not having good enough players, it seems.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 5 November 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
someone should maybe let him know that he TOOK OVER THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS and this shit wont wash anymore.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 5 November 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
He didn't say he didn't have enough players, did he?
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 November 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
The Volvo is a good car because it's our sponsor, but the Ferrari races faster
This is awesome though.
i especially likebut the problem was that we were losing
― mizzell, Friday, 5 November 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
he's certainly saying that he didnt have good players, matt.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 5 November 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Coutinho and Biabiany have worked a lot to improve in defence and I am happy with them, but they always have a defensive mentality.
That ought to read defensive I suppose. Enjoying this newly verbose and relatively laissez-faire Benitez, he needed a change of scene.
― Adrian Roosevelt "Adie" Mike (nakhchivan), Friday, 5 November 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
~~offensive~~
James Lawton wrote a whole shitty article about Rafa's lack of grace towards Bale too.........
― Adrian Roosevelt "Adie" Mike (nakhchivan), Friday, 5 November 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
just towards bale? That's micromanaging the issue imo
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 5 November 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe now Rafa is in Italy he's not giving press conferences in English, so the journalists are running what he says through Google Translate from Spanish to Italian to English, ending up with the sugar mountain volvo nonsense, but what he actually says is perfectly regular "the boy done well" platitudes?
― James Mitchell, Friday, 5 November 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway onto more pressing concerns, which Bolton player do we think will break Bale's leg tomorrow?
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 November 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
love that rafa is an injury to the v. injury prone eto'o away from taking almost unbeatable triple winners to a team that cannot win anything in a season. i mean this is the most otm statement ever:
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srs moratti must be kicking himself in the balls. even moreso knowing zlatan will win ac the league.
― gazza bale flame (a hoy hoy), Friday, 5 November 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
paul robinson.
can only be paul robinson
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 5 November 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
will run from the left side to the right, pushing zat and gary to their arses just to do it.
― gazza bale flame (a hoy hoy), Friday, 5 November 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, good work
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 5 November 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
he just said bale was faster than his players...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 5 November 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
you just gotta spoil everything...
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Friday, 5 November 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
fuckin have that
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 April 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
cool
― Some other race (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 April 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
he doesn't seem to be a complete bastard either
― Some other race (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 April 2011 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
news made mention of cl performances, do we know is that meant to be a consideration tho?
Cos if not, hooray for unmerited awards
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 April 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
a lot more merited than giggs' pfa for being old
― Some other race (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 April 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
true for ya i guess
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 April 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
he did that one volley on like the first day of the season, that'll do.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 18 April 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp290/hammy106/Bale-Goal-v-Stoke.gif
― mizzell, Monday, 18 April 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
also scored with his face in the same match
― mizzell, Monday, 18 April 2011 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.gifsoup.com/view1/1334932/gareth-bale-merkage-o.gif
― mizzell, Monday, 18 April 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
seems nonsensical tbh.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 April 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i def agree, don't see how he won this. hope modric wins the spurs player of the year.
― mizzell, Monday, 18 April 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link