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Post by stuartB on May 22, 2010 20:47:44 GMT
Good to see our old friend Mike Mallarkey running the line in the final.
Well done, Mike. Hope you can manage to still come to the little clubs!!
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Post by stewart on May 22, 2010 22:17:24 GMT
A boring game, too much safe passing. It's become like a game of chess now, of little interest to the uncommitted spectator. I fell asleep for half an hour just after half time and had no regrets.
The egos of managers like Mourinho have brought about these stunningly insipid tactical encounters and they seem like the death knell of football as many of us older devotees remember it.
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Post by Dave on May 22, 2010 22:25:48 GMT
A boring game, too much safe passing. It's become like a game of chess now, of little interest to the uncommitted spectator. I fell asleep for half an hour just after half time and had no regrets.The egos of managers like Mourinho have brought about these stunningly insipid tactical encounters and they seem like the death knell of football as many of us older devotees remember it. I fell asleep for more than an hour, I was thinking it was just age related but seeing you also fell asleep and gave the reason that the game was simply boring, I'll go with that. The pitch did look fantastic mind you, what a disgrace the pitch at Wembley has been and certainly not really fit to hold the FA Cup Final. |
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Post by stefano on May 22, 2010 22:37:11 GMT
A boring game, too much safe passing. It's become like a game of chess now, of little interest to the uncommitted spectator. I fell asleep for half an hour just after half time and had no regrets. The egos of managers like Mourinho have brought about these stunningly insipid tactical encounters and they seem like the death knell of football as many of us older devotees remember it. Hell Stewart cheer up! Times move on and it is not the same as when our tellie was in black and white and our team was top of what is now known as League One. I thought it was a good game in that it was what I expected. Nostalgia definitely grips me all the time but I thought tonight it was a very clever game played by both sides. Definitely more technical than my early days of watching when it was raw football played very much like we did in the school playground but with much more ability. It would be nice to get back to Plainmoor in the 60's, but would that need a 'Life on Mars' moment? Anyway, I still think it's jam on top!  |
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Post by merse on May 22, 2010 22:51:28 GMT
The egos of managers like Mourinho have brought about these stunningly insipid tactical encounters and they seem like the death knell of football as many of us older devotees remember it.  Is it not "ego" that compels a team to play like Arsenal under Wenger, or Barcelona under Guardiola then? I prefer "pass and move" sides, but I also admire those who can devise another way of taking them on and beating them; it is not compulsory for all teams to be cabaret shows. There have been "stunningly insipid tactical encounters" since time immemorial, and Inter were doing it under Helenio Herrera forty years ago, and whilst I cannot remember any German team of not being anything but primarily functional and safety orientated in their mentality we have to remember the country of their current coach (Louis van Gaal) has produced some of the most stunning European football ever seen on this planet. I don't think you would find one Inter fan alive who would trade his club's realisation of their long quest to retain the European crown tonight for playing "The Arsenal Way", nor a German of any persuasion who would exchange success through efficiency by their manager waltzing into the dressing room and saying "OK guys let's tear up the way we normally play and go out there and try to play like Barcelona tonight" ~ it just isn't going to happen is it! |
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Post by Rags on May 23, 2010 9:15:01 GMT
I loved it!
I was fascinated all the way through and would have happily watched another 30 mins if possible. But I type as someone who's favourite book, of any genre, over the past two years is Jonathan Wilson's "Inverting the Pyramid".
Each to their own.
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