Its over, lets face it Newcastle are going down, and about time. A club who presses the self destruct button so many times deserves to be regulated. When Kevin Keegan came back to the game, he looked like someone who had been plucked from the golf course and thrown into the dugout, he always looked shocked to be sitting again at the sideline. Then Newcastle bring in Joe Kinnear, I love this man, and it was a good move on Newcastle’s part, one of very few.
Poor Joe, to get back in the game and to suffer health issues again, no surprise really having to deal with Newcastle. The answer to this, Newcastle take on Alan Shearer. Again looking at him on the sideline, he looks like a lost puppy, not really knowing what to do with his hands, and his stance as boring as one of his goal celebration. How can Alan Shearer inspire, the man whose voice buts use all to sleep during match of the day.
I heard this morning that Newcastle had 40 professional players on there books. Damien Duff is now playing left back, Duff can't tackle to save his life. So The Shearer with 49 other players to pick from, can't find in this group another left back or some even more suited to the position than an attacking left winger. Really if that’s not bad management what is. The only thing Newcastle haven't done this season is but a jersey on Keegan and Shearer and but them on the pitch.
When will the Newcastle fans learn, that the appointments of Keegan and Shearer where only done to keep them happy and to shut them up, and get them off Ashley's back. Newcastle fans have to learn that, there happiness will not make or bring success to the club. How many former Newcastle legend have managed Newcastle and have be turned on, Shearers appointment is going to end like all the others in tears and lots of them. When Newcastle fans start moaning all the chairman needs do is dangle a carrot in front of them, this time the carrot is Shearer, who's next for the carrot job....
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Great Soccer Games
So Liverpool and Arsenal just gave us one of the greatest games ever, well at least since Chelsea beat Liverpool in the Champions League recently. Either way Liverpool have now been involved in the two best games this season. Soccer pundits as they do, cannot just admit to a great game, no, they have to dig deep and tell us all that was wrong, bad defending, goalkeeping errors, bad decisions and tactics.
Fare enough, but its these mistakes that gave us such a great game, so more mistakes please. The fact is you probably had to watch 10 - 12 league matches before you saw a great game, you most likely watched every champions league game, and only seeing Chelsea play Liverpool did you walk away saying great game. And why, because each great game has goals, lots of goals.
As much as Formula 1 is desperate for overtaking so too is soccer for goals. Goals are created by moments of individual magic or mistakes. If you think about individual goals of magic, are caused by a mistake somewhere along the line. If every player on the pitch did there job to perfection, well goalkeepers would save all shoots, but there be no shoots, because the defenders have cut off the supply, but there would be supply because the midfielders are playing total football, and there be loads of goals, because every shoot from a striker would be goal, but the goalkeeper would save everything. So the fact that there are mistakes the better the football match, the more mistakes the more goals, and so with get the great games.
Unfortunately there are teams with great defences that kill games, but never win, bad strikers, there teams with great strikers but always lose because of there defence. So why not stop the pursuit of perfection, let there be more mistakes, lets have more high scoring games and let there be great games every weekend.
Fare enough, but its these mistakes that gave us such a great game, so more mistakes please. The fact is you probably had to watch 10 - 12 league matches before you saw a great game, you most likely watched every champions league game, and only seeing Chelsea play Liverpool did you walk away saying great game. And why, because each great game has goals, lots of goals.
As much as Formula 1 is desperate for overtaking so too is soccer for goals. Goals are created by moments of individual magic or mistakes. If you think about individual goals of magic, are caused by a mistake somewhere along the line. If every player on the pitch did there job to perfection, well goalkeepers would save all shoots, but there be no shoots, because the defenders have cut off the supply, but there would be supply because the midfielders are playing total football, and there be loads of goals, because every shoot from a striker would be goal, but the goalkeeper would save everything. So the fact that there are mistakes the better the football match, the more mistakes the more goals, and so with get the great games.
Unfortunately there are teams with great defences that kill games, but never win, bad strikers, there teams with great strikers but always lose because of there defence. So why not stop the pursuit of perfection, let there be more mistakes, lets have more high scoring games and let there be great games every weekend.
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