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posted 30-04-2008 22:35
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Player-managers.
Certainly not the vogue for Premiership sides, are there exceptions in the top tiers of other European Leagues? Was Vialli the last in the PL? And who was the last to win a trophy, Dalglish?
I'm not sure what the situation is like in the other divisions. I'm sure I used to see many more of them when I was growing up. They seemed to become less obvious around the same time the 110 bus stopped stopping at the bus stop near my house. I'm tempted to do some sort of correlation exercise.
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posted 30-04-2008 22:39
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posted 30-04-2008 22:40
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Fans scrawling team changes on the back of their matchday programme.
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posted 30-04-2008 22:43
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I don't think there are any at the moment in the Football League. Last season there were three in the PL&FL - Gareth Southgate, Jim Magilton and Darren Ferguson - but they elected not to pick themselves.
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posted 30-04-2008 22:52
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All-English CL finals.
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posted 01-05-2008 00:55
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beards and headbands.
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posted 01-05-2008 02:22
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Defenders taking goalkicks (not including when the keeper is injured).
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posted 01-05-2008 02:30
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At all. The half-time score board - you needed the programme to relate the scores to the games. The tension could be excrutiating as the old bloke hanging them up dawdled along, paused, had a fag, continued ... I'm talking Elm Park here.
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posted 01-05-2008 05:16
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Nigel Clough, strangely, is still registered as a player for Burton Albion and has his own squad number. He doesn't pick himself any more.
Anyway: animals getting on the pitch (presumably Premier League clubs now have trained marksmen who shoot all animals before they get in the view of the television cameras, lest they detract from the spectacle), shirts without sponsors (I saw someone wearing sponsorless shirts the other day, but I can't remember for the life of me who it was - it looked a bit strange, I thought) and people on the pitch with microphones.
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posted 01-05-2008 05:41
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Refs in black. Wasn't this done so that they seemed less of a remote and unapproachable figure?
The result has just been that they just look silly and players don't fear them, they fear the players. They should go back to black - preferrably with evil mask and spikes and stuff - to let players know "don't fuck with me, worthless human". Like that Collina guy.
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Last Edit: 01-05-2008 05:41 By Rory Bunk.
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posted 01-05-2008 07:42
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Ropey Scottish goalkeepers.
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posted 01-05-2008 08:24
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white dog shit.
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posted 01-05-2008 08:31
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Short shorts.
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posted 01-05-2008 08:46
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Ropey Brazilian goalkeepers.
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posted 01-05-2008 08:58
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Keepers picking up backpasses. Obviously.
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posted 01-05-2008 11:53
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Goalkeepers not wearing gloves.
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