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Everything posted by Alex
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I would imagine a millionaire ex-footballer who still works in the media would be ok
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For Debenhams?
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This hasn’t aged well
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He’s thick, man. Not sure what’s funnier (yet more depressing at the same time) Raab drawing that conclusion from that graph or people like CT just accepting and having no concept as to why we’re laughing at him. It’s about as simple a graphical representation of data as you can get. Guess that’s what happens when you take a perverse pride in never having read a book.
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He literally isn’t worth it
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The OFFICIAL Transfer Rumours Thread 2018 -2019
Alex replied to Anorthernsoul's topic in Newcastle Forum
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A fortnight is a long time in politics
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Streuth
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Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER
Alex replied to Sonatine's topic in Newcastle Forum
Middle class white men know all about what Sterling is going through. Edit: that was a dig at Piers Morgan rather than you btw -
Around the time he was receiving donations for his legal fees
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He’s a ridiculous little con man. But so was Hitler
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Some of them might send a fiver to Tommy Robinson’s latest pay off his mortgage scam
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Like a parody of a parody of The Fish
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There’s been a few but not very many. He’s probably one of that select group but I wouldn’t say he was the best
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Not short enough
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I can think of someone
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Good to see parliamentary sovereignty being upheld
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More than his word, opinion, reputation....
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Can you post that again but just stick a few more cliches in this time?
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Just another CT prediction that went awry. Nothing to see here
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Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER
Alex replied to Sonatine's topic in Newcastle Forum
He had a great season but even back then, pre-injury, he was limited. He obviously had a good understanding with Gerrard but those long passes for Owen to run onto often resulted in the ball being given away. The frenetic nature of the premier league, especially back then, often meant possession was quickly turned over. Even more so at Anfield which has quite a small pitch. While this meant Owen would often get a fair few chances per match it doesn’t take a genius to work out why this was nowhere as effective at international level. Jonathan Wilson in ‘Inverting the Pyramid’ talks about Owen complaining about how for England, when KK was manager, the latter said all Owen did was score. Owen’s response was “Is that not enough?” Wilson’s conclusion was that, at the top level, it wasn’t enough. Ironically it was Keegan who recognised that, post injury, Owen could no longer play as an out and out striker. The only time he looked a player in the latter part of his career was when Keegan deployed him as a deep lying right sided forward alongside Viduka and Martins. Tl;dr He wasn’t as good as he thought he was and never worked on the bits of his game that were weak which is why he struggled so much when he lost his pace -
The OP still makes me laugh
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Fucking hell