McFaul

It's pointless with Rangers in never mind without, and you must be joking about the standard? Celtic are championship at best, the rest League One and League Two at best. Sheffield United would be the third best side in Scotland without a doubt, they're in League One.

W87 D51 L40 ...and they're still slagging him on their forum the Huddersfield fans all this while making the club a profit! They're so boring Yorkshire cunts aren't they. "He's still t'unbeaten as t'Birmingham boss, t'fair to 't'him" pipe down. http://downatthemac.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=70164&page=1 Staggering lack of appreciation, apparently they have a better manager now, a guy who has lost more in his first 15 games than Clarkie did in 53, wanks. Birmingham is a much bigger club anyway, and it's a good stepping stone for Clarkie on his way to a big club.

sexy

I'd be gutted if we sign anyone from that Rangers team, I think Naismith has a lot to prove after that long injury and when you look at the quality we've brought it would be a step back for us. Apparently he's away to Everton anyway, which is about his level, certainly presently.

This kid

They're not the huns anymore though. They're the new huns. I don't think Rangers have ever been on English telly as much like ever. In fact I can't remember Scotland reaching our tellies this much since Lockerbie.

What he didn't grow up in the roof of a phone box?

He moved to Torquay at some point when he was at school age.

They haven't sold out their season tickets for the best part of 10 years mate.

Hahaha. I suppose having running water in Stoke is privileged.

They'll come back in 2 or 3 years with their drunken "we're eh biggest club in eh werruld", slavver, got nee sympathy at all for them. 1969 still fresh in the memory for some geordies too.

I'll give you Vialli, not that you'd have known...four more.

Are you telling me Argentina are shit? Argentina have been mint since 1978, and they produce players like Messi, Maradona, Batigol and it's fuck all to do with coaching, it's talent, they're football stupid countries and they're poor, they play football in their sleep. For me Argentina is the best football country in the world, and it produces world class footballers, who are nearly always from the slums. Give me an example of 5 world class players from priviledged backgrounds. Don't dare say Frank Lampard.

Like when. I've done nothing but abuse you and your feeble posts for two weeks. You're probably not as big a mug as you portray yourself on here, and J69 is probably not as big a doilum, but don't talk pish and stick to talking about finance, your posts remind me of Liam O'Brien's penalty against Bournemouth, well wide of the mark, and you wanted to punch him after he took it.

Doilum of the day (as ever) J69. I'll reply properly to your ridiculous post when I get in.

We've got more chance of winning the league than Wolfsburg did in 2010, and Montpellier even last season. Honest to god Newcastle are head and shoulders better than England.

I tell you something else there's nee point in us going to the World Cup, nen.

Kitman it is the best way to learn. Do you think Messi learned how to play by listening to some old Charles Hughes type with his coaching badges? Economically deprived countries produce better players. Xavi and Iniseta's families were paupers, nee money, nee Super Nintendo, here's a baal son. Argentina has always been a relatively poor country, you think their coaches are the best in the world?! Grass roots is what its about, if you've got the basic talent, coaching can tweek a few things, but its not the fundamental thing. The fact is we haven't got enough talented kids, because the British youth are fat lazy little spoilt cunts and because the coaching is so backward.

The immigration thing I mentioned with Germany is spot on. All of this how you coach kids too, now it has some merits, but it's not the be all and end all. England's best era for players came when the country was skint and there was little or no training or youth development. Look at Bobby Charlton. As anyone who's ever been to Ashington will tell you it's one of the most deprived places in Western Europe. Wor Jackie learned how to play football kicking a stone about, and German players were NOT more technically gifted than us 10 years ago, they weren't 20 years ago, and they weren't 30 years ago. The whole argument has arisen because of our current group of players are shite.

You've outdone yourself in the cluelessness stakes, particularly with regard to the immigrant crack. Using Gerrard as an example one of the best midfielders Italy have had for years de Rossi, grew up with Gerrard as his favourite player due to his technique and ball control. Stick to the Rangers thread mate, let people who understand football talk here.

Venezuela

There's some sense in it all you know, but not for the reasons he is saying. Here is my theory. Take away Indians because the vast majority of Indians are at the top of the food chain, and are upper class immigrants. You don't expect Henley Regatta to produce top class footballers. My theory is this, the Germans are producing good players who are immigrants, because they're tramps. When England and Scotland produced brilliant players, like Bobby Charlton, Dalglish, John Charles, Gazza, Bobby Moore, they all had one thing in common, they were almost exclusively from working class areas. Living standards have improved over the last 20 years, they have, we have more mod-cons, utter shitholes like Glasgow have been transformed in to beautiful attractive internationally acclaimed destinations. Kids are spoilt, even the ones who claim to live in poverty are better off than 2 or 3 generations ago. The thing is with immigrants, they come to a new country, and it takes them a long while to financially get on to the same level as the indigenous population. Even now I bet the krauts, harbour prejudices against Turks, Poles, and people from Eastern Europe. In much the same way that catholics in Northern Ireland were discriminated against when it came to salaries and employment opportunities, to a degree the same will be true of these immigrants to Germany. What I'm saying is your working class of 1960, are your immigrants of today, they're generally speaking more likely to be poor, and more likely to look to sport as a way of enhancing their lives. That's my theory.

So mint they've won 1 trophy in 22 years, and that was undeserved. Spain far far better.

Fuckin Croatia are ten times better than England. Germany are nothing special, they look good because this is a shit era for world football imo highlighted by the fact we're ranked number 6 in the world.

I don't disagree, but I'd like us to look closer to home too. Pakistani's don't have the worst genes in the world. They can fight look at Kahn, they can be reasonably athletic, they're hardly fat Samoans or Hawaiians like Tony Rockiharo, I don't mind our net being cast far and wide, but I'd like to see some British Asians in the team. Half of them are third and fourth generation now. Is it an integration problem, an unwillingness to align to the greatest part of British culture. Questions need to be asked.