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| British footballers are thick; Says Sergei Baltacha | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 22 2011, 01:17 PM (926 Views) | |
| whatsthatonyourback | Mar 22 2011, 01:17 PM Post #1 |
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Waldo Jeffers
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Well, not really. But this BBC article makes fascinating reading, and seems to have a lot of overlap with United's own youth policy under Cathro. |
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| Alpha | Mar 22 2011, 01:43 PM Post #2 |
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Craig Brewster
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Could you elaborate on the policy under Cathro please ? |
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| whatsthatonyourback | Mar 22 2011, 01:54 PM Post #3 |
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Waldo Jeffers
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Herald 06-04-2010 Herald 14-08-2009 BBC Audio 20-06-2009 |
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| Alpha | Mar 22 2011, 02:09 PM Post #4 |
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Craig Brewster
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Cheers, I get where you are coming from now. |
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| The Eggman | Mar 22 2011, 02:45 PM Post #5 |
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Tommy McLean
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Quite a few people have been saying for years that one of the main reasons British national sides suffer so much is from a lack of footballing intelligence. Gerrard's a prime example. Runs about like a headless chicken most of the time, getting 'stuck in', while abandoning his tactical duties. One of the reasons I prefer Serie A is because the players are generally more tactically aware. |
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| Naebody | Mar 22 2011, 06:41 PM Post #6 |
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Twat
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Holy f*ck. Where to begin when he's based it on a premise that's bollocks? A cat is at least 1,000 times more agile than any anvil. So should we conclude that the effect would be greater if we threw a cat at an anvil as if we threw an anvil at a cat?
Ok, BBC. Let's try to compare that. One in six professional footballers remain professional footballers five years after first becoming professional footballers. Meanwhile, Mr Bruyninckx's system has a one in four chance of producing a professional footballer (or woman) over any duration whatsoever. So - we can't really compare those figures, can we? It's a bollocks comparison, isn't it? Right? Right. Blah blah training methods. Concentration, distraction, displacement. All sensible, boring stuff you could've written yourself on the back of a fag packet while waiting for a bus. Then we get to neuroscientist Jessica Grahn who, despite being Canadian, talks sense.
Ex-f*cking-actly. (For further ranting around the theme, I refer reader to this earlier thread.) |
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| Skeletor | Mar 22 2011, 08:22 PM Post #7 |
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Most likely to be Ann Widdecombe
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Germinal Beerschot anyone?
Edited by Skeletor, Mar 22 2011, 08:23 PM.
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| The Eggman | Mar 22 2011, 08:26 PM Post #8 |
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Tommy McLean
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This fella, Bruyninckx. Surely his name is Bruyninck, and a repeating typo is adding an x to the end, to make it Bruyninckx. Naebody, why would you choose cats and anvils for that comparison? Is there something you'd like to tell us? |
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| Naebody | Mar 22 2011, 08:36 PM Post #9 |
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Twat
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Yeah. I really like cunting up cats with an anvil in the f*ck. |
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