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At the beginning of the season, when Nottingham Forest appeared to have taken on the unwanted mantle of the top-flight’s designated “b@nter club”, Football Daily was one of many media outlets to relentlessly riff on the famous old club’s pain. The reasons for the ridicule were plentiful: the increasingly morose press conferences that led to Nuno Espírito Santo’s dismissal; the infamous Morgan Gibbs-White “hostage video”, where he assured viewers he was being treated well while looking scared in the shadow of an angry Greek man; and the brief, inevitably hilarious reign of managerial shoegazer, Ange Postecoglou. Forest seemed determined to corner the market in amusing, memeable content, long before Scotland offered a different, more heartwarming source of material last week.
How come when teams in the Scottish leagues resort to howling dirty big shys into the box at every opportunity it’s called ‘a pub league’, yet when Aston Villa, Arsenal et al use the same tactic it’s ‘set-piece expertise’?” – Alexander McMillan.
Re: footballers knacking themselves at home (Friday’s Football Daily). Imagine the distress of Portland Timbers fans when, on the eve of a conference semi-final back in 2017, our charismatic Argentinian No 10, Sebastián Blanco, dumped a kettle of boiling water over his foot while preparing some hot mate. They tried everything to treat the second-degree burns, but he (unsurprisingly) wasn’t himself for the rest of the playoffs. Oh Seba!” – Patrick Connolly.
So Manchester City mainstay Fernandinho has hung up his boots aged 40 and blubbed ‘nothing in football motivates me any more … now, it’s time to enjoy time with my family’ (Friday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition). I wonder if that time will include regularly tripping up any family member who passes by and then looking around with a face of offended innocence that anyone might have thought it could possibly have been deliberate? If so, I hope he is motivated to enjoy his retirement as much as he enjoyed winning everything over here” – Colin Reed.
Continue reading…Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!At the beginning of the season, when Nottingham Forest appeared to have taken on the unwanted mantle of the top-flight’s designated “b@nter club”, Football Daily was one of many media outlets to relentlessly riff on the famous old club’s pain. The reasons for the ridicule were plentiful: the increasingly morose press conferences that led to Nuno Espírito Santo’s dismissal; the infamous Morgan Gibbs-White “hostage video”, where he assured viewers he was being treated well while looking scared in the shadow of an angry Greek man; and the brief, inevitably hilarious reign of managerial shoegazer, Ange Postecoglou. Forest seemed determined to corner the market in amusing, memeable content, long before Scotland offered a different, more heartwarming source of material last week.How come when teams in the Scottish leagues resort to howling dirty big shys into the box at every opportunity it’s called ‘a pub league’, yet when Aston Villa, Arsenal et al use the same tactic it’s ‘set-piece expertise’?” – Alexander McMillan.Re: footballers knacking themselves at home (Friday’s Football Daily). Imagine the distress of Portland Timbers fans when, on the eve of a conference semi-final back in 2017, our charismatic Argentinian No 10, Sebastián Blanco, dumped a kettle of boiling water over his foot while preparing some hot mate. They tried everything to treat the second-degree burns, but he (unsurprisingly) wasn’t himself for the rest of the playoffs. Oh Seba!” – Patrick Connolly.So Manchester City mainstay Fernandinho has hung up his boots aged 40 and blubbed ‘nothing in football motivates me any more … now, it’s time to enjoy time with my family’ (Friday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition). I wonder if that time will include regularly tripping up any family member who passes by and then looking around with a face of offended innocence that anyone might have thought it could possibly have been deliberate? If so, I hope he is motivated to enjoy his retirement as much as he enjoyed winning everything over here” – Colin Reed. Continue reading…
