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Gordon Taylor deluded

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  • And they are all ugly.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    ugly, can't play and on 18 grand a year ! ... nice work if you can get it .. The thing is how much is (talking of overpaid & ugly) the onmipresent Clare Balding on ? .. I am surprised she isn't in the England Women's Football squad as she seems to be involved with most other things sporting and 'entertaining'
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    I think Clare Balding is one of the better presenters. She knows what she's talking about across a range of sports.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348

    I think Clare Balding is one of the better presenters. She knows what she's talking about across a range of sports.

    She does, and so do a lot of presenters, in fact most of them. I just cannot abide her arrogance, smugness and false earnestness .
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    but I digress from Gordon Taylor and his delusions !!
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,736
    I think Taylor is absolutely right.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436

    I think Clare Balding is one of the better presenters. She knows what she's talking about across a range of sports.

    She does, and so do a lot of presenters, in fact most of them. I just cannot abide her arrogance, smugness and false earnestness .
    Know her personally then Lincs? Because the three traits you've just described her as possessing couldn't be further from the truth - from the four people I know who have been friends with her for years.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    edited January 2013

    I think Clare Balding is one of the better presenters. She knows what she's talking about across a range of sports.

    She does, and so do a lot of presenters, in fact most of them. I just cannot abide her arrogance, smugness and false earnestness .
    Know her personally then Lincs? Because the three traits you've just described her as possessing couldn't be further from the truth - from the four people I know who have been friends with her for years.
    I have met her yes .. and Leroy, we all have our opinions .. me, you, everyone OK ?
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    I like her. Has she been a wouldya?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348

    I think Taylor is absolutely right.

    You think that a squad of (say) 22 should be on a retainer of more than £18,000 a year each Beds ? .. With travel, coaches/managers salaries, you are talking probably in excess of 1/2 million a season from FA funds, and that is my conservative estimate. To my mind such a sum would be better spent on developing the game for girls through schools and junior clubs which I thought was a remit of the FA anyway. There is too much emphasis on protecting 'elite' players and sportspeople. They have life too easy. Whatever happened to good old struggling to get to the top ?
    To take that a step further. The academy life for young players in this country breeds a soft player. The graduates are not able to compete in physical and mental toughness with a boy/young man from the tough streets of (e.g.) Buenos Aires, Marseilles or Casablanca. That is why with every passing year our top clubs look to overseas for players and so few young Brits make it to the very top of the footballing tree.
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  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    What a load of old bollocks the end of your post is. The 'mean streets' of Croydon, Salford, Huyton and Birmingham are just as grim as anything in the cities you've just named. The reason this country isn't successful is because this country demands three attributes from an academy footballer - pace, power and stamina. Skill, passing ability and touch rate way down the ladder. That isn't an 'opinion', btw - it's a fact.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    I think GT s right. Women shouldnt be paid 18k to play football.
    In fact they shouldnt be playing football at all.
    They should stick to what they are best at
    Ironing, washing and poor standards of driving.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    edited January 2013

    I think GT s right. Women shouldnt be paid 18k to play football.
    In fact they shouldnt be playing football at all.
    They should stick to what they are best at
    Ironing, washing and poor standards of driving.

    Hang on a minute !!! .. 'GT' is saying that the ladies are worth MORE than £18,000 a year.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348

    What a load of old bollocks the end of your post is. The 'mean streets' of Croydon, Salford, Huyton and Birmingham are just as grim as anything in the cities you've just named. The reason this country isn't successful is because this country demands three attributes from an academy footballer - pace, power and stamina. Skill, passing ability and touch rate way down the ladder. That isn't an 'opinion', btw - it's a fact.

    I stand by what I wrote .. fact
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995

    I think GT s right. Women shouldnt be paid 18k to play football.
    In fact they shouldnt be playing football at all.
    They should stick to what they are best at
    Ironing, washing and poor standards of driving.

    Hang on a minute !!! .. 'GT' is saying that the ladies are worth MORE than £18,000 a year.
    Whoosh :-)
  • The FA should be spending money on getting more attractive young girls in to football. Audiences will quickly improve and they can then pay these pretty girls more money if that's what they want. Plus boob jobs etc as bonuses.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Try telling the young Charlton academy player who was stabbed at a bus stop that he is growing up in a soft area. One reason Paul Hart is hoping we can pay for another academy vehicle.

    Funny that Lincs constantly moans about how rough Bromley was (lol)so he had to leave but when it suits him our kids are soft.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    edited January 2013

    Try telling the young Charlton academy player who was stabbed at a bus stop that he is growing up in a soft area. One reason Paul Hart is hoping we can pay for another academy vehicle.

    Funny that Lincs constantly moans about how rough Bromley was (lol)so he had to leave but when it suits him our kids are soft.

    Ahhh the bloodsucker arises from his coffin .. A recent biography of Bram Stoker brought to light the inspiration for Dracula .. yes .. it was none other than ... wait .. for it .. Bram's good friend Henry Irving .. though nowadays our Henry is more vulture than killer (lol) .. Your ability to conjour up fictions is remarkable Henry, tedious but interesting: smile please :-)
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    'Conjure'. If you're going to use impressive-sounding words, learn how to spell them, chief.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153

    If womens' football was attracting 20k+ crowds a week or bringing in billions in advertising, sponsorship and tv revenue and players were only being offered 18k of that then he would have a point in comparing it to the men's top flight.

    But it's not and economically it is similar to a professional pub singers' union demanding similar pay to what Mariah Carey takes home.

    Not the best analogy...LOL
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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    Read the whole thread now. Some of you are straight out of the pages of Viz, either that or from the 1930s.
  • Granpa
    Granpa Posts: 2,995
    Is this a bad news day ?
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    I have never read viz and i am not from the 1930s but i cant see how women footballers could merit any more (given their sports commercial appeal and their relative ability)
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    Similar gates to Welling

    Similar wages to Welling

    Similar hours to Welling

    A lot worse standard than Welling

    I dont see what they have got to moan about?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Lincs in switch to insult mode and ignore the huge holes that have been ripped in his twisted, nasty rants shock.

    No response to the stabbed player point of course.
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    edited January 2013
    Women's football is the work of the devil and should not be encouraged!
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,434
    BIG_ROB said:

    Women's football is the work of the devil and should not be encouraged!

    Women's beach volleyball on the other hand...

  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    Rizzo said:

    BIG_ROB said:

    Women's football is the work of the devil and should not be encouraged!

    Women's beach volleyball on the other hand...

    18k a day!
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,352
    edited January 2013
    As an enlightened man of experience with a worldly knowledge wrestled from the hard unforgiving granite of life, death, love, hate and all the disappointments and joys that that brings in unequal measure, why don't these young flibbity jibbitts just play topless, or in naughty night time attire? fnnarr! It would be a win win situation, huge boners for the men in attendance and less washing and ironing for the cup cakes, freeing up time for them to be more attentive to the needs of their better halves waiting at home for a steak n kidney pie supper and a blow job in front of Match of the Day, PROPER football !

    Well that's as deluded an opinion as Gordon Taylors on the matter.
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,623

    Similar gates to Welling

    Similar wages to Welling

    Similar hours to Welling

    A lot worse standard than Welling

    I dont see what they have got to moan about?

    Pretty much agree with that, although I would add that whatever the standard, they are representing their country in major international tournaments, maybe that warrants a little more compensation. Do the FA take a cut of any tv contracts from a world cup or euro championship that the women's team are involved in?