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[DAiDEViL]

[video=twitter;844239882339864576]https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/844239882339864576[/video]

this is the least classy tribute video i've ever seen. a footballer waves hands, makes selfies, smiles, jokes around, gets subbed in, but he didn't touch the ball at all.

Add a dab here and there, some screaming and moaning and you have yourself a Pogba tribute vid.

 

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[Bianconero_Aus]

This is fucking hilarious
@JuveJay @Fred

From Ray Parlour's memoirs

In the summer of 2000 a player turned up on trial at our pre-season tour. He was a tall centre-half. Now, Martin Keown was always worried about people coming in to steal his position. If we had a centre-half on trial, Martin would say he was useless. This big guy from Latvia, Igors Stepanovs, turned up. He was a unit, but seriously, he was not up to standard.

A few of us were on the bench watching as he played in this trial game. Stepanovs is out there and every single pass he made, the boys started applauding, just because we knew Martin would be getting a bit steamed up by it. Dennis Bergkamp was sitting behind Arsène and kept doling out these compliments about this defender. “Great header! Unbelievable tackle!” Igors kicked this one ball 20 yards away from where it was meant to go but it still went to one of our players so we all stood up clapping. Martin’s muttering: “He’s not that good.” He started to point out where he missed a tackle or a header.

That night we went for dinner and laughed about it as we were only trying to wind Martin up. We all knew Igors was nowhere near the standards set by Tony Adams, Martin and Bouldy. But Martin is such an easy target because he bites. Once someone bites it’s too tempting. Dennis seldom missed a trick because Martin would kick him every day in training. He always came out with a blinder to explain it to Dennis: “I’m just getting you ready for what you are going to face in the match.” Martin was a great player, a great character, a great winner. I think we all cared so deeply.

When we got back to the training ground at London Colney a week later we had a surprise though. Igors was sitting there. I said: “What are you doing here?” “They signed me. Four-year contract.”

Incredible. Arsène didn’t know we were just trying to tease Martin. He just kept listening to us heaping praise on this player. And if Dennis Bergkamp stands up and says: “What a player,” Arsène would be entitled to take a bit of notice. I suppose it looked like a bargain at around £1m. No disrespect to anyone from the lower leagues but Igors was a yard behind us on the pitch, it was like taking my brother to training.

The next thing we know we’ve got the biggest injury crisis we’ve ever had at centre-half. And the only fit centre-half we’ve got is Igors and who are we playing at the weekend? Man United at Old Trafford. Going into the game our back four looked a bit dicey really. Oleg Luzhny, Gilles Grimandi, Igors and Ashley Cole, who had to go off at half-time.

Dwight Yorke ran us ragged. Seriously, it was humiliating. They scored the first goal and we managed to equalise. We thought: “OK, we’ll take that.” And then all of a sudden the goals started pouring in and we were 5-1 down by half-time. There is a massive walk to the tunnel at Old Trafford and you could see Arsène was fuming. He hardly every swore or shouted but he did that day. I remember doing the long walk to the tunnel alongside Dwight Yorke and he asked: “Where the hell did you get that centre-half from?” “Look, it’s a long story …”

We sat down in the dressing room and it could’ve been 9-1 as David Seaman actually had a blinder in goal. Arsène started letting off and he’s not a swearer, it just doesn’t suit him, and I’m really desperate to laugh. I’m making no eye contact and I could see Pat Rice in my peripheral vision sending me a look that said: “Don’t laugh. Whatever you do. Do. Not. Laugh.” Arsène was going mad. And that was the only time, in the eight years I played under him, he went crazy at half-time. He was always focused on being calm, recovering and keeping concentrated on what we needed to do. We lost 6-1 and poor Igors barely played again.

reminds me of the Moggi trolling Inter scouts story

 

[s4tch]

wtf

and it's legit the whole interview here: https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...raphy-arsene-wenger-thierry-henry-steve-bould

 

[Martin]

This is $#@!ing hilarious
@JuveJay @Fred



reminds me of the Moggi trolling Inter scouts story

So much for Arsene's ability to evaluate talent

 

[JuveJay]

I remember him, bang average player. But Wenger signed a lot of shit in those days - Stepanovs, Remi Garde, Luis Boa Morte, Alberto Mendez, David Grondin, Kaba Diawara, Stefan Malz, Tomas Danilevicius. These were all in his first couple of seasons. He signed cheap foreign crap to go with the main foreigners, building off that back 5.

 

[pitbull]

Of course Stepanovs was not a EPL level player, more like Belgium league, but I think they're a bit too harsh on him. Few years later Latvia qualified for Euro2004 knocking out Poland, Hungary and Turkey in process and Stepanovs was the corner stone of our defense.

 

[Fred]

This is fucking hilarious
@JuveJay @Fred



reminds me of the Moggi trolling Inter scouts story

Wenger signed some really shitty CB's over the years, I really think he was never good at identifying good CB's. Fucking Cygan, Senderos and Silvestre were all disasters for us.

 

[Wittl]

Wenger signed some really $#@!ty CB's over the years, I really think he was never good at identifying good CB's. $#@!ing Cygan, Senderos and Silvestre were all disasters for us.

Senderos & Djourou

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[Seven]

This is fucking hilarious
@JuveJay @Fred



reminds me of the Moggi trolling Inter scouts story

The best part of this is that it's Ray Parlour talking, as if he himself was some sort of God of Football.

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

The best part of this is that it's Ray Parlour talking, as if he himself was some sort of God of Football.

That's the Romford Pele you're talking about mate. A bit of respect please.

 

[JuveJay]

That's the Romford Pele you're talking about mate. A bit of respect please.

AKA Charlie Dimmock.

 

[Vialli_92]

That story with Arsenal

 

[Ocelot]

This is fucking hilarious
@JuveJay @Fred

From Ray Parlour's memoirs



reminds me of the Moggi trolling Inter scouts story

Ahahahahahahaha that's legit one of the funniest football stories I've ever heard

Calshio level

 

[Osman]

Yeah it's truly amazing.

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[JuveJay]

Dat performance though.

Start - gets done by Scholes' dummy then stands and watches
0:34 - more Grimandi's fault for not stepping up, but Yorke is also his man
0:49 - misses the aerial interception, Yorke scores
1:20 - dives into a tackle and gets skinned by Yorke, which leads to the opening for the goal
2:00 - gets beaten to the cross by Solskjaer

 

[Ocelot]

Yeah it's truly amazing.

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Imagine you're Igor and reading that story

 

[Osman]

Oh yeah that won't be the biggiest ego booster lol. But also Parlour didn't describe how he was taking it when they were bigging him to fuck to that ape Keown.




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[General]

I remember him, bang average player. But Wenger signed a lot of $#@! in those days - Stepanovs, Remi Garde, Luis Boa Morte, Alberto Mendez, David Grondin, Kaba Diawara, Stefan Malz, Tomas Danilevicius. These were all in his first couple of seasons. He signed cheap foreign crap to go with the main foreigners, building off that back 5.

True it was really shitty, his Best Buy was Dutch Dennis

 

[Osman]

, Tomas Danilevicius.

My gooner little brother used to joke "what an absolutely shit giant of a player while having such a delicious name"

 

[Seven]

Imagine you're Igor and reading that story

It must hurt a lot. Especially because Arsenal only had shit defenders. It's not as if he's compared to Cannavaro or Nesta. Keown was pretty shit himself too.

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Wenger signed some really shitty CB's over the years, I really think he was never good at identifying good CB's. Fucking Cygan, Senderos and Silvestre were all disasters for us.

Wenger is rapidly approaching the point where I think he was never a good manager to begin with. He just got lucky with his French connection.