Lou Grant wrote:As much as I've no time for career journos, I loathe the whole 'you've never played the game' shit more. Ray was a tosser and they are just playing it up as a deflection for the fact that they had a drunk cunt on the radio at 6am abusing someone they'd invited on to the show.
Lou Grant wrote:As much as I've no time for career journos, I loathe the whole 'you've never played the game' shit more. Ray was a tosser and they are just playing it up as a deflection for the fact that they had a drunk cunt on the radio at 6am abusing someone they'd invited on to the show.
Sounds as if they are just two sides of the same rotten rusty old coin you see nestled in a piece of dog-shit in some back alley strewn with miniature vodka bottles and spent scratch-cards.
One of the fundamental 'rules' of journalism is 'dog doesn't eat dog', especially when the mongrels in question are actually employed by the same paymaster! I think this little incident, although no doubt fuelled by alcohol and ego, is indicative of the slow decline of the print media and the increasing reliance on ex-players in the broadcast mefia who tend to have very narrow views and absolutely zero ability to formulate a coherent opinion, defend a position using basic evidence, and engage the listening audience with something worth listening to.
The Sun is a shit rag. Talk Sport presenters need their arses wiped and the whole station is a toilet that needs flushing. If all three could get their fucking shit together, it might be worth listening too. Untill then, it's all a pile of fucking SHIT.
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On the goal, having watched it on Twitter, we're back to the point I've made quite a few times about when a keeper makes a split step and also, in this case, if the keeper moves in one direction or another as he does so just before the ball is struck
On the one hand, he is standing in the middle of the goal to start with and there would be different views as to if this is right. Wilko says he should be standing a little to his right, allowing the wall to cover the left side of his goal (the right side as you look at it). You do see keepers favouring one side often, if not usually, although the position of the free kick may have meant that the keeper felt that he could get anything coming to his right, especially if a right footed player hit a right footed shot. Also, the left footed Blind was also lining up alongside Rashford.
But the real issue for me and the one I've banged on about a few times, is that just as Rashford comes up to strike the ball, the keeper makes 2 if not 3 small split steps but MOVES to his left as he does so, therefore taking his weight that way (away from where the side that the ball is going to travel) meaning that as the ball starts curling towards his right (left as you watch it), he can't get back to that way / side in the split second it takes for the ball to travel to and past him.
If the keeper had stayed where he was when he adopted his position in the first place, he would have had a much better chance of saving the shot.
As to whether he should have saved it with his teeth, well the ball didn't come to his mouth and and he would still have had to dive to his right to palm it away.
As for Raymondo's way of telling Custis that in his view, Custis was wrong, maybe if Ray had gone into just a tad more detail to explain himself, then that would have been a bit more acceptable?
However, the TS and general pundit way is just to state your view - non of them attempt to or are asked to explain themselves. Just like with all the diving / penalty decisions. They say either it was or it wasn't but I can't remember anyone actually going into any type of forensic detail to explain their view at even one shade deeper a level.
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Custis has form for this - remember him spitting the dummy during a totally innocuous interview with H&J. Ray didn't handle it well but Custis is typical of the sort of modern rat reporter with an inflated sense of their own importance.
Custis was the journo called "fat man" by LVG at the press conference much to the disgust of Talk Sport.Must be a friend of the station but you wouldn't think so this morning
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