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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT10| Silverware, promotion, survival, relegation and tears
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Gareth Bale
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Really?
Freewheelin'
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Awesome Animals
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Don't worry. He took responsibility for our form of the players but won't do so next season.
hopefully because he won't be around next season
Looked like him lol
I think they needed relegation in order to become a decent team again -- rather than one that's content with just staying up. That's okay for some teams, but it shouldn't be for them.
I don't mean to cause offence to you or anyone else who shares your views but I really need to know why anyone can feel sorry for Kean and why he deserves sympathy.
Yeh, most of the other players just ran straight down the tunnel.
Fans angrily ran towards the dugout.
Jack Walker will be spinning in his grave now. Everything he built and protected has been pissed on by the Venkys.
Wigan should be higher than they are
Just shows how terrible they were early on. They've been great, of late.
I'd love if Martinez sticks with them. But if not, I hope he at least stays in the Premier League. He and Moses can be a package deal to Liverpool.
The support (/lack of hatred) was there from the start though, before he performed. He didn't play well at all at the beginning of the season before leaving, was out of form when returning obviously and when he returned he wasn't really needed at City. The City strikers were all on fire.
At his arrival he was deemed a complete surplus and people were worried he was going to fuck it all up. Yet he wasn't really getting much hatred.
But, as stated on previous page, there's also differences between the situations since Blackburn have much more at stake. Still, while Kean seem to do his best Tevez simply chose to take a (public) crap on everyone involved in the club.
Gareth Bale
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Yup. Probably should have tipped the header that went in over the bar though.
Roberto Martínez used to manage Swansea too.
He doesn't deserve it. But I feel sorry for any1 who has support of not a single soul around him. Not even his players.
Steve Kean deserves zero sympathy, same with the owners. Hopefully Blackburn rise from the ashes as a power again. Newcastle needed a relegation to turn the entire club around. I just hope Blackburn can do the same, preferably with new owners and a new manager. Circumstances aren't necessarily the same, I know, but sometimes relegation is a good thing. Unless you're a yo-yo club like West Brom.
This and this. Fucking appalling job he's done, he and the Venkys have torn the heart out of that team. Feel gutted for Jeff, absolutely gutted. Let's hope Kean gets the fuck out so we can all see Jeff renew his season ticket next year.
Well done to Wigan though, love Martinez. In a few years Moses and McCarthy are going to be great players.
Wonder what kind of noise he made when Alcaraz scored.
Gareth Bale
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Because he's a man who was just trying to do the best he could at his job, in a sport he clearly has loved all his life, to provide for his family? I know it's easy to forget but Steve Kean is a real person.
Imagine if you turned up to work to hear thousands shouting abuse at you non-stop, wanting you sacked. The people who are supposed to be on your side. How would you feel?
Yeah, so sorry for all the people who have had their football team relegated, that is clearly more important than being abused by thousands.
Wigan should be higher than they are
They won 1 out of the first 12 games.
They are the master of the last ditch survival technique though.
Freewheelin'
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Yup, he formed the style of the current team; Rodgers has just built on it. Great team to watch.
That team was a joy to watch too.
Screw you. We want Gylfi!
Grover Cleveland
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I'm sorry, Jeff.
I love Wiki edits like this.
There was a Phil Jones one earlier today. Soon got fixed, I got a screen grab. Will post tomorrow.
Any sane fan would. He's awesome.
The thing is with Kean, there's talk of him having back stabbed his old boss to get in a position of power, having blamed a Rovers fan for spiking his drink when he was done for DUI. It's not just football matters. He's an odious person
Gareth Bale
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Commiserations Jeff.
Yeah, I'm sure those rumours that only originated from Rovers forums after the Kean Out campaign begun are entirely true. I remember someone on here at one point (may or may not have been Jeff) claiming Kean had links to Glasgow gangsters. Give me a break. The character assassination attempts by the Blackburn support are as sickening as their display today, really. They deserve all they got.
Gareth Bale
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Props to him for sticking with Wigan as well.
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