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irrelevant, I don't think it's appropriate for anyone who's grown up in a 1st World Country to pass judgement on someone who was raised in a 3rd World Country
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I'm just making the point that it's impossible for anyone on this board to put themselves in his shoes, so check your white privilege before you comment, cracker
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I never pictured Moyes as a wine drinker.
BBC News - Ex-Manchester United boss David Moyes probed over bar
Somebody has to hire this man pronto, HAHAHAAHAH
BBC News - Ex-Manchester United boss David Moyes probed over bar
Somebody has to hire this man pronto, HAHAHAAHAH
Can't wait to see those journos who traditionally kissed Fergusons arse to fall foul of Van Gaal.
British journalists: follow these ten rules when interviewing Louis van Gaal - nrc.nl
Dear British football journalists,
Congratulations on obtaining Louis van Gaal. From this moment on, you will be patronised, looked at with disdain, and haunted by a constant doubt if Mr. Van Gaal is flat out making fun of you or being dead serious. Before you embark on the journey that is having a post match interview with Mr. Van Gaal, you should make yourself familiar with these ten ground rules.
1. Be prepared for any possible mood Contrary to many other managers, whether the match is won, drawn or lost is no indication whatsoever of Van Gaal?s mood. Even if he has won and seems to be quite happy, one wrong question can - and will - put him off.
2. Start neutral Begin with a question about the match just played. ?How did your team do?? or ?What did you think?? will suffice. ?You must be very disappointed? will not. That is because the match you saw and the match he saw can be very different ones. Mr. Van Gaal is perfectly comfortable declaring that a 0-3 loss at home to Sunderland was his team?s best game all season, just because his players were doing what he told them to do. It?s not always about what ends up on the scoreboard. Don?t enter the interview thinking it is.
3. Don?t introduce yourself Or else he?ll know your name, remember it and use it against you. You will not be some anonymous guy with a microphone and a cameraman on his side; you will be Gary, or Clive, or Tony, with whom he will or will not have a feud from the get-go. (He will.)
4. Stay on topic If the interview is about the game, you talk about the game. Not about the next game, transfer rumours or whatever happened on the training pitch. Every question about anything else than the game just played will derail the conversation.
5. It?s his language now, not yours Mr. Van Gaal will come up with new additions to the Oxford Dictionary. In Germany, he inadvertently (or was it?) introduced the phrase Der Tod oder die Gladiolen, a Dutch saying meaning literally ?death or the gladioli?: all or nothing. This is because if Mr. Van Gaal speaks your language, it is no longer your language, it?s his. It is not Mr. Van Gaal who has trouble speaking English, it is you, for not going along with his obviously much better interpretation of it.
6. Try to avoid the meta-interview An interview with Mr. Van Gaal will almost inevitably wind up being an interview about the interview, or more specifically, him asking questions about your questions. This will be the moment you feel the conversation is slipping away from you. Switch back to the studio, or it will end up on YouTube.
7. Don?t repeat the question Never mind - you will fail at this. You won?t fool him, even if you think your follow-up question is a cleverly rephrased, well disguised one. He?ll say: ?I just told you?. This is inevitable. Don?t try to avoid it, just try to get over it as smoothly as possible, like you would at a speed bump.
8. Keep on your toes At some point, you will think Mr. Van Gaal is joking. Sure, he does it with a straight face, but he?s joking, he must be. He?s mocking you. Or is he really this angry about this little thing you just said? No - it can?t be. You start to stammer. Ha! He?s just taking a? wait, is he? You will never know, as only Mr. Van Gaal knows. And he never breaks character.
9. Distinguish fact from opinion This is hard, as only Mr. Van Gaal can determine which are facts and which are opinions. Which team was disadvantaged by the ref, or which team should have won based on the number of chances? He, and only he, will have the answer. These are the facts. Your facts are opinions. After the 1-1 draw of The Netherlands against Ecuador last Saturday, he called the 0-1 an ?unfortunate ball moment?: nothing to do about it. In Mr. Van Gaal?s world, this makes perfect sense. In your world it may not, but you are not to point this out, as he will call you dumb.
10. Stay under three minutes Try to get everything you need within that window. After that, the chances of hitting a conversational speed bump will statistically rise. You?ll start wandering into other realms of conversation (how about this or that rumour, Mr. Van Gaal?), or you will ask a question a second time, or he will say you did. After that, you?re on your own. Good luck, mate.
British journalists: follow these ten rules when interviewing Louis van Gaal - nrc.nl
Dear British football journalists,
Congratulations on obtaining Louis van Gaal. From this moment on, you will be patronised, looked at with disdain, and haunted by a constant doubt if Mr. Van Gaal is flat out making fun of you or being dead serious. Before you embark on the journey that is having a post match interview with Mr. Van Gaal, you should make yourself familiar with these ten ground rules.
1. Be prepared for any possible mood Contrary to many other managers, whether the match is won, drawn or lost is no indication whatsoever of Van Gaal?s mood. Even if he has won and seems to be quite happy, one wrong question can - and will - put him off.
2. Start neutral Begin with a question about the match just played. ?How did your team do?? or ?What did you think?? will suffice. ?You must be very disappointed? will not. That is because the match you saw and the match he saw can be very different ones. Mr. Van Gaal is perfectly comfortable declaring that a 0-3 loss at home to Sunderland was his team?s best game all season, just because his players were doing what he told them to do. It?s not always about what ends up on the scoreboard. Don?t enter the interview thinking it is.
3. Don?t introduce yourself Or else he?ll know your name, remember it and use it against you. You will not be some anonymous guy with a microphone and a cameraman on his side; you will be Gary, or Clive, or Tony, with whom he will or will not have a feud from the get-go. (He will.)
4. Stay on topic If the interview is about the game, you talk about the game. Not about the next game, transfer rumours or whatever happened on the training pitch. Every question about anything else than the game just played will derail the conversation.
5. It?s his language now, not yours Mr. Van Gaal will come up with new additions to the Oxford Dictionary. In Germany, he inadvertently (or was it?) introduced the phrase Der Tod oder die Gladiolen, a Dutch saying meaning literally ?death or the gladioli?: all or nothing. This is because if Mr. Van Gaal speaks your language, it is no longer your language, it?s his. It is not Mr. Van Gaal who has trouble speaking English, it is you, for not going along with his obviously much better interpretation of it.
6. Try to avoid the meta-interview An interview with Mr. Van Gaal will almost inevitably wind up being an interview about the interview, or more specifically, him asking questions about your questions. This will be the moment you feel the conversation is slipping away from you. Switch back to the studio, or it will end up on YouTube.
7. Don?t repeat the question Never mind - you will fail at this. You won?t fool him, even if you think your follow-up question is a cleverly rephrased, well disguised one. He?ll say: ?I just told you?. This is inevitable. Don?t try to avoid it, just try to get over it as smoothly as possible, like you would at a speed bump.
8. Keep on your toes At some point, you will think Mr. Van Gaal is joking. Sure, he does it with a straight face, but he?s joking, he must be. He?s mocking you. Or is he really this angry about this little thing you just said? No - it can?t be. You start to stammer. Ha! He?s just taking a? wait, is he? You will never know, as only Mr. Van Gaal knows. And he never breaks character.
9. Distinguish fact from opinion This is hard, as only Mr. Van Gaal can determine which are facts and which are opinions. Which team was disadvantaged by the ref, or which team should have won based on the number of chances? He, and only he, will have the answer. These are the facts. Your facts are opinions. After the 1-1 draw of The Netherlands against Ecuador last Saturday, he called the 0-1 an ?unfortunate ball moment?: nothing to do about it. In Mr. Van Gaal?s world, this makes perfect sense. In your world it may not, but you are not to point this out, as he will call you dumb.
10. Stay under three minutes Try to get everything you need within that window. After that, the chances of hitting a conversational speed bump will statistically rise. You?ll start wandering into other realms of conversation (how about this or that rumour, Mr. Van Gaal?), or you will ask a question a second time, or he will say you did. After that, you?re on your own. Good luck, mate.
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Holy shit Ossoi, your basically saying that because a person is born in Africa they can act like a 10 year old at age 31 and none should criticize that? "check your privilege" does not excuse all non white male behavior.
Toure is making more in a year then most of us will see in our lives to play soccer. We should treat him like any other rich sports star.
Toure is making more in a year then most of us will see in our lives to play soccer. We should treat him like any other rich sports star.
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Amazing, can't wait.
Is there any chance of Mourinho vs Van Gaal trolling breaking out?
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So I was the only one who watched the Champions' League final? A tragedy of monumental proportion for the Athletico, the cursed, the eternal losers. 40 years ago, for their first and only other C1 final, they scored first in overtime only to see their opponents draw mere seconds before the end and force a rematch (no penalty shoot-out back then: a rematch 2 days later that the spaniards lost). Flash forward to tonight: the Athletico scored first (thanks to a keeper error) and it's only during the stoppage time that the Athletico, exhausted by relentless defensive aggressiveness, cracked. The flood gate then opened in overtime. A tragedy for some a miracle for others, chief among them Ronaldo who scored a 17th goal in the competition and that's by playing only 11 matches!
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Having Costa on the pitch was pretty silly, but the guy who shot on target, immediately surrendering possession, when he had a free kick at the 88th minute is also a genius. I watched the match on french TV with Wenger commenting and he was like: *foul by the Real outside the box* "The Real knows it's a very silly foul. Now, with every free kick, the Atletico will waste a minute before the shot and a couple more holding the ball near the corner" *Guy shoots on target right into the hands of the goalie* "Well that was very stupid, you just don't do that."
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feels like it, next season we should really call this thread "The Liverpool FC thread 2014/15"
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Atletico lost it to their own stupid amateur take on time plays.
You dont hold your ankle for 5 minutes laying on the field after every comitted foul at regular time only to get a 5+ mins overtime by the refs.
You do that after the refs showed the obligatory +3 at the 90th mark and go for the corner side only to discuss the 3 mins which of your player will do the throw-in or corner kick followed by an imidiate flopping for another 5 mins.
They need to learn from the masters of this shit, learn from Italia.
You dont hold your ankle for 5 minutes laying on the field after every comitted foul at regular time only to get a 5+ mins overtime by the refs.
You do that after the refs showed the obligatory +3 at the 90th mark and go for the corner side only to discuss the 3 mins which of your player will do the throw-in or corner kick followed by an imidiate flopping for another 5 mins.
They need to learn from the masters of this shit, learn from Italia.
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