Everton

[Pinchy]

We played the best football in the division the year hoof merchants charlton , hudds and the snorters all pipped us to promotion

How many years of failure will it take before we are finally cleansed of this hoof tag ive never heard associated with us ?

Are you a Trappist monk?

 

[Silent Blade]

Are you a Trappist monk?

And you are a wind up merchant!

 

[Pinchy]

And you are a wind up merchant!

Interesting question. I suppose Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde and Peter Cook were the Wind Up Merchants of their day. So, yes, to the same extent as them, I am. I fall just short of their brilliance, I accept.

My favourite wind-up at the moment is that, after 50 years as a Blade, I actually want my football team to play football that we can be proud of, rather than the alehouse tripe that so many of you love so much. Absurd, isn't it?

 

[Guesty]

Interesting question. I suppose Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde and Peter Cook were the Wind Up Merchants of their day. So, yes, to the same extent as them, I am. I fall just short of their brilliance, I accept.

My favourite wind-up at the moment is that, after 50 years as a Blade, I actually want my football team to play football that we can be proud of, rather than the alehouse tripe that so many of you love so much. Absurd, isn't it?

Fun fact, I am related, distantly and only by marriage, to Jonathan Swift.

 

[Pinchy]

Alternatively, the beaten finalists in the 2012 Champion's League Final, Bayern Munich. beaten by Chelsea, who managed to see off the tippy-tappers of Barcelona. Bayern's never-say-die attitude and the rest of the stuff you said saw them win the final at Wembley against Borussia Dortmund in 2013.

Do Bayern play "hoof"? No.

Ah, so they play "tippy-tappy" like Barcelona. Well, not that either.

So do both sides play in a way that's not "tippy-tappy" but isn't "hoof" either? Beat me with a jaffle-iron, there must be more than two ways to play football! Who would have guessed?

I'm watching Bayern totally outclass Man City as I type. It's wonderful, absolutely brilliant. But what's this? It's pass, pass, pass. Very similar to Barcelona. It's proper football. Could it be that this is the most attractive, delightful and effective way to play the game?


*Except in S2 of course.

 

[stannyblade]

Trouble is though Pinchy is they have world class players. We don't.

 

[Pinchy]

Trouble is though Pinchy is they have world class players. We don't.

Neither do our opponents in Division 3. It's all relative.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Interesting question. I suppose Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde and Peter Cook were the Wind Up Merchants of their day. So, yes, to the same extent as them, I am. I fall just short of their brilliance, I accept.

My favourite wind-up at the moment is that, after 50 years as a Blade, I actually want my football team to play football that we can be proud of, rather than the alehouse tripe that so many of you love so much. Absurd, isn't it?

Funny how ale house tripe has seen us promoted to the top flight twice and fucking about with the ball sees us stuck in the third tier

Now that's absurd to think its right

 

[JohnDenver]

Last word on Pulis: The Hoofmeister General, but had some high quality players. That is all.

 

[Bergen Blade]

I'm watching Bayern totally outclass Man City as I type. It's wonderful, absolutely brilliant. But what's this? It's pass, pass, pass. Very similar to Barcelona. It's proper football. Could it be that this is the most attractive, delightful and effective way to play the game?


*Except in S2 of course.

There are more things than just their passing we should learn from.


1st goal, long crossfield pass to Ribery who gets it down quickly and runs at them. Watch their left back overlapping, forcing Richards to keep an eye on him. Munich manage to stretch City and they try to punish them quickly when they realise they have the chance.



2nd goal, a long, precise pass and a wholehearted run in behind City's sloppy defence, again punishing them quickly when the chance arises.





3rd goal, winning the ball in midfield, quick pass to a sprinting Robben, who runs at the isolated defender and scores.




Bayern Munich are very good in possession and they like having a lot of the ball, more so under Guardiola. But they have kept their ability to identify the situations where they should attack quickly, and with pace, and movement, to punish the opposition's sloppiness. It's a vital part of their style and it got them three goals tonight.

 

[stannyblade]

"2nd goal, a long, precise pass and a wholehearted run in behind City's sloppy defence, again punishing them quickly when the chance arises."

Surely you mean a "Long HOOF" Bergen Blade

 

[Bergen Blade]

"2nd goal, a long, precise pass and a wholehearted run in behind City's sloppy defence, again punishing them quickly when the chance arises."

Surely you mean a "Long HOOF" Bergen Blade

I see the video with Müller's goal has been deleted, here's another one: