It's not a dogfight game it's a fucking shit game. Seriously, no one turns up for either team's games. The sooner they're both out of the Premier League the better.
I had Mik giving an earful about Boro today as well. I don't like watching them but I'm pretty indifferent to them. Certainly prefer them to Fulham. Wigan are among the worst though, nothing interesting about them whatsoever.
What's wrong with Fulham? They have the best strike partnership in the Premiership: Brian McBride and Away in a Manger.
Excuse me, the Premier League.
Na bollocks, it was all long balls. Well-executed long balls, mainly by Campo, but long balls all the same. Either onto Davies' head or into the channels for Diouf or Anelka. Rubbish football. They were watchable in a Blackburn way for the fouling, that's about it.
How exactly is Fulham/Bolton any more exciting? Sanchez by his own admission is going out of his way to play the most boring but effective football possible, and Bolton are just a bit dull. Anelka and Diouf are capable of lighting games up but hardly on a regular basis. They're really going to struggle this season.
I don't understand your boner for McBride. He's alright but why the mad love. It strikes me as one of those ironic kind of loves people have for Pat Sharp and Timmy Mallett, except you believe it. Then again most people have an ironic love for Karl Kennedy but you seem to believe that one as well.
I don't get the Away in a Manger reference but I'm guessing you're on about Healy...what's the nickname about.
It wasn't all long balls you arsehole, they played 4-3-3 with plenty of width from the wingers and full-backs. A team that has had Youri Djorkaeff and Jay-Jay Okocha amongst its midfield has always relied on a fair helping of skill. Calling them a long ball team was nonsense. Martin O'Neill has played almost exactly the same sort of Bolton football at every club he has been to and doesn't get the same abuse. I really think your received opinions thread should be printed out, rolled up and shoved up your arse.
Chelsea and Liverpool played more long ball style football than Bolton but didn't get the same level of abuse either. Equally they both put as much into set-pieces and, in the case of Liverpool, long throws as Bolton did.
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Djorkaeff and Okocha weren't there last season, they were watchable when they were still playing. And O'Neill gets plenty of stick for it, maybe not as much as Big Sam but then again he's not had the same success since he's been here. Bolton were fighting it out near the top of the league for much of Allardyce's tenure and so they got compared to the top sides, and of course that was unfavourable for the most part when those sides play decent football. Even Liverpool and Chelsea might have played shit football generally but there was plenty of individual class to guarantee plenty of goals. O'Neill doesn't get the same stick because his sides in England haven't really done much damage. He might not get as much stick as Allardyce, but then he doesn't get as praise either. The higher up you go, the more you're likely to get of both. His time at Celtic doesn't count, no one cares about Scottish football.
I really am having a pop at Scotland recently, dunno why. They just keep coming to me.
I know they weren't there last season, but El-Hadji Diouf and Nicolas Anelka were, hardly Dean Holdsworth and Marcus Gayle is it? Bolton always look to flair players. There's nothing wrong with being strong and direct, but they played attacking football for the most part. Hence why they occasionally got duffed by Manchester United, because they remain relatively open.
Liverpool and Chelsea can afford to buy players with individual class, so they have even less excuse for playing the dull football they have inflicted on us all. At least Bolton went with out and out wingers. Only Arsenal and Manchester United in the Premiership can be said to play truly fluid, attacking football.
We try to we just don't have enough creativity in midfield (apart from Jenas). Our strikers make us one of the most watchable teams around though.
Some of our goals last season were crazy, I watched our end of season DVD and there was so many fantastic goals. Tainio's against West Ham might have been my favourite of them all, great build-up, sexy little backheel from Lennon and Teemu bangs it into the corner with a volley from the edge of the box, it was lovely.
Haha...surely the most obscure and contrived song ever created?!