Football : Season 2009/2010 - Page 58

**Damien** · 02-11-2009, 09:51

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Originally Posted by Russ

Paedophile? Never heard that one. I'd heard the story about him and Ray Parlour but nothing on the level of what's being suggested there.

Because he has young teams I guess? It is a chant they have though. Especially at Spurs and United.

Russ · 02-11-2009, 09:54

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Originally Posted by Damien

Because he has young teams I guess?

Could be, plus the fact there's a pretty healthy rumour going around that he drives on the opposite side of the road. That together with youngsters would make some knuckle-draggers come up with the 'paedo' angle I guess.

**Damien** · 02-11-2009, 09:58

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Originally Posted by Russ

Could be, plus the fact there's a pretty healthy rumour going around that he drives on the opposite side of the road. That together with youngsters would make some knuckle-draggers come up with the 'paedo' angle I guess.

I missed the 'French' joke there somewhere

punky · 02-11-2009, 10:14

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Originally Posted by Damien

Because he has young teams I guess? It is a chant they have though. Especially at Spurs and United.

That's the reason as far as I know.

Also we have a similar chant but more catchy.

Shadow Demon UK · 02-11-2009, 13:20

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Originally Posted by punky

That's the reason as far as I know.

Also we have a similar chant but more catchy.

The best....er i mean worst one is about Madeleine Mccan.

When i went to a united v arsenal match a few seasons ago there were a few chants directed at him, which are similar to the one in the article. I don't know if bringing attention to them is going to stop it though.

**Damien** · 02-11-2009, 13:47

It should be stopped. As people mentioned the Munich disaster is a awful thing to chant about and I would be ashamed if the supporters around me at a game started doing so. Same with the hillsborough disaster.

Obviously the Arsenal one isn't real but still not a nice thing to chant about.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...Liverpool.html

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Ronnie Whelan, who won six league titles with Liverpool, has accused BenÃ*tez of giving up on the championship. Whelan claimed the Spaniard is concentrating only on the Champions League to further his career.

”It’s all gone wrong with the manager. He’s shown exactly where his priorities lie,” said Whelan, speaking on RTE television. “He wants to be the man who wins the European Cup so he can get a job anywhere in Europe. But, for me, his days have got to be numbered at Liverpool.”

What? Pretty moronic thing to say. Especially considering he has actually already won the Champions League. Moron.

punky · 02-11-2009, 13:47

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Originally Posted by Damien

It should be stopped. As people mentioned the Munich disaster is a awful thing to chant about and I would be ashamed if the supporters around me at a game started doing so. Same with the hillsborough disaster.

Obviously the Arsenal one isn't real but still not a nice thing to chant about.

I'll admit that its neither big nor clever and we're the first ones to complain when the Jewish chants come out.

The community seems to be split into several groups.

1. You get the hardcore contingent who will say/do anything and don't care what people people think. (Chants: Hissing at Spurs fans, anything with the c-word).

2. You get the middle contingent who aren't bad people but don't want football becoming, for the want of a better term, 'politically correct'. (Chants: Arsene Wenger/referee/Ji-Sung Park etc.)

3. You get the last group who just want a wholesome family environment to bring their kids.

Most if not all football teams will have a mix of the 3. Its difficult doing anything about it because the first group will only stopped when they've been banned (and that's not easy). The middle group is the vast majority of supporters and really what keeps clubs going. If you outlawed any colourful chanting (like #2) then you wouldn't fill stadiums.

Shadow Demon UK · 02-11-2009, 15:50

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Originally Posted by Damien

It should be stopped. As people mentioned the Munich disaster is a awful thing to chant about and I would be ashamed if the supporters around me at a game started doing so. Same with the hillsborough disaster.

Obviously the Arsenal one isn't real but still not a nice thing to chant about.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...Liverpool.html

What? Pretty moronic thing to say. Especially considering he has actually already won the Champions League. Moron.

I agree it should be stopped, but there's a huge difference between singing about people dieing (Munich, Hillsbrough) and singing about someone being a peado.

With the Benitez thing, i was reading this (link) article and thought this comment from one of the readers was excellent

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It's not Rafa's fault he's bought good players and turned them into average players.

It's not Rafa's fault he's bought poor players and given them a first team place.

It's not Rafa's fault he's bought very good players and then sold them without sourcing a replacement.

It's not Rafa's fault that absolutely no young player 'who showed promise' has been nurtured and developed into a solid and reliable first teamer, never mind a superstar.

It's not Rafa's fault the squad he developed is unbalanced, forward-light, lacking in depth and is too Spanish-orientated. Thus when he does go, most of those Spaniards will soon leave, just as Houllier's French biased squad was dismantled soon after he departed.

That's no way to build a squad for the long term, but hey, that's not Raffa's fault, right?

It's not Rafa's fault he discarded the troublesome Crouch, just when he needed a decent forward.

It's not Rafa's fault he ruined Robbie Keane.

It's not Rafa's fault he couldn't see the potential of Craig Bellamy.

Or that he sold Risse because of one error.

It's not Rafa's fault he missed a transfer open goal, with Michael Owen available for precisely nought pounds, again just when LFC were desperate for established forward support to Torres.

It's not Rafa's fault his squad has so few British (never mind Liverpudlian) players, who would naturally have a much greater affinity to LFC than any imported player.

It's not Rafa's fault that last season he settled for draws when United and Chelsea went for the win at all costs.
Wins at home and away to Stoke City(!!) would have finally won the league.

It's not Rafa's fault he continues to substitute the one creative player he has - Benayoun, just when they need a spark of inspiration to seal a win.

It's not Rafa's fault he's spent (gross) Â£212m in his 5 years at LFC - more than enough to construct a squad capable of winning the title, but not got near to winning it.

It's not Rafa's fault, I tell you!

Russ · 02-11-2009, 16:03

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Originally Posted by Shadow Demon UK

With the Benitez thing, i was reading this (link) article and thought this comment from one of the readers was excellent

Roffle

He does have a cool goatee though

TheDaddy · 02-11-2009, 16:06

Rooney Jr arrives

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle6899689.ece

Named him Kai, well it's better than Wayne I guess and well done them for not selling pics of the little lad, I mangaed to find one though....

sherer · 02-11-2009, 16:08

have been at the Man U v Liverpool and City games I do wonder if some fans even bother watching the game. Some spend so much time shouting at the other fans with a single voice who are 90 yards away they don't even know what is happening on the pitch.

**Damien** · 02-11-2009, 16:10

Also Rafa did come close to winning it...

03-11-2009, 09:34

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Rooney Jr arrives

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle6899689.ece

Named him Kai, well it's better than Wayne I guess and well done them for not selling pics of the little lad, I mangaed to find one though....

This is one that got away from the press, Berbatov has even managed to get in on the family shot: http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/200...hrek/shrek.jpg

When asked about the choice of name for baby roon, it was disclosed that the family have a Kia.
When it was pointed out that Kia is not Kai Colleen said " That's the point, we wanted a unique name for our baby "

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Originally Posted by sherer

have been at the Man U v Liverpool and City games I do wonder if some fans even bother watching the game. Some spend so much time shouting at the other fans with a single voice who are 90 yards away they don't even know what is happening on the pitch.

Aye, and some who should know better are spitting their dummy out at the fourth official

kingbuxton · 03-11-2009, 19:58

They used to chant the Paedo thing years back, before he had a young team, Henry, Pires n all.

They printed mugshots of a bunch of them in a paper, I heard he looked like one of them? I dunno, that's what the guy that used to sit behind me at OT said.

**Damien** · 03-11-2009, 20:20

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Originally Posted by kingbuxton

They used to chant the Paedo thing years back, before he had a young team, Henry, Pires n all.

They printed mugshots of a bunch of them in a paper, I heard he looked like one of them? I dunno, that's what the guy that used to sit behind me at OT said.

I dunno. The preferring younger players makes sense and although his squad has got younger in recent years he has always had this preference for younger players coming though. I don't know where it actually started but it's not a very nice chant to be honest.