Football 2010-2011

[pink_triangle]

David Beckham only the 4th person to win sports personality lifetime achievement award following pele, best and charlton. I can only conclude it was chosen this year by readers ok ok magazine!

[TheGayTent]

Went to St James Park on Saturday. Cracking game and another ground ticked off the list. Happy Days.

[eFestivals]

Britain's best keeper showing his class yesterday:

Hmmmm .... if he was as good as you're suggesting, then it might not have taken him 5 years to show that class.

[The Nal]

Anyone watch Madrid last night? Poor. After a good start, they’re getting worse by the week. Benzema is awful.

[worm]

Hmmmm .... if he was as good as you're suggesting, then it might not have taken him 5 years to show that class.

[ampersand]

Aye, he was clearly showing nothing of the sort when he was signed for a world record fee of 9 million quid 3 years back.

[jump]

you bit

just hope he plays every week now. can't stand rapey mcgregor being scotland no.1 just now.

[worm]

you bit

Edited December 20, 2010 by worm

[ampersand]

Hasn't the Scottish FA banned McGregor from ever playing again though or am I remembering that wrong?

[eFestivals]

Aye, he was clearly showing nothing of the sort when he was signed for a world record fee of 9 million quid 3 years back.

you overpaid for him by loads. He might be worth that now (tho I strongly doubt it; good goalies are generally cheap), but he defo wasn't then.

It was a great save on Saturday but he's done little to stand out with otherwise in his time there. He certainly wouldn't be thought of as easily the best keeper in the country in a poll of footie fans... he might just scrape coming first in such a poll, but I strongly doubt it.

Didn't Myhill once have a great game for Hull?

[worm]

you overpaid for him by loads. He might be worth that now (tho I strongly doubt it; good goalies are generally cheap), but he defo wasn't then.

Edited December 20, 2010 by worm

[Gre]

David Beckham only the 4th person to win sports personality lifetime achievement award following pele, best and charlton. I can only conclude it was chosen this year by readers ok ok magazine!

[TheGayTent]

Best keeper in the Premiership, if only injured too much. Great back up too, as it happens.

[worm]

The fact that can even be debated is only a sign of how poor English goalkeeping levels are.

[TheGayTent]

[ampersand]

Scottish goalkeepers have never been a patch on other home nations goalkeepers. Who have been great Scottish goalkeepers of the last 50 years? Goram? Leighton?

Gordon is not fit to lace the boots of Jennings, Shilton, Bonetti, Southall, Corrigan, Clemence, etc etc

[worm]

Scottish goalkeepers have never been a patch on other home nations goalkeepers.

[worm]

only seen southall out of all of them but i'd agree with you on that.

[TheGayTent]

That's exactly the point. A Scottish keeper being better than any current English keeper you care to mention is a sign of how poor British goalkeepers are at the moment. You get it now?

A matter of opinion. What isn't is that he's made a better save than any of them. Not quite as good as Montgomery's mind.

[worm]

Applies to both your points.

Both of which I'd disagree with. The second one massively.

[TheGayTent]

Then we understand each other.

Though if the first is an opinion it's also yours through implication: If British goakeeping standards are down and other home nations are usually better than Scotland then it stands to reason that English standards are also down.

[worm]

Agree 100%.

Edited December 20, 2010 by worm

[TheGayTent]

For is temporary, class is permenant...

[Kowalski]

Also good to know that apparently only footballers can have worthwhile lifetime achievements

[worm]

For is temporary, class is permenant...