General Football 23/24

[Kenneth]

[RedProf]

How will the Spanish lads ever understand whispering Phil?

[Bender]

[ame]https://twitter.com/henrywinter/status/671366981543706628[/ame]

[Liverpel]

https://twitter.com/henrywinter/stat...66981543706628

Do we get a trophy for that?

[Phoenix07]

Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew insists the accusation that he is arrogant and a thundercunt are wide of the mark and claims his self-belief is simply misconstrued.

The 54-year-old also asserts that English managers and coaches are given a raw deal in the Premier League compared to their foreign counterparts and even goes as far to say bosses from these shores are regarded as an 'underclass'.

Pardew, who was talking ahead of his side's trip to in-form Everton – managed by Spaniard Roberto Martinez – on Monday night, has guided Crystal Palace to a top-seven place in the top-flight with the south Londoners sat just five points of the Champions League places.

Pardew, who led Newcastle United to a fifth place finish in the 2011-12 season, admits it 'bugs' him that foreign managers are always considered for the top jobs before English coaches.

'We're regarded as an underclass,' Pardew told The Times. 'It's beginning to bug me. I don't hear a lot of promoting English coaches and managers. There are no English or British managers in the top teams.'

Pardew says that the increasing number of foreign owners at English clubs does not help the situation and is expecting the vacant position at Reading following the sacking of Steve Clarke on Friday to be filled by a foreign coach.

'Foreign ownership has taken the focus away a bit. Immediately I look at the Reading job (Steve Clarke was sacked on Friday) and think "a foreign manager is going to get that". Jobs come up in the Premier League and the first three or four names are foreign.'

Pardew appears to tread a thin line between arrogance and self-belief but the Palace boss, who has been touted as a future England manager, suggests that if he was foreign he would be praised for being confident.

'I get accused of being arrogant. For me, it's self-belief,' the former Newcastle manager added. 'English coaches really have to have a steely resolve because the press are tougher with us.

'Some of the press conferences given by foreign managers. we wouldn't be allowed to get away with it. Journalists talk about the "uber-confidence" of a foreign manager. You never hear that about an English manager.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...nderclass.html

[ChesterDave]

Did he have his tongue in his cheek given how many foreign players he signed for Newcastle instead of giving English lads a chance?

[Chazza]

How do you celebrate being top of the league?

Go to Copenhagen in fancy dress and get smashed.

With the club flying high at the top of the league at the moment, Leicester's players can be forgiven for wanting to celebrate.

The Foxes have defied all expectations over the last few months; while the summer appointment of Claudio Ranieri was widely criticised at the time, it now seems to be a managerial masterstroke. Having put a whopping 32 points on the board and with only one defeat to their names, their season so far has been the stuff of fairytales.

Now they're making it the stuff of comic books, however.

Though nobody could begrudge the squad a little break at this point in the campaign, they've chosen a very odd way to go about their latest day off. Believe it or not, Leicester's star men have just been spotted wandering the streets of Copenhagen dressed as turtles - teenage mutant ninja turtles, to be precise.

As fitting as the superhero costumes are, this is still ruddy surreal.



it's hard to tell exactly who's who here, even if we can identify a masked Kasper Schmeichel by his boyish grin. Still, one thing we know for sure is that the Leicester lads are having fun.

https://twitter.com/martinkrag/status/673484742088617985

They deserve to blow off some steam, so fair play. Jamie Vardy's having an actual party - and we're fine with that.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/leicester-city-stars-spotted-wandering-6964026

[Muddled]

[Fosterbloke]

brilliant if a little crass.

[gratziani]

Thundercunt

[Muddled]

brilliant if a little crass.

Yeah, the content is a bit crap, just amusing from a supposed professional feed.

[Fivex]

That account was unavailable when I checked earlier..

[ChesterDave]

Think it was genuine though as the link to the papers twitter from their own website is a dead link too.

[Phoenix07]

FA Cup 3rd Round Draw on BBC2 at 7pm (GMT).

[redmike65]

62 Salford City or Hartlepool United please