Before anyone quotes Jamie Redknapp again

[CJ]

i think if you look at fergison or wenger and they have both made lots of average signings

all managers do but some used it as a stick to beat rafa. He didnt have lots of money to spend on one player always had to deal a bit to improve the squad. The big signings he got right in the main. so i dont get that he was much worse than people in his position.

[Exiled_red]

i think if you look at fergison or wenger and they have both made lots of average signings

all managers do but some used it as a stick to beat rafa. He didnt have lots of money to spend on one player always had to deal a bit to improve the squad. The big signings he got right in the main. so i dont get that he was much worse than people in his position.

[Craig_H]

Jamie Redknapp is a cunt because he talks ****e alot. Sure.

But the only thing annoying people here is that he didn't like Rafa Benitez and didn't agree with alot of Rafa's decisions. He didn't like Houllier either. Thats up to him, its his opinion.

He didnt just express his opinion, he ****ing attacked and talked ****.

My biggest dislike of him is the way he's been Sky and Keys own little mouldable pile of turd. He started off being himself and then let himself become moulded into Keys little plaything. Proper little Sky muppet he is now.

[CJ]

i think the issue is that when you look at the facts and the context which is hugely important then he doesnt have the same opinion on other managers .

his arguments are ill thought out. Thats the problem.

Have a go at benitez for his lack of hand on the shoulder management thats ok have to agree.

but saying things like zonal marking is ****. well tell it to everyone else who does it then.

rafa buys too many average players. so do all managers. the only ones who dont are the ones who dont buy anybody.

stevie shouldnt be played on the right. Didnt he do rather well out there. It might not have been his best position or where he wanted to play but didnt mean it wasnt the right way to go at that time.

[Joey Jones]

He didnt just express his opinion, he ****ing attacked and talked ****.

Bit OTT I think, I'm sure you said worst things about Rafa on here last season.

[Craig_H]

Bit OTT I think, I'm sure you said worst things about Rafa on here last season.

And what with you throwing around that accusation, i'm sure you have a comprehensive list of the 'worst' (sic) things i apparently said.

Off you go...

[Joey Jones]

And what with you throwing around that accusation, i'm sure you have a comprehensive list of the 'worst' (sic) things i apparently said.

Off you go...

I'd love to trawl through your old posts but unfortunately I don't have the time.

I just remember that you were quite vocal about Rafa's failings last season, that's all.

[Craig_H]

So basically unsubstantiated 'memories' and assumptions then.

You should work for Sky Sports.

[Exiled_red]

So basically unsubstantiated 'memories' and assumptions then.

You should work for Sky Sports.

[Joey Jones]

So basically unsubstantiated 'memories' and assumptions then.

You should work for Sky Sports.

I must have got you mixed up with another user then

A smiley as a response from you, how predictable

[Craig_H]

I must have got you mixed up with another user then

Or maybe you just 'remembered' and believed what was convenient.

[Craig_H]

He's right though Craig, you were a fierce Rafa critic - I can vouch for that.

It's the black and white idiocy nature of those type of comments, that i dispute.

I posted some criticisims of rafa, and i posted some praise of him too.

It's only the one-dimensional and utterly stupid who were either *completely* in favour of Rafa in everything he did, or *completely* in disagreement with everything he did.

You fit one of those descriptions, as it goes.

[barnes10]

i used to think redknapp was a bit of a cock. sucking off those that did well with a bit of an agenda supporting his dad.

but im convinced he's much less of a cock that some on here slagging him off for his opinion.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

Probably should have started a new thread,but anyway.

http://halftime-oranges.blogspot.com/2010/08/skys-limit-but-their-punditry-is.html

[pondus]

Probably should have started a new thread,but anyway.



http://halftime-oranges.blogspot.com...nditry-is.html

This weekend saw the return of domestic football and, with it, the loud, brash, 'look at me' banner waving of Sky Sports.

Not that this comes as a surprise or, indeed, to the detriment of the viewer. Sky have been exactly the same since day one when they rolled out the cheerleaders and Richard Keys' hands were still impossibly hairy.

If you put your mind to it, you can almost successfully zone-out whenever Sky's follically over-compensated ringmaster bellows at you to 'WATCH IT IN 3D! GO ON! IT'S DEAD GOOD! I PROMISE!'

One area, however, in which Sky have become more irritating is in their deteriorating quality of punditry and their obvious sycophancy towards certain members of the footballing world - and apparent agenda against some others.

Watching the Community Shield, yesterday, you could almost be forgiven for thinking your television was autonomously flicking between MUTV and some sort of anti-Capello propaganda channel.

It started off all harmless enough, with Keys peddling out cliché after cliché about how 'it's good to be back' with 'the best league in the world' and him trying to flog you 3D TV, much in the same way as you would expect a street merchant in Marrakesh to try and palm a dodgy Rolex off on you for an unnecessarily exorbitant price.

Then Redknapp opened his mouth.

While he must be congratulated in managing to curb his misuse of the word 'literally', he threw away any chance of having his first decent game when he launched into an off-topic 'Capello has lost the plot' rant.

This rant can be summarised as: 'Capello is not good enough because he's not English enough'.

You almost get the feeling that he won't be happy until his old fella, whiter-than-white, diamond geezer, Harry Redknapp gets the job.

When, finally, Redknapp had tired himself out, picked up his dummy, and settled down for a nap during the game (not that it'd make much difference to his inane, paint-by-numbers, makes-Mark-Bright-look-insightful effort of an 'analysis' if he actually did falls asleep during the game) it was time to roll out an interview with His Holiness Lord Almighty The Overseer Most High Sir Alex Ferguson, to give him his full Sky Sports infobar name.

Well, calling it an 'interview' is probably over-egging it somewhat. That would imply probing and helpful questions were asked. They weren't.

Instead, Geoff Shreeves, boot polish and tongue at the ready, proceeded to make Jonathan Ross and Terry Wogan look like the Spanish Inquisition.

No queries on Michael Carrick's miraculous recovery, from being ruled out for two weeks on Friday to starting one-and-a-half days later. No probing on the possible transfer of Mesut Ozil. No anything.

The interview basically condensed into:

GS: "Good to be back, isn't it Sir Alex?"
AF: "Yes it is."
GS: "You're great."
AF: "Yes I am."
GS: "I love you."
AF: "I know."

Of course, the coverage of the game itself was, as usual, high quality stuff. No one can argue about that.

It's even possible to put up with the odd bit of salesmanship from Martin Tyler and the general torrent of verbal diarrhoea from Andy Gray. Although, even they are partial to a bit of a love-in.

After Javi Hernandez scored his farcical face-plant, complete with equally farcical badge-kissing celebration, Tyler and Gray waxed lyrical about 'yet another young gem unearthed by Sir Alex' and marvelled at his ability to find young talent, conveniently forgetting the likes of Tosic, Manucho, Djemba-Djemba, Liam Miller and Dong.

Although, to be fair to Tyler and Gray, they may have genuinely forgotten about them, such was their pointlessness.

After the game it was back to Richard and Jamie in the studio for, yet another edition of, the mind numbing state-the-obvious championship.

Sometimes you have to laugh at the sheer shallowness of it all, if only because the alternative is to put your foot through your TV.
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That is well written