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Old 04-01-2017, 11:04
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Those two highly regarded football experts Mike Graham and Mike Parry are currently slaughtering Arsenal's Olivier Giroud for celebrating his equalising goal in the 92nd minute last night, slaughtering the Arsenal manager and his coaching staff for not ordering him and the rest of the team back into their own half so the game could resume and slaughtering Gunners supporters for not doing the same.

I only saw the second half of the match so I can't say how bad Arsenal were in the first half but I was highly impressed how they fought back to 3-3 from 0-3 in the second half what is there to moan about, 0-3 to 3-3 away from home is a good draw in my book. But we're talking about Arsenal and talkSPORT so it's dreadful, Wenger should be sacked and Giroud should never play for them again.

I understand they have nothing else to talk about at that station because they've limited themselves to only covering the over-hyped premier league but they could at least try to talk some sense occasionally.
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:20
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Those two highly regarded football experts Mike Graham and Mike Parry are currently slaughtering Arsenal's Olivier Giroud for celebrating his equalising goal in the 92nd minute last night, slaughtering the Arsenal manager and his coaching staff for not ordering him and the rest of the team back into their own half so the game could resume and slaughtering Gunners supporters for not doing the same.
They obviously didn't see Arsenal players urging those celebrating to come back to line up for the kick off then and l thought that Giroud was one of the first to return!
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:49
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Absolute nonsense, millions more people play football than Tennis, getting to the top in Tennis is getting to the top of a much smaller pool.
You can play Premier League football and not be in the top 5,000 players in the world. Maybe even the top 10,000. To make a living in tennis you have to be top 200 at the absolute worst.

There are very few people capable of doing this because very few people have the co-ordination required. You cannot compensate with hard work alone, as you can in football, if you don't hit the ball well enough then you will not play tennis professionally. I assure you that 99% of the population will never have the skillset required.

I watched an interview with Gary Neville at Salford University, and he said that when he was a teenager he realised that he didn't have as much talent as other players at Man United, and he would have to work extra hard to make it. If he was a tennis player, he could already quit. You have to be, at the absolute worst, in the top three teenagers for talent in your country to have any hope whatsoever.

Numerous junior world number ones and Grand Slam champions end up doing nothing. Florin Mergea, Todd Reid, Roman Valent, Carlos Cuadrado, Julien Jeanpierre, Clement Morel, Brydan Klein, Daniel Elsner all won junior Grand Slams, so they were up there with the very best teenagers in the world. None of them did anything in the professional game, let alone were they handed some £10 million contract and decided after that they didn't need to bother trying any more. Someone like Balotelli can make a handsome living playing football, he would stave to death if he was a tennis player. He hasn't got the mental toughness, he hasn't got what it takes. He's lucky that he's on easy street, in a less competitive environment.

I would absolutely have swapped my talent for tennis for football. In a second. Because if I'd had the level of talent at football that I'd had at tennis then I definitely could have played professionally. Maybe I could have been a Premier League player. At tennis, I quit at 13 because I knew I wasn't going to be good enough, despite the fact that I was ranked in the top dozen in Britain for my age group.

I can tell you now that if you'd taken up playing tennis, you'd have about a 0.01% chance of being good enough to play professionally. That's being generous.

Instead of continuing this untenable argument, what you should probably do is duck out of it and admit that you don't know what you're talking about.
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Old 04-01-2017, 12:42
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I can tell you now that if you'd taken up playing tennis, you'd have about a 0.01% chance of being good enough to play professionally. That's being generous.

Instead of continuing this untenable argument, what you should probably do is duck out of it and admit that you don't know what you're talking about.
IanMatt likes to climb out of his rock from time to time talk utter drivel.
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:08
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Usually have talksport on as part of my morning routine but have had to turn it off this week, as had the misfortune of having to listen to the two mikes. What self-absorbed drivel! They don't even talk about sport, how did they get the gig?
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Old 04-01-2017, 15:17
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I'm aware that it's called Talksport, but one of the chief criticisms of the station over the past few years is that it has went entirely to sport (or more specifically, football, or, even more specifically, the Premier League) and removed what little non sport-focused content they had, which was generally confined to late nights.

While I actually quite enjoy the Two Mikes (at least when together, I'm not a particular fan of either when they're separated from each other,) I fail to see why a few hours a day away from the often tedious recycling of EPL content is objectionable.
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:22
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What is there love in with Arsenal they have been on about it all bloody day.

Mike Phelean getting the sack, Sam Allardycevnotbwinning yet hardly mentioned
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Old 04-01-2017, 16:39
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What is there love in with Arsenal they have been on about it all bloody day.

Mike Phelean getting the sack, Sam Allardycevnotbwinning yet hardly mentioned
It is because people in lslington can pay for a call!

Dungham is sprouting b*ll*cks again! I can remember when Arsenal went all out for an equaliser after scoring a eleventh-hour goal against Monaco in the first leg of the Champions League tie but got done on a counter-attack late on. They got heavily criticised on TalkSPORT for not holding on a 2-1 loss to take to the second leg in Manaco!

As l said before, Arsenal can't win either way.
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Old 04-01-2017, 17:05
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It is because people in lslington can pay for a call!

Dungham is sprouting b*ll*cks again! I can remember when Arsenal went all out for an equaliser after scoring a eleventh-hour goal against Monaco in the first leg of the Champions League tie but got done on a counter-attack late on. They got heavily criticised on TalkSPORT for not holding on a 2-1 loss to take to the second leg in Manaco!

As l said before, Arsenal can't win either way.
Arsene Wenger is so obviously blanking talkSPORT for the shabby treatment he and his club have suffered over years of on-air verbal abuse so it serves them right they got nowt out of Arsenal these days. [Abrahams clinging at the back onto the shirt-tails of other news hacks trying to get quotes off Wenger after games with his dinky-doo voice recorder and then labelling it as talkSPORT exclusives does not count by the way]
Why don't Arsenal FC just ban them altogether from their ground, they can't do much about the away fixtures but if I was the chairman of Arsenal I'd definitely ban them from my ground. Arsenal have a wonderful world-wide reputation to consider and that cowboy outfit station aren't exactly enhancing it with their bitter constant lambasting of them.

Ban them for a full season from the Emirates Stadium they have absolutely nothing to lose by doing it then they might start behaving more responsibly towards them in future when/if they get back.
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Old 04-01-2017, 17:08
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It is because people in lslington can pay for a call!

Dungham is sprouting b*ll*cks again! I can remember when Arsenal went all out for an equaliser after scoring a eleventh-hour goal against Monaco in the first leg of the Champions League tie but got done on a counter-attack late on. They got heavily criticised on TalkSPORT for not holding on a 2-1 loss to take to the second leg in Manaco!

As l said before, Arsenal can't win either way.
I never listen to Dungham he's $h_t his pot full as far as I'm concerned for continuing his pantomime act when he was once regarded as a good broadcaster.
A total waste of a good talent, putrefied now to such an extent nobody can ever take him serious again.
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Old 04-01-2017, 19:31
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"The person I have always most admired in football is George Best ... one thing you learnt from him was that life is for living."

Alan Brazil (2007)
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:46
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I'm aware that it's called Talksport, but one of the chief criticisms of the station over the past few years is that it has went entirely to sport (or more specifically, football, or, even more specifically, the Premier League) and removed what little non sport-focused content they had, which was generally confined to late nights.

While I actually quite enjoy the Two Mikes (at least when together, I'm not a particular fan of either when they're separated from each other,) I fail to see why a few hours a day away from the often tedious recycling of EPL content is objectionable.
What we want is less talk of the Prem, and when they do talk about it less sensationalised biased nonsense about their faves and the ones they hate. Personally I was never one to listen to idjits like Whales and Collins happy they went. Considering P&G still do talk about itm and just slip into tired TS tropes when Graham clearly isn't interested, and Parry only really cares about Everton.

IN the end they have their show on the other station, for the life of me Y can't understand why it can't stay there and stop boring the arse off people that despise their idiotic drivelly act.
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Old Yesterday, 00:22
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"The person I have always most admired in football is George Best ... one thing you learnt from him was that life is for living."

Alan Brazil (2007)
Gawd Billy,you really are a wee Yorkshire creep, I'll bet Ven cant make her mind up tae put her 100 lira on .......... Mummy or Sonny ?
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Old Yesterday, 08:21
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Gawd Billy,you really are a wee Yorkshire creep, I'll bet Ven cant make her mind up tae put her 100 lira on .......... Mummy or Sonny ?
The George Best thing was the first of several quotes I intend to post from A. Brazil's infamous book/s surely the worst ever book/s published.

Another to be going on with ....

The Cheltenham Affair.

[Mike Parry]
"Al, it's Mike, it's not good news"

[Alan Brazil]
"Go on"

[Mike Parry]
"I've been conducting an inquest into what happened at Cheltenham"

[Alan Brazil]
"And?"

[Mike Parry]
"I am afraid that I've got to tell you that you are sacked, I am cancelling your contract"


Off he immediately flew to his chums in Meribel to frolic in snow and Bollinger and the rest is history as they say.
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Old Yesterday, 10:54
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You can play Premier League football and not be in the top 5,000 players in the world. Maybe even the top 10,000. To make a living in tennis you have to be top 200 at the absolute worst.

There are very few people capable of doing this because very few people have the co-ordination required. You cannot compensate with hard work alone, as you can in football, if you don't hit the ball well enough then you will not play tennis professionally. I assure you that 99% of the population will never have the skillset required.

I watched an interview with Gary Neville at Salford University, and he said that when he was a teenager he realised that he didn't have as much talent as other players at Man United, and he would have to work extra hard to make it. If he was a tennis player, he could already quit. You have to be, at the absolute worst, in the top three teenagers for talent in your country to have any hope whatsoever.

Numerous junior world number ones and Grand Slam champions end up doing nothing. Florin Mergea, Todd Reid, Roman Valent, Carlos Cuadrado, Julien Jeanpierre, Clement Morel, Brydan Klein, Daniel Elsner all won junior Grand Slams, so they were up there with the very best teenagers in the world. None of them did anything in the professional game, let alone were they handed some £10 million contract and decided after that they didn't need to bother trying any more. Someone like Balotelli can make a handsome living playing football, he would stave to death if he was a tennis player. He hasn't got the mental toughness, he hasn't got what it takes. He's lucky that he's on easy street, in a less competitive environment.

I would absolutely have swapped my talent for tennis for football. In a second. Because if I'd had the level of talent at football that I'd had at tennis then I definitely could have played professionally. Maybe I could have been a Premier League player. At tennis, I quit at 13 because I knew I wasn't going to be good enough, despite the fact that I was ranked in the top dozen in Britain for my age group.

I can tell you now that if you'd taken up playing tennis, you'd have about a 0.01% chance of being good enough to play professionally. That's being generous.

Instead of continuing this untenable argument, what you should probably do is duck out of it and admit that you don't know what you're talking about.
I know enough about Sport to say with certainty Tennis isn't a top level sport, hardly anybody plays it in comparison to the real tough sports. If you couldn't play Tennis to any great standard, it stretches credibility you could at football.

When you look at the standard of top tennis players they are not even that good outside Murray and Djorkovic. The guy Murray beat in the final at Wimbledon struggled to keep the ball in court, on serve you would expect 99% at that level not to miss big enough target, they get nowhere near that none of them.

I think you are way off beam, Tennis is low end compared with the real tough sports.
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Old Yesterday, 11:04
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Well it's a bit like the feeling a top level footballer should be able to use both feet but a lot don't...

And some cannot head or tackle either..
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Old Yesterday, 11:17
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I have always dismissed any claim that a footballer is one of the best ever if they are not ambipedal.
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Old Yesterday, 11:22
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Well it's a bit like the feeling a top level footballer should be able to use both feet but a lot don't...

And some cannot head or tackle either..
Or hit the target from twelve yards with a penalty.
If overweight tubs like Quinn couldn't make it anywhere close to pro tennis standard but can play in the EPL.
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