The Soccerlens Daily: Drunk Tottenham Players, Manchester United Contracts and more
It feels like Thursday afternoon although it’s just Tuesday morning (or afternoon in my part of the world). So, allow me to rush through today’s news roundup (juicy as always) as we struggle with weight issues and the obvious lack of time in our lives.
The News That Matters
I told you I was rushing…
- Houiller says that players turn to management too quickly and that they should go through an apprenticeship first. Good stuff by the head of Clairefontaine, although as usual there’s no analysis of any significance in there. Gotta wait for Mr. Fisher’s piece tomorrow then…
- Anderson’s FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! call has got to be a candidate for the funniest story of the year.
- Micah Richards says that he was a fool to be in the mobile sex video…ummm, you were a fool to be doing it with a gold-digger in the first place, you moron. But enough already, gotta leave the snarkiness for Thursday’s WagSnatch.
- Eduardo Watch - Martin Taylor goes to meet him. We’ve got the Arsenal and Croatia managers exonerating Taylor from malicious blame, so come on, let’s get off his back. Although…I said the same thing yesterday and someone unsubscribed from the RSS feed. Idiot (just ensuring that he follows through, you know)…
- Gotta love the paps - Ledley King thrown out of club after Carling Cup final party. No, not out of Spurs, dammit. I love the Jenas pic btw, and Becks’ sister isn’t…fetching…at all.
- Hicks Jr spat on…come on, how stupid do you have to be?
- Andy Cole got arrested for an alleged attack on his wife and then was out on bail later the same day. Makes me wonder - if he DID hit his wife and she turned him in, he’s going to go back and finish the job, ain’t he? Oh, how celebrities fall…although, he’s not the first footballer who comes to mind for hitting his wife…Mr Collymore hit his girlfriend, if you remember.
- Scott, you are mixing two things up. It’s bad for Beckham to ask for what he deserves but not bad for Brown? Even when you quote evidence that Manchester United are notoriously hard negotiators?
Becks got 50% of his image rights from Madrid, and left when they could give him a good offer. Beckham is different than other players in the sense that he has massive, massive off-the-pitch star appeal regardless of his performances on the pitch. I admit now that it was wrong of me to point to an argument between Becks and Fergie as the reason for Becks leaving, but seriously, how is it OK for Brown to ask for 50k and not Beckham to ask for more, considering that he could have, at that point in time, earned United a helluva lot just by being in the squad?
Feedback on Soccerlens
Oh, and dear readers? It’s been a while since we talked “about” Soccerlens, so some feedback on you guys think things are going (and should be done) would be great. Comments or contact form, essays or haikus, knock yourself out (but don’t drink and stand around stupidly waiting for paps to take your picture, like our man Jenas at the top).
The source said: “Anderson waved but Leah didn’t want to go over and talk to him. She said there was no point if there wasn’t anyone to translate.
Anderson should hire a translator!
the whole story is BS, btw, lies sold by a gold-digger to the trash tabloids for quick cash
love the site. would appreciate more feedback on young players that have caught the eye… i could write for you guys if you want, but id love it, just love it (!) if you guys had more!
I can’t condone the Liverpool fans who allegedly spat at Tom Hicks’ son, but I really can’t believe he went to the pub in the first place. I mean, how naive does someone have to be to do something so stupid? He surely must have realised he wasn’t going to get a friendly welcome? How can you misjudge the mood so badly? Dare I say it but maybe it was a move that was engineered deliberately as they knew what would happen and it will be used an excuse when they finally sell up? Or am I being too cynical?
Man Utd squabbling over cash - never!
If I was a Tottenham player I would have got drunk too!
More articles on teams formations,players,top sides.More stuff to do with actual football or soccer as some of you call it
Becks thing I think was all kinda interlinked. If he was allowed to keep a nice chunk of image rights it would have just encouraged him to do even more self-publicising (not that I think money is the prime motivators of Beckham’s attention seeking).
Man U are tight with salaries because they have a salary structure in place. I’m sure over the years it has meant we’ve missed out on the really big players.
Raise one players’ wages and other squad players want raises. Having said that as Brown has become a first team player in Neville’s absence he is entitled to a raise I think.
Classic Anderson. First a hooker party with Ronaldo and Nani. Now using the international language of uh love to great effect having only got so far using Evra as a translator.
Props to Anderson for at least pulling a girl rather than just paying her for sex. If he can pull girls without even knowing how to speak English, Ronaldo has no excuse really.
Looks like Jermaine needed a long, long nap.
Anderson’s my HERO! No english! “do you like my hair?” I’ma use that line on saturday
guys, won’t be able to do a roundup today, nothing big going on except a non-story about henk ten cate and terry arguing over ‘training intensity’.
soccerlens is doing great,can’t ask for more,Ahmed.but how come redrants has more rss subscribers than soccerlens?
and inspired by your site, i have started my own football blog.but i can’t write much due to the huge amount of schoolwork.hopefully i would be able to do so from april when my mocks finish
Faizan - 1600 of RR’s subscribers are from MobiSpine…SL gets only 1 from that source, so there’s the reason behind the mismatch for you.
And if you want to write, commit to writing at least once a day. After you get into the habit of it, everything else flows naturally.
Ahmed:
“guys, won’t be able to do a roundup today, nothing big going on except a non-story”
Why not consider the other non-story of what happened about the headbutting incident between 2 teammates? If that was Rooney/Ronaldo, I’m sure we would never have heard the end of it..besides the 20-match ban and £20m pound fine each for both players and club.