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It really is awful. I think maybe if it wasn't an hour long I may have lasted longer with it. 30mins and them trying not to be funny might make it manageable, even if they were still so biased. The worse of what I heard was them writing Meireles off as a luxury player after the deadline and hailing Bellamy as the answer to everything.
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I love Suarez, his handball thing - I can understand but him biting that guy was disgusting. The Anfield Wrap, "well, that's just funny!" Oh gently caress off. Are you dealing with the situation with respect or taking the piss?
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Oct 19, 2011 14:40
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you guys should start your own 'sensible scouser' pod then.
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peanut- posted:I thought Philipe Auclair's comments on Arshavin were interesting on Football Weekly - basically going against prevailing wisdom and saying that the problem isn't him, but that the rest of the team are too poo poo to play with him. I feel torn. Arshavin is far, far better than he's ever looked at Arsenal, and it's very clear that he needs the team built to his needs to shine. But saying that when he misplaces a pass it's simply that the other 9 players are in the wrong place is taking that a bit too far.
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Auclair was talking poo poo. If he thinks Arshavin needs to be surrounded by top class players to play well then he never saw him play for Zenit or for Russia when he looked fantastic partnered with loving Pavlyuchenko. And he has played poo poo numerous times for Arsenal when in the team with Fabregas and Nasri and the players Auclair were saying he needed around him.
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MoPZiG posted:you guys should start your own 'sensible scouser' pod then. Good point, well made. Twat.
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Two versions of Football Weekly came out, one is about two minutes longer than the other. Does anyone know the difference? I can't be bothered listening to it twice just to hear some extra inane chat about Serie A. [edit]nevermind its actually only 9 seconds difference Hoops fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Oct 21, 2011 |
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Hoops posted:Two versions of Football Weekly came out, one is about two minutes longer than the other. Does anyone know the difference? I can't be bothered listening to it twice just to hear some extra inane chat about Serie A. Ah, I was wondering what the difference was - I can see both on my RSS and the airport wifi I'm on is slow so I want to ensure I get at least one copy to listen to on the flight home
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JingleBells posted:Ah, I was wondering what the difference was - I can see both on my RSS and the airport wifi I'm on is slow so I want to ensure I get at least one copy to listen to on the flight home As long as the talk about crapping out a turd and putting it in a spurs jersey is still in... I did love how it's like "And now Sid Lowe in Spain *edit* favourite pizza topping?"
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Everyone loves him.  http://www.football365.com/faves/7268393/TV-Heroes Football, on the pitch and in the media, tends to be an alpha male world. By-the-lads-for-the-lads is the usual approach and in this environment, intelligence and wit are usually turned away at the door as an unwanted educated guest to the party. On your way, Poindexter: men are talking and grabbing each other's knees. However, one man has stood out against this, and he is our latest TV Hero. Step forward AC Jimbo, known to his mother as James Richardson. Back in 1992 regular football on TV was less than 30 years old and had been pretty much unchanged since its inception. So when Channel 4 began to show coverage of Serie A games on a Sunday afternoon, it was a surprising, revolutionary and most welcome cultural development. Odder still, given the traditional insularity of British football, it pulled in up to three million viewers. While "the lads" didn't keep their interest beyond Paul Gascoigne's involvement in proceedings, it was the quality of the programmes as much as the football that kept us dedicated fans coming back for more. Fronting the shows was our man James Richardson. But this was no ordinary man-behind-a-desk-talking-in-clichés football presenter. Here was a man introducing the game from a cafe bathed in sunshine sipping an espresso or sitting in front of an unfeasibly large gelato. He'd look through the papers and bring us up to date with the Italian football news in an informal, chummy style. There'd be relaxed and informed chat without any of the teeth-clenching mugging to the camera or clumsy "I don't really talk like this but this is how they taught me to do it at presenting school," style that is the stock in trade of many football presenters. Here was a man who could translate the press for us and talk knowledgeably about the players and he could do it in a manner which treated the viewers, not as a drooling window-licker, but as a sentient, intelligent human. He was amusing, self-deprecating but well-informed, culturally sophisticated and yet with a clear love of the game. This is an all-too-rare skillset in football TV presenting. One of the biggest compliments we can pay him is that he did Football Italia as though he was fronting up a media, cultural or travel show rather than a football programme. With Jimbo, football seemed a part of life rather than a closed world away from it. (If we may digress, it seems to us that a lot of football's nastiest idiocy - hooliganism, terrace racism, chanting that you hope a man's child dies of cancer, getting absurdly irate and vicious because someone on the internet doesn't share your opinion - is a result of people being encouraged to think of football as existing in a bubble, and thus being a space where behaviour that would be utterly unthinkable in other parts of life is accepted. Anyway. We liked that Football Italia hinted at a bigger picture.) Ten years doing Italian football for Channel 4 flew by and we always hoped to see Jimbo installed in more high profile TV roles but for no reason we can discern, lesser, more annoying, more stupid and more unpleasant men got good jobs instead of him. We loved his work on Setanta and hoped he would be a fixture on ESPN but no such gig has materialised. Earlier this year, he did get a BBC job, it should have been on Match Of The Day, but of course, it wasn't. He presents Late Kick Off in the South. But this is at least progress and we hope it represents him getting his feet under the BBC table for a tilt at the big jobs at a later date. But our main hit of Richardson is on the Guardian's Football Weekly podcasts which are funny, informative and entertaining and probably the best of the genre. It's also worth catching his European papers round-up on Fridays in an echo of those Football Italia glory days. His style has not changed. Calm, almost laid-back on screen but nonetheless well-prepared and well-read - which we reckon is a much tougher trick than it looks. Perhaps he is too middle-class for the TV directors and execs who assume football is only watched by mentally undernourished underclass men from behind ten pints of wife-beater. If so they should revise this outmoded view because FHM readers, surely not all progressive feminist intellectuals, voted him Best Pundit of 2010. The football world may be ready for more AC Jimbo and we would welcome it very much. John Nicholson and Alan Tyers
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going to have to stop listening to the tuesday club on the way in in the morning as i keeping bursting into laughter on a packed tube
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I really enjoyed the football ramble today, good puns.
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Lyric Proof Vest posted:going to have to stop listening to the tuesday club on the way in in the morning as i keeping bursting into laughter on a packed tube Nah people know what's up with the laughing when they see the white headphones these days. Love the way that Football Weekly (Extra) is always perfect commute length.
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"Football is like chess with out the dice."
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I been listening to the best soccer show podcast and been liking it, is there any other podcasts that focus on the american game,MLS and players?
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SI's Soccer Roundtable podcast seems to focus heavily on the US team and MLS. I don't know if it's any good.
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I do like The Football Ramble but aargh how can they mispronounce so many names? There's 3 or 4 wrongly pronounced footballers in every podcast, mostly from Luke Moore. It's like Garth Crooks saying "yoo-eee-fa" every time, how can they not correct themselves, they must know they're saying it differently to the accepted and correct pronunciation.
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I feel like the Ramble has taken quite a dip in quality over the past year. Their opening question always seems to go for the 'wacky' answers now and it brings the show to a screeching unfunny halt even before it begins.
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The most recent tuesday club was really good.
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kri kri posted:The most recent tuesday club was really good. yeah very good and i got tickets to see it live next week! 
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Any opinions on EPL Talk Soccer podcast? Didn't see it mentioned in the OP and it seems to be active 2-3 times a week with a lot of contributors. I'm just a poo poo American plastic so please tell me if this podcast is also poo poo.
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In case anyone missed it, there was an extra edition of Football Weekly released on Saturday.
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Nice one, I missed it. It's a live one though, isn't it? I saw one of them tweet something about a Guardian open day. At least it's not in a pub with a pissed up crowd and panelist like the others.
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Fryhtaning posted:Any opinions on EPL Talk Soccer podcast? Didn't see it mentioned in the OP and it seems to be active 2-3 times a week with a lot of contributors. I'm just a poo poo American plastic so please tell me if this podcast is also poo poo.
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Mickolution posted:Nice one, I missed it. It's a live one though, isn't it? I saw one of them tweet something about a Guardian open day. At least it's not in a pub with a pissed up crowd and panelist like the others. Yeah it was a live one. It's a bit strange that they didn't plug it a bit on the podcasts during the week (or maybe they did and I missed it), only found out about it on twitter.
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Yeah, I hadn't heard anything on the regular ones either, don't think they mentioned it. Perhaps it was a last minute thing.
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Poor Barry Glendenning, getting punched in a bar on St. Patrick's Day.
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Pray 4 Baz
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Mandalay posted:Pray 4 Baz  I suck at photoshop.
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Had no idea there was one on Sat. Found today's reference to an audience strange. You think they'd have advertised it, they normally do months in advanced. I actually hate the live ones, and the video ones. Stupid gimmicks. Also, hate Rob Smyth, the snivelling, stuttering weasel. He's a oval office but him bring up the assault on Glendenning was poor. I realize Barry would laugh it off and all but it just galled me a little for him to shoehorn the story in.
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Big Piece O poo poo posted:Poor Barry Glendenning, getting punched in a bar on St. Patrick's Day. Punched by an Arsenal fan who was celebrating Muamba potentially dying, because he thought Muamba was a Tottenham player. Has to be a strong contender for twat of the year.
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Thanks for the update. When Barry made a joke about Jimbo playing to the crowd I thought "oh... that's a weird joke considering they haven't had a live show in ages right?" Then I log onto this thread. And it all made sense.
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The live Football Weekly wasn't near as bad as the previous ones. Still pointless, but at least the audience and panel were sober for this one. On this subject, did anyone listen to the live one The Times did earlier in the season? Far better than the Guardian ones, as it was more of a forum on general issues than just a normal news/discussion show.
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Mickolution posted:The live Football Weekly wasn't near as bad as the previous ones. Still pointless, but at least the audience and panel were sober for this one. Can you link it? I fear that my man-crush on Jimbo is clouding my judgment on what makes a good soccer pod 
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Mandalay posted:Can you link it? I fear that my man-crush on Jimbo is clouding my judgment on what makes a good soccer pod It's number 31 here. It was back in October, so I don't remember it too well, but I liked how they didn't just do a regular podcast in front of an audience. The Game is great in general. I love Football Weekly too, but it's nice to hear another one. Marcotti rubs some people the wrong way, but I like him as a presenter, he provides a good devil's advocate and has some interesting opinions.
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Jippa posted:Everyone loves him. He actually presents a Prem hihlight show for TV in the middle east on ADTV I think. Anyway in my search to find another half decent pocast I woulde suggest this to people. It is called Scottish Comedy FC podcast. You get some fun stuff / terrible news and if you dont mind listening to the occasional scottish nutter story its a good listen that doesn't focus too much on the horrror in my homeland called the SPL http://scottishcomedyfc.libsyn.com/rss
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Mandalay posted:Can you link it? I fear that my man-crush on Jimbo is clouding my judgment on what makes a good soccer pod Yeah I definitely have that too. I wouldn't tolerate such puns from anyone else, but I laugh in public when Jimbo drops them. Woof.
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Where is today's Football Weekly? I am crying like a giant baby here.
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Monday was a bank holiday. Should be out on Tuesday sometime.
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