Thread: Sport and when it hurts the most!

Originally Posted by Andalublue

Nah. Verbal abuse is one thing, deliberately trying to inflict injury is another. One deserves a couple of games suspension, the other demands a lifetime ban and gaol time. Like this one...

So.. Emre gives out "verbal abuse" but Terry and Suarez unproven comments are racist.. sorry but Emre was convicted of racist verbal abuse and got a two match ban.. you dont ban someone for verbal abuse lol.. that would mean every player on the pitch would get bans..

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When they left

Originally Posted by Your Star

When they left

Eh. I wanna make a joke, but I already used it once this week.

Originally Posted by Tigger

As a Boston Red Sox fan, a certain night in October of 1986 cannot be scrubbed from my memory; no matter how many World Series' the team wins. I was 12 years old the night that the Red Sox imploded under the pressure of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. A debacle that cannot be totally laid at the feet of its most memorable participant, first baseman Bill Buckner; but who will always be the living image of an inning of complete and utter incompetence for an entire team. I was 12 years old that night, and I cried myself to sleep; somehow knowing that there was no way in hell that the Sox were going to win Game 7. Buckner received more than 500 Death Threats after that game.

heard in an interview that it took Buckner years to forgive Boston

Whatever the PR says Kenny Dalglish must be hurting so badly right now. Having been invited back to turn around Liverpool's fortunes again at the beginning of this season, he took them from eight places above relegation to win the Carling Cup, be runners up in a close F.A. Cup final, and eighth in the Premier League. His reward was to be called to the US to meet the owners and be fired!

Oh, and this hurt pretty badly too.

Originally Posted by Manc Skipper

Whatever the PR says Kenny Dalglish must be hurting so badly right now. Having been invited back to turn around Liverpool's fortunes again at the beginning of this season, he took them from eight places above relegation to win the Carling Cup, be runners up in a close F.A. Cup final, and eighth in the Premier League. His reward was to be called to the US to meet the owners and be fired!

Worst Liverpool team I can remember in some time. The fact that he spent a small fortune and wound up with a mediocre team didn't help him much. Considering they finished with 52 points this year after massive spending, and considering what they had done in previous seasons, his firing is not surprising at all.

When you're given the kind of money he was given to spend, you'd better do a hell of a lot better than 8th place and 52 points.

http://www.anfield-online.co.uk/stat...epositions.htm

Originally Posted by PeteEU

So.. Emre gives out "verbal abuse" but Terry and Suarez unproven comments are racist.. sorry but Emre was convicted of racist verbal abuse and got a two match ban.. you dont ban someone for verbal abuse lol.. that would mean every player on the pitch would get bans..

Check the facts Pete. Emre was not convicted (it never went to court) of racial abuse, but was sanctioned by the football authorities of verbal abuse. Just like Suárez. No, bans are not appropriate. You're right, if verbal abuse, short of hate speech, is punished with bans then 50% of footballers would be banned. Is that what you want?

Originally Posted by Manc Skipper

Whatever the PR says Kenny Dalglish must be hurting so badly right now. Having been invited back to turn around Liverpool's fortunes again at the beginning of this season, he took them from eight places above relegation to win the Carling Cup, be runners up in a close F.A. Cup final, and eighth in the Premier League. His reward was to be called to the US to meet the owners and be fired!

Yup. Crazy. But that's what happens in football these days. I'm not sure what the owners expected of him. It's true they had a below par season for a team the size of Liverpool, but they have a weak squad and simply haven't invested enough to turn things around quickly. I think Kenny would have turned things around, but more slowly, given the limited resources he had to work with. Compare what he achieved in comparison with Alex McLeish at another American-owned, under-funded sleeping giant, Aston Villa. Liverpool won a trophy, was a runner-up in another and ended in the top half. McLeish presided over a terrible decline, just avoiding relegation, and playing what I think was the worst football in the league this season. Kenny did well by comparison.