International weeks are a killer, mentally. I felt Coyle's passing should be marked, but I just couldn't get it together to revive any thread for it.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't sure where else to put this because Ray Hudson isn't really a journalist and there's no commentary thread I'm aware of. But seriously, this is one of the best things: http://illustratedray.tumblr.com/
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
wait, we really don't have a general commentary thread? ilf is still just an infant
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
Coyle got such a free pass from journalists and pundits in general it was ridiculous. He took down a Bolton team that had been established in the top flight for an entire decade and no one seemed that bothered. Even 2/3rds of the way through last season people like Alan Hansen were still saying "he's a good manager, he'll sort it out..."
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
i believe i have a guffbank thread somewhere
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
AVATAR EYES
― Number None, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Eh I think the free pass was more due to a player actually dying midgame tbf
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Nah it was happening before that. Martinez gets a similar free pass.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KHe3O.png
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
they've changed it now. This slipped by them though
Banks, who won 7 caps for the Three Lions
― Number None, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
would of won more if he had of played for one of the sky 4 and not stoke
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Is there anything de Gea could conceivably do to move into the 'not crap' pile?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
bulk up, get intimidating tattoos, date hollyoaks extra and then dump them with a text sent at exactly the same time as he is photographed leaving a brothel
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
And is there anything Hart could do to be not the best keeper in the world?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
has there ever been a bad boy goalkeeper in the epl?
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Bosnich?
― Number None, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
closest thing i can think of is charles itaandje and his prodding of damien plessis during the hillsborough ceremony
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
change nationalityxp
― pandemic, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
Paddy Kenny's a bad boy AND a bad keeper
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
bosnich true....although he was more a floppyhaired, slightly foppish coke-bloated waster and rather than a really intimidating type
paddy kenny had part of his ear bit off in a 'nightclub incident' iirc but he seems just generally hapless in all respects
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.footyplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Mark-Bosnich.jpg
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
What is everyone's view on the awkward shoehorning of Joe Hart into BGITW theories? It's fucking stupid, right? Is it because Cashley is winding down and twp just won't stand up to Danny Alves and we need at least 1 player to be the best in the world? It's not like Buffon and Casillas are even close to retiring and both won the league last season/CAPTAINED THEIR COUNTRIES TO THE FINALS OF THE EUROS.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
his distribution is shit, and he seems to specialize in doing four or five good saves and then conceding a relatively easy goal
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
best in the world
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
u know who would be a good person to ask abt this
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
bozza
http://cache.images.globalsportsmedia.com/news/soccer/2007/10/20/newswide11915732200.jpg
More of a psycho than a badboy really.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
BGITW has always been an Englishman, ever since I first became aware of football. It's just one of those truths that is self-evident and always has been. Banks begat Shilton, who begat Clemence, who begat Shilton again, who begat Seaman, who eventually begat Joe Hart. The David James era was helluva awkward, because for the first time in forever there was a prolonged spell where you couldn't pretend England's no.1 was the top top man.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
Not that I was around in the Banks era you understand, I'm just going by the received wisdom in my childhood footy encyclopaedias. Sometimes the BGITW can be non-English, but only if he's an honorary Englishman like Jennings or Schmeichel.
Lev Yashin is the only exception.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
Being a kid in the 90s I was naturally more in love with strikers and wingers to know the answer of this so-
Was it a legit case of Schmeichel and Seaman as world's #1 and #2? You don't really hear about other guys, maybe Oliver Kahn?
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Chilavert!
― pandemic, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Not really
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardien_europ%C3%A9en_de_l%27ann%C3%A9e
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
Ravelli, Pagliuca, Barthez, van der Sar, Walter Zenga ... I dunno tbh, goalkeepers then rarely moved countries or even clubs, so it's down to World Cups really. I don't know if it was a vintage era or not.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
it shows how badly represented goalkeepers get in history that i only know 2 of those, because they played for utd (well i knew vds before) and zenga sounds vaguely familiar.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
You don't know Pagliuca? James Richardson died in vain
― Number None, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
A guy in my class went to the hairdresser circa 1990 and asked for a Walter Zenga cut, and got all incredulous when the barber hadn't heard of him.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Haha. Gianluca Pagliuca, Sampdoria legend.
― pandemic, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
the zenga cut still holds up today, imo.
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Friday, 12 October 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
he fucking wishes it was (a) merely an ear and (b) a mere 'nightclub incident'
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 October 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
pagliuca was amazing!
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 14 October 2012 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
underrated 90s goalies,vitor baia,goycochea,goram
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 14 October 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
two of these things are not like the others
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 October 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
Seaman was way too prone to stupidly high-profile fuckups to ever have been a serious BGITW contender.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 14 October 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:23 AM (14 hours ago)
not sure what u refer to here
― Cornelius Chi-Dubem Udebuluzor (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 14 October 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/71478/Stars-pal-bites-off-eyebrow.html
― r|t|c, Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
twice cuckolded and partially eaten but on the other he will of looked at the positives
― Cornelius Chi-Dubem Udebuluzor (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
marchegiani
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
illgner, kopke, taffarel (<-- last one actually a bit naff)
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
barhez / llama always shakey
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link