Bale vs Walcott

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never even going to be an issue

Yeah, STFU runaway winner innit

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We spent the night mingling with SJP and the girls, Kylie, Emma Bunton, Jaime Winstone, Mr Big, Theo Walcott, Louis Spence, Daisy Lowe and so many other celebs we can’t keep track! Without a doubt Gok Wan was our favourite fashionista and he had us all in stitches with his hilarious jokes.

Anyone who votes Bale hates football.

excuuuse me

i tihnk you'll find i was a chief lobbyist for the founding of a board very much to the contrary

fyi i am one of those bale voters- i voted bale because i love freedom btw and i urge you all to think along those lines

STFU

lookin like a runaway i must admit

I'd rather have Bale than Walcott, but it's all a bit much.

tbf i did include it as an option just for those of ye that needed to click on the clearly-titled poll just to vent

I do appreciate.

:)

tbf bale once did score a volley. and then... oh yeah he was awes against arsenal last season. and in the rest of his career... he... well... there was that... nope, he was a big part in them going 4-0 down in the first place... but... shit... he must have done something...

great until injured

had a tough road back from injury, in a very unsettled team, in a position he's not really suited to at the highest level

but calendar years 2010 he was great throughout, though i'm not about to play-by-play it for ya

This is a pretty good question. They both have the potential to get better, but at the moment I'm not actually sure who's the better player. If I'm honest I think Theo's potential peak is probably higher than Bale's. Option 3 then.

I'd actually like to see Bale as a deep-lying striker, sort of a Gerrard/Ronaldo da Lima hybrid rather than a link-up type - those guys are the most thrilling things in football imo, seems like a while since there's been a battering-ram type player on the loose. I suspect it wouldn't work, though I'm not 100% sure why.

he needs space in front of him to get up to full destructive speed, hard to find it in that area. r da lima reached full speed in 3 steps tbf

bale's position is wingback, really, with no emphasis on defending- like a bolt in a strung crossbow.

the other side, well people are saying naughton and good luck to the lad, but imo lennon could do a pretty good job too- his tackling and tracking are better than bale's for a start

ronaldo was p much never a deep lying forward, he was a #9 who sometimes drifted

i envisaged bale in that role tho

Gareth Bale

ah yeah i was only responding to IK

i remember yr repping for bale there, i take it that means we have yr vote

this isn't even a thing, bale is another lev

^ hero

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Missed this, my Theo vote would have made him joint last with STFU.

ah a great great victory, now everyone else has to stfu

11 people voted Bale, 11 people voted Theo or STFU. Draw.

obv i wld have voted bale because theo is a witless elf who will turn into a tree before he turns into a world beater

i guess i wld rather kiss theo though, is that the question?

theo already is a world beater though?

theo WALCOTT

how many fucking books has Bale "written" eh?

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remember michael owen's tv show where he popped out of a life-size poster to monotone drawl inane wisdom to some kid?

Andy Carroll's looking good there

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haha oh god yeah. it would've been great if it was just a tip for the 3.45 at Newmarket.

Beckham's getting himself some of this terrible kids books action too.

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Here he is jealously wishing he could read them.

I had a read at one of young Theo's books in WH Smith one day. There was a long passage where the kids all watch and marvel at some guy's movement off-the-ball. Couldn't be duller if it was ghosted by ... hang on, what does Michael Owen do with himself these days?

gets naked and blinds racehorses iirc

LAWYERS PLEASE NOTE: to the best of my knowledge, Michael Owen does not like to get naked and blind racehorses. Also his injury record is comparable to any other player of his age and he has an important goal coming at some point this season.

I guess I would read a Benoit Assou Ekotto choose your own adventure.

remember michael owen's tv show where he popped out of a life-size poster to monotone drawl inane wisdom to some kid?

― ogmor, Saturday, 30 April 2011 23:31 (Yesterday)

Rather prophetically, it was called "Hero to Zero".

i wonder what the kids mom would've said if she'd found him alone with Michael Owen in his bedroom?

I can only find the intro unfortunately.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1763622748050762050#

Check out the thumbs up on 9 seconds.

Sir Ian McKellen was shook iirc

I like to think he still wakes to that tune every morning, sits up and gives himself a thumbs up in the mirror.

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM2_PgO72JA

"still here michael, great work, now let's get going"

lol that Michael Owen soccer skills thing was shot at Stoke, presumably the rest of the lessons were mainly about martial arts.

That boot camp format started with a Ryan Giggs vehicle circa '93/94 iirc. I remember my sister and astutely commenting that they were now really struggling to find new ways to sell football.

Giggsy was spectacularly uncharismatic. We still quote some of his lines to each other occasionally even now:

"Andrei Kanchelskis - hardest shot in the Premiership, if not the team"

I was just speaking to her there - the mere mention that I'd been reminiscing about Giggsy instantly drew that quote.

haha giggs is AWFUL. there was a cbbc thing where two presenters did a bike race against each other for comic relief and various sports stars had to offer their encouragement, giggs' version was so bad, monotone, dry "me and the lads are all behind you every step of the way" that my friend who edited it took the piss and did a dream sequence as the race was about to start with giggs blank face appearing above the presenter's head and droning "me and the lads are all behind you every step of the way."

then after the credits rolled and the show's logo and editor cred appeared he stuck in one more "me and the lads are all behind you every step of the way".

miss kids tv for this kind of stuff, though usually it was a war between people who felt kids could appreciate irreverence and people who think kids only laugh at things which no adult finds remotely funny whatsoever.

I'd actually like to see Bale as a deep-lying striker, sort of a Gerrard/Ronaldo da Lima hybrid rather than a link-up type - those guys are the most thrilling things in football imo, seems like a while since there's been a battering-ram type player on the loose. I suspect it wouldn't work, though I'm not 100% sure why.

tip of the cap to nakh, who gets shirty if you don't mention that he also envisaged bale in this role. played inside left in a front 3 with adebayor and vdv against norwich and pwnd

how the hell did lolcott get 4 votes that weren't from sam?

think bale was injured at the time tbf

dont think i'd vote theo now. some how in improving many things he used to be rubbish at (tracking back, crossing, one touch, remembering he is playing football instead of standing around like arshavin) he has forgotten how to beat his man, put it on target or stay in position. with arsenal these past five years it has been a case of either-or, which is ludicrous.

bale was having a p lame end of season imo but he is consistent every week now and depending on where he is playing next year/who his boss is, could soon be seen as one of the best in the world. (that said I don't like this turn for the gerrard-esque role and after talking to my brother who has been to a few games recently, i've been told he looks uncomfortable at it.)