TS: Yorke vs Cole

i voted for the guy with almost twice as many goals, you can vote for whoever the fuck you want i guess

cole's the better ilx poster iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTEYwPWqrG4

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

"It's given Andy Cole a chance ... which he's taken with alacrity". APLOMB FFS.

Yorke was the better player, him pissing the second half of career away is a pocket tragedy.

a plum, iirc (xp)

Yorke by a country mile

a plom, my bad

Yorke spent most of his later years mucking about but his second wind as a midfield hard man was enormously gratifying. Can't vote against the guy who led us to our first, and in all probability only, world cup finals.

billyblackburn87 2 hours ago

took him 5 chances to score a goal thats why he couldnt get in the england team

Might as well order that headstone now Andy

youse are all fucking idiots

dude one of these was a footballer

don't make me choose!

my main memories of andy cole are his bicycle kick against leicester, and that chip against coventry

don't have any memories of yorke

His most memorable moment was laying on a goal for Cole, his obvious superior

actually i do have a memory of yorke - his 90th minute winner against charlton in '99

fuck off

Cole probably had the most consistently great overhead kicks the Premier League has ever seen. People seem to forget the sheer variety of goals he scored, which is why this is such shite

Andrew Cole, now there's a massively overrated goal poacher

― poking pocong (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, March 19, 2013 5:22 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

sheer variety of goals bounced off non-feet body parts more like

Yorke's one of my favourite players, but I voted for Cole after watching nbs's highlights reel - variety otm, but it was his celebration with the European Cup that swung it tbh. It's kind of a displeasure that neither of them were on the field when it was actually won.

also did Yorke ever record a rap single? NAY

He probably would've. But would it have been approved by Jimmy Hill?

k i'll admit that highlights reel is pretty sick.

still, it's a highlights reel, the fuck-ups aren't there :p

cole naming his child after devante from jodeci pwns his lol single tbf

very much hope the kid's got something of his old man about him

it really is amazingly difficult to remember anything about yorke's play

collar up, fairly nippy, good technique, good spring, the odd header... none of it concrete, all very vague

They're all just highlights reels in the great reckoning. History will be kind to Gerrard; if Lampard is remembered at all, it'll be for him sitting all self-assured young man in that west ham press conference.

What would a John Obi Mikel highlights reel look like, I ask myself.

highlight was Utd getting 12m for him

lampard highlights reel two hours of pens

my main memories of andy cole are his bicycle kick against leicester, and that chip against coventry

I was in the Stretford End for that overhead kick against Leicester - one of the rare moments worth remembering (as the vast majority of the games I went to were forgettable ones against teams like Coventry, Derby, Southampton, Middlesbrough, etc.). I also saw him score up the other end (possibly against Sheffield Wednesday?) and somehow injure himself while celebrating the goal.

as the vast majority of the games I went to were forgettable ones against teams like Coventry, Derby, Southampton, Middlesbrough, etc

kinda want to start a thread about this kind of shit

a friend of my dad's was a league linesman in the late 80s/early 90s, went to so many random lower div games where i barely remember the pies at best...Northampton's old ground on the cricket pitch, Saltergate with a bunch of terraced house attic conversions overlooking the pitch, ancient dude at Wrexham rising from his seat after 80-odd minutes to bellow "CARDIFF SCUM" at the opposition...don't recall much football.

no I mean a thread about casual snobbery as perpetuated by the spoilt-rotten fans of regular top4 clubs

I really can't understand or even empathise with the psychology of a champs league club fan. it's pretty much my biggest blind-spot when it comes to sport. just don't get it. don't really want to either

i'd say top 4 generally that was just a symptom of worldwide modern football but only with fucking united is it an attitude that's been in generations

guess i don't really associate it with football as such

ancient dude at Wrexham rising from his seat after 80-odd minutes to bellow "CARDIFF SCUM" at the opposition

― poking pocong (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 00:18 (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

i've always enjoyed my yearly holidays in wales it's true

the old guy brought his own cushion with him too, i thought he was asleep til he stood up

house of lords thing

kinda want to start a thread about this kind of shit

I think you're deliberately missing my point and trying to make out that I'm saying 'oh, how dare these tedious clubs exist'. The most keenly-anticipated matches (for any club) will be the ones against local rivals, ones against clubs at/near the top of the table, and ones near the end of the season if the result is significant in terms of getting closer to winning a cup/ league / promotion / avoiding relegation. I could never get tickets for any of these games, so by definition all I ever saw were the games where there was low demand for tickets, i.e. matches in the middle of the season against mid-table teams with no real rivalry with United. These could be memorable if something memorable happened: a high-scoring victory, a defeat, a last-minute winner, a controversial red card, a spectacular goal. But most of the time nothing like this happened and I can remember literally nothing about the game. I know I've seen United play Middlesbrough - I don't recall any of the players in either team, I'm not sure what the result was (either 0-0 or 1-1, I think), I don't recall anything that happened whatsoever. If somebody made a highlights package of the season, it's very unlikely they would include anything from the vast majority of games I've been to. People will not be reminiscing in 20 years' time saying "Ah...do you remember that scrappy 1-0 win over Wimbledon with a scuffed Jordi Cruyff goal that ultimately meant very little in the big scheme of things?". The Cole overhead kick from the edge of the box was one of those rare moments where something memorable actually happened.

also did Yorke ever record a rap single? NAY

Does Cole hold an annual Soca Beach Party?

http://i.imgur.com/9lvVL9J.png?1

i'll give it to yorke that he's mates with a real sporting genius, unlike anyone who's played for manchester united in the post-cantona era

Eh

scholes

thought about scholes, but not a genius. a very, very efficient footballer with excellent technique

You kill your own, and that's what kills me

I guess genius is a spectrum not a binary. Scholes had genius to him at times, usually when lining up a volley from outside the box, or perhaps in the way he knitted play together - the alchemy of dominance that Xaviesta seem to specialise in (and, indeed, seem to have improved beyond Scholes' level). Regarding the latter aspect, I'd probably need to watch more football to assert with confidence whether Scholes' possession game is indeed a thing of rare wonder

No i meant scholes is mates with ronnie wallwork

Only one possible answer from this Villa fan I'm afraid. And I do rate Andy Cole.

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i liked it when he changed from Andy Cole to Andrew Cole

Late write in for Cole. Not even close.

Onimo is prob the most consistently otm ilf head imo

I've got my fair share of blind spots and prejudiced opinions e.g. it's taken me a year to accept that Rafael isn't completely shit.

I am pretty much unable to identify a good solid dependable consistent centre hoff. I blame Celtic.

I am assuming you refer to utd rb and not chelsea interim

Aye, I wrote him off way too early.

A little bit of me wants the interim one to do well just to piss a whole range of cunts off. Chelsea have been sporadically good to watch since his arrival - though he learns that the answer to Torres vs Ba in that set-up is "none of the above". I like that Rafa's not prepared to go along with the demi-God bullshit re Fergie.

*though he needs to learn

the sooner chelsea sign kevin doyle to play facing the onrushing trio of mata oscar and hazard the happier everyone will be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1dRpCL2WGg

That's pretty cool. Rooney reminds me a bit of Bono there.

Eh?

http://www.papermag.com/upload/2011/11/buy_this_bonos_fly_sunglasses/BonoFly.jpg