Ultimate Dinner Party - Football Managers Edition

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Muhammad Ali floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee and is also the ultimate dinner companion, according to England's top football managers.

In a recent survey with some of the biggest names in the game, including Harry Redknapp, Roberto Mancini and David Moyes, the legendary heavyweight boxer Ali was a clear favourite when it came to deciding who they would most like to share a meal with.

Which of these dinner party trios wd be your choice for most convivial guests? Those of you who don't follow football, feel free to guess what Gianfranco Zola's dad or Paul Ince's wife is like over an intimate supper.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Rafa Benitez - Julius Caesar, Al Pacino, Napoleon 4
Tony Adams - Jesus, Sir Alf Ramsey, Scarlett Johansson 2
Peter Reid - Elvis Presley, Jesus Christ, Angelina Jolie 1
Alan Pardew - Muhammad Ali, Barrack Obama, Spike Milligan 1
Harry Redknapp - Muhammad Ali, Vincent O’Brien, Bobby Moore 1
Gianfranco Zola - Father, wife, Diego Maradona 1
Paul Ince – Wife, John F Kennedy, Tiger Woods 1
Roberto Di Matteo - Julius Caesar, Claudia Schiffer, Robert De Niro 1
Chris Hughton - Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Bill Shankly 0
Paul Lambert - Elvis Presley, George Bush, George Best 0
Alex McLeish - Robert Di Niro, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali 0
Steve McClaren - Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Sir Alex Ferguson 0
Neil Warnock – The Queen, Barbara Streisand, Brian Clough 0
Gustavo Poyet - Fernando Morena, Michael Jordan, Wife 0
David Moyes - Mother, Tommy Burns, Kylie Minogue 0
Roberto Mancini - Paolo Mantovani, The Pope, Sheikh Mansour 0
Simon Grayson - Geoffrey Boycott, Bono, Don Revie 0
Sam Allardyce - Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Sir Alex Ferguson 0
Chris Coleman - John F Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix 0
Sven Goran Eriksson - Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul, Barack Obama 0


Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago)

I think Jesus would hit on Scarlett Johansson tbh

I Feel So Good I Can't Stand It! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

WWJHO

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

Lambert's got it sussed, burgers, coke and booze.

The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

maybe he means George Senior?

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago)

There's not dinner table here I think would actually work out, though. It might be fun to watch Warnock bore the hell out of Liz and Babs, though.

Is Eriksson really that much of a pretentious bore?

What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago)

there's no real curve balls here are there? maybe shd start a "pick yr own Fantasy Dinner Party team" thread. later.

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago)

good uns

Jfk presley hendrix- exploded head, exploded arsehole, vomit-choked

Deniro presley ali- wouldn't say anything, would eat everything, wouldn't shut up

Ali obama milligan- irish ancestry ftw

shite pele (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago)

Harry Redknapp - Muhammad Ali, Vincent O’Brien, Bobby Moore - would offer them a bung to lose
Paul Ince – Wife, John F Kennedy, Tiger Woods - lol roasting
Paul Lambert - Elvis Presley, George Bush, George Best - Lambert would probably be dead by the end of that or at the very least would have shat everywhere
Roberto Di Matteo - Julius Caesar, Claudia Schiffer, Robert De Niro - these are excellent choices
Sam Allardyce - Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Sir Alex Ferguson - the sort of earnest civil rights management speak that would come out of Sam's mouth would be borderline unbearable
Sven Goran Eriksson - Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul, Barack Obama - this would be fucking dull
Chris Coleman - John F Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix - NOW YOU'RE TALKING
Tony Adams - Jesus, Sir Alf Ramsey, Scarlett Johansson - Tony Adams would be sitting at the edge of this conversation attempting profound interjections and hamfisted attempts at flirting while being completely ignored by the rest of the table
Simon Grayson - Geoffrey Boycott, Bono, Don Revie - perhaps Simon would leave the oven on and a freak gas explosion would take everyone concerned out? We can but hope.
Roberto Mancini - Paolo Mantovani, The Pope, Sheikh Mansour - this man is seriously the worst cunt ever for even suggesting this.
Rafa Benitez - Julius Caesar, Al Pacino, Napoleon - this would be an earnest and wide-ranging tactical discussion and then everyone would take Rafa's ideas on board and they would go out into the wider world and then two historical empires and one fictional mafia dynasty would collapse overnight.
David Moyes - Mother, Tommy Burns, Kylie Minogue - this would be quite sweet.
Gustavo Poyet - Fernando Morena, Michael Jordan, Wife - this would probably be quite a pleasant everning and Gus would be a good and courteous host
Neil Warnock – The Queen, Barbara Streisand, Brian Clough - Clough would just sit there politely talking to the ladies while heavily implying that Warnock is a big poof
Steve McClaren - Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Sir Alex Ferguson - I'm not sure Steve thought about this question for very long
Alex McLeish - Robert Di Niro, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali - Big Eck would spend the first two courses attempting to out alpha-male everyone round the table and would then get a guitar out David Brent style before the dessert. Die.
Alan Pardew - Muhammad Ali, Barrack Obama, Spike Milligan - I don't even want to imagine the witticisms that Pardew would attempt in this environment
Peter Reid - Elvis Presley, Jesus Christ, Angelina Jolie - I like his ambition
Chris Hughton - Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Bill Shankly - this would be an entertaining dinner party
Gianfranco Zola - Father, wife, Diego Maradona - this would be brilliant until the fourth drink and by the end of the night Maradona would have insulted Zola's dad and shagged his mum and Zola would be spending the rest of his weekends listening to his dad slagging his mum off before being handed back to his mum on Sunday evening at a despondent Harvester restaurant outside Croydon

Matt DC, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago)

some of these just have a great rhythm to them in the order given, are fun to say to yourself

boxall, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago)

mancini picking the sheikh is pretty funny

sonderangerbot, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago)

i'm wondering if Moyes' mum is supposed to keep Tommy Burns interested while Dave macks on Kylie

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago)

Who do we reckon would be the best cook here? I'm guessing Poyet, or possibly Rafa. Big Eck and Tony Adams probably the worst.

Matt DC, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago)

Big Eck would just deep-fry whatever shit he had in his fridge and Tony Adams would panic for six hours about what to cook before serving up some Super Noodles on a plate with an ostentatious sprig of parsley on the side.

Matt DC, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago)

Now that's a post, Matt.

Btw what's with this fucking 'Sir Alex' bullshit here? All these guests, and he's the only one whose title gets mentioned?

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago)

Rafa wd make a meal of varied delicious-looking ingredients that just sort of sit on the plate in an ugly lump, none of them go together and an hour after you leave you get chronic stomach pains

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago)

the queen, the pope, the wife, tbf

shite pele (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago)

Big Sam: every guest gets a custom-tailored meal but they're all basically variants on DUMPLINGS! and gravy.

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago)

rafa would blame the manner in which you ate for the food tasting awful, he would then speak to other guests and ignore you, he would then try to get you to pay much more than the meal was worth, he would then take over a michelin star restaurant and turn it into a wimpy, he would then get sacked.

shite pele (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago)

lol what happens when i type DUMPLINGS! ??

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago)

imagine peter reid hungrily wanking off over that threesome eh

shite pele (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago)

Pretty sure Sven really wanted to just invite Scarlett Johanssson, Angelina Jolie and Jet from Gladiators but lied on his form.

Matt DC, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago)

yeah but it's the public face he wants to present to the world that's so lame

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago)

somebody shd go and ask Ali which three current or former EPL managers he'd like to invite to dinner

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago)

Martin O'Neill, Jose Mourinho and Steve Kean.

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago)

actually, swap Kean for Keegan and that'd be a good crowd

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago)

clough vs ali

shite pele (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago)

Didn't Ali make some mention of Clough at some point?

What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago)

He did indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_EHlzd63R8

The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Thursday, 13 October 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago)

btw enjoying the implication in the OG post that those of us who do follow football know what kind of dinner party guests Zola's father and Ince's wife make.

pandemic, Thursday, 13 October 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago)

@dimi_berbatov Dimitar Berbatov “who would you invite to your dinner party(you can have four people)?” churchill, judy dench, cliff richard, gino d'acampo

Matt DC, Friday, 14 October 2011 09:55 (thirteen years ago)

Cliff Richard???

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 October 2011 09:59 (thirteen years ago)

LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO OUR BEAUTIFUL DIMI YOU BASTARD FERGUSON

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 October 2011 10:00 (thirteen years ago)

I'm currently awaiting his answer to my question about Bach vs Purcell.

Matt DC, Friday, 14 October 2011 10:06 (thirteen years ago)

so unfair pitting anybody against Bach just by amount of work

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 October 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago)

Why has Berbatov even heard of Cliff Richard?

Ismael Klata, Friday, 14 October 2011 10:35 (thirteen years ago)

Ferguson uses "Power to All Our Friends" as motivational music pre-match

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 October 2011 10:42 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 20 October 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)


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