Jolly Red Giant
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- Jul 11, 2015
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Souness has always been an obnoxious little Tory toad.
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[Other Sport] Chop Souey
- Thread starter crodonilson
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Best just cancel him anyway tho eh
No, makes perfect sense to pay some bloke £100k a year to identify the gender of the players. If they pay me half of that, I could be his assistant and provide the viewers with information regarding what species the footballers are.
- Aug 7, 2003
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Michael Robinson said of Souness in 2016: "I found him a very personal, cuddly chap who was actually quite vulnerable about being a human being with emotions. To this day, he still tries very hard not to be this lovely cuddly person, when really he is."
what an over the top reaction. I will first say how good the recent Womens Euro tournament was. Watched a couple of games and enjoyed them but no comparison with going to Albion
However Souness was making comments on a top PL game which like it or not is a completely different game to the women's.
However Souness was making comments on a top PL game which like it or not is a completely different game to the women's.
Some people really will be offended by absolutely anything.
Ludensian Gull
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Ludensian Gull
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With all the problems going on in the world right now we still have people stressed out about this 
What a strange bloody world we live in ..
What a strange bloody world we live in ..
When it comes to gender related words I presume I can use the word c u nt, as in stupid c u nt?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Crodo never fails to catch a few 
- Jul 10, 2003
- 27,701
Quite funny that Souness thinks "It's a man's game all of a sudden again," because the players and managers start acting like big girls blouses 
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- Apr 5, 2014
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Okay, let's just be sensible and rational about it.
Firstly, an unwise choice of words- especially given the summer we've had. It's a stock phrase that has been imputed in many old school folk. I guess I'm old school, but it's alien to me. It's a game for everyone. But I'm not going to get angry over a slip of words from someone so conditioned.
So all that's needed is a quiet word and, more importantly, folk to try and understand what he really meant. Souness making a foo-pah is not going to set the women's game back. The only grunts of approval will come from those who always grunt their approval- like a few on here who might rise from the Bear-Pit.
His actual point was that football has become too sanitised in its physical passion. That the slightest of contact is deemed a transgression. I agree with him (although I wouldn't want to see a return to the extremes of the 70s and 80s when the physicality was quite shocking and it wasn't a beautiful game).
So the moral of the story is that Souness needs to choose his words more carefully less they be miss-interpreted, or deliberately miss-interpreted. And generally, he could do with getting with the times.
Firstly, an unwise choice of words- especially given the summer we've had. It's a stock phrase that has been imputed in many old school folk. I guess I'm old school, but it's alien to me. It's a game for everyone. But I'm not going to get angry over a slip of words from someone so conditioned.
So all that's needed is a quiet word and, more importantly, folk to try and understand what he really meant. Souness making a foo-pah is not going to set the women's game back. The only grunts of approval will come from those who always grunt their approval- like a few on here who might rise from the Bear-Pit.
His actual point was that football has become too sanitised in its physical passion. That the slightest of contact is deemed a transgression. I agree with him (although I wouldn't want to see a return to the extremes of the 70s and 80s when the physicality was quite shocking and it wasn't a beautiful game).
So the moral of the story is that Souness needs to choose his words more carefully less they be miss-interpreted, or deliberately miss-interpreted. And generally, he could do with getting with the times.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,275
Your dictionary has pictures?!
As always with this culture war bullshit, the only people getting aerated are the broflakes.
Neville's Breakfast
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I commented on this on the Premier league games thread at the time. Bearing in mind he said it three times I think he did pick his words carefully. Absolutely no need to get his point across in that way, particularly because of the negative sentiment implied about women footballers. It came across as quite bullying to the female player and I felt he should be embarrassed to behave in that way. Turns out he wasn’t. I’m not at all interested in women's football but that isn’t really the point.
- Apr 5, 2014
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If Souness generally does have an issue with the women's game then I'd rather he fessed up than used subtle digs. But he needs to be asked the question directly.
To give background to my original thoughts, I'm absolutely made up the women's football has been given the profile it has. I loved the Euros.
Something I did notice is that the women were less likely to go rolling in agony when they were fouled.
Bit of an irony there.
Charlies Shinpad
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2 Games on a Sunday afternoon he watched,
Equals 44+ men playing football
Equals Man's Game.
Getting really fed up with the increase in people finding any excuse to play the sexist/ racist card these days.
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Equals 44+ men playing football
Equals Man's Game.
Getting really fed up with the increase in people finding any excuse to play the sexist/ racist card these days.
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Ok so all he meant with that phrase is that there was male human beings participating in a sport called football?
So he might as well have said "It's a human species game" or "It's a game between oxygen breathers"?