[Albion] Garth Crooks (made-up) Team of the Week 2023/24

[Bozza]

Game Week 1 and Albion have yet to get going...

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week: Leno, Van Dijk, Silva, Saka, Isak, Haaland

Which players impressed our football pundit Garth Crooks enough to make his first Team of the Week this season?

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[zefarelly]

Took his time reading the red tops this week didnt he.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Took his time reading the red tops this week didnt he.

To be fair to Crooks ( yes, I know ! ) he published this before the papers came out. Strange he put Lemina in as Wolves lost and he never puts in players from losing teams.

 

[Mike Small]

VVD?! Ran out of his area vacating the space for Chelsea to equalise. Thought he was very poor. GC is awful.

 

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[WATFORD zero]

Bob Wilson, Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson, Andy Gray, Jamie Redknapp, Tony Cottee, Alan Smith, Andy Townsend, Tim Sherwood, Jim Beglin, Trevor Brooking all no worse but gone, and somehow Crooks survives

And I checked Bob and Trevor are still with us before I posted that

 

[LamieRobertson]

Bob Wilson, Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson, Andy Gray, Jamie Redknapp, Tony Cottee, Alan Smith, Andy Townsend, Tim Sherwood, Jim Beglin, Trevor Brooking all no worse but gone, and somehow Crooks survives

And I checked Bob and Trevor are still with us before I posted that

Good team of the week that

 

[WATFORD zero]

Good team of the week that

If the week was in 1986

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

To be fair to dear old Garth, the whoscored.com team of the week (bases on stats) contains 5 of his picks. Not a bad effort from the old boy.

 

[GT49er]

Garth Crooks is as relevant (and as pointless) as Betamax tapes now. Why the f*** is anybody bothering?

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Solly and Kaoru both make his team of the week and are rewarded with a single sentence about their performances, followed by a short story on Wolves and Man United.

 

[Badger]

March and Mitoma made the cut this week.

Standard fare for Solly's write-up. Spend half the time talking about the opposition and don't mention what exactly he did to make the team.

Solly March (Brighton): Wolves suffered a terrible injustice against Manchester United, but what took place at Molineux in the opening 10 minutes of the second half against a rampant Brighton wasn't just alarming, but cause for real concern.

Newly appointed manager Gary O'Neil had inherited all the confidence and motivation his predecessor Julen Lopetegui could have given his team prior to his surprise departure. All that seemed to evaporate minutes into the second half when the Seagulls ripped Wolves apart.

Solly March epitomised the drive and determination shown by the team from the south coast and his goals were worthy rewards for his efforts.


Then there's Kaoru...

Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton): What a goal. The run, control and quality of finish against Wolves were world-class. In fact Mitoma has been producing this type of form with such regularity that I can't believe he's still on the south coast.

Manchester United have Jadon Sancho and Antony in their ranks and I haven't seen anything like the quality or ability from either of those two players that I have seen from this lad. How do United get it so wrong?

I accept that Old Trafford is a daunting stage and the stakes are much higher there, but Mitoma is a United player if ever I saw one.


Christ on a bike. Even by Garth's incredibly low standards that's laughable. He's a Brighton player, you absolute tool.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Solly and Karou both make his team of the week and are rewarded with a single sentence about their performances, followed by a short story on Wolves and Man United.

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'A United player if ever I've seen one' 🫠 meaningless bullshit.

 

[jimhigham]

What the flipping flip is that? Just randomly deciding to reallocate Mitoma to an entirely different club.

Imagine getting paid for that?

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Girth Crooks in disrespect shocker.

If it's not Line-acre selling off Evan, it's Girth touting Mitoma. It's plain disrespectful. You can't criticise Brighton for "selling off the crown jewels, that will inevitably lead to a Southampton like relegation" and simultaneously be suggesting our players would be at "bigger" clubs.

What a lazy prick.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

If these two goons keep touting our players out to ‘bigger clubs’, maybe we need a petition to tout their jobs out to someone with more twitter/x/insta/tiktok followers than them? Let’s face it some no-mark influencer could probably have more non-big-six knowledge than either of them

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Solly and Kaoru both make his team of the week and are rewarded with a single sentence about their performances, followed by a short story on Wolves and Man United.

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What an insufferable bellend that guy is. Stealing a living.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Garth Crooks -

Astrid Wett is a modern influencer, although quite what that means is often unclear. Utilizing a variety of social media apps and outlets, Wett seems to have the following of a younger generation with or without her Chelsea shirt on. Recently of note, she has also been a talking point of many post-middle-aged men on football forum NorthStandChat which focuses primarily on Brighton and Hove Albion but also general news and issues that affect it’s loyal users.

Brighton are a club currently topping the Premier League table who have so far shown they can sell players for huge money and continue to prove imbecile pundits wrong. Knowledgeable, tactically astute and with flair oozing from every pore Brighton manager Roberto DeZerbi recently claimed “I think the big Club can buy the players but they can't buy our soul and our spirit”.

Garth Crooks is 65 years old and claims to watch football.

 

[Icy Gull]

'A United player if ever I've seen one' 🫠 meaningless bullshit.

He’s not been paying attention. Keep his form up and Chelsea is the destination for Brighton’s player of the season each Summer. United can’t afford them

 

[Hamilton]

If these two goons keep touting our players out to ‘bigger clubs’, maybe we need a petition to tout their jobs out to someone with more twitter/x/insta/tiktok followers than them? Let’s face it some no-mark influencer could probably have more non-big-six knowledge than either of them

Yep. Garth Crooks, I can’t believe he’s still at the BBC. He’s an Argus reporter if ever I saw one.*


*and that’s unfair on the Argus.