[Football] Your Most Detestable Player

[Rogero]

The thug Barton.

 

[mune ni kamome]

John Terry
Joey Barton
Gwen-doozy
Jack ‘The Lad’ Grealish
Zaha

So you wouldn’t be best pleased if we sign Zaha then

 

[Gwylan]

Everyone seems focused on Barton but there are some other choice thugs from the past

Duncan Ferguson, Vinnie Jones, Kevin Muscat, Ben Thatcher, Julian Dicks to name a few

 

[Music City Gull]

Exactly my thoughts.

Plenty of players I dislike for a variety of reasons, but detest?
Only one.

The man is an absolute thug, who deludes himself that he is a cultured intellectual.
Clearly has issues, but his violent nature is still there, barely concealed.

Looks like he’s still at it while managing..

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-52881290

 

[albionalbino]

Kevin Nolan

 

[Frankie]

I bet Jimmy Case is on a few lists on other fans forums as being a bit of a thug.

I despised Whiteside even before his horror tackle on Ramsey I've yet to see a more blatant attempt to break someone's legs although Southampton seem to have found a bit of a thug in Romeau .

 

[Guinness Boy]

Then Bellamy, then Keane then Lineker.

Lineker? WTF? The bloke who wasn't even booked in his career? Do you work for Seabrook or something?

A truly bizarre choice.

Everyone else seems to have grasped the concept that this is about thuggery and cheating on the pitch and [MENTION=35196]Is it PotG?[/MENTION] has extended his cod-intellectual dislike of the BBC elite to a football thread.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Everyone seems focused on Barton but there are some other choice thugs from the past

Duncan Ferguson, Vinnie Jones, Kevin Muscat, Ben Thatcher, Julian Dicks to name a few

From memory most of them were relatively comfortable with how people perceived them.
And the worst of their thuggery was on the pitch.

Any of them pretended to be a philosopher/renaissance man type to hide the viciousness of their character?
Any of them stubbed a cigar out in a youth player's eye?

Barton is on a different level for me.
Nasty piece of work.

 

[junior]

McGleish.

Short memories you lot.

 

[Is it PotG?]

A truly bizarre choice.

Everyone else seems to have grasped the concept that this is about thuggery and cheating on the pitch and [MENTION=35196]Is it PotG?[/MENTION] has extended his cod-intellectual dislike of the BBC elite to a football thread.

Shocked, nay STUNNED that the poster has assumed the reason to be his punditry. Massive jump to take.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

A truly bizarre choice.

Everyone else seems to have grasped the concept that this is about thuggery and cheating on the pitch and [MENTION=35196]Is it PotG?[/MENTION] has extended his cod-intellectual dislike of the BBC elite to a football thread.

Suspect you have been whooshed there.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Barton.

Barton is no longer a player though.

Grealish.

This !

 

[Guinness Boy]

Suspect you have been whooshed there.

Possibly. That's me and a University Challenge contestant if so. Spend 5 minutes on twitter and you'll find plenty of Brexiteers who can't stand Lineker.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Possibly. That's me and a University Challenge contestant if so. Spend 5 minutes on twitter and you'll find plenty of Brexiteers who can't stand Lineker.

Possibly whooshed, with a bit of edge..

Being whooshed has nothing to do with intellectual/academic capacity, in my experience.
In fact often the opposite

 

[nicko31]

John Terry closely followed by El Hadji Diouf

 

[Gwylan]

Possibly. That's me and a University Challenge contestant if so. Spend 5 minutes on twitter and you'll find plenty of Brexiteers who can't stand Lineker.

But it's a bizarre way to make a joke ... he was mentioned in conjunction with two other players who weren't a joke.

If it had been Lineker on his own, yes, maybe ... but with the other two?

 

[Uh_huh_him]

But it's a bizarre way to make a joke ... he was mentioned in conjunction with two other players who weren't a joke.

If it had been Lineker on his own, yes, maybe ... but with the other two?

But that is what makes the joke. two players setting the scene for the punchline.
That's exactly how jokes work.

 

[BBassic]

I've got a real stick up my arse about De Gea and (less so now) Hazard.

The way that every summer for eons seemed clogged with the f**king "will they / won't they" bullshit about moves to Madrid.

Tedious, boring shite designed to fill column inches and drive me to insanity.

 

[MattBackHome]

I hate everything about both Dennis Wise and Vinnie Jones. Everything.

 

[Questions]

Commentator: oh that's a booking!

In this day and age that would result in a charge for GBH

It was only a booking because it was his 3rd tackle like that.