ARE TODAYS HEROES PRIMA DONNAS

Hi folks and welcome to today’s Football Talk About post.

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A REAL FOOTBALLING HERO

Do you agree with today’s blog title, or is it unfair, its not a great opinion to have of our heroes, players we pay hard earned money to watch week after week, whether its live at the ground or even watching on the box, with our subscriptions, to Sky,Virgin, Espn and god knows who else these days.

Sadly though talking to people, reading posts on football forums, letters in papers and magazines, you get the feeling, that yes people are disenchanted, not just with players but sometimes their clubs as well.

Its been said many times before, because of the huge sums of money Premiership player earn, that the ordinary man in the street finds it hard to identify with them anymore.

Well you know what, being one of those ordinary guys in the street, let me tell you, I couldn’t give a damn, they can earn as much as they like, as long as the club can afford it, but that’s another story, let them have their big cars, and mansions and long legged blonde wives and girlfriends, (No offence to long legged blondes out there)

and all the other trappings money can by, good luck to them ,but come Saturday afternoon at 3pm (Or whenever your team plays these days) its pay back time, get out there and show why your paid the big bucks, and why we pay big bucks to watch you.



Words and phrases, that should describe our Heroes i.e- flare, style, leadership, guts, determination, proud, winning mentality, all round class.





Words and phrases for the Prima Donnas – i.e- lazy, petty, moaning, diving, sulking, everybody’s fault but mine, how dare I be tackled. 



Our latest World Cup fiasco, and what really happened, will hopefully one day be revealed, and possibly, certain player’s may find there actions applicable to my list of Prima Donna points above, I think we can be pretty sure, certain Frenchman are already in there.

To finish let me say, thankfully, we still have heroes out there, and hopefully you’ve got at least one or more at your club, so as the saying goes. “Keep The Faith”



Thanks for reading

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LESLIE MARK HUGHES FOR FULHAM

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Hi folks and welcome to today’s Football Talk About post.

How many of you knew about the Leslie bit by the way.

Well it appears that it was between Sven Goran Eriksson and Sparky Hughes for the Fulham job, apparently after Martin Jol turned the job down in favour of staying at Ajax. Whatever made Mohamed Al Fayed decide to go for Hughes I don’t know, but I’d be interested to hear what Fulham fans think about the decision, personally I think he’s a good choice for the London club, the fans must have been anxious about who their new manager would be, not to mention the player’s, the start of the season being only 2 weeks away.

Obviously there are some big decisions for Hughes to make as regard players, outgoing and incoming, before the season gets underway, with it being suggested Craig Bellamy will be his first target, if he can convince him to move to Fulham rather than Tottenham Hotspurs, a task which might prove difficult.

The characteristics that made Hughes such a wonderful player, i.e skill, determination, guts, passion, and the sheer desire to win, are all things that will have stood him in good stead throughout his managerial career so far, especially under some of the turbulent times he had at Manchester City.

His Managerial career so far is as follows:



Wales (1999-2004)

Blackburn Rovers (2004-2008)

Manchester City (2008-2009)

Fulham (2010- Who Knows



For those of you who like your stats, here are Sparkys as a Manager:



GAMES - WON -  DRAWN -  LOST -  WIN PER CENT
 307           130          78                99              42.35   


The question is, after the fantastic job Roy Hodgson did at Fulham, can Hughes consolidate their position, and take them onto even greater things, or have the South London club been over performing for the last two years, and raised the expectations of the fans to unrealistic levels. I feel Its’ a difficult situation for the Welshman, and he may need all the attributes mentioned earlier in the post, to make a success of his new appointment.

My opinion of his time at Manchester City, was that he was badly treated at the end, and had they stuck with him till the end of the season, would certainly have matched if not improved on Mancini’s finishing position in the Premiership. I’m sure there are City fans who agree and disagree with me, but hey that’s football.

Hopefully Mark Hughes will find his time at Fulham a rewarding one, and that Mohamed Al Fayed and the fans will not be expecting miracles of a team who in all honesty, probably reached their peak with last seasons magnificent performance in Europe.