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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: russon on November 13, 2015, 08:14:32 AM
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I'm hosting a table at Cove Rangers annual bash in 3 weeks (oooh, get me) here in Aberdeen and guest speaker is Harold Redknapp. I'll have a chance to ask a question and was hoping for some ideas? I remember he took pelters when he came to Villa Park but can't remember why?
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Ask him if the winder on his driver side of his range rover is fucked?
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As him who did his face lift.
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ask him how many sides he got relegated/bankrupted
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Do you remember when Roy "dinosaur" Hodgson was selected ahead of you for the England job when all the media and overrated England players wanted you? Oh and then you were fired soon after!! How funny was that eh!?
More seriously Russon if you want a real question that will entertain him and the audience... ask him how it was managing De Canio.
He has some amusing anecdotes about that. They are only tangentally related to the truth, but they are genuinely funny.
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does he miss Rosie signing his cheques ?
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Do you take any responsibility for the plight of Portsmouth football club?
Are you not capable of managing without a cheque book?
You and your wife are er, is Jamie adopted?
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Did you know that they do very good literacy classes at evening classes?
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any tax avoidance/offshore bank account advice?
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Tell us again how your son was terribly homesick as a boy at Liverpool but as soon as they released him you packed him off to London.
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How much inheritance tax did you have to pay when your dog died?
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I'm thinking about opening a current account for my terrier, what does he suggest?
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I'm thinking about opening a current account for my terrier, what does he suggest?
Barklays :)
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I'm thinking about opening a current account for my terrier, what does he suggest?
Barklays :)
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oh dear Dr!
NatWestie?
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I'm thinking about opening a current account for my terrier, what does he suggest?
Barklays :)
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oh dear Dr!
NatWestie?
Doggerel Bank.
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Is your stationery cupboard full of used brown envelopes.
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I'm thinking about opening a current account for my terrier, what does he suggest?
Barklays :)
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oh dear Dr!
NatWestie?
Doggerel Bank.
Furst Direct...
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Harry's Special Bank for Canines.
HSBC.
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Muttual Savings Bank
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Have you ever admitted anything was your fault and did you give guidance to Tim Sherwood on that score?
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"If one were to ever receive a bung as part of a Premiere League transfer, how would one hide it?"
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I'm hosting a table at Cove Rangers annual bash in 3 weeks (oooh, get me) here in Aberdeen and guest speaker is Harold Redknapp. I'll have a chance to ask a question and was hoping for some ideas? I remember he took pelters when he came to Villa Park but can't remember why?
I would ask him if he has spoke to Tim Sherwood since he left us, what he feels went wrong and did he really have a say in transfers over the summer?
Also why does he think so many up and coming English Managers are failing in the premier league and is this why Jamie hasn't had a crack at managing a team?
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How's the knees old boy?
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I remember he took pelters when he came to Villa Park but can't remember why?
Was it this one?
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Why does he believe English managers should be given preference over foreign ones? Why don't many English managers manage abroad?
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I remember he took pelters when he came to Villa Park but can't remember why?
Was it this one?
He had a hotdog thrown at him and called our fans scum "saying some of the things they did in front of children".
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Who was that player in the stiffs?
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Did you declare the 50p as earned income?
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I'm hosting a table at Cove Rangers annual bash in 3 weeks (oooh, get me) here in Aberdeen and guest speaker is Harold Redknapp. I'll have a chance to ask a question and was hoping for some ideas? I remember he took pelters when he came to Villa Park but can't remember why?
If you want a serious, Villa-related question ask him about his friendship with Brian Tiler.
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I'm hosting a table at Cove Rangers annual bash in 3 weeks (oooh, get me) here in Aberdeen and guest speaker is Harold Redknapp. I'll have a chance to ask a question and was hoping for some ideas? I remember he took pelters when he came to Villa Park but can't remember why?
If you want a serious, Villa-related question ask him about his friendship with Brian Tiler.
Be lucky to get a serious question on here minute I read op felt that would be open to abuse and 'banter' from posters. I wondered why its been put in the villa section as it hasn't got anything to do with this club.
Harry redknapp is all self interest and villa fans shouldn't really give two hoots about him unless you're hosting a bash. Good luck with that I imagine everyone will just be loving him off back slapping and enjoying his exaggerated stories. Oh and his love about bobby Moore.
The best question to ask him to is
'As a villa fan I wat to know who were the best aston villa team that you faced as a player and manager'
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Does Harry find giving speeches difficult what with him being illiterate
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Q-What's the difference between him and Starbucks
A- fuck all
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"Have you ever thought about taking a course to become a decent football manager?"
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Your head looks like a scrotum. Discuss.
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Out of all the clubs you have destroyed, which has been your favourite?
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Which of these do you love the most? Talking through car windows, taking bungs or twitching?
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What's the best way to teach a dog how to use a chequebook and calculator?
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How difficult was it going over Niagara Falls in a barrel dressed as a woman?
http://t.co/TtKdwkYRZX
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"Have you ever thought about taking a course to become a decent football manager?"
He wouldn't be able to read the textbooks.
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Harry do you have a preference for any particular type of brown envelope or you willing to take any shade?
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Which did you enjoy reading in the original language the most, Proust or Dostoyevsky?
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He may be a bit of a cock at times, but remember he went through this when taking the piss about him twitching or his scars. And the Brian he mentions is an ex Villa player, Brian Tiler.
I'm lucky to be here. I try not to think about it. On the night of June 30, 1990, a minibus in which I was travelling was involved in a head-on collision on a road near Latina, in the region of Lazio, near Rome.
I was sleeping in a passenger seat and had no idea of the horror that had occurred. My friend, Brian Tiler, was killed. So were the three teenage Italian soldiers in the other car.
I woke up in hospital with terrible injuries. Apparently, a sheet had been placed over my face at the scene of the accident with the presumption that I must be dead.
Another friend, Michael Sinclair, the former chairman of York City, had pulled me clear of the wreckage — I was soaked in petrol, and he feared an explosion.
I have no memory of it and am happy for it to stay that way. I went to sleep and the accident happened. I woke up in hospital. All I know is that I lost a wonderful pal in Brian, and a moment of recklessness cost three young men their lives.
The accident happened on one of those three-lane carriageways that are commonplace in Europe: a lane for traffic north, another for traffic south, and one in the middle for whoever is brave enough.
It was a bad road, notorious for accidents, and the three youngsters were on our side of it, attempting to overtake a vehicle at 90mph.
Losing Brian really affected me. I have had good relationships with a number of my bosses at football clubs, but there was never anyone quite like him.
He was Bournemouth’s chief executive and I liked his company. I miss our glasses of wine on a Friday night before the match. I couldn’t have had a better boss. I can’t remember whose idea it was to book a trip to the World Cup in Italy in 1990, but I wouldn’t call it work.
It was the holiday of a lifetime, really. There was no way Bournemouth could afford any of the players on show.
On the night of the crash we had seen Italy beat the Republic of Ireland and afterwards we stopped for a pizza at a little square around the corner from the Stadio Olimpico.
Some Irish fans joined us and we struck up a conversation about Gerry Peyton, who was my goalkeeper and Ireland’s second choice behind Pat Bonner.
Brian was anxious to go because we had to be up early the next morning to get to Naples, where England were playing Cameroon. I must have held us up about 10 minutes, chatting to these lads.
I often think about those 10 minutes. If we had gone when Brian wanted, he would still be here today, and perhaps those kids would still be alive, too.
I’m not saying I’m tortured. I wasn’t to know the consequences, I understand that. Yet when I play back what I remember of that night, there are so many little twists, things that were, quite literally, the difference between life and death.
Brian nicked my seat. That was my punishment for keeping everybody hanging about. I usually took the aisle position, Brian sat by the window because I didn’t like the breeze. But when I got on board that night, he had switched spots.
How fateful was that little wind-up? I just remember the hospital in Latina, coming around in bed two days later.
I think it was about another two days on when I felt well enough to begin piecing it all together. That is when I found out Brian had died. I was told the whole bloody nightmare.
The paramedics on the scene thought I was already dead. The doctors shared that opinion when I arrived at the hospital, too.
Somebody certainly thought I wouldn’t be needing any money where I was going, as my valuables, including my watch, were never recovered.
I had fractured my skull and many other bones, and suffered a horrific gash to my leg that still bears a scar.
I don’t think my life was ever in danger but I have never regained my sense of smell, not a complete disadvantage in some dressing rooms.
When I look at pictures of the accident scene I can hardly believe that any of us survived. I felt so desperately sad when I heard Brian was gone.
So sad for Hazel, his wife, and his daughter, Michelle.
We had been through a lot together at Bournemouth, shared some great times, had so many laughs. It was never quite the same at Bournemouth for me.
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Your head looks like a scrotum. Discuss.
Maybe you should find out about why Dave W. would like to know about his friendship with Brian Tyler before resorting to that kind of puerile bollocks.
Edit. Just seen PWS' post from last night. Playing catch up and didn't notice the time stamps or look for replies.
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Do you ever get the urge to 'crack one out' after the daughter in law has left your house?
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How long did you have your head in the oven before you realised your face was melting.
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How long did you have your head in the oven before you realised your face was melting.
Try reading the post three above yours.
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Taking the p*** out of people's facial features is tantamount to childhood bullying regardless of how and why they look like they do.
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Plenty of legitimate reasons to give Redknapp stick without resorting to childish insults.
I'd ask him for his thoughts on Broken Dreams by Tom Bower, if he's read it.
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Taking the p*** out of people's facial features is tantamount to childhood bullying regardless of how and why they look like they do.
Unless we're talking about David Platt. There's an exception to every rule.
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Ask him how a mediocre footballer who never played international football and a manager who was sacked by almost as many clubs as he bankrupted should ever have been taken seriously as a potential England manager?
Then ask him how a mediocre footballer who never played international football and a manager who was sacked by almost as many clubs as he bankrupted ever became a multi millionaire?
Actually, thinking about it, I know the answer to the second question. Get a good accountant and tax adviser and then burrow yourself up the backside of naive Club Chairnen and Sky TV executives and producers.
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Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough, Ron Saunders and Sir Graham never played internationals. BFR's greatest playing achievements were for the Villa fourth team.
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Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough, Ron Saunders and Sir Graham never played internationals. BFR's greatest playing achievements were for the Villa fourth team.
I'm not sure that's quite fair Dave. Atkinson played a lot of games for Oxford too, not a top level player but a decent league career.
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And Clough played a couple of internationals.
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Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough, Ron Saunders and Sir Graham never played internationals. BFR's greatest playing achievements were for the Villa fourth team.
I take your point, but you aren't seriously comparing those first four managerial greats with Redknapp, are you? I don't think any of them got clubs they managed bankrupted and/or relegated, did they, and while Redknapp won a FA Cup with Pompey, and had a couple of half decent seasons with West Ham and Spurs, he never won a damned thing as far as I can remember.
As for BFR, I'd put him in a similar category to Redknapp. Essentially a media darling and very much a legend in his own lunchtime as a Manager.
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Isn't Redknapp the only manager who has got Spuds into the CL? I'd say that was a decent manager.
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Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough, Ron Saunders and Sir Graham never played internationals. BFR's greatest playing achievements were for the Villa fourth team.
I take your point, but you aren't seriously comparing those first four managerial greats with Redknapp, are you? I don't think any of them got clubs they managred bankrupted and/or relegated, did they, and while Redknapp won a FA Cup with Pompey, and had a couple of half decent seasons with West Ham and Spurs, he never won a damned thing as far as I can remember.
As for BFR, I'd put him in a similar category to Redknapp. Essentially a media darling and very much a legend in his own lunchtime as a Manager.
Well Clough's final act as a manager was relegating Forest.
Atkinson, whilst not top drawer took us and Man Utd close to the league title. He got the Utd gig on the back of giving that lot down the road their best 2 or 3 seasons in the last 50 and had the balls to try managing abroad.
Redknapp's never managed anywhere more than an hour's drive from where his dog can withdraw money by paw print.
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Ron Saunders got relegated with sha and the Bitters.
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Ask him: how's the Dog?
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Your head looks like a scrotum. Discuss.
Maybe you should find out about why Dave W. would like to know about his friendship with Brian Tyler before resorting to that kind of puerile bollocks.
Edit. Just seen PWS' post from last night. Playing catch up and didn't notice the time stamps or look for replies.
I must admit I feel like a complete penis and rightly so. I had no idea whatsoever that he had been involved in any accident. I'm jumping off the bandwagon.
Edit: chasing to get back onto the Bono bandwagon or the man who presents Homes Under the Hammer (not dublin).
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I'm not keen on taking the piss out of his appearance, for the reasons stated in this thread and, countless times before, elsewhere on this forum.
He's still a terrible human being and a poor manager though, take the piss out of those facts instead.
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And just realised I was replying to a post a page ago, oophs.
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Ask him he thinks the F.A passed him over when they appointed Woy.
Oh, and ask him why Barry didn't take the penalty.
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Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough, Ron Saunders and Sir Graham never played internationals. BFR's greatest playing achievements were for the Villa fourth team.
I take your point, but you aren't seriously comparing those first four managerial greats with Redknapp, are you? I don't think any of them got clubs they managed bankrupted and/or relegated, did they, and while Redknapp won a FA Cup with Pompey, and had a couple of half decent seasons with West Ham and Spurs, he never won a damned thing as far as I can remember.
No, but as your point was based around the fact that Redknapp's mediocre playing career might stop him from being a good manager - they are four pretty good examples that demonstrate how good a player you are matters not one bit in relation to how good a manager you might be.
I don't think Harry Redknapp is a particularly good manager at all, but how good he was as a player has nothing to do with it.
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I'm not keen on taking the piss out of his appearance, for the reasons stated in this thread and, countless times before, elsewhere on this forum.
He's still a terrible human being and a poor manager though, take the piss out of those facts instead.
Is he really a terrible human? That seems a bit harsh. Unless you know something about him that isn't public knowledge.
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the left by the fire to melt look isn't that becoming though is it?
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the left by the fire to melt look isn't that becoming though is it?
Commenting about it even after it's been pointed out what happened to him is even less so.
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Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough, Ron Saunders and Sir Graham never played internationals. BFR's greatest playing achievements were for the Villa fourth team.
I take your point, but you aren't seriously comparing those first four managerial greats with Redknapp, are you? I don't think any of them got clubs they managed bankrupted and/or relegated, did they, and while Redknapp won a FA Cup with Pompey, and had a couple of half decent seasons with West Ham and Spurs, he never won a damned thing as far as I can remember.
No, but as your point was based around the fact that Redknapp's mediocre playing career might stop him from being a good manager - they are four pretty good examples that demonstrate how good a player you are matters not one bit in relation to how good a manager you might be.
I don't think Harry Redknapp is a particularly good manager at all, but how good he was as a player has nothing to do with it.
You can also throw it around on how many great and world class players have gone on to be great or good managers. Not many.
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I'm not keen on taking the piss out of his appearance, for the reasons stated in this thread and, countless times before, elsewhere on this forum.
He's still a terrible human being and a poor manager though, take the piss out of those facts instead.
Is he really a terrible human? That seems a bit harsh. Unless you know something about him that isn't public knowledge.
There are obviously certain things it's not wise to say on here. Certain wealthy people like Redknapp, Gerrard and OJ Simpson obtain not guilty verdicts and I'll make no comment on them whatsoever.
Outside of that though, I disliked the way he stormed out of an interview because they called him a wheeler-dealer, the precious twat. Even though he spends every transfer deadline day hanging out the side of his environment-destroying vehicle boasting about all the wheeler-dealing he's doing.
I don't like the way he's been to thousands of football matches, including Portsmouth v Southampton and Arsenal v Tottenham derbies, and probably heard quite a lot of naughty language. Yet the only time he feels the need to complain is when it is directed at him. Despite the fact he's incapable of stringing a sentence together without swearing. (Before anyone suggests that I'm condoning them, this does not in any way justify the twattish actions of the moron who threw a coin at him in our subsequent meeting).
He just seems like the sort of person I would hate. Probably votes UKIP and has all U2's albums, too.
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His passionate love of money is quite unappealing.
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Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough, Ron Saunders and Sir Graham never played internationals. BFR's greatest playing achievements were for the Villa fourth team.
I take your point, but you aren't seriously comparing those first four managerial greats with Redknapp, are you? I don't think any of them got clubs they managed bankrupted and/or relegated, did they, and while Redknapp won a FA Cup with Pompey, and had a couple of half decent seasons with West Ham and Spurs, he never won a damned thing as far as I can remember.
No, but as your point was based around the fact that Redknapp's mediocre playing career might stop him from being a good manager - they are four pretty good examples that demonstrate how good a player you are matters not one bit in relation to how good a manager you might be.
I don't think Harry Redknapp is a particularly good manager at all, but how good he was as a player has nothing to do with it.
You can also throw it around on how many great and world class players have gone on to be great or good managers. Not many.
Based on what they won, it's a list that probably begins with Cruyff and Beckenbauer, finds room for Guardiola, Dalglish, Zagallo and Ancelloti and then starts to fall away pretty quickly.
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I would just like to apologise unreservedly for posting a tongue-in-cheek remark about Harry.
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I would just like to apologise unreservedly for posting a tongue-in-cheek remark about Harry.
Thank you.
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Ron Saunders got relegated with sha and the Bitters.
He also had a better goal scoring record than most including our own record holder, Billy Walker.
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Ask him he thinks the F.A passed him over when they appointed Woy.
Oh, and ask him why Barry didn't take the penalty.
Perhaps he could explain buy out clauses to us. We all need to know before the next window.
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I'm not keen on taking the piss out of his appearance, for the reasons stated in this thread and, countless times before, elsewhere on this forum.
He's still a terrible human being and a poor manager though, take the piss out of those facts instead.
Is he really a terrible human? That seems a bit harsh. Unless you know something about him that isn't public knowledge.
There are obviously certain things it's not wise to say on here. Certain wealthy people like Redknapp, Gerrard and OJ Simpson obtain not guilty verdicts and I'll make no comment on them whatsoever.
Outside of that though, I disliked the way he stormed out of an interview because they called him a wheeler-dealer, the precious twat. Even though he spends every transfer deadline day hanging out the side of his environment-destroying vehicle boasting about all the wheeler-dealing he's doing.
I don't like the way he's been to thousands of football matches, including Portsmouth v Southampton and Arsenal v Tottenham derbies, and probably heard quite a lot of naughty language. Yet the only time he feels the need to complain is when it is directed at him. Despite the fact he's incapable of stringing a sentence together without swearing. (Before anyone suggests that I'm condoning them, this does not in any way justify the twattish actions of the moron who threw a coin at him in our subsequent meeting).
He just seems like the sort of person I would hate. Probably votes UKIP and has all U2's albums, too.
That's the clincher, right there.
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I think the way he belittles his wife is pretty Neanderthal.
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He easily proves my simple rule of thumb:
Feted by the tabloids? - Probably a c**t.
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Plenty of legitimate reasons to give Redknapp stick without resorting to childish insults.
I'd ask him for his thoughts on Broken Dreams by Tom Bower, if he's read it.
This. Relates to his policy of signing countless unknowns while at West Ham.
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Plenty of legitimate reasons to give Redknapp stick without resorting to childish insults.
I'd ask him for his thoughts on Broken Dreams by Tom Bower, if he's read it.
This. Relates to his policy of signing countless unknowns while at West Ham.
Yep, and it also mentions that he burst into tears when he was sacked by West Ham, I always laugh at the thought of this. Suggested he was very "involved" in selling Ferdinand to Leeds, the Cockney cock-end
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He just seems like the sort of person I would hate. Probably votes UKIP and has all U2's albums, too.
this really made me smile :)
cheers cd.
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