Phil Neville's comments on Tomáš Rosický on MOTD2

efb

He said he'd two-foot him, because of his wonderful pass today.

Surely this is a scummy comment and has no place in football?

CSF

Yeah he will regret that one alright.

efb

I hope he gets the Chiles treatment. P45 time

michael999999

Trying to create a bit of controversy around himself I'd say!

efb

Here's the goal from youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnKSY6v1vjc

JaMarcusHustle

efb wrote: »

Surely this is a scummy comment and has no place in football?

Perhaps, if you're a sensitive Sally that is.

For the rest of us non drama queens, it was clearly said in jest and not to be taken seriously.

https://vine.co/v/OTM5tbqgLbE

efb

JaMarcusHustle wrote: »

Perhaps, if you're a sensitive Sally that is.

For the rest of us non drama queens, it was clearly said in jest and not to be taken seriously.

https://vine.co/v/OTM5tbqgLbE

I don't think such things as a career ending tackle have any place on TV. Even paddy power twitter know he over stepped the mark

brevity

He's probably just angry that he doesnt know how to make a cup of instant coffee.

Richard Hillman

My god, he was only joking.

Kirby

Get off the high horses lads. Have none of you ever played football? The lad showboating in training or in a game often got hatcheted.

It's not pretty and I personally dislike that laddish, hardman culture but it was very, very common. He didn't say anything outlandish.

Soups123

efb wrote: »

I don't think such things as a career ending tackle have any place on TV. Even paddy power twitter know he over stepped the mark

I didn't see MOTD unless there's more too it then that it looks very jokey!

gandalf

Errr any pundit advocating a two footed and possible career ending tackle should be dropped by the BBC. Disgraceful comment and it is backing up the idea that thuggery on the pitch is the way to deal with skilful players!

I can just imagine the out roar in here if Thierry Henry for example said something similar.

Drexel

Please please please take him off match of the day. He's awful

efb

Kirby wrote: »

Get off the high horses lads. Have none of you ever played football? The lad showboating in training or in a game often got hatcheted.

It's not pretty and I personally dislike that laddish, hardman culture but it was very, very common. He didn't say anything outlandish.

two-footing a player isn't overstepping the mark???

Its endorsing career ending tackles

Kirby

efb wrote: »

I don't think such things as a career ending tackle have any place on TV. Even paddy power twitter know he over stepped the mark

efb wrote: »

two-footing a player isn't overstepping the mark???

Its endorsing career ending tackles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHTbpEnBx0

There's an Arsenal player doing just that.

It's not pleasant but it most certainly is a part of football. Stop being a drama queen.

efb

Soups123 wrote: »

I didn't see MOTD unless there's more too it then that it looks very jokey!

ok. watch motd2 and let me know.

Dirty Steve

Phil Neville. The poor man's Gary Neville.

blinding

gandalf wrote: »

Errr any pundit advocating a two footed and possible career ending tackle should be dropped by the BBC. Disgraceful comment and it is backing up the idea that thuggery on the pitch is the way to deal with skilful players!

I can just imagine the out roar in here if Thierry Henry for example said something similar.

Henry wouldn't be able to do it anyway ! I am not too sure if Phil Neville would be able to do that much damage here.

Still it was a damn stupid thing for him to say and did he actually say it twice.

He is a twat prat.

Soups123

efb wrote: »

ok. watch motd2 and let me know.

I tried googling but could only get a quote anyone got a link that goes a few seconds longer than the one posted?

efb

Kirby wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHTbpEnBx0

There's an Arsenal player doing just that.

It's not pleasant but it most certainly is a part of football. Stop being a drama queen.

did I condone that???

Davei141

efb wrote: »

two-footing a player isn't overstepping the mark???

Its endorsing career ending tackles

Not only career ending but life ending if he jumps too high and catches Rosicky right in the face. Phil Neville should be done for inciting violence. :pac:

Harry Palmr

Anyone who knows anything about the culture of the training ground would not be shocked if fancy-dan behaviour were undercut with an elbow or a two foot sliding tackle.

efb

If it was some Soccer AM trash I'd understand but its MOTD, tv's flagship football program.

Kirby

efb wrote: »

did I condone that???

No, but you blew the comment up into something it wasn't because he said it about an Arsenal player. If he had said it about some non leaguer, there would be no thread here.

xtal191

https://twitter.com/fizzer18/status/559497103651930112

efb

Kirby wrote: »

No, but you blew the comment up into something it wasn't because he said it about an Arsenal player. If he had said it about some non leaguer, there would be no thread here.

thats an assumption you are making, I haven't heard it about any other player, i wouldn't be impressed whomever he played for

efb

xtal191 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/fizzer18/status/559497103651930112

irresponsible on tv's flagship football program

The Moldy Gowl

efb wrote: »

thats an assumption you are making, I haven't heard it about any other player, i wouldn't be impressed whomever he played for

Good for you.

Kirby

efb wrote: »

thats an assumption you are making, I haven't heard it about any other player, i wouldn't be impressed whomever he played for

So you being an Arsenal fan and it being said about Rosicky are completely unrelated. You would have started this thread regardless......... :rolleyes:

You trying to say that with a straight face?

I would like to remind the jury that this is mr efb's phone wallpaper.

The prosecution rests.

efb

Kirby wrote: »

So you being an Arsenal fan and it being said about Rosicky are completely unrelated. You would have started this thread regardless......... :rolleyes:

You trying to say that with a straight face?

I would like to remind the jury that this is mr efb's phone wallpaper.

The prosecution rests.

That would be all inadmissible as its conjecture.

I don't have time for career ending tackles etc. And enough of the nancy name calling cr@p. I'm sure boxing is more physical than football...

bad2dabone

Phil neville is just a goose who should be ignored.

That's it really.

DVDM93

bad2dabone wrote: »

Phil neville is just a goose who should be ignored.

That's it really.

The goose is on the loose. Quack quack.

bucketybuck

What a non-issue to start a thread about.

bad2dabone

DVDM93 wrote: »

The goose is on the loose. Quack quack.

Can he duck this controversy?

WoollyRedHat

His twitter handle is crap, fizzer 18? Pfffft

efb

bucketybuck wrote: »

What a non-issue to start a thread about.

delighted you found it worthy enough to comment on all the same

efb

Kirby wrote: »

So you being an Arsenal fan and it being said about Rosicky are completely unrelated. You would have started this thread regardless......... :rolleyes:

You trying to say that with a straight face?

I would like to remind the jury that this is mr efb's phone wallpaper.

The prosecution rests.

also that is a pic I posted that one could use as phone wallpaper, not that it was mine.
Prosecution is based on whataboutary and conjecture. The defence rests.

efb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__uMFYh7Azk

Phil's last two footed challenge...

Arghus

Arsenal fan here, big fan of everything Tomas Rosicky. I was surprised when I heard him say it but I don't think he should be handed a P45 because of it.

It was a joke, maybe an ill judged one, but an off the cuff remark meant to be taken lightly, rather than a carte blanche for leg breakers to come back into style.

I think if a pundit with a former hard man reputation had said something of the sort, people would say they enjoyed his honesty. For example, if Roy Keane said that in a press conference the media would lap it up and so would a lot of football fans.

I'm no fan of Phil Neville in general, he's a boring and dull pundit, but I did find it refreshing that, for one second, he deviated from the script to give some insight to how he himself would have reacted to Rosicky playing in such a way. So much football coverage is sycophantic repetitive nonsense, particularly on MOTD. Maybe it's not advisable or palatable to some, but it was honest and I'd welcome that, rather than Mark Lawrenson phoning it in or Robbie Savage giving out about diving and cheating like he's on a one man moral crusade, when we all know he was a dirty player himself back in the day.

PhlegmyMoses

efb wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__uMFYh7Azk

Phil's last two footed challenge...

That's a two footed challenge insofar as both players have two feet.

This thread is sponsored by Maude Flanders

Sports pundit makes silly comment.

I'm shocked. I was at home expecting postmodern deconstructive analysis. Sack him.

efb

Maybe we should use #banter for the 'proper' football fans...

Dirty Steve

Can't stand Phil Neville, but tbh he's only equally as bad as the rest of them. It's as if they are told to be completely devoid of personality or non-conformist opinions before each show starts.
The best thing I've seen on Match of the Day in a long while was Ruud Gullit being confused about Paul Lambert/Rickie Lambert the other week; which saya a lot tbh.

blinding

Dirty Steve wrote: »

Can't stand Phil Neville, but tbh he's only equally as bad as the rest of them. It's as if they are told to be completely devoid of personality or non-conformist opinions before each show starts.
The best thing I've seen on Match of the Day in a long while was Ruud Gullit being confused about Paul Lambert/Rickie Lambert the other week; which saya a lot tbh.

Ruud Gullit likes to collect the dosh without putting much effort in. The BBC obviously has not done much research on his managerial efforts.

AllGunsBlazing

I've heard worse. I remember Alan Hansen complaining that a defender needed shooing for commiting a error that led to a goal. Less than two days after Andreas Escobars' murder. Then there was Graeme Souness' infamous rape comment on RTE a few years back.

efb

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

I've heard worse. I remember Alan Hansen complaining that a defender needed shooing for commiting a error that led to a goal. Less than two days after Andreas Escobars' murder. Then there was Graeme Souness' infamous rape comment on RTE a few years back.

Souness was punished

efb

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

That's a two footed challenge insofar as both players have two feet.

This thread is sponsored by Maude Flanders

Don't you mean Mrs Lovejoy? maude's dead

AllGunsBlazing

efb wrote: »

Souness was punished

What was the punishment? I do remember Darragh Maloney sheepishly apologizing after the ad break.

efb

Souness was 'on a break' for awhile

greendom

Kirby wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHTbpEnBx0

There's an Arsenal player doing just that.

It's not pleasant but it most certainly is a part of football. Stop being a drama queen.

Pure what-aboutery. Bad tackles happen from time. You don't expect them to be condoned by tv pundits

Nothing story.

Phil Neville is a poor analyst though.