Greetings,
Question: Your a football manager, your playing away from home against last years Premiers, its the second half and your 1-0 up.
Do you (a) go all out and try and grab another 2 goals because you want to smash them into the ground?
or (b) do you take a more conservative tact and try and soak up their pressure and hope to nick a 2nd goal on the counter?
99% of managers within the world of football would select option (b) without a second thought. It is the most sensible option if you want to keep your job and any of the 3 points you have in your hands at the time. Mr Andy Harper on the other hand last night demonstrated why he is NOT a football managers left testicle and why he has gone a long way in my book to becoming the most hated football commentator in the world. Yes thats right, even more hated than Robbie "I have a Premiership winners medal dont you know" Slater.
Last night the mighty Newcastle Jets were playing away from home against the Melbourne Victory. A very tough away game, one in which i was hoping that we could some how sneak away with a 0-0 draw. So it was to my great delight that after around 7mins Adam Griffiths appeared at the far post to head home the opening goal of the game. Beautiful to watch, but even i would admit it was against the run of play, Melbourne were lively in the opening minutes. Now hang on a minute, there isnt anything irregular there, Melbourne were the home team, of course they would be the more attacking team early, should we expect anything different?
Andy Harper does!
Straight after the goal Melbourne threw everything at the Jets defence, trying to get the goal back. Here i must add that while Melbourne had a lions share of the possession they did sweet FA with it. The main reason for this, was The Jets defence was of world class standards, especially North and Griffiths, and did the commentators acknowledge this? Oh no, they just pointed out that The Jets were wasteful in attack. Now im sure most Jets fans expected the boys to be on the defensive for quite some time after getting the goal and im sure that most Victory fans expected their boys to hammer the Jets defense for the remainder of the half.
Andy Harper didnt! He couldnt understand why the possession was so 1 sided!
The second half began with the Victory smashing the Jets penalty area and pinning them in their own half. To the most educated, no scrap that, to just about all football fans, this was to be expected. The home team was 1-0 down, they had just had a halftime serve from their coach and their fans had found their voice and were trying to sing their team back into the game.It was to be expected, it was my thought, as im sure it was for alot of you, that if The Jets could withstand the onslaught for at least 15 mins then they would stand a huge chance of getting something from the game.
Andy Harper didnt! He couldnt understand why The Jets were struggling to get out of their own half.
The game was starting to heat up as the Victory struggled to find a way past a very impressive Jets defence. Tackles were flying in all over the place from both teams as Matthew "Im an Orc from the Lord of the Rings" Breeze started to lose control. Then the inevitable happened, Joel Griffiths lost the ball and snapped, chased Pantelidistheoklitoscookiemonster down the sideline and fouled him several times before the guy got the shits and elbowed him in the face. Stupid thing to do as Breeze had blown the freekick at the moment he lashed out. Now everyone knows, as strange as a sounds, its actually harder to play against 10 men.
Andy Harper doesnt! He thinks its easier.
With 20 mins to go, the home team is still 1-0 down, the crowd are getting even louder than before due to the sending off and Melbourne are quite rightly throwing everything they have at the Jets to try and salvage something from the game. For the next 18 minutes Andy Harper wanks on about how he doesnt understand why the Jets are not 5-0 up, "why are the Jets not dominating the game?", "why are Melbourne still in the game?", "why dont i have any friends?". Here is something for you to think about Harper, how about you actually take notice of how the game is unfolding instead of sticking your head in a bowling ball cleaner to get that nice "shine"!
Then on 88 minutes it happens, exactly what The Jets have been playing for since the opener. An opportunistic, against the run of play goal. Imagine that, its unbelievable, unheard of, its football Harper! Joel Griffiths got the goal his hard work deserved and The Jets were going on to win and all there was from Harper was silence! Looking back it was perhaps his finest 5 minutes of commentary all season, if only he would shut his useless mouth for 90 minutes then he would be the complete commentator!
During the game i messaged Henry Bergkamp and expressed my disdain for Haper, "He is SO pro Melbourne it is making me sick". Bergkamp replied and said that he didnt think he was pro Melbourne, just anti away team holding onto a 1-0 scoreline. The truth is i think he is right, but it only makes it worse. If Harper was pro Melbourne i could just brush it aside and say "oh well he is just saying that cos he wears Victory underwear, but he isnt. I have come to the conclusion that he has no idea about the game of football, i think he is a halfwit when it comes to football tactics. What else does he expect a team away from home to do with a 1-0 lead? Throw it away? Dickhead.
I was thinking that maybe i was being a bit harsh on the man, i mean he did play in the old NSL for years, he did play for the socceroos..................hang on a minute......... he didnt, hahahahahahaha, he never made it.......hahahahahahaha, that has to hurt. I just read somewhere that "he is the best player to never play for the socceroos", what a joke! Pele never played for the socceroos, does that make Harper better than Pele? What a tosser, i bet he was the one who came up with that quote, him or his mother.
The sooner Fox Sports realise that Harper and Slater are just has beens with no ability in calling the game, the better.
Its just my opinion
Sir Boom
p.s. Where was Robbie "I have a Premiership winners medal" Slater last night anyway? At the hairdressers getting an orange rinse put throgh that hair of his? Do you know he was once known as the "Ginger Maradona" hahahaha Tosser
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
3 strikes and your out!
Greetings
I'd just like to start today by apologising straight up for what i am about to write about, the following post and the views expressed within it are entirely those of Sir Boom and not any other author of the site that is Boom Goes The Arsenal. That being said i have a feeling that they will agree with my opinions despite their controversial nature. So with that out of the way, on with the rant.
It was mid Sunday morning and after having to get up for work at 3:30am i wasnt really in the mood for doing anything other than lying around, having a bit of a "nana nap" and watching the Jets in the afternoon. As is always the case in my house my plans seem to vary from those of the very lovely Lady Boom. It was brought to my attention, just as i was boarding the choo choo train to sleepyville, that Lady Boom was bored and wanted to go into the city for some shopping. So i did what any self respecting husband does, and pretended to be asleep until she left the room. Moments later she returned announcing that she and her sister were leaving without me and would return later, fine by me!
Problem now was i had lost that sleepy feeling so i arose and found i had 3 hours to kill until the Jets kicked off, oh how was i to fill this wonderful time alone? With TV of course, and whatever sport happened to be on, even if it was womans billiards. Well i settled for something far less interesting, the Thugby League "Test Match" of Australia v New Zealand. What a joke that was! Absolutely pathetic! I really dont rate the game that much, i mean in all honesty its a stupid game for meat heads with no brains and the game did little to prove me wrong. There was a massive crowd of around 178 people there to witness the 2 "best teams in the whole wide world" smash the crap out of eachother. I didnt even finish watching the game and instead wasted money of the horses.
The one thing i will say is that Thugby League should never be allowed to have a "World Cup", their use of the term is an insult to all real sports and if i had my way it would be banned.
Dont think for a second that this is where my rant stops, oh no people, the shit has yet to hit the fan let me tell you!
The time clicked over to 2:30pm, the time of the pre-game show and i was that bored i thought i would even be able to put up with Robbie "I have a premiership winners medal dont you know" Slater's shit. To my surprise though when i turned over the show was not on, the "Baseball" was still going and was "Live" so Fox Sports was staying with it. Fair enough i said, ill come back in 15 mins. Well i did come back, however it was still going, bottom of the 9th inning or something and from memory that was close to the end of the game, problem was the scores were tied. I was starting to get worried.
If you have ever bothered to watch a game of Baseball you will be aware of how utterly fuckin boring it is and how fuckin long the game takes to move along. Man i thought that cricket was sometimes boring, but it has nothing on this game. It is incredible, nothing happens for around 30 mins, then someone finally hits a ball, then nothing happens for another 30 mins. I have a theory as to why the game of baseball is slow, and it is this, all Americans are fat right, therefore it takes them a long time to move, hence why baseball is so slow. Then there is this point, a game of baseball can take over 5 hours, if you attend one of these games as a spectator how many hotdogs do you think you can eat in 5 hours? A shitload! There being the reason why so many Americans are fat, hence why baseball is so slow! Its a vicious cycle that those poor people are in, but then again anyone stupid enough to elect a halfwit like Bush not once, but twice deserves to be punished by being fat and made to watch baseball for 5 hours!
Problem is that i am neither fat, nor American, therefore i shouldnt be subject to that shit and needless to say i was pissed of big time that i missed basically the 1st half of the Jets v Wellington game. In the end the Jets won and i suppose thats all that counts.
Its just my opinion
Sir Boom
I'd just like to start today by apologising straight up for what i am about to write about, the following post and the views expressed within it are entirely those of Sir Boom and not any other author of the site that is Boom Goes The Arsenal. That being said i have a feeling that they will agree with my opinions despite their controversial nature. So with that out of the way, on with the rant.
It was mid Sunday morning and after having to get up for work at 3:30am i wasnt really in the mood for doing anything other than lying around, having a bit of a "nana nap" and watching the Jets in the afternoon. As is always the case in my house my plans seem to vary from those of the very lovely Lady Boom. It was brought to my attention, just as i was boarding the choo choo train to sleepyville, that Lady Boom was bored and wanted to go into the city for some shopping. So i did what any self respecting husband does, and pretended to be asleep until she left the room. Moments later she returned announcing that she and her sister were leaving without me and would return later, fine by me!
Problem now was i had lost that sleepy feeling so i arose and found i had 3 hours to kill until the Jets kicked off, oh how was i to fill this wonderful time alone? With TV of course, and whatever sport happened to be on, even if it was womans billiards. Well i settled for something far less interesting, the Thugby League "Test Match" of Australia v New Zealand. What a joke that was! Absolutely pathetic! I really dont rate the game that much, i mean in all honesty its a stupid game for meat heads with no brains and the game did little to prove me wrong. There was a massive crowd of around 178 people there to witness the 2 "best teams in the whole wide world" smash the crap out of eachother. I didnt even finish watching the game and instead wasted money of the horses.
The one thing i will say is that Thugby League should never be allowed to have a "World Cup", their use of the term is an insult to all real sports and if i had my way it would be banned.
Dont think for a second that this is where my rant stops, oh no people, the shit has yet to hit the fan let me tell you!
The time clicked over to 2:30pm, the time of the pre-game show and i was that bored i thought i would even be able to put up with Robbie "I have a premiership winners medal dont you know" Slater's shit. To my surprise though when i turned over the show was not on, the "Baseball" was still going and was "Live" so Fox Sports was staying with it. Fair enough i said, ill come back in 15 mins. Well i did come back, however it was still going, bottom of the 9th inning or something and from memory that was close to the end of the game, problem was the scores were tied. I was starting to get worried.
If you have ever bothered to watch a game of Baseball you will be aware of how utterly fuckin boring it is and how fuckin long the game takes to move along. Man i thought that cricket was sometimes boring, but it has nothing on this game. It is incredible, nothing happens for around 30 mins, then someone finally hits a ball, then nothing happens for another 30 mins. I have a theory as to why the game of baseball is slow, and it is this, all Americans are fat right, therefore it takes them a long time to move, hence why baseball is so slow. Then there is this point, a game of baseball can take over 5 hours, if you attend one of these games as a spectator how many hotdogs do you think you can eat in 5 hours? A shitload! There being the reason why so many Americans are fat, hence why baseball is so slow! Its a vicious cycle that those poor people are in, but then again anyone stupid enough to elect a halfwit like Bush not once, but twice deserves to be punished by being fat and made to watch baseball for 5 hours!
Problem is that i am neither fat, nor American, therefore i shouldnt be subject to that shit and needless to say i was pissed of big time that i missed basically the 1st half of the Jets v Wellington game. In the end the Jets won and i suppose thats all that counts.
Its just my opinion
Sir Boom
Monday, October 8, 2007
I did the unthinkable!
Greetings,
It was Thursday afternoon and i was doing my usual thing of surfing the football websites looking for any piece of team news that would help me in my fantasy football title challenge when i came across a piece of news that sent my world into disarray. The word on the street was that the mighty Cese Fabregas might be rested for the game against Sunderland. "Bullshit" i hear you say, "who would do such a thing?", well they were my thoughts exactly, but after i got over the initial shock that this could be more than just a rumour i had a huge dilemma in front of me. Do i take the captains arm band off him, or more drastically, drop him altogether? Could i bring myself to do it?
"You would never drop Fabregas Sir Boom" Henry Bergkamp said to me, and he was right, im might look stupid but id like to think im not! hahaha but take the arm band from him, that was another thing. Before the weekend i was in 2nd place in the Black Ice league, 18 points behind the leader, Sir Boom needed to make a move!
Looking at my team i had several possible replacements for the Captaincy of the mighty "Highly Fabregas". With The Arsenal playing Sunderland, Robin Van Persie was an obvious choice. Manure were playing the footballing giants that are Wigan so my newest recruit, Ronaldo, looked a good bet, or even Petrov from Man City had been racking up the points of late. I was pretty sure that nobody else would be thinking about making the change i was toying with so it was either going to pay massive dividends, or if Fabregas did what he has been doing all season and chipped in with a goal or 2 it could backfire big time.
These are the decisions that can make or break a season, this is why we get paid the big bucks, this is why we become managers. It was not a decision i was taking lightly, so i put on my thinking music, Pearl Jam, sat back and contemplated.
Heading into the staff meeting i was confident that i had made the right choice, Fabregas was staying, but not as captain. Needless to say my backroom staff were in total shock. "Are you mad?", "Dont do it Sir Boom, this is madness!". This was not the worst of the news, i still had to tell them who id named as captain, so after the cries had died down and the women stopped the tears, i let them know Ronaldo got the arm band. "What? anyone but him! The man is nothing more than Manure scum", "You've lost the plot Sir Boom, we are doomed", i had to restore order.
"Right, shut it you lot, this is my team. I am the manager and what i say goes, dont think for a minute that i want this, it is just something that has to be done and if you dont like it you know where the door is. Maybe you can go and get a job at Leeds (8 wins and 1 draw nice work). I am Sir Boom and what i say goes!
In the end its results that matter.
Ronaldo 13 points, 26 as captain
Fabregas 4 points, 8 as captain
You do the math, am i a genius? Id like to think so.
Its just my opinion
Sir Boom
It was Thursday afternoon and i was doing my usual thing of surfing the football websites looking for any piece of team news that would help me in my fantasy football title challenge when i came across a piece of news that sent my world into disarray. The word on the street was that the mighty Cese Fabregas might be rested for the game against Sunderland. "Bullshit" i hear you say, "who would do such a thing?", well they were my thoughts exactly, but after i got over the initial shock that this could be more than just a rumour i had a huge dilemma in front of me. Do i take the captains arm band off him, or more drastically, drop him altogether? Could i bring myself to do it?
"You would never drop Fabregas Sir Boom" Henry Bergkamp said to me, and he was right, im might look stupid but id like to think im not! hahaha but take the arm band from him, that was another thing. Before the weekend i was in 2nd place in the Black Ice league, 18 points behind the leader, Sir Boom needed to make a move!
Looking at my team i had several possible replacements for the Captaincy of the mighty "Highly Fabregas". With The Arsenal playing Sunderland, Robin Van Persie was an obvious choice. Manure were playing the footballing giants that are Wigan so my newest recruit, Ronaldo, looked a good bet, or even Petrov from Man City had been racking up the points of late. I was pretty sure that nobody else would be thinking about making the change i was toying with so it was either going to pay massive dividends, or if Fabregas did what he has been doing all season and chipped in with a goal or 2 it could backfire big time.
These are the decisions that can make or break a season, this is why we get paid the big bucks, this is why we become managers. It was not a decision i was taking lightly, so i put on my thinking music, Pearl Jam, sat back and contemplated.
Heading into the staff meeting i was confident that i had made the right choice, Fabregas was staying, but not as captain. Needless to say my backroom staff were in total shock. "Are you mad?", "Dont do it Sir Boom, this is madness!". This was not the worst of the news, i still had to tell them who id named as captain, so after the cries had died down and the women stopped the tears, i let them know Ronaldo got the arm band. "What? anyone but him! The man is nothing more than Manure scum", "You've lost the plot Sir Boom, we are doomed", i had to restore order.
"Right, shut it you lot, this is my team. I am the manager and what i say goes, dont think for a minute that i want this, it is just something that has to be done and if you dont like it you know where the door is. Maybe you can go and get a job at Leeds (8 wins and 1 draw nice work). I am Sir Boom and what i say goes!
In the end its results that matter.
Ronaldo 13 points, 26 as captain
Fabregas 4 points, 8 as captain
You do the math, am i a genius? Id like to think so.
Its just my opinion
Sir Boom
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