SpurMeUp
Les Howe
Now is the time to get it all off your chest before we move on. For me the biggest issue was our inability to close games, and the season. Whether our mentality, inexperience or fatigue we have to make more of our dominance and play the whole game/ season. We drew too many games where we were the better side. Poch please sign some steel for this amazing side you've put together.
Here's the Guardian writers list
Paul Doyle The fact that every gripe is merely the prelude to a triumphant explanation by Roberto Martínez.
Dominic Fifield José Mourinho’s reaction to a member of his medical staff performing her duties in stoppage time on the campaign’s opening day against Swansea City.
Owen Gibson That even a life affirming, joyously unpredictable season was undercut by the constant, dispiriting drip drip about a European Super League, a closed shop Champions League, guaranteed European qualification for the biggest “brands” or whatever.
Barry Glendenning Assorted players, managers, fans, broadcasters, journalists and other football folk griping far too angrily about unimportant matters.
Andy Hunter Contributing, as a taxpayer, towards West Ham United’s exorbitant relocation to the Olympic Stadium and thereby improving the investment portfolio of a couple of ex-pornographers.
David Hytner For some reason, I hate it when the league is referred to as ‘The Barclays Premier League,’ either in copy or on TV. It’s not incorrect, just jarring.
Jamie Jackson The view that Leicester City cannot win the Champions League. Really? If a misfiring Emirates Marketing Project can be a goal away from the final, why the heck not?
Stuart James When Bafetimbi Gomis scored at Emirates Marketing Project, ending a three-and-a-half-month goal drought, and decided not to do his “panther” celebration. You try explaining that kind of behaviour to his biggest fan (aged four). Just messing with kids’ minds, leaving parents to pick up the pieces. What you did after scoring at Upton Park last Saturday, Gomis, was too little too late.
Amy Lawrence The growing sense of entitlement that grips certain clubs and certain fanbases.
Scott Murray No matches over the Easter holidays. International friendlies simply don’t cut it on English football’s traditional title-defining weekend, no matter how many two-goal leads the world champions let slip.
Sachin Nakrani The ubiquity of betting adverts. The gambling industry has wrapped itself around football in this country, and that is seen most starkly with the number of ads for bookies. Most of them are terrible and it will be a great day when I am able to turn on my TV and not be confronted by Ray Winstone’s massive head.
Barney Ronay Teams chasing the title should play as much as possible on the same day. I know. TV. But it doesn’t work well as a spectacle or as good sporting practice.
Jacob Steinberg I only went to Villa Park once this season, to see Tim Sherwood’s Aston Villa lose 1-0 to Stoke City, and there was an intolerable apathy and sadness about the place. Villa are in danger of being run into the ground by Randy Lerner and their stay in the Championship could be a long one.
Daniel Taylor Managers who try to deceive everyone in press conferences by pretending their team has played well, usually after non-heroic defeats, and the number of famous Leicester fans who have suddenly turned up (who, funnily enough, I never remember seeing in four years of covering the club on a daily basis).
Louise Taylor That Saudi Sportswashing Machine did not replace Steve McClaren with Rafa Benítez a little sooner.
Paul Wilson Monday night football. If it has to happen, and I suppose television is paying enough money to do pretty much as it chooses, could not the games be selected a little more randomly? I don’t think it was fair that Tottenham had to play on three consecutive Mondays at the end of the season.
Here's the Guardian writers list
Paul Doyle The fact that every gripe is merely the prelude to a triumphant explanation by Roberto Martínez.
Dominic Fifield José Mourinho’s reaction to a member of his medical staff performing her duties in stoppage time on the campaign’s opening day against Swansea City.
Owen Gibson That even a life affirming, joyously unpredictable season was undercut by the constant, dispiriting drip drip about a European Super League, a closed shop Champions League, guaranteed European qualification for the biggest “brands” or whatever.
Barry Glendenning Assorted players, managers, fans, broadcasters, journalists and other football folk griping far too angrily about unimportant matters.
Andy Hunter Contributing, as a taxpayer, towards West Ham United’s exorbitant relocation to the Olympic Stadium and thereby improving the investment portfolio of a couple of ex-pornographers.
David Hytner For some reason, I hate it when the league is referred to as ‘The Barclays Premier League,’ either in copy or on TV. It’s not incorrect, just jarring.
Jamie Jackson The view that Leicester City cannot win the Champions League. Really? If a misfiring Emirates Marketing Project can be a goal away from the final, why the heck not?
Stuart James When Bafetimbi Gomis scored at Emirates Marketing Project, ending a three-and-a-half-month goal drought, and decided not to do his “panther” celebration. You try explaining that kind of behaviour to his biggest fan (aged four). Just messing with kids’ minds, leaving parents to pick up the pieces. What you did after scoring at Upton Park last Saturday, Gomis, was too little too late.
Amy Lawrence The growing sense of entitlement that grips certain clubs and certain fanbases.
Scott Murray No matches over the Easter holidays. International friendlies simply don’t cut it on English football’s traditional title-defining weekend, no matter how many two-goal leads the world champions let slip.
Sachin Nakrani The ubiquity of betting adverts. The gambling industry has wrapped itself around football in this country, and that is seen most starkly with the number of ads for bookies. Most of them are terrible and it will be a great day when I am able to turn on my TV and not be confronted by Ray Winstone’s massive head.
Barney Ronay Teams chasing the title should play as much as possible on the same day. I know. TV. But it doesn’t work well as a spectacle or as good sporting practice.
Jacob Steinberg I only went to Villa Park once this season, to see Tim Sherwood’s Aston Villa lose 1-0 to Stoke City, and there was an intolerable apathy and sadness about the place. Villa are in danger of being run into the ground by Randy Lerner and their stay in the Championship could be a long one.
Daniel Taylor Managers who try to deceive everyone in press conferences by pretending their team has played well, usually after non-heroic defeats, and the number of famous Leicester fans who have suddenly turned up (who, funnily enough, I never remember seeing in four years of covering the club on a daily basis).
Louise Taylor That Saudi Sportswashing Machine did not replace Steve McClaren with Rafa Benítez a little sooner.
Paul Wilson Monday night football. If it has to happen, and I suppose television is paying enough money to do pretty much as it chooses, could not the games be selected a little more randomly? I don’t think it was fair that Tottenham had to play on three consecutive Mondays at the end of the season.
