Roland Beurre
Peter Taylor
I must admit, I will be watching the FA Cup final for the first time since ... well, since Spurs were last in it, probably.
I shall, of course, be rooting for our PM's favourite team (Burnley? Northampton? The Chorleywood Foxhunters and Molestranglers?).
Meantime, on the subject of Tim Sherwood man-love, have a read of Barney Ronay in the Grauniad [sic].
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/may/29/tim-sherwood-peter-cook-fa-cup-arsenal
Plenty here for the haters, likers and ambivalents to enjoy ...
"It has been a little too easy for some to dismiss Sherwood as a modern-day reboot of the old shouty English manager," - but that won't stop them doing it anyway.
"Sherwood, at Tottenham and now Villa, has acted as a managerial amphetamine, an easy buzz, a Red Bull appointment." - he is the Jaeger meister!
"No doubt Sherwood’s brashness hasn’t helped, the king-geezer schtick on the touchline, where he looks less like a cutting-edge modern manager and more like a man about to have a fight at a wedding. There is undoubtedly a skein of snobbishness in this, a reaction to the basic tone and style of Sherwood’s short-term success at Villa, which has, nonetheless, been sensational."
"For Arsenal, winning the FA Cup represents a slightly better alternative than not winning the FA Cup, a least good trophy-winning option,"
"Just imagine, for a moment, the celebrations. Sherwood isn’t just going to put the lid on his head, he’s going to eat it. He’s going to climb the arch in his underpants, a corner flag in each ear, pausing only to challenge Pep Guardiola, Alex Ferguson, Herbert Chapman and Mario Zagallo to a mixed martial-arts death match."
Come on Villa!
They are going to get smashed, aren't they?
I shall, of course, be rooting for our PM's favourite team (Burnley? Northampton? The Chorleywood Foxhunters and Molestranglers?).
Meantime, on the subject of Tim Sherwood man-love, have a read of Barney Ronay in the Grauniad [sic].
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/may/29/tim-sherwood-peter-cook-fa-cup-arsenal
Plenty here for the haters, likers and ambivalents to enjoy ...
"It has been a little too easy for some to dismiss Sherwood as a modern-day reboot of the old shouty English manager," - but that won't stop them doing it anyway.
"Sherwood, at Tottenham and now Villa, has acted as a managerial amphetamine, an easy buzz, a Red Bull appointment." - he is the Jaeger meister!
"No doubt Sherwood’s brashness hasn’t helped, the king-geezer schtick on the touchline, where he looks less like a cutting-edge modern manager and more like a man about to have a fight at a wedding. There is undoubtedly a skein of snobbishness in this, a reaction to the basic tone and style of Sherwood’s short-term success at Villa, which has, nonetheless, been sensational."
"For Arsenal, winning the FA Cup represents a slightly better alternative than not winning the FA Cup, a least good trophy-winning option,"
"Just imagine, for a moment, the celebrations. Sherwood isn’t just going to put the lid on his head, he’s going to eat it. He’s going to climb the arch in his underpants, a corner flag in each ear, pausing only to challenge Pep Guardiola, Alex Ferguson, Herbert Chapman and Mario Zagallo to a mixed martial-arts death match."
Come on Villa!
They are going to get smashed, aren't they?
