Post by Salem6 on May 18, 2005 4:35:50 GMT
The Fiver
17 May 2005
Guardian Unlimited's tea-time take on the world of football
guardian.co.uk/football
In today's Fiver: Celebrity Love Island,
and Souness v Bellamy, again
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FA CUP FINAL? WHAT FA CUP FINAL?
Like an adolescent kid who's juiced up to the eyeballs on
E102-enhanced orangeade, the Fiver is easily distracted. One minute
we're watching Jayne Middlemiss on Celebrity Love Island, the next
we're ... er ... where were we again? But that's OK. After all, we're
not three days away from a FA Cup final humdinger with Manchester
United - unlike Gunners' duo Ashley Cole and Patrick Vieira.
Cole - along with Jose Mourinho and the Mandelsonesque Peter Kenyon -
spent the day at the Premier League inquiry into his alleged
tapping-up by Chelsea. Sadly, the verdict won't be in until tomorrow
- but that hasn't stopped Sepp Blatter wading in like a prop forward
into a punch-up. "We need more discipline and more respect for the
regulations," Fifa's president grunted, before suggesting anyone
guilty of tapping-up should be banned from making transfers. Which
would at least make the Premiership interesting, if nothing else.
Meanwhile Vieira's thoughts have been focused on the harrowing events
of February 1 2005, when - ahead of United's thumping 4-2 win at
Highbury - Roy Keane out-psyched the Arsenal captain by suggesting,
in his sing-song Cork brogue, that if Pat loved Senegal so much he
should "go and effing play for them, then". Vieira's response in Big
Paper today? "I have nothing to prove to him. For someone who leaves
his team in the World Cup I think he should keep this kind of remark
to himself." Tasty stuff - let's Saturday lives up to its billing.
Read the full interview with Vieira:
football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1485634,00.html
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I didn't come to London to walk the streets and spend money" -
Another day, another Mateja Kezman rant.
*********************
SOUNESS V BELLAMY: ROUND 7879
With the St James's Park trophy cabinet looking barer than Old Mother
Hubbard's cupboard, you'd think Graeme Souness would be thrilled that
one of his players is on the verge of bringing some silverware to
Newcastle, even if it is only the Euro Disney League winner's token
he's about to win with Celtic.
But Newcastle's manager was in anything but congratulatory mood today,
when he reiterated that rat-faced Welsh no-neck Craig Bellamy will
never play for him again. "As a manager you have to try to get the
best out of the players you've got, but if someone continually steps
over the line and threatens to ruin the harmony within the group he
has to go," explained Souness, as Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer skipped
hand-in-hand through the training ground for what may have been
another in-no-way-orchestrated photo-op.
Only a cynic would argue that morale hasn't been given a boost since
Bellamy left for Glasgow: the club's worst ever Premiership finish,
two humiliating cup exits and scuffling team-mates have all caused no
end of entertainment for fans of Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
But Souness can at least be thankful for the extraordinary gullibility
of Newcastle fans that makes his job so much easier. "I think we now
have a group of players who understand the way I want to work and
what I expect from them," he deadpanned, as Nightclub Patrick
Kluivert disco-danced past a group of die-hard fans who - for reasons
best known to themselves - queued up all day yesterday to get their
hands on the latest batch of expensive Newcastle replica shirts.
*********************
17 May 2005
Guardian Unlimited's tea-time take on the world of football
guardian.co.uk/football
In today's Fiver: Celebrity Love Island,
and Souness v Bellamy, again
* * * * * * * * * * * *
FA CUP FINAL? WHAT FA CUP FINAL?
Like an adolescent kid who's juiced up to the eyeballs on
E102-enhanced orangeade, the Fiver is easily distracted. One minute
we're watching Jayne Middlemiss on Celebrity Love Island, the next
we're ... er ... where were we again? But that's OK. After all, we're
not three days away from a FA Cup final humdinger with Manchester
United - unlike Gunners' duo Ashley Cole and Patrick Vieira.
Cole - along with Jose Mourinho and the Mandelsonesque Peter Kenyon -
spent the day at the Premier League inquiry into his alleged
tapping-up by Chelsea. Sadly, the verdict won't be in until tomorrow
- but that hasn't stopped Sepp Blatter wading in like a prop forward
into a punch-up. "We need more discipline and more respect for the
regulations," Fifa's president grunted, before suggesting anyone
guilty of tapping-up should be banned from making transfers. Which
would at least make the Premiership interesting, if nothing else.
Meanwhile Vieira's thoughts have been focused on the harrowing events
of February 1 2005, when - ahead of United's thumping 4-2 win at
Highbury - Roy Keane out-psyched the Arsenal captain by suggesting,
in his sing-song Cork brogue, that if Pat loved Senegal so much he
should "go and effing play for them, then". Vieira's response in Big
Paper today? "I have nothing to prove to him. For someone who leaves
his team in the World Cup I think he should keep this kind of remark
to himself." Tasty stuff - let's Saturday lives up to its billing.
Read the full interview with Vieira:
football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1485634,00.html
* * * * * * * * * * * *
ADVERT
Get email on the move with Orange. Keep up to date on the transfers,
tempers and the tantrums. Click here to get started.
www.orange.co.uk/emailonyourphone
* * * * * * * * * * * *
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I didn't come to London to walk the streets and spend money" -
Another day, another Mateja Kezman rant.
*********************
SOUNESS V BELLAMY: ROUND 7879
With the St James's Park trophy cabinet looking barer than Old Mother
Hubbard's cupboard, you'd think Graeme Souness would be thrilled that
one of his players is on the verge of bringing some silverware to
Newcastle, even if it is only the Euro Disney League winner's token
he's about to win with Celtic.
But Newcastle's manager was in anything but congratulatory mood today,
when he reiterated that rat-faced Welsh no-neck Craig Bellamy will
never play for him again. "As a manager you have to try to get the
best out of the players you've got, but if someone continually steps
over the line and threatens to ruin the harmony within the group he
has to go," explained Souness, as Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer skipped
hand-in-hand through the training ground for what may have been
another in-no-way-orchestrated photo-op.
Only a cynic would argue that morale hasn't been given a boost since
Bellamy left for Glasgow: the club's worst ever Premiership finish,
two humiliating cup exits and scuffling team-mates have all caused no
end of entertainment for fans of Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
But Souness can at least be thankful for the extraordinary gullibility
of Newcastle fans that makes his job so much easier. "I think we now
have a group of players who understand the way I want to work and
what I expect from them," he deadpanned, as Nightclub Patrick
Kluivert disco-danced past a group of die-hard fans who - for reasons
best known to themselves - queued up all day yesterday to get their
hands on the latest batch of expensive Newcastle replica shirts.
*********************