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• Derek (28): '. too much Birkdale, not enough Kirkdale'. Brilliant mate. Can I steal that off you? Mind you, Brent Stephens lives in Birkdale! Too much Freshfield and not enough Anfield? Too much Ainsdale. ...
  Paul Griffiths in David Moyes not willing to let Thierno Barry rest on his laurels
• Player***...
  Sean Kearns in David Moyes not willing to let Thierno Barry rest on his laurels
• Also the number of tall players has no relevance here… Both Barry and Milenkovic are both 6’5” which was my original point. I wanted to see a battle between them but instead my own players got bossed at home. ...
  Sean Kearns in David Moyes not willing to let Thierno Barry rest on his laurels
• It's quite clear Sean. Both dog-fighting and bear-baiting (where trained dogs bait bears to wear them down and usually kill them) attract violent followers who would seem to bask in the gore and brutality of it all. Like you, they bay for blood. Out of interest, there was a bear-baiting pit/theatre next door to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre when it opened in 1599 on the bankside....
  Paul Griffiths in David Moyes not willing to let Thierno Barry rest on his laurels
• Despite the apparent efforts of The Premier League and PGMOL, last time I looked, football was still - just, a 'contact sport' thus, individual contests are still part and parcel of the game and anybody not fully prepared to literally go 'shoulder to shoulder' won't last too long at the very top. Some players, James Vaughan for Instance, possibly had too much keeness, some players had all the skill but were alleged to have too much Birkdale, not enough Kirkdale - both types faded into relative obscurity...very well paid in one case if I remember correctly. One decent tackle can turn a game and possibly a season like Neville Vs Ronaldo. Size and weight have no real bearing, it can help obviously, that's just simple physics. The old saying about the size of fight in the dog being more important the the size of the dog in the fight, still holds up. There was nobody 'smaller' on a football field than Bobby Collins - but there was nobody 'bigger' than him. Until the...
  Derek Thomas in David Moyes not willing to let Thierno Barry rest on his laurels
• May you please provide me with the connection between wanting physicality in football and dog fighting or bear baiting? (Whatever the f*** that is) I’m not even going to look it up out of fear. ...
  Sean Kearns in David Moyes not willing to let Thierno Barry rest on his laurels