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The Perfect Excuse?
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Something lighthearted for the festive period, guys.
I've often chuckled at the whinging excuses Wenger, Beneathus and Ferguson in particular roll out for results that didn't go their way, but here is one excuse that really did get me giggling and wondering WTF?
Hugo Sanchez says a freak rainstorm during Almeria's 4-1 home defeat by Athletic Bilbao helped to see him on his way from the Spanish strugglers. The Mexican goalscoring legend was sacked as Almeria coach after Sunday's 2-0 loss at Espanyol in La Liga.
"I had bad luck," Sanchez told sports newspaper Marca. "For example, it never rains here and the day of the Athletic match it was bucketing down. They put three past us from set-pieces and we lost badly."
Former Mexico manager Sanchez may have a point as the average rainfall in the Andalucian city is only 7 inches. The province of Almeria is normally so dry that it has served as the location for numerous spaghetti westerns.
Can you think of any other cracking pearlers that have either pissed you right off, made you gasp, or just made you think "What a freakin' prat"?
Let's have a bit of fun to cheer our miserable season up, you can even invent an excuse....
ps:- I'll take this opportunity of wishing all you Blue fans a great Christmas wherever in the world you are, and a very, very (COYB) prosperous New Year!
Gerry Quinn, Posted 22/12/2009 at 12:03:57
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It went something like this...
"It wasn’t a Liverpool supporter who threw that bottle — another club’s supporters were at the game, as their match was called off"
Way to go. Bob...
Although I have to say that he has redeemed himself in my eyes with his Dutch accent, the man is comedy gold.
Actually, if memory serves, the same excuse was also employed by Craig Bellamy this season when he ran 20 yards to hit that fan in self defence.
"I want to apologise for the tackle," twat Bambi said at the time. "I did go into the challenge two-footed and with my studs showing, but I tried to pull back.” (I think we all remember the Bluekipper cartoon about “How to pull out of a tackle”!)
Twat Houllier said that he was unhappy with the 3-match ban that twat Bambi was given for “that” tackle on Naysmith. “It was practically an accident. If I had the slightest hint that he was guilty of anything I wouldn’t have come here to try and defend him.”
Wankers, the pair of them, fully understand why they are hated so much.
"He was copying Rigobert Song who pretends to eat the grass in training"
WTF!!! With his nose you stupid twat? Any respect I may have had* for Houlier dissapeared at that point.
(* I didn't have any)
Can you name him, and what was he talking about? (Can’t wait to read some of these classic replies.)
After the game, Shanks accused Ajax of being a defensive side, relying on breakaways, Liverpool were hindered by the fog, Ajax's keeper was crap and Liverpool would score at least 5 at home etc etc.
After school the following week a couple of my red mates asked me to go to Anfield to see Liverpool take retribution, I told them that Cruyff would do the same again. Anyway we duly queued up from about 4:30 pm, nearlly got crushed to death, got to the Kop turnstiles and they were closing them, around 6:30 I think.
My mates and me climbed over the turnstiles, as did several thousand others, it was frightening in the Kop, crushing was terrible and I spent the rest of the night trapped against a barrier, but Johann scored both goals for Ajax and the game ended 2-2, I am sure it was foggy that night also.
Next day in school (Cardinal Allen GS) I took a can of the scouring powder Ajax into school, the reason being that the top of the can had 7 holes in it !! It got confiscated by our maths teacher, surely the only time this has ever happened??
There was a little ditti doing the rounds also: "Ajax 7-3, one for you and five for me". A few blues got the strap for singing this in class, but it was well worth it.
I was at home in Crosby that night and the TV programme was interrupted to tell us that some fans were injured in the Kop and had been taken to hospital. A short while after, the phone rang and my Dad answered — I joked "That will be the hospital then." I’ve never felt such a prat when my Dad told Mum that my brother was in hospital.
Luckily he was OK - just an extremely sore chest and loads of welts on his chest to prove it. The spectacle case in his pocket had been flattened. Ever felt as though you should have kept your gob shut?
One of my most memorable moments was many years ago at Goodison. At the end of each home game we would wait for the tannoy to give the RS away score.
After the usual farting sound that always preceded such announcements we were told, Birmingham City 9 Liverpool 1.
A muted kind of puzzled mass muttering broke out. I said to my red mates, ’I could’ve swore he said nine’. Nah, they said, it was NONE and we won 0-1.
The tannoy gave another fart and the announcer very, very, slowly said, that result was, Birmingham 9, N-I-N-E Liverpool 1.
After about 10 seconds of stunned silence there erupted an almighty roar. The red half of town kept a very low profile for a few weeks.
December 2007: "The reason I can’t find investment is because we are in the same City as Liverpool FC!"
Fast forward 12 months.
December 2008: " I can’t get us investment because of this credit crunch!"
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