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Phil Jagielka's post match interview..
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I've just watched Phil Jagielka's post match interview which consisted of him answering 5 out of 6 questions with the opening gambit: "Yeah, definitely...".
Does anyone know Phil on a personal level? Is he a bit thick? Or is this like that game where they try to get as many song titles in to the interview as possible in order to turn it in to a complete farce?
I've noticed Tony Hibbert throws in "Eh, it's one of d'ose..." at the start of each of his answers when exposed to questioning from the media..
Has anyone else noticed this? If not keep your eye out and play ?Trite Phrase Bingo? with your favourite football "personalities" ? helps liven up what can be a sterile stroll into the banal and redundant world of a footballer?s thought process.
Drew O'Neall, Posted 06/03/2011 at 00:32:43
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Drew, I reckon anyone untrained in the ways of he media can look bad. Andy Cole was my favourite. He'd give a one word answer and then someone apparently switched him off. The look on the interviewer's face was priceless.
I couldn't care less.... let your play do the talking, you Blues!
Drew, just try getting a microphone stuck in front of you, and then you may have some answers.
All players are not media trained, unlike the luvvies on a red carpet.
Pity no-one has managed to shove a mic in front of Kenwright and ask him some direct questions...
Or perhaps with the number of rhetorical questions the media keep asking, he's less inclined to justify them with a more considered response!
Jags probably knows that every word he says could end up as tittle tattle in a gossip column such as this. Oops!
Yeah, it definitely is something Jags has always said. Just listen to previous interviews on evertontv for example. He usually says it when the interviewer has asked him a question with an obvious 'Yes' answer.
While we are on it though, I don't miss Andy Johnson's interviews.
"Yeah like it was like a good game like and we like had to like battle hard like but like in the end we like managed like to score like one more like goal than like them like."
"Yeah like it was like a good game like and we like had to like battle hard like but like in the end we like managed like to score like one more like goal than like them like."
Why do all footballers feel the need to rub their necks and faces whilst being interviewed? And who is Tony Pullis looking for when he constantly looks away when answering questions?
Andy Johnson was the worst ? he used to use the word 'obviously' 3 or 4 times in a sentence, trying to to make himself sound half intelligent. It's a good job these footballers are on
£30/40k plus a week in dream jobs and don't have to pass literature or aptitude tests!
Hi Jags...can I ask you some questions ?
Is Moyes the most tactically inept & overated manager in the Prem'?
Was making 'Big Vic' a complete waste of his dad's spunk?
Is 'Chairman Bill' a lying charlatan of a chancer, who's taking our club to oblivion?
Was our failure to sign anyone in the January transfer window an excruciating embarrassment to both players & fans?
Will you, along with five or six other players, be sold in the summer to balance the books?
Is Gerard the dirtiest most inbred twat you've ever played against?
Can I and any other ToffeeWeb readers who fancy it take turns on the WAGs in the Marquee before our next home game?
Oh I don't suppose you could chauffeur us round the ale houses in your posh car afterward could ya?
YEAH Phil, You've DEFINITELY been very honest & helpful !
Is Moyes the most tactically inept & overated manager in the Prem'?
Was making 'Big Vic' a complete waste of his dad's spunk?
Is 'Chairman Bill' a lying charlatan of a chancer, who's taking our club to oblivion?
Was our failure to sign anyone in the January transfer window an excruciating embarrassment to both players & fans?
Will you, along with five or six other players, be sold in the summer to balance the books?
Is Gerard the dirtiest most inbred twat you've ever played against?
Can I and any other ToffeeWeb readers who fancy it take turns on the WAGs in the Marquee before our next home game?
Oh I don't suppose you could chauffeur us round the ale houses in your posh car afterward could ya?
YEAH Phil, You've DEFINITELY been very honest & helpful !
If he goes on a scoring streak and scores the winner in the next ten games like he did yesterday I don't give a shit if he starts swinging from the lampshades and gibbering in coloquial Chimpanzee.
The thing to remember is that most footballers are just ordinary lads with, in most cases, an average education at best. Being articulate or not is not an indication of intelligence. Being articulate is a matter of training and socialization. David Cameron is articulate but he's a moron.
The thing to remember is that most footballers are just ordinary lads with, in most cases, an average education at best. Being articulate or not is not an indication of intelligence. Being articulate is a matter of training and socialization. David Cameron is articulate but he's a moron.
Feeling my age, I can remember when spunk was sponk.
SPONK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never heard that before, will have to research that one....
Jags isn't exactly yer first choice in front of the olde camera but I'd have him instead of spoons like Merson, Salako or any former RS.
Ray Wilkins was always the worst with his "He'll be disappointed by that" every time.
Even Howard Kendall always says "Naturally" in EVERY interview, I remember in 1991, I kept saying it cos HK did.....
Never heard that before, will have to research that one....
Jags isn't exactly yer first choice in front of the olde camera but I'd have him instead of spoons like Merson, Salako or any former RS.
Ray Wilkins was always the worst with his "He'll be disappointed by that" every time.
Even Howard Kendall always says "Naturally" in EVERY interview, I remember in 1991, I kept saying it cos HK did.....
When interviewers ask interesting questions maybe players will respond with interesting answers.
Eugene 14, John 15......
Surely 'Sponk' would be the verb form of the noun 'spunk'.
Surely 'Sponk' would be the verb form of the noun 'spunk'.
Compared to Dean Windass, Jags is good enough for the King's Speech!
What's you're name son?
PELE.
WHAT!!!
PELE.
Fuck off, lad ? you can't speak proper English so you'd be no good to us....
PELE.
WHAT!!!
PELE.
Fuck off, lad ? you can't speak proper English so you'd be no good to us....
Spot on, Marc: 'sponk' is, indeed the intransitive verb of the noun 'spunk'. EJ was obviously not paying attention during Fr Adamson's English lessons...
"Hands on TOP of the desk, Ruane!"
Am I the only one who finds Merson's inarticulacy and lack of eloquence quite endearing?
John Crook (#11)
"Andy Johnson was the worse"
And you've had time to think it through. Not so easy is it?!
John Crook (#11)
"Andy Johnson was the worse"
And you've had time to think it through. Not so easy is it?!
How about Wazza's "Erm erm erm erm y'know." BTW is that what you said to your mum when she caught you havin a J Arthur. "It's OK mum I'm just researching sponk"
Jags scores the winning goal away from home and someone slags him off for not being Oscar Wilde! Priceless!
WELL DONE JAGS! THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORT, IT WAS A GOOD FINISH.
WELL DONE JAGS! THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORT, IT WAS A GOOD FINISH.
Bit old but still amusing (and on topic...sort of):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qROMT_N3iw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qROMT_N3iw
Hey, I never said I didn't love him... In fact, if Phil Jagielka shoved a mic in my face and said "Do you love me?" I'd say...
Shithouse Lescott used to say "Yeah definitely" at the start of every response. Most of our players are crap infront the camera ? apart from Cahill who has a healthy love for himself and Everton!
Coleman looks like a monkey when talking. Neville looks too serious and faces the floor (to hide his ugly mug?). Even Arteta pronouces us "Eberton"!!! Add to that all the comments above, it's no wonder we're always last on MotD.
Coleman looks like a monkey when talking. Neville looks too serious and faces the floor (to hide his ugly mug?). Even Arteta pronouces us "Eberton"!!! Add to that all the comments above, it's no wonder we're always last on MotD.
Gordon Strachan was the best when being interviewed. If he was asked a stupid question, he'd let the interviewer know!
Phil, would that be the Fr Adamson of SFX notoriety?
Is he still going?
Is he still going?
Yeah, spunk definitely used to be sponk, seem to remember johnnies where called sponkies, now they're just Heitingas ? full of man fat and no use to anyone!!
I think that athletes have difficulty in answering questions about what they did in a game because their actions in a game are almost instinct. No doubt, Everton worked on the free kick that Jags scored in training and it was worked until it became muscle memory for everybody involved.
If you have to think what you're gonna do... it'll be too late to do it...
If you have to think what you're gonna do... it'll be too late to do it...
A thread on 'inarticulacy', and a dissertation on sponk!
I think most of us think we sound quite intelligent in our own heads. I was interviewed for a friend's uni work and, listening to myself back, I sound like a monotone idiot.
I know that the Man U players receive training on how to speak to the media. Obviously Everton can't afford for their players to have this training.
I know that the Man U players receive training on how to speak to the media. Obviously Everton can't afford for their players to have this training.
I think yeah definitely and obviously are just obviously what all footballers say in interviews, it's definitely what I have noticed them saying a lot.
Chris Kamara was terrible ? and he got a job with the fuckers. If you haven't seen it, his performance reporting on (I think) a Southampton game is hilarious: Stelling cuts to him as a man has been sent off and Kamara thinks he's been subbed ? priceless!!
Marc Williams
#17
"Surely 'Sponk' would be the verb form of the noun 'spunk'"
Don't know, mate, but it was a bugger to clean off the back seat of a Morris Minor in 1968, not to mention yer kecks.
#17
"Surely 'Sponk' would be the verb form of the noun 'spunk'"
Don't know, mate, but it was a bugger to clean off the back seat of a Morris Minor in 1968, not to mention yer kecks.
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