The Overlap | Solskjaer: Management Future, United Memories & Besiktas Experience | Stick to Football EP 102

ShinjiNinja26 said:
I’m convinced he just wings it, whether it’s his appearances on the Overlap or on tv as a pundit. Never seems prepared whenever he’s asked a question.
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Yes I'd be interested to know how much football he actually watches.

Neville is one who doesn't watch enough either, but he seems to feign knowing what he's talking about better than Scholes does.

One reason I know Neville doesn't watch enough football for a man in his position is because, let's say he's talking about Spurs, he'll say something like "you know I watched them at Brighton earlier in the season..." and the reason he's referring to that game is because he commentated on that game, and hasn't watched a single game of theirs since, so it's all he has to refer to.

Carragher on the other hand seems to watch everything as he takes his job seriously. Neville's trying to balance his commentating and punditry whilst he also runs 50 businesses so doesn't have the time.
 
Jesus Christ Adam Mckola just suggested Wan Bissaka would have been good as a wing back in this system. A player who's literally famous for being poor on the ball and having poor final product in the final third.

Does he watch football? How do these guys get a profile talking about football whilst having the absolute worst takes?


He also displayed some really lowel level thinking saying that we shouldn't sign Gyokeres because he's a former Amorim player and we shouldn't sign former players of managers after Ten Hag fiasco.
 
They're talking about getting rid of Mount and Luke Shaw now, with no acknowledgement that if they're too injury prone for us, they'll be too injury prone for anyone to want to sign them. They'll also be unwilling to give up their current wages to go somewhere else. And in the case of Mount no one would ever pay his current book value anyway so again he's literally unsellable. Not an ounce of common sense between any of them.
 
Dominos said:
Jesus Christ Adam Mckola just suggested Wan Bissaka would have been good as a wing back in this system. A player who's literally famous for being poor on the ball and having poor final product in the final third.

Does he watch football? How do these guys get a profile talking about football whilst having the absolute worst takes?


He also displayed some really lowel level thinking saying that we shouldn't sign Gyokeres because he's a former Amorim player and we shouldn't sign former players of managers after Ten Hag fiasco.
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Probably referring to him playing WB under Potter at West Ham.
 
Dominos said:
Scholes with some very odd opinions which make you question if he even watches our games.

He says United should have "at least 3 top centre forwards", despite the fact we only play with 1 striker, and we have no European football so have even less games. At one point he suggests "even get Osimhen and Gyokeres" as if we could actually sign both, or it would make any sense.

He suggests Hojlund should be kept as one of the 3 forwards, but I'd love to see someone question if he thinks Hojlund actually has the talent to make it here? I can understand why he thinks it's been unfair to have so much pressure as our only forward, but if he's untalented then he'll never be good enough.

Does Scholes think we play 352 because he's just watched Inter play that way and forgot that we play a different system?

He also tried to suggest Gyokeres was poor in England when he was here, probably because someone told him he didn't break into Brighton's team, and I doubt he's ever watched a Coventry game in his life.
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Scholes always have bad takes thats why I don't take his word seriously. Remember when he said Mainoo reminds him of Zidane?
 
Scholes is a very poor pundit. Sad to see, as he always seemed to be a bit more sensible than average as a player.
 
Of the recent ones, the Ruud Gullit one was excellent, really interesting and well spoken guy with great insight into the game. The Henry one was painful to listen to (not sure how I got through it), he really has nothing interesting to say which is quite shocking considering his career. His general demeanour is also annoying - his constant "listen, I'm going to be honest with you" as if he's going to hit you with this amazing truth, to say the most basic of thing like "Messi was so good in training" or whatever, is tiresome. He also seems to like himself a lot, but that's nothing new.
 
Ole'sgunnarwin said:
On Henry, being Irish myself, it's ridiculous the hate he got for what happened. It was the referee's fault, he didn't see it end of story. Robbie Keane dived in the first half of that match. You see cheating going on all the time.
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'Everyone doing it' does not mean nobody does it.

Henry deserved all the opprobrium he received and deserves to be marked by his cheating.
 
MaxZorin said:
'Everyone doing it' does not mean nobody does it.

Henry deserved all the opprobrium he received and deserves to be marked by his cheating.
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You don't see Rooney crucified years later for the dive vs Arsenal. And Gerrard for all his diving. What's the difference?
 
Ole'sgunnarwin said:
You don't see Rooney crucified years later for the dive vs Arsenal.... What's the difference?
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Without indulging the obvious rejoinder of two wrongs not making a right, Arsenal had beaten up a United player and there was bad blood between both teams. Rooney should not have dived, but there is a bit of mitigation in there.

Henry handling the ball versus Ireland is just an egocentric prat, no longer having Zidane tee him up, gaining some notoriety for his 'legacy'.

It's not for nothing he was seen 'consoling' the distraught victims of his crime, and admitted it to, of course, the media having initially ran as far away from the crime scene as he could. 'It was handball'. We know that, Thierry. You massive cheat.

Denying Ireland the chance at a rare WC place, a tournament quadrennial tournament Henry has already won. Arsenal play every week.

As for Gerrard, he's fondly remembered for diving versus Andorra.
 
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Rolled out Crossley to tell the stories he's yold 1000 times already for 30 mins.
 
Rooney in Paris said:
Of the recent ones, the Ruud Gullit one was excellent, really interesting and well spoken guy with great insight into the game. The Henry one was painful to listen to (not sure how I got through it), he really has nothing interesting to say which is quite shocking considering his career. His general demeanour is also annoying - his constant "listen, I'm going to be honest with you" as if he's going to hit you with this amazing truth, to say the most basic of thing like "Messi was so good in training" or whatever, is tiresome. He also seems to like himself a lot, but that's nothing new.
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Gullit was odd when it came to discussing the Shearer fallout. He could, and probably should have said, that it was a clash of egos and that he made his own mistakes in dealing with the situation. He also seemed at pains not to acknowledge that Shearer's career mainly flourished or largely returned to form (albeit with loss of pace as a result of the injury) when Robson took over rather than seemingly suggest it validated his original position.
 
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Oh shit! Just when I thought they were done with this for the summer they drop a belter (or at least I hope so...) :drool:
 
The Sad Clown said:
Gullit was odd when it came to discussing the Shearer fallout. He could, and probably should have said, that it was a clash of egos and that he made his own mistakes in dealing with the situation. He also seemed at pains not to acknowledge that Shearer's career mainly flourished or largely returned to form (albeit with loss of pace as a result of the injury) when Robson took over rather than seemingly suggest it validated his original position.
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I think he did say that, and he's probably said as much to Shearer since then. And as for Shearer flourishing, sure he scored a lot of goals, but what did they win? Gullit is a winner.
 
Weird that he didn’t become a United fan given how close he was to OT and that his first ever match was at OT.

Him and Joyce being City fans and Andy and (possibly) Morrissey being United fans is an interesting split. Morrissey has never confirmed he’s a United fan but a couple of songs are about or reference United and he always praised Eric Cantona.
 
Rooney in Paris said:
That was a lovely episode. Really cool and interesting guy. Just exudes good vibes.
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I don't know anything about him or the Smiths, but I enjoyed it. I did not realise he was only 24 when they split up.
 
Unrelated to the Vidic one, but I yesterday listened to the "behind the scenes" episode of Stick to football, and it's quite amazing how seriously Neville takes himself. Also quite amazing the level of preparation he has considering how much shite he comes up with (Scholes also spouts a lot of shite, but he seems to be making it up as he goes in fairness).
 
Irwin99 said:
Weird that he didn’t become a United fan given how close he was to OT and that his first ever match was at OT.

Him and Joyce being City fans and Andy and (possibly) Morrissey being United fans is an interesting split. Morrissey has never confirmed he’s a United fan but a couple of songs are about or reference United and he always praised Eric Cantona.
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Yeah I doubt Morrissey is much of football fan really but having a single called Roy’s Keen definitely shows his red leanings.
 
Rockets Redglare said:
Yeah I doubt Morrissey is much of football fan really but having a single called Roy’s Keen definitely shows his red leanings.
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Morrissey also wrote a song about the Munich air disaster but that could be more of a tribute to the players who lost their lives and Manchester itself.
 
Marr is a total dude, didn't realise his first band was with Curly Watts
 
Just got round to listening to the Johnny Marr episode, absolutely loved it. Such a genuine, interesting, bullshit free guy. I could listen to him all day.
 
SilentWitness said:
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Vidić is a national treasure in Serbia. Few United fans know this but Vidić was trying to become a president of Serbian FA but the "elections" were rigged against him and he was dubiously "defeated" by the current Serbian FA president.

Serbia's football association is notoriously corrupt and it's run by the ruling political party (SNS) and the organized criminals. Vidić was trying to reform Serbian football and uproot the corruption but the forces against him were too strong.

This guy is a total legend, and as a Serbian Vidić makes me so proud to be my compatriot. The British people and Utd fans have no idea how bad the situation is in Serbian football and how hard was Vidić trying to fix the general problems and corruption in Serbia's FA and Serbian football.
 
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