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Soccer/Football

Ron Obvious

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5. I felt sorry for him too

Reply to peacebuzzard (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 26, 2019, 02:13 PM

Feb 2019

The players are "worth" so much more money than the manager these days and have such hyperinflated egos because of it, it must be really difficult to manage them. They're really in charge these days. At clubs like Chelsea in particular, but even at Leicester, who sacked Claude Puell the other day because he'd lost the dressing room.

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I've never seen anything like this before: substituted goalkeeper refuses to come off. [View all] Ron Obvious Feb 2019 OP

Wow. Just, just, wow. shenmue Feb 2019 #1

A good team captain represents the coach on the field and should have forced him off Ponietz Feb 2019 #2

Agreed. It looked like a complete mutiny. Ron Obvious Feb 2019 #3

Incredible! peacebuzzard Feb 2019 #4

I felt sorry for him too Ron Obvious Feb 2019 #5

That explains it. peacebuzzard Feb 2019 #6

That was nuts ornotna Feb 2019 #7