Exactly, and for the Rep of Ireland as well..

Apprently Ledley King has a similar regime now to what McGrath had - no training, just games. He's effectively a very well paid, very good, pub player.

Maybe we need to do the same with Carvell?

atkinson's magic touch, early 90's villa with the muller rice shirts were great.

.....and look what happened.

Sure McGrath carried on as a great defender, but what did he win?
United, without them players went on to dominate english football.

Athletes don't have a drinking culture, because their performances are measured and quantifiable. If they want to be the best in the world, they have to lead pretty squeeky clean lives (with the addition of some performance enhancing drugs maybe...) but there is no hiding place for them. Very few rugby plears have the desire to be the best in the world, so we end up with the likes of Sean Long who is a good player, but had the potential for so much more. The pics of Gleeson getting bladdered during the world cup summed up their attitude. If they can't go for a tour like that, which should have been the highlight for many players careers, without a skin full, then they have a major problem.

Loved that team.

Teale, Saunders, Dalian Atkinson, Parker, Richardson, McGrath etc.

I had the 'Mita Copiers' Villa top, quality. I was Tony Daley like, quick, two footed and tanned.

He drank a chicken?

I have no respect for Offiah.

Someone should remind him about the time he refused to go and collect his losing medal at Wembley. I believe at that time he was told that he came very close to a charge of bringing the game into disrepute.

Now he's making a vain attempt at commentary and spouting about teams he has no idea about.

Get rid of him Sky. Sooner the better.

Yes, but 'that team' had won the FA Cup twice under Big Ron. If Warrington had won two Challenge Cups, hell, even got to a final, we wouldn't be hearing about all this.
Arsenal won a couple of league titles when Adams, Merson, Parlour, etc were on the pop all the time.

But you have to remember that side were also massive under acheivers in the league.....Biggest spenders yet a million miles behind Liverpool and Everton.

Ferguson was brought in to finally get them their elusive title, and though it took a while (and plenty more spending), he has eventually delivered in spades.

Remember kurt sorrenson moaning about it being to cold in this country
he went and complained to doug laughton,
im to cold boss he said,well go and stand next to offiah a(a fire) d ya get it.


but to keep it on topic,this is a bloke who spent most of his nights in the then mr smiths,with the likes of jon davies,john deveraux,alan taite and paul moriartey.........people in glass houses martin??

wasn't he once on a show with Johnny Vegas where he was trying to compete with him in a pub - smashed off of his face and pathetic. What's that about people in glasshouses?

And we love you, Ditchy, we really do.






Not to mention the Hacienda.
And Notting Hill.

he won a rumbelows / coca cola cup beating United in the final

Excuse the interuption, just came for a nosey seeing as we're playing you next



Martin Offiah comes across as an incompetent fool who doesn't know what he's talking about! I'd be surprised if he actually watched most of the games he comments on! One week he mentioned us losing against Saints and on Sunday he talked about Briscoe who didn't even play! I can't bear to watch him and as soon as we've been on I turn him off!

In fact my biggest mistake was missing the first few minutes one week, sitting through the whole of his inane ummm rambling and ummm finding out ummm that we'd been ummmm on first!

It was nice getting that off my chest

See you Sunday

spot on

Agreed. He is an awful pundit. He has spent the last few years trying to find a career after rugby, and it has only just occurred to him to try something involving rugby, and he's not that good.

Carney on Friday was a very good pundit, although will need to take off his Wigan hat if he is to make it long-term.

Iestyn Harris would be OK, been pretty good on the SL Show the last couple of weeks - but they'd need to strap his hands to his chair!

i check that if i was you offiah is an agent now to a lot of players including 1 who you have been linked with richie myler so he proably nows whats going on in most clubs

They are in town at least once a week and when i say town im including stocking feet, they also like to venture into Wigan quite a bit or round to Westwood's house.

he does a great job of hiding it, maybe he's missing his calling as a spy.

Fidgety bugger, isn't he.

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