I’m starting to warm up to this guy. I wonder if he still smokes? I wouldn’t mind seeing him lite up at half time going into the tunnel. Fergie would get pretty rattled. Haha
I think the world is full of people like that: Who are much busier than they need to be, because they are so poorly organized, resulting in attendant panic …
Berbatov walked right out of the post-apocalyptic landscape you painted for him and found himself stranded on a football pitch. “I put the ball into the net because… what else is there to do?”
I must say I am growing to like this calm, talented player who refuses to recognize (or maybe has never faced) the abyss between intent and action the rest of us face on the football pitch and everywhere else.
I vaguely recall some old commentary about how activity stats in the Championship League shouldn’t be used to predict who would be productive in the Premier League because players do a lot of extra running when their touch and ball skills are crap and that’s not the game in EPL. Berba’s touch and ball skills are not crap. Basketball coach John Wooden once said “Never mistake activity for achievement.” I think that’s Berba’s point as well.
Justin – in the last Man Utd commentary I had the misfortune to hear him do on Radio 5Live, Ian ‘tiresome’ Holloway made the point repeatedly that “Oi say, ‘ee is smoaaking a ceegar out there, that is no mistake! ‘Ee takes a draaag, passes the ball, and ‘as anuffer puff. Smoarking a ceegar!”
I’m starting to warm up to this guy. I wonder if he still smokes? I wouldn’t mind seeing him lite up at half time going into the tunnel. Fergie would get pretty rattled. Haha
I just like the division of the world into people who seem lazy but are actually calm and people who seem industrious but are actually panicking.
I think the world is full of people like that: Who are much busier than they need to be, because they are so poorly organized, resulting in attendant panic …
Berbatov walked right out of the post-apocalyptic landscape you painted for him and found himself stranded on a football pitch. “I put the ball into the net because… what else is there to do?”
I must say I am growing to like this calm, talented player who refuses to recognize (or maybe has never faced) the abyss between intent and action the rest of us face on the football pitch and everywhere else.
I vaguely recall some old commentary about how activity stats in the Championship League shouldn’t be used to predict who would be productive in the Premier League because players do a lot of extra running when their touch and ball skills are crap and that’s not the game in EPL. Berba’s touch and ball skills are not crap. Basketball coach John Wooden once said “Never mistake activity for achievement.” I think that’s Berba’s point as well.
Justin – in the last Man Utd commentary I had the misfortune to hear him do on Radio 5Live, Ian ‘tiresome’ Holloway made the point repeatedly that “Oi say, ‘ee is smoaaking a ceegar out there, that is no mistake! ‘Ee takes a draaag, passes the ball, and ‘as anuffer puff. Smoarking a ceegar!”