Mclaren is a muppet - Macarrone

[Edmund Blackwater]

Steve McClaren will announce his England squad to face Spain today in the wake of a bizarre personal attack on him by his former Middlesbrough striker Massimo Maccarone who yesterday went to extraordinary lengths to settle scores with his former manager.
The Italian contacted national newspapers to describe the England manager as "the ever smiling Steve 'Magnificent' McClaren * the most two-faced and false person I have ever had the misfortune to meet in football" after completing a free transfer to Siena last month. The remarks were made in a fax written by Maccarone in which he attacked his treatment in England.
In 2002, McClaren paid £8.1m, Middlesbrough's record transfer fee, for the Italian after he starred in the Under-21 European Championships but Maccarone never fulfilled his promise in the Premiership.
While McClaren is not the only target for Maccarone, who also criticised Boro's new manager, Gareth Southgate, he bore the brunt of the Italian's frustrations yesterday. "Only in England could they appoint someone with such limitations to become national coach," Maccarone said in a four-page missive.
He added that McClaren should have concentrated on "his own players' mentality instead of wasting so much time trying to understand the English Press. I was shocked and disgusted by the way he treated me. In the month before the [2004] Carling Cup final he told me that I was being rested and not playing so that I was ready for my starting role in the final.
"He told me that I was his No 1. I played zero minutes in that final and when it was over all he could say was 'I know, I know'."
Maccarone said Boro training was "25 years out of date" and berated the nutritionalists for simply giving him vitamin tablets. He criticised the standards of medical care and said he was the subject of " ridicule" when, as a substitute, he requested a hot water bottle.
Kieron Dyer and Jonathan Woodgate will be named in McClaren's squad, but it will be the left side that proves most problematic in the absence of Ashley Cole and Joe Cole. It could be here that McClaren experiments with untried names.
The England Under-21 Leighton Baines is favourite for a call-up as an understudy to Wayne Bridge at left-back and Aston Villa's Gareth Barry would also be a possibility for the role. Villa's new £9.65m signing Ashley Young is an outsider. It is a measure of the shortage of established English left-backs in the Premiership that Celtic's Lee Naylor has also been mentioned.
The call-ups of Dyer, 28, and Woodgate, 27, mark a reprieve for two unfulfilled talents, who made international debuts in 1999, but whose careers have been littered with injuries.

[STEVIEG]

Wow, thanks

A player no-one rates calls a manager no-one rates a muppet

Definitely a slow day...........

[Killyoursons]

Wow, thanks

A player no-one rates calls a manager no-one rates a muppet

Definitely a slow day...........


You're just biased, 'cause you follow ManYoo... ;-)

[Edmund Blackwater]

Wow, thanks

A player no-one rates calls a manager no-one rates a muppet

Definitely a slow day...........
You know nothing about football stevie.
Typical contribution.

I'll set up a manyoo thread for you later to keep you interest piqued.
This one is about football, so I understand your ennui.

[STEVIEG]

You're just biased, 'cause you follow ManYoo... ;-)

It was Man Yooo's fault that he turned into such a cunt and that the Treaty was ratified and don't forget the global warming caused by Wrongaldo's step-overs

[STEVIEG]

I'll set up a manyoo thread for you later to keep you interest piqued.
This one is about football, so I understand you ennui.

What do you hope to achieve by this thread?

Most of the ones you have created have been pointless


http://www.peoplesrepublico fcork.com/~peoplesr/forums/search.php?searchid= 632421


Try adding some intelligence to the ones that are open and we will take you seriously

[Edmund Blackwater]

What do you hope to achieve by this thread?

Most of the ones you have created have been pointless

Try adding some intelligence to the ones that are open and we will take you seriously
we?

Jesus you have an awful high opinion of yourself if you think I care what a manyooer takes or doesn't take seriously.
I like discussions about sport with sport's fans, not manyooers.

[STEVIEG]

we?

Jesus you have an awful high opinion of yourself if you think I care what a manyooer takes or doesn't take seriously.
I like discussions about sport with sport's fans, not manyooers.

You are a joke and you contribute little to the forum but bland Wind Up's that are not even funny

This is your attempt at a serious thread and you were so embarrassed by it's initial reaction that you pulled it, only to re-post it when it became apparent that people had seen the original one

We can all read the footy websites too by the way......

Do try harder


As i said, we will gladly wipe the slate clean and take you seriously if you cop the fuck on

[RonnyB]

we?


Its referring to yourself in the 1st person when amongst a group. And I agree with Stevie. Pathetic 'Man Yoo' wums is all you're good for. At least POL seems to have a knowledge of the horse's which I cant comment too much on seeing as I dont care about racing, but you contribute nothing.

[Edmund Blackwater]

You are a joke and you contribute little to the forum but bland Wind Up's that are not even funny

This is your attempt at a serious thread and you were so embarrassed by it's initial reaction that you pulled it, only to re-post it when it became apparent that people had seen the original one

We can all read the footy websites too by the way......

Do try harder


As i said, we will gladly wipe the slate clean and take you seriously if you cop the fuck on

It must be great to live in your little red bubble stevie.

I didn't take the thread down, it disappeared, like a few threads on the langers forum.
In fact like any thread that was posted in a short period of time.

Your obsession is touching though.

[Edmund Blackwater]

Its referring to yourself in the 1st person when amongst a group. And I agree with Stevie. Pathetic 'Man Yoo' wums is all you're good for. At least POL seems to have a knowledge of the horse's which I cant comment too much on seeing as I dont care about racing, but you contribute nothing.

here comes the pawn.

[STEVIEG]

Your obsession is touching though.

oh the irony:):):)

[Edmund Blackwater]

oh the irony:):):)
You came into a football thread and made no valid contribution?
Why?
Because you're obsessed with me because I don't love your beloved manyoo.
The opposite of a jealous lover, if ye like.
Are you a swinger stevie?

[STEVIEG]

you're obsessed with manyoo.




The use of the word of obsessed is far more suited to yourself my friend

as i say, i bear no grudges, but step it up a bit, you are surely more capable

[Edmund Blackwater]

The use of the word of obsessed is far more suited to yourself my friend

as i say, i bear no grudges, but step it up a bit, you are surely more capable
Try discussing the topic at hand and not belittling it because iut doesn't refer to a manyoo player, the manyoo team or super manyoo fans.

edit: I'm a bit slow today, apologies, I have a cold.
Mclaren is still seen in your eyes as a manyooer, isn't he?
So anyone saying anything bad about him is an indirect attack on manyoo.
I'm on to you.

[STEVIEG]

Try discussing the topic at hand and not belittling it because iut doesn't refer to a manyoo player, the manyoo team or super manyoo fans.

It's a pointless topic

McClaren is a muppet (i've said it many times) and so is Macarrone

His agent has denied the quotes but i don't see the big deal really

They are both idiots in my book

and, yes it's a slow day and the thread is pointless-that was my point

[STEVIEG]

Mclaren is still seen in your eyes as a manyooer, isn't he?
So anyone saying anything bad about him is an indirect attack on manyoo.
I'm on to you.

There you go again

Come on that's embarassing

McClaren is a bit of an idiot as far as i'm concerned
A decent enough coach but i don't rate him that high as a manager (though i respect him for having the balls to drop Beckham)

You can do better than that

[Forsberg]

It's a pointless topic

McClaren is a muppet (i've said it many times) and so is Macarrone

His agent has denied the quotes but i don't see the big deal really

They are both idiots in my book

and, yes it's a slow day and the thread is pointless-that was my point

It may not be the most riveting of threads but it's hardly pointless either. For that see "Giddy gooners"
It seems from the reports that i've read that he did say them and his agent is executing a bit of damage control. . . They are are pretty damning comments and more than the petty criticisms you'd normally get from an ex player.

[STEVIEG]

It may not be the most riveting of threads but it's hardly pointless either. For that see "Giddy gooners"


I said the same in my first post of that thread to Kola

I take your point-Edmund turns a lot of threads into crap and he is obviously capable of much better-I don't mind reasoned criticism of United at all, it would be boring if we all supported the same team-some of stuff is just cack though and it is very boring, but to his credit, he hasn't got personal or anything

I'm willing to wipe the slate clean and move on though-there's enough good posting here to keep the forum relavent and Edmund is capable of being a decent enough poster when he takes off his WUM persona

[Charlie Power]

Gareth BARRY should defo make the squad. Should have made it with or without Ashley Cole!

[Edmund Blackwater]

I take your point-Edmund turns a lot of threads into crap
I started a thread about a former player called the current england national team manager a muppet. Not just any player, his record signing.
He called into wuestion his training methods, his character and his ability to manage.

I think the thread material is very valid and interesting seeing as he's the manager of no less than fucking England.
You used the thread to pursue a vendetta, not I, I just responded to you in kind.

[Loftydog]

Shit bitter player in attacking ex-manager shock...

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[Edmund Blackwater]

Shit bitter player in attacking ex-manager shock...

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Is it just that?

He gives specific examples of ineptitude.
He didn't say anything til he left 'boro, not when Mclaren was gone so it's not as though he left and blasted the manager that was in situ.
Do ye know what I mean?

I suppose I was asking just that, though.
Do we feel the guys accusations have merit or is he just being bitter?

(Or at least I was in the original thread)

I expected more from you Lofty.

[st finnbar]

Is it just that?

He gives specific examples of ineptitude.
He didn't say anything til he left 'boro, not when Mclaren was gone so it's not as though he left and blasted the manager that was in situ.
Do ye know what I mean?

I suppose I was asking just that, though.
Do we feel the guys accusations have merit or is he just being bitter?

(Or at least I was in the original thread)

I expected more from you Lofty.
mclaren is a retard, was sven no2 for 5 years, and never once nudged him to tell him beckham was playing shite and was happy to be sven s lapdog, only was third choice for the job

[toffeebhoy]

McClaren had a shitload of money to spend at Boro but had little to show for it. I'm glad England picked him as manager.

Maccarone looked like he was going to be a very good player, but it just didn't happen.