Football is full of stupid cultural behaviour and the non celebration celebration is one of them.
Rice's celebration was stupid on Sunday. Maybe one of the worst NCC. Don't jog from the edge of the box to the side line to both profess your regret and make sure you are still basked in the glory of the goal. Turn around and walk back if you want to play it down.
Branno’s urge to spout his views on anything vaguely political is getting pretty tedious alright
The preferable behaviour in these situations is to go into full Emmanuel Adebayor vs Arsenal Mode. Dare I say even Arsenal fans, now that enough time has passed, would acknowledge the hilarity of that celebration.
I think there is a line with the NCC and its a fine line.
If you have played many years for a team and score against them, its fair enough to not celebrate (Like Rice)
However, if you played a handful of games / were at the club but never played senior / played on loan there etc, then you better celebrate or be considered a spineless eejit.
Brannos great. I want him on the pod more. Obviously helps I tend to agree with his views.
I've never really got their absolute disgust at the non celebration stuff. I think it displays a certain amount of class on the player's part to not rub the oppositions fan's noses in it.
Players move clubs and they do score against former clubs - it happens. But they don't have to give it loads after a goal. It is a choice. I think it shows a certain amount of respect and players who don't do it and celebrate wildly always come across as classless to me.
I think they make way too much of it.
It's grand when a player simply doesn't celebrate - what can be a bit grating is when they make such a big show about how much they're not celebrating.
Some of ye are walking begrudgers. Of all the things in soccer that could work you up.
*football
Its seems incredibly fake
Tom English was good, better than most ex players they have on.
He's a proper revolutionary
As someone whose main sport is football I will never refer to the English king’s ball as football
In Ireland for the sake of clarity, what's wrong with calling soccer soccer and Gaelic football Gaelic football?
Football on its own is too generic a term.
Also, anybody who gets upset about it being called soccer needs to get over themselves...
Some people who can’t see a joke need to get over themselves…
My response is always what does the FAI stand for?
Corruption and ongoing failure?
The other side of the not-celebrating vs. celebrating coin is the dog's abuse some fans of some clubs give to ex-players. Why wouldn't you want to "rub their noses in it" if they've been calling you all sorts all game.
I really like Branno but by far the most annoying thing about him is he actually likes the LoI
Edit: The Crowley Defence Force is fecking mental, the lads basically slobbered all over him and ignored his flaws and they still got a dire stream of angry emails defending the Irish Messi. Real talk, I think Pendergast ends up being the long term 10 and if Crowley is starting in five years it’s probably in another position in the back-line.
A bit "barstool", but not the worst.
Guessing Ken doesn't realise that there's Gardening Leave restrictions which stops you joining specific companies within X amount of time, to do so would be a breach of contract
That’s not the point he was making. He was saying if that guys leaves NUFC, it’s impossible for NUFC to stop him researching players or monitoring prospects.
Gardening leave itself is actually not enforceable by law. Went through it myself in a work contract, and it really is just a deterrent, doesn’t really stop you doing anything.
Defo Ken knew exactly what gardening leave was. He even said himself that he has been on it. I believe that was at the end of the off the ball days
Yeah he meant there's nothing stopping the NU guy from working if even told not to. Ken's job would've been harder to pretend not to be doing.
I'm liking Benet Guiterez'. Good addition.
Saudia Arabia has very good surveillance, they will know if he breaches the gardening leave.
Why is his love of LOI a bad thing?
I mean, even the initials evoke depression and destitution in the minds of god-fearing Irish people.
On today’s podcast, Dan Ashworth is basically a really good Football Manager player from the sound of things.
I did get a kick out of the Jamie Jackson Guardian article where it basically says he’s happy at Newcastle but also is interested in the United job. So basically Jamie was talking directly with Ashworth and he wants the job but doesn’t want to offend the natives. Just get the Southampton guy Big Sir Jim, I’m sure he’s pretty good at Football Manager as well. Buy low, sell high #crypto #footballwankery
That's my point. You can be put on Gardening Leave and be blocked from joining specific competitors for X amount of time.
I know someone made redundant recently and for them to get offered 3 months fully paid Gardening Leave they had to sign a contract which didn't allow them join specific companies until their gardening leave was over. Obviously they could refuse the gardening leave but they lose out on 3 months pay for doing nothing
Love the hand wringing in the Roid Games discussion as if everyone and their mother wouldn’t gawk at it if it came to fruition.
I think in fairness the lads said they would watch it. No doubt Sinead O'Carroll would not partake though.
I usually find her hard to listen to but she was good today. The whole issue really gets to the nub of what is sport about.
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