What? In a sort of Jimmy Savile/'How's about that then?' sort of way, you mean? :-(
Actually no.
At 11:15am you simply replied to me that he was a professional football coach in some way implying that alone meant he was deserving of respect. I challenged this suggesting that a title alone counts for **** all.
Trust me, I normally speak with 1-2 professional UEFA badged coaches on a weekly basis and it is not unknown to come away wondering what on earth they really know about football beyond their obvious and undoubted ability to set out cones in a set formation, to distribute bibs in a 50-50 equal split and to run sessions at certain times.
A professional coach earning his living at The Arsenal Football Club might conceivably be rather more informed than chaps coaching kid's teams, to be fair.
Anyway, I wasn't talking about respect, I was simply suggesting that as a coach with a lifetime of experience in the game, he is porbably a useful chap to have around the place.
God knows where you got Pulis and Phil Neal from.
Pulis and Neal are simply examples of people with a lifetime of experience in the game but are more or less totally void of any respect, simply figures of ridicule and fun.
You have a very old fashioned sense of respect which is fair enough. You seem to respect position, I don't share this view.
I imagine you are the type of person who would refer to a retired Army or Military person by their previous job title.
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