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Nice interview with Dani Alves in the Guardian.
However, ol' Dan never seems to have played at the Emirates and has a truly bizarre understanding of the English football fan...
“When you become a supporter, you don’t support them when they win and then not when they don’t. What’s that? That’s no way to understand football. If I’m a fan, I’m a fan always. In England that’s the way. If they don’t win: ‘Next time!’. Not: ‘this lot are ****’. What? It’s easy to sit on your sofa and say: ‘he’s useless’. Go on, see if you can do the same.”
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He has leetle beet the romantic view of the game, apart from contract negotiations of course
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Indeed. Ours even slag the team off when we win.
In that sense at least they have the virtue of consistency.
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Yet he uses his own success as a justification for the way he is
Nice piece though, I agree. He comes across as an honest, decent chap.
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Odd that. What with him being a cheating foreigner and everything.
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Exactly.
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I don't like Dani Alves.
He has a face you would readily punch.
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You have to admit the lad has a certain style though
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Not to mention, trousers.
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No, I think the best thing about him is he seems to be enjoying himself.
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Good luck with punching a professional sportsman.
He'd batter the snot out of you with one hand.
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For sure he is fashion forward, good luck to him in that respect.
Actually a very under-rated and maligned player, often lazily labelled in the long history of Brazilian so obviously doesn’t know how to defend types.
Au contraire.
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Right. Principles is for always, not just when you win.
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Takes a definite je ne sais quoi to look that much of a c**t
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It's not like he's Zlatan or anything
I'd stick a tenner on the boy SW imo.
You've got to back your own.
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I didn't say I was going to.
What do you take me for?
I wouldn't simply punch any chap. I merely said he had a face you would like to punch.
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So if you could catch Mo Farah you don't think you would be able to knock him out?
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Ah, you're just showing your bitter, jealous streak there.
Everyone wants or claims to be free and in control of their own life and destiny, but most people are actually not even in control of their own choice of trouserings.
Sad.
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You understand that he spends all day, every day, having his body
smashed about by gurt lummoxing bruisers? And that in a fight, the shock of impact is what slows you down?
He isn't going to be shocked by any impact from the junk mail king, trust me.
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SW could offer to buy him a pint - that would shock him
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Look mate, the cut and thrust world of hibernian double glazing flyers is a veritable crucible
SW would mordah the perfumed ponce
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Is that the r'tarded guy off the quorn adverts?
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Interesting that you come out fists swinging, and then calm down when you realise
he'll kill you.
Have you been drinking this morning?
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RNo. He is made of steel and wood.
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Many people have underestimated me and perished.
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Fair point, but actual fighting is a different matter entirely.
There's all the difference in the world between someone trying to kill or maim you and somebody merely wanting to kick you into Row Z.
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I doubt he would kill me.
I have moves you know, and a record.
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I think he's misunderestimating the record
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Well, he doesn't seem in particular control of his trouserings. Seems to have spilt paint all over
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I understand that's the fashion nowadays
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No man of adult age should wear shorts though
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Do people go on about your legs, J
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Don't start me on fashion, Reg.
Fashion is evil and stupid. Unless it involves women wearing leather, of course.