Dubious excuses players and managers use.

[Hades]

"The reason we don't win international trophies is because of too many foreigners in the game" said every English manager and player ever.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Game over gesture.

Beyond the pale.

[Dr Nowt]

The reason I've never won a game away to one of the best 4 clubs in the country, is because Liverpool have more money to spend than I do.

[A_S]

'I didn't want to ruin the game as a spectacle by sending a player off. So I will turn a blind eye to flying kung-fu kicks. Until I get my next World Cup gig that is, then all bets are off, cunts!' 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Barcelona's "voluntary" tax payment over the Neymar deal.

 

[LFC64]

I liked what Wenger replied with. Something along the lines of "If you pretend you're not in the race you can never lose".

 

Just classic shithouse Shitcoat.

That sums it up really. It's as much about Mourinho saving face personally as easing the pressure of expectation. 

[TheHowieLama]

"We deserved more."

[Dr Nowt]

"If anything he hit it a bit too well."

[General Dryness]

"The reason we don't win international trophies is because of too many foreigners in the game" said every English manager and player ever.

Too many foreigners me arse. It's usually just whichever 11 happen to be playing against England at any particular time that cause the most problems.

[Reckoner]

Jason lee said he couldn't score cos they were taking the piss out of his hairstyle on fantasy football.

[Trumo]

Jason lee said he couldn't score cos they were taking the piss out of his hairstyle on fantasy football.

 

What was his excuse before they started taking the piss out of his pineapple?

[Trumo]

"You gotta ask the chairman about that one..."

 

Harry Redknapp whenever he's asked about the progress of transfer negotiations for a player he's already tapped up and bigged up through the media. As if club chairman will grant an audience to the journalist just like that.

[Mad Erik]

Not an excuse per se, but whenever a manager starts using the word 'football' before most of his words, you know the pressure's building. It's also fucking annoying.

 

'We just need to start winning football matches'

 

'I'm doing all I can for this football club'

 

'It's about getting out on that football pitch, sticking the football in the net and winning games for this football club'

 

Thinking about it, I could have saved 90 seconds and just posted a clip of any Tim Sherwood press conference. He illustrates my point darn well.

 

Oh, and one other, 'net spend'.

 

Yes, it can be a good indicator, but regardless of your net, if you have money, you still have to spend it well. It's just clutching at straws, 'well, we had a negative net spend this year'.

 

So what? As Spurs have proved this year, you can have a negative net spend and still spend a great deal of money rather fucking badly. Simply saying 'we had a negative net spend' doesn't exonerate you from buying shite.

[Dr Nowt]

Not an excuse per se, but whenever a manager starts using the word 'football' before most of his words, you know the pressure's building. It's also fucking annoying.

 

'We just need to start winning football matches'

 

'I'm doing all I can for this football club'

 

'It's about getting out on that football pitch, sticking the football in the net and winning games for this football club'

 

Thinking about it, I could have saved 90 seconds and just posted a clip of any Tim Sherwood press conference. He illustrates my point darn well.

 

Oh, and one other, 'net spend'.

 

Yes, it can be a good indicator, but regardless of your net, if you have money, you still have to spend it well. It's just clutching at straws, 'well, we had a negative net spend this year'.

 

So what? As Spurs have proved this year, you can have a negative net spend and still spend a great deal of money rather fucking badly. Simply saying 'we had a negative net spend' doesn't exonerate you from buying shite.

 

[Trumo]

Everything that Hodgson says.

[Boss]

Ferguson's "he could of been killed" in response to Ashley William's kicking a ball at Van Persie's head. He then went on to say "he should be banned for a very long time". Absolute gobshite and indicative of the senile nonsense Ferguson used to sprout regularly.

[fowler9]

Now I dislike Cristiano Ronaldo as much as the next man but when the media tried to use him winking at the bench as the main crime in the 06 world cup game to deflect any flack from golden boy Rooney taking it upon himself to stamp on someone in the bollocks, that really took the biscuit

[Trucker Paddy]

It was all Suarez fault

[Harry Squatter]

When Mourinho hushed the crowd at the Carling Cup Final in 2005 then said in his post match interview it was meant for the English press. Yes ok.

 

When he keeps going in about the ghost goal in the CL semi final in 2005. Cech came racing out of his goal and twatted Milan Baros when he had a clear goal scoring opportunity. Should have had a penalty and he should have been given a red. The reserve keeper would have had to save the penalty and then play the next 80 minutes with ten men and even if they had have got through Cech would have been banned for the final.

[Harry Squatter]

When foreign players go on international duty and speak to their own national press. Out comes a few quotes slagging off team mates, the manager, club in general or agitating for a new club or bette contract. When they get home they play the lost in translation card.

[Dr Nowt]

"He's not that sort of player.  Give the nice man his legs back now Paul."

[Tony Moanero]

Trumo knows.

[Gnasher]

"Wrong coloured shirts and shorts" fergurson. Apparently Man utd lost a game because the players shirts blended in with the grey of the stadium so making it difficult for players to pass the ball to each other. The big fucking whopper.

[King Emlyn]

Tiredness and referees are the hardy perennials

[Clem H Fandango]

Everything moyes/van gaal has said to keep their jobs.