Steve McManaman

[Dave D]

On 02/12/2020 at 00:57, aRdja said:

I think both Macca and Carra suffer from trying too hard to sound objective by being overly harsh/critical far too often.

In terms of punditry, Carragher suffers from spitting out of car windows along with very little tactical knowledge   

[Fugitive]

Fucking hate the way he pronounces words. It sounds so fucking forced, the gimp.

[Chris]

McManaman was my favourite player from about 93-96. Until Owen came on the scene, really. 

 

He does my head in from time to time, but I'll always appreciate what he did for me one January day as a young reporter. I was doing work experience at the Echo back in 2003 and it was my first day.

 

I was already covering the reserves up and down the country for them and the Post at this point while at JMU (I wasn't being paid but all I wanted was the access and the byline). However, I was still nervous as hell to go into that newsroom. 

 

I got dumped by a girlfriend that morning too, which was nice of her, knowing how nervous I for this big potential career opportunity. She was an old friend of @Paulie Dangerously and I fell for her big time. We'd only been going out six weeks but she dropped me like a bad habit and I was utterly crestfallen.

 

Anyway, McManaman...

 

One of the youth team coaches who had helped bring him and Fowler through had passed away. The sports editor passed me his contact book and asked me to call McManaman's dad and see if we could get Steve on the phone. Spoke to his dad and then 15 minutes later there was a call to the sports desk. The ed goes: "Chris... Steve McManaman's on the phone for you."

 

I got to speak to him for a good 15 minutes about the coach (might have been a scout, not sure actually) and it turned into a nice story that went into the paper the next day. He didn't have to do that. Or he could have asked to speak to someone he knew, rather than the work experience lad.

Anyway, I'll always think fondly of him for that. Steve McManaman: Easer of heartbreak (well, for one day at least, as Paulie will tell you I was cut up for a further 6 months about it).

[TheBitch]

Have we got any evidence at all that Paulie wasn’t instrumental in this break up, seems like something he would be involved in, the bad cunt. 

[Reckoner]

30 minutes ago, TheBitch said:

Have we got any evidence at all that Paulie wasn’t instrumental in this break up, seems like something he would be involved in, the bad cunt. 

Steve McManaman seems to be suspiciously involved if you ask me. I reckon he was rattLING her.

[Strontium]

17 hours ago, Carra_is_legend said:

Madrid fans won't even remember him. 

 

They probably remember him scoring in the 2000 Champions League final and the 2002 Champions League semi-final against Barcelona, I would have thought.

[Paulie Dangerously]

6 hours ago, Chris said:

 

Anyway, I'll always think fondly of him for that. Steve McManaman: Easer of heartbreak (well, for one day at least, as Paulie will tell you I was cut up for a further 6 months about it).

 

Long six months them. 

[Kevin D]

8 hours ago, Chris said:

McManaman was my favourite player from about 93-96. Until Owen came on the scene, really. 

 

He does my head in from time to time, but I'll always appreciate what he did for me one January day as a young reporter. I was doing work experience at the Echo back in 2003 and it was my first day.

 

I was already covering the reserves up and down the country for them and the Post at this point while at JMU (I wasn't being paid but all I wanted was the access and the byline). However, I was still nervous as hell to go into that newsroom. 

 

I got dumped by a girlfriend that morning too, which was nice of her, knowing how nervous I for this big potential career opportunity. She was an old friend of @Paulie Dangerously and I fell for her big time. We'd only been going out six weeks but she dropped me like a bad habit and I was utterly crestfallen.

 

Anyway, McManaman...

 

One of the youth team coaches who had helped bring him and Fowler through had passed away. The sports editor passed me his contact book and asked me to call McManaman's dad and see if we could get Steve on the phone. Spoke to his dad and then 15 minutes later there was a call to the sports desk. The ed goes: "Chris... Steve McManaman's on the phone for you."

 

I got to speak to him for a good 15 minutes about the coach (might have been a scout, not sure actually) and it turned into a nice story that went into the paper the next day. He didn't have to do that. Or he could have asked to speak to someone he knew, rather than the work experience lad.

Anyway, I'll always think fondly of him for that. Steve McManaman: Easer of heartbreak (well, for one day at least, as Paulie will tell you I was cut up for a further 6 months about it).

She’s gone.

 

Get over it.

[Chris]

11 hours ago, Reckoner said:

Steve McManaman seems to be suspiciously involved if you ask me. I reckon he was rattLING her.

If he was then I’m retrospectively thankful for that too. Soon after that, I cut my hair like Adam Lazzara from Taking Back Sunday (it was more Frodo Baggins until that point) and went on a monumental rattLING spree of my own. 

[aws]

The Sultan of Salop. 

[Chris]

4 hours ago, Kevin D said:

She’s gone.

 

Get over it.

if you blow chunks and she comes back, she’s yours. If you spew and she bolts, it was never meant to be. 

[Chris]

2 minutes ago, aws said:

The Sultan of Salop. 

my French Canadian friend over here always reminds me that Salop means slut in French. 

[aws]

1 minute ago, Chris said:

my friend Canadian friend over here always reminds me that Salop means slut in French. 

A word introduced into the French language after the Normans reached Shrewsbury. 

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

2 minutes ago, Chris said:

my French Canadian friend over here always reminds me that Salop means slut in French. 

It's also a type of medicinal drink made from the powdered roots of orchids but I bet you already knew that. Doesn't have the same impact as slut, obviously.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

LEAVE- STEVE - A - LONE 

[El Rojo]

14 hours ago, Chris said:

McManaman was my favourite player from about 93-96. Until Owen came on the scene, really. 

 

He does my head in from time to time, but I'll always appreciate what he did for me one January day as a young reporter. I was doing work experience at the Echo back in 2003 and it was my first day.

 

I was already covering the reserves up and down the country for them and the Post at this point while at JMU (I wasn't being paid but all I wanted was the access and the byline). However, I was still nervous as hell to go into that newsroom. 

 

I got dumped by a girlfriend that morning too, which was nice of her, knowing how nervous I for this big potential career opportunity. She was an old friend of @Paulie Dangerously and I fell for her big time. We'd only been going out six weeks but she dropped me like a bad habit and I was utterly crestfallen.

 

Anyway, McManaman...

 

One of the youth team coaches who had helped bring him and Fowler through had passed away. The sports editor passed me his contact book and asked me to call McManaman's dad and see if we could get Steve on the phone. Spoke to his dad and then 15 minutes later there was a call to the sports desk. The ed goes: "Chris... Steve McManaman's on the phone for you."

 

I got to speak to him for a good 15 minutes about the coach (might have been a scout, not sure actually) and it turned into a nice story that went into the paper the next day. He didn't have to do that. Or he could have asked to speak to someone he knew, rather than the work experience lad.

Anyway, I'll always think fondly of him for that. Steve McManaman: Easer of heartbreak (well, for one day at least, as Paulie will tell you I was cut up for a further 6 months about it).

 

Hope he told you that the girl was wron-gah to dump you. 

[Anubis]

22 hours ago, Chris said:

my French Canadian friend over here always reminds me that Salop means slut in French. 

As in Stacksy est un salop?

[Colonel Bumcunt]

Macca is sound.  

He did a great podcast interview on Quickly Kevin  https://open.spotify.com/episode/5145GNuQLc5C7zyeV3FhnO?si=zOpaJRJ4TrWC5_pJvEgt3Q&utm_source=copy-link

[kemskem]

He was a good professional but as it seemed to me he never engaged the fans - like when he scored - I always suspected he hadn’t quite had the “Goodisonectomy” Fowler once said they’d had. In fact in his early punditry days he wasn’t shy to admit he was more Blue than Red. I’d say Michael Owen is a lot more convincing when he’s covering our games.

 

Fowler said on his pod that he was brilliant in helping him settle in as a young player and he couldn’t speak more highly of him, so there is that.

[Bjornebye]

He was a brilliant player for us. In full flight he was one of the few huge joys in the 90's. He also single handedly won us the League Cup when we badly needed something. 

[Lee909]

Perma tanned Curley Watts twat

 

Find it hilarious when he starts criticising players for missing chances. Did he ever watch himself 

[VladimirIlyich]

He's difficult to listen to these days and the sycophant interviewing him in that Spotify made me turn off after about 5 minutes. Doesn't detract from him being a superb player but he's not a great analyst,in my view,either.

[Kevin D]

Please, shut up.

[VladimirIlyich]

Real Madrid,Real Madrid,Real Madrid...

[Peter Cormack]

Once Real Madrid has touched you; you loose your objectivity