^ hadn’t heard about this; awful news.
Thought this article was good: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2024/feb/26/harry-kane-is-not-cursed-he-is-a-winning-footballer-having-a-brilliant-season
Thought this article was good: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2024/feb/26/harry-kane-is-not-cursed-he-is-a-winning-footballer-having-a-brilliant-season
In a way Kane’s second goal on Saturday evening was a pretty good summation of his debut season at Bayern. Not just the skill and sense of occasion, but the caprice of the moment, the desperate need to turn and make some sanity out of the muddling chaos around him. A departing manager and an unhappy dressing room. Another flawed and faltering performance. A meaningless punt into the channel. An inadvertent cross. These are not the ingredients you give your £86m star chef if you want him to cook. And yet somehow, most weeks, Kane manages to serve up something palatable.
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By way of illustration, take his former manager Mauricio Pochettino, who succumbed to the Qatari euro, joined Paris Saint-Germain and picked up an entirely joyless Ligue 1 title. Did it make him a better manager, did it earn him any more respect, did it shut down the banter machine? Certainly not judging by the battery of questions over recent weeks about whether he needed to win a trophy in England, which it turns out was the real quiz all along. Only once Pochettino claims that sacred Carabao Cup, it seems, will he earn the kudos and cachet that Erik ten Hag – say – now enjoys with impunity.
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For all this, and for all Kane’s own culpability here (seriously Harry, it’s a penalty in the World Cup, just score ffs) there is something quintessentially English about the need to turn this likable, loyal and ultimately very good footballer into a punchline. Perhaps the fact that Kane is so derided for his lack of trophies is its own weird pointed tribute, a reality so incongruous that the only way of making sense of it is through the classic tropes of snark and sarcasm. Other countries might take a certain romantic pride in being able to boast the greatest ever footballer to win nothing, a cult hero who gave his best years to a fading boyhood club and a series of increasingly washed managers.
By n8 dogg Go To Post^ hadn’t heard about this; awful news.Decent enough article, but the comparison to say Poch winning a trophy at PSG doesn't really hold water because Poch isn't and will never be considered one of the all time greats. That paradox didn't exist for him like it does for Kane, he has to tick that box.
Thought this article was good: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2024/feb/26/harry-kane-is-not-cursed-he-is-a-winning-footballer-having-a-brilliant-season
By NiceGuy Go To PostHe'd have a CL winner's medal if he wasn't so egotistical.I mean, he tried to leave to City.
He signed a long term deal at Spurs when we were still on the rise, and we got to the CL final that season.
He just also has a hard-on for "winning" managers like Mourinho and Conte, when all told they were a waste of 3 years of his career
I mean the fact he played against us in the final. Genuinely think both teams were so shite on the day that you'd have won if you weren't trying to carry him when he was so clearly unfit.
Then again, we were doing the same to a lesser degree with Firmino.
Then again, we were doing the same to a lesser degree with Firmino.
this harry kane stuff is pretty funny in itself, but also pretty funny to suggest making a great footballer, who ends up never/barely winning anything is some kind of england exclusive thing. it kind of comes with rivalries, that a lot of people will make fun of players that never win anything.
By NiceGuy Go To PostI mean the fact he played against us in the final. Genuinely think both teams were so shite on the day that you'd have won if you weren't trying to carry him when he was so clearly unfit.I think we could have won if not for the most bullshit penalty :(
Then again, we were doing the same to a lesser degree with Firmino.
By Batong Go To PostWho's the greatest player to never win anything?
Scott McKenna. But he will win something this season. What a CB.
By JesalR Go To PostI think we could have won if not for the most bullshit penalty :(Don't stand in the box pointing like a fuckwit while the opponent has the ball at his feet imo
By Batong Go To PostWho's the greatest player to never win anything?I thought of Batistuta, did he ever win anything?
By rossonero Go To PostI thought of Batistuta, did he ever win anything?Series A with Roma
By rossonero Go To PostI thought of Batistuta, did he ever win anything?Might as well throw in Totti then
Socrates never won anything of note. Probably him, or some pre-60s dudes who just won like a regional amateur trophy or something
By KP Go To PostGary Monk next Cambridge manager. 4/1 betvictor I think.How much you putting on it?
Lump on
By Willkiller Go To PostHow much you putting on it?
Managed to get about £70 on through a few accounts.
Was 6/1 for the first few bets
By Willkiller Go To PostHow much you putting on it?Toney pls
By Laboured Go To PostLmao…
By n8 dogg Go To Post^ hadn’t heard about this; awful news.Yeah yeah he’s about to put up a trophyless season with Bayern though. That deserves all the LOLs and more
Thought this article was good: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2024/feb/26/harry-kane-is-not-cursed-he-is-a-winning-footballer-having-a-brilliant-season
By Laboured Go To PostOur Japanese player is also out for the rest of the season:
By Dr3up Go To PostAre Japanese players made out of glass?A lot of players from other countries get injured too, there's just a smaller pool of Japanese ones in England so if two get hurt around the same time that feels like an outsized number.
By Dr3up Go To PostAre Japanese players made out of glass?They need to be repaired with gold.
By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostBayern won eleven in a row?It's genuinely hilarious regardless of if he scores five or forty goals tbh.
Then Harry comes and along and wins nothing.
That is legendary LOLs.
Lot of people forgetting that Bayern should have lost the league last season too were it not for Dortmund doing the most Dortmund thing imaginable on the last day of the season.
They ain't great atm.
They ain't great atm.
It's true, but it was also Kane's decision to move to the dodgiest Bayern team in a decade to chase an easier trophy after wasting his career at Spurs.
Bad decisions, cursed, unlucky, choke job (who misses a pen against Lolris ffs), all of it makes it funny.
Bad decisions, cursed, unlucky, choke job (who misses a pen against Lolris ffs), all of it makes it funny.
should've just moved to his neighbors innit, Teta with a competent striker would already be 12 pts clear
By inky Go To PostIt's genuinely hilarious regardless of if he scores five or forty goals tbh.He’ll get a canon as a reward 🌚
Doughty is such a dangerous player. No way he doesn't get signed by some other team if they go down.
