Izanagi Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/10822590/Man-City-winning-Premier-League-title-on-final-day-is-depressing-says-FA-chairman-Greg-Dyke.html They're not even trying to hide their Liverpool-bias anymore. So glad we destroyed Liverpool's title challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forbzy Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Greg Dyke should be gone over his awful odea for B teams in the league. This is just the icing on the cake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harris Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) The actual quote - "It's been a great league this year. But, if there is only one England player, maybe two [in City's team], that's pretty depressing" He's not saying it's depressing they have won it, he's just depressed they won it without many English players. The media have twisted it as usual. Edited May 11, 2014 by Scott Harris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zola Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Yup Just another sh*tty headline designed to bring readers in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactheknife Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Whilst Gregg Dyke has been stitched up by the media here, this is the moment he should have been sacked from the FA: What kind of message does this send? The serious question still remains: Who is Greg Dyke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celery1989 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Whilst Gregg Dyke has been stitched up by the media here, this is the moment he should have been sacked from the FA: What kind of message does this send? The serious question still remains: Who is Greg Dyke? Doesn't portray the FA in the most positive light, but let's face it, that's exactly what we were all thinking when the draw was made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofty. Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I think it was Greg Dyke, but it might well have been some other FA/Premier League bigwig who stated that: "Of course it is desirable from our point of view that a club the size of Manchester United should be successful" And there you have it. In a nutshell. They, that is the people responsible for mis-managing the game are in favour of success for the bigger clubs, in particular Man U, as the biggest/wealthiest club in the Premiership, simply because of the benefits to their revenue stream. Greg Dyke with this multi-million pound restructuring idea of his, is in it simply for how much money they can get out of the game. As for the question of who is Greg Dyke, Gregory "Greg" Dyke (born 20 May 1947) is a British media executive, journalist and broadcaster and is currently chairman of The Football Association (FA).Since the 1960s, Dyke has had a long career in the United Kingdom in print and then broadcast journalism. He is credited with introducing 'tabloid' television to British broadcasting, and reviving the ratings of TV-am. In the 1990s, he held Chief Executive positions at LWT Group, Pearson Television and Channel 5. A former Director-General of the BBC, a position from which he resigned following the publication of the Hutton Report, his qualifications include a BA in Politics. Prior to his current appointment, Greg Dyke had no significant footballing experience whatsoever. Greg Dyke is a glory hunter from West London, a lifelong "joint supporter of Manchester United and Brentford F.C". Hewas a non-executive director of Man U from 1997-1999 and was a non-executive director of Brentford from 2006-2013, Looking at the above, I can only conclude that Greg Dyle is in no way qualfied to hold the position of Chairman of The FA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyne Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 A slight aside. When Liverpool won the FA Cup in 1986 there wasn't one English team in the staring 11. Steve McMahon of England was on the bench but didn't come on. Can't recall the FA etc at the time saying that was depressing. Here's the team by the way. GK 1 Bruce Grobbelaar CB 2 Mark Lawrenson LB 3 Jim Beglin RB 4 Steve Nicol LM 5 Ronnie Whelan CB 6 Alan Hansen (c) SS 7 Kenny Dalglish RM 8 Craig Johnston CF 9 Ian Rush CM 10 Jan Mølby CM 11 Kevin MacDonald Substitute: MF 12 Steve McMahon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zola Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 A slight aside. When Liverpool won the FA Cup in 1986 there wasn't one English team in the staring 11. Steve McMahon of England was on the bench but didn't come on. Can't recall the FA etc at the time saying that was depressing. Here's the team by the way. GK 1 Bruce Grobbelaar CB 2 Mark Lawrenson LB 3 Jim Beglin RB 4 Steve Nicol LM 5 Ronnie Whelan CB 6 Alan Hansen (c) SS 7 Kenny Dalglish RM 8 Craig Johnston CF 9 Ian Rush CM 10 Jan Mølby CM 11 Kevin MacDonald Substitute: MF 12 Steve McMahon Good research hahah!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zola Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Nearly all British and Irish though, counts for something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Pink Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 A slight aside. When Liverpool won the FA Cup in 1986 there wasn't one English team in the staring 11. Steve McMahon of England was on the bench but didn't come on. Can't recall the FA etc at the time saying that was depressing. Here's the team by the way. GK 1 Bruce Grobbelaar CB 2 Mark Lawrenson LB 3 Jim Beglin RB 4 Steve Nicol LM 5 Ronnie Whelan CB 6 Alan Hansen (c) SS 7 Kenny Dalglish RM 8 Craig Johnston CF 9 Ian Rush CM 10 Jan Mølby CM 11 Kevin MacDonald Substitute: MF 12 Steve McMahon Out of interest, how many teams did you check? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fansince65 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 I remember only a few years ago how everyone, including the F.A and The Football league, were embracing the influx of foreign players into the English game and telling all of us how wonderful and exciting their presence would be and how they would enrich the English leagues and inspire all youngsters who would want to "emulate their silky skills which have been missing from our game for too long" !!!!!!........... Whistling a very different tune now, Eh ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyne Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Out of interest, how many teams did you check? Only the Liverpool team which won the cup. Remember at the time there being no English players in the team. Probably are other teams with no English players. May have a look around. Am guessing that there was less fuss about players from Scotland, Wales and both sides of the border in Ireland than there is now about players from outside the U.K. and Ireland. Don't think anyone bothered about the Scots players we've had e.g. Cooke, McCreadie, McLaughlin, Nevin and Durie. Back in the seventies and eighties there were loads of Irishman playing for Arsenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valerie Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 I remember only a few years ago how everyone, including the F.A and The Football league, were embracing the influx of foreign players into the English game and telling all of us how wonderful and exciting their presence would be and how they would enrich the English leagues and inspire all youngsters who would want to "emulate their silky skills which have been missing from our game for too long" !!!!!!........... And they were so right: everytime I watch someone like Andy Carroll I think "OMG he's got his silky skills from Gianfranco Zola!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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