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By Shola | Permalink | On 17 December 2012 - 23:52 PM

The fans got behind the team in the 4-4. And it definately does make teams play worse, the negative attitude certainly brings down performances.
Blackburn would have booed their way to a Champiobship last season if booing made a difference.

The performance couldn't have been that good in the first place if fans are booing. The majority of booing is at half time and full time anyway - so you've got a 15 min break before play starts again and then obviously booing at full time can't 'bring down' a performance. Players would have heard booing hundreds of times in their careers - no way it makes them play worse.

Don't understand this bit about Rovers? Our relegation was down to horrendous ownership and management.

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18 Dec 2012 00:09:02

BR is right about the booing. The fans pay a large portion of their wages to watch that so they should voice their displeasure

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18 Dec 2012 00:33:20

Booing never starts at HT though, it happens when a player misplaces a pass or something and the fans start moaning, which gradually builds up, and playing with a home crowd on your back will make everything harder.

And booing at FT even can turn one bad result into a crisis, it definately happened at Newcastle one bad performance against West Ham saw the crowd turn against the team, and we lost our next three games, with the team looking completely out of confidence. Thankfully the last two home games have been improvements.

KM, but what if your team plays great, you cheer, and the other teams fans boo, because they're team was outplayed?

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By Shola | Permalink | On 18 December 2012 - 00:33 AM

KM, but what if your team plays great, you cheer, and the other teams fans boo, because they're team was outplayed?

Let them. It's nothing like the City game last season where I was giving our own fans shit for leaving during the second half. If they want to boo then fine.

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18 Dec 2012 09:36:21

Fans boo'd at the half time when we drew 4-4 btw.

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18 Dec 2012 09:49:56

By BR. | Permalink | On 17 December 2012 - 21:30 PM

+1.

I can't see their Russian owner being too impressed by one win by Christmas. I know McDermott got them up but sometimes you have to be ruthless.

4-2 now, as I type. Can it happen??

It's a fair point but they're not shit because of McDermott. They're shit because they're players aren't very good.

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18 Dec 2012 13:00:02

By duckeggmoon | Permalink | On 18 December 2012 - 09:49 AM

It's a fair point but they're not shit because of McDermott. They're shit because they're players aren't very good.

It's a poor squad yeah, and it would be tough for anyone to keep them up, but teams with a lack of talent should always try to make up for it through hard work and being organised, which I just don't see in Reading. Norwich the last two seasons are a good example, Hughton's doing fantastically after struggling at the start of this season.

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18 Dec 2012 13:32:26

Also true.

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19 Dec 2012 13:02:58

Arsenal - West Ham on 26th has been called off

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19 Dec 2012 16:34:03

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/football-review-2012-chants-of-the-year-8417916.html?action=gallery&ino=1

There's some good ones in there

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19 Dec 2012 16:42:53

"It's fucking freezin', we want to go home" Was one that I actually laughed at last year. Think it was at City - Fulham last December.

This is still the best though:

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19 Dec 2012 16:48:41

Can't argue with that. Most of the independent ones are shit.

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19 Dec 2012 16:55:52

Love the Yaya/Kolo song. It was worth keeping Kolo just to have that sung.

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19 Dec 2012 17:02:39

It saddens me that Liverpool have started using it for Jonjo Shelvey, except that don't do any of the 'banging' or anything, they just sing it.

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By Slashman X | Permalink | On 19 December 2012 - 16:42 PM

"It's fucking freezin', we want to go home" Was one that I actually laughed at last year. Think it was at City - Fulham last December.

This is still the best though:

The look on the Madrid fans' faces

That's brilliant.

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By Slashman X | Permalink | On 19 December 2012 - 17:02 PM

It saddens me that Liverpool have started using it for Jonjo Shelvey, except that don't do any of the 'banging' or anything, they just sing it.

You think City fans made that chant up?

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19 Dec 2012 18:52:56

Yeah, I could be wrong but I think Everton have sung it for Tony Hibbert, for a while as well.

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20 Dec 2012 01:42:00

It's a pretty common chant, we sung it for Shola a while ago, haven't heard it in a while.

Man City do love it though

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20 Dec 2012 10:46:38

By Abbott | Permalink | On 19 December 2012 - 18:02 PM

You think City fans made that chant up?

No, I just think it's wasted on Jonjo Shelvey

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20 Dec 2012 13:25:18

Fergie: Pep has no interest in returning

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola has "no interest" in returning to management in the foreseeable future.

Guardiola, 41, is currently in the United States taking a sabbatical from football after stepping away from the Catalan club at the end of last season, although his reported desire to return to the game next summer has led to him being frantically linked with a number of high profile vacancies.

Chelsea and Manchester City have both been repeatedly linked with the former midfielder - while the unfortunate medical news about current Barca boss Tito Vilanova, Guardiola's former No. 2, had sparked talk of a temporary return at the Nou Camp.

But Ferguson, who has spoken to Guardiola on a couple of occasions in recent times during trips to New York, does not believe the Spaniard is desperate to return to football any time soon.

"I spoke to Pep a while ago and he said he has no interest in getting back into management at the moment," Ferguson told Eurosport. "His record is fantastic. The trophies he won at Barcelona were quite exceptional and that is his CV - he wins trophies.

"Barcelona have always had that style and played attractive football. He increased that by putting a new work ethic into the players.

"They work extremely hard to get the ball back and if you combine that with their possession it makes a fantastic team."

Meanwhile, Ferguson has revealed some of the management strategies that have made him such a success at Old Trafford over the last 26 years, after being the subject of a report by the Harvard Business School.

The Scot claimed that a mixture of intimidation and encouragement formed the basis of his management style.

"You can't ever lose control," he told academics at the prestigious American university. "Not when you are dealing with 30 top professionals who are all millionaires. And if anyone steps out of my control, that's them dead."

He added: "I tell them that hard work is a talent, too. They need to work harder than anyone else. And if they can no longer bring the discipline that we ask for here at United, they are out. I am only interested in players who really want to play for United, and who, like me, are 'bad losers'."

However, he was keen to stress that he does not operate entirely without compassion - using his method of dealing with dropped players as an example.

"I have been dropped from a cup final in Scotland as a player at 10 past two, so I know what it feels like," he said. "I'm not ever sure what they are thinking, but I tend to say 'Look, I might be making a mistake here' - I always say that - 'but I think this is the best team for today'.

"I try to give them a bit of confidence, telling them that it is only tactical, and that there are bigger games coming up."