Lawro's back to normal

[General Levy]

I get really frustrated with the whole, 'oh, lets just call him a ****' mentality that many football fans have. Another example of this ridiculous, unnecessary mob-voice is the Sol Campbell situation. Everybody calls him a ****. Perhaps he deserved it for a couple of years, but near to 10 years later, we still boo him, call him a '****', brand him gay. He's not gay. And from what I have read, and heard from him in interviews, he seems a decent enough bloke. He made mistakes.

But did he make a mistake? IMO he made the right decision (trying to look from a neutral perspective). I will never forgive him; I never turned on the tv for two days after he left; ignored all phone calls; he really did break my heart. But from a neutrals perspective, he left to join a team that will be remembered for this rest of history in this countries footballing heritage. So IMO he never made a mistake. He lied to us, he even lied to them, and IMO he is a ****, a lying **** at that.

But he didn't make a mistake, did he?

 

[TheVoiceofReason]

Neutrally he made a good decision.

I dont want to defend the manner in which he left, because I think it was awful of him, but it WAS handled badly and misconstrued by the media (as we all know how they do it).

It depends how seriously you take club rivalry. Had Sol moved to Man U, the booing would have cleared within a year (think Carrick), but because he moved to Arsenal, its suddenly treated like child murder.

Think how badly we have treated him prior to his departure. Just think about what you've shouted at him during matches. And what has he done to us? Apart from kicking a ball with someone else's friends? We've moved on as a club, but as fans, we hold a stupid grudge.

 

[General Levy]

Neutrally he made a good decision.

I dont want to defend the manner in which he left, because I think it was awful of him, but it WAS handled badly and misconstrued by the media (as we all know how they do it).

It depends how seriously you take club rivalry. Had Sol moved to Man U, the booing would have cleared within a year (think Carrick), but because he moved to Arsenal, its suddenly treated like child murder.

Think how badly we have treated him prior to his departure. Just think about what you've shouted at him during matches. And what has he done to us? Apart from kicking a ball with someone else's friends? We've moved on as a club, but as fans, we hold a stupid grudge.

He lied to us about signing a new contract. We could have sold him to Man U the season before, but he lied to the board. He most probably cost us a £20million transfer fee (as he was definitely a category A world class DC back in 2001) and he went and made our most bitterest of rivals an unbeatable double winning team.

If he went to Man U, I don't think that anyone would boo him as Man U were the team to be. But he went to them, and made them the team to be.

A complete and utter ****. You simply cannot compare the Carrick transfer to Campbell's. Carrick conducted himself impeccably from the moment he was tapped up.

 

[themanwhofellasleep]

I certainly don't take any of Lawro's attacks personally. But that doesn't change the fact that he's not a particularly good pundit. On Football365 I think they have a league table based on Lawro's predictions, and Man City are in the bottom 5.

 

[Netty]

He said on Radio 1 this morning 1-1, nobber.

 

[SpurSince57]

He's entitled to change his mind, surely?

http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=23992

Quite where this notion that he's anti-Spurs comes from I have no idea.

 

[themanwhofellasleep]

I don't think he's anti-Spurs at all. I think he plumps for the big 4 and the form teams. In the season when we finished 5th for the first time, he was constantly predicting wins for us, and earlier this season he was predicting good things from us. I just think that like so many people, he's cottoned on to the fact that we're not actually winning many games. Given that we've yet to win away in the league this season, I'd be surprised if anyone predicted that we'd win against an in-form Pompey.

 

[rez9000]

I wouldn't say he's super-accurate. Of the 16 results we've had this season, he's only predicted the outcome correctly 5 times. As SS57 has mentioned in a couple of threads (thanks, mate :up, I've been doing a comparison between Lawro's predictions and actual Premiership results ("which you can find in General Football", said Rez's agent plugging furiously).

In general this season, he's predicted us to do a lot better than we have. Of 16 results, he's predicted 8 wins, 6 draws, and 2 losses. The only games he predicted we'd lose were against Man U and Liverpool. He even said we'd get a point against the Scum. I'd say, rather than being anti-Spurs, he's actually been pretty fair this season.

 

[alfiespurs]

He always looks drunk to me ! Never liked him. But he has been supportive ( pity the players have not lived up to the expectations) to us this season. hope we prove him wrong ..

 

[tony0379]

we might win this one then

 

[Tickers]

Quite where this notion that he's anti-Spurs comes from I have no idea.

I think it comes from the gentle mickey-taking he and Hansen give Lineker on MOTD. Gary, obviously, has a bit of a soft spot for us, so they sometimes say slightly snidy things for a laugh. They do the same with Everton.

He is a piss-weak pundit though. His 'double act' with Motty makes England games approximately 712 times more unwatchable than they are already.

 

[fozzi44]

heres to you Lawro you twat.

Pompy 0 - 1 Spurs

December 07