Proper Football Man (John Nicholson F365)

[Bus-Conductor]

Discovered this guy when someone posted his article on "Proper Football Man" in the Sherwood thread. Started reading some of his other stuff, he writes some really good stuff, often humorous and poking fun at those in the football media:

Here's a link to some of his latest stuff:

http://www.football365.com/features/john-nicholson

http://www.football365.com/features/footy-on-tv


The piece about james Richardson and BT"s European Football Show echoes what many of us have said. Also loved the Harry Redknapp piece:

http://www.football365.com/news/football-people-on-tv-harry-redknapp

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Discovered this guy when someone posted his article on "Proper Football Man" in the Sherwood thread. Started reading some of his other stuff, he writes some really good stuff, often humorous and poking fun at those in the football media:

Here's a link to some of his latest stuff:

http://www.football365.com/features/john-nicholson

http://www.football365.com/features/footy-on-tv


The piece about james Richardson and BT"s European Football Show echoes what many of us have said. Also loved the Harry Redknapp piece:

http://www.football365.com/news/football-people-on-tv-harry-redknapp

Here's his Twitter...maybe you could get him to right for your blog...

https://twitter.com/JohnnyTheNic

 

[Gassin's finest]

Tony Cottee: http://www.football365.com/news/football-on-tv-tony-cottee

Proper Football Man

Oh yes. TC is on the PFM advisory board, possibly in charge of making toast (because the wife’s gone shopping, ain’t she?) and topping up mugs of tea with a splash of brandy. A working class lad who done good back in the glory days when you had to be a man reeking of cheap aftershave and sweat to play the game, and not a lavender-scented male model. Has just the right amount of suspicion that the foreign lads go down too easy, would certainly like to see a good young English manager given a chance at a top, top club. Likes to see the game played the right way. Knows it’s a man’s game and likes it when a player is a man’s man. Is also worried about the lack of good young British lads coming through. Surely must be mates with ‘Arry, given West Ham connections. Always reluctant to be overly critical of any British player, Jeff, but far less so when it comes to people with difficult to pronounce names from somewhere that is not here. All of this is primo PFMing of the first water. Must surely also love a joke about being short, which, as every PFM knows, is absolutely hilarious. Also never scored a goal from outside the box, about which much banter can be had, even though it’s always the same joke.

He apparently own greyhounds with his dad and every true PFM loves a dog. He sees all dogs as male, in the same way that red wine is male, and all cats as female, like white wine. Combining dogs, racing and gambling is about as brilliantly alpha male as is possible for any PFM to imagine. Also loves a charity golf day and the chance to spend time with ex-West Ham footballers. More top, top, top marks for TC.

And he’s called TC (a classic nickname, even just saying “TC” gives every PFM that warm glow of being amongst their own kin) He is a fairly small fella and thus would not be able to hold his own when out of the town with the Reidy and the boys, drinking pints of Reidy’s new super glue and creosote best bitter. He’d have a go, though. And would gain respect for that. Easily picked up and carried home by one of the bigger boys, and any gang of PFMs loves to have at least one of their number comatose and slung over someone’s shoulder, like a floppy garden gnome. So he’d always be welcome on a PFM night out. Would also fit very nicely into a shopping trolley, preferably one abandoned in a canal, which is never not fun to any PFM. And is about the right size to drop straight into a wheelie bin of kitchen waste from a third floor hotel window. Top bantz, that. Not a natural when it comes to being papped at 3am emerging from a Canning Town nightclub called Clitz with Miss Industrial Waste (chemicals and solvents) Bikini Body of 1982 on his arm, but one can imagine him following, red-eyed, in the wake of a more roguish PFM as he did so.

 

[Gb160]

Not a natural when it comes to being papped at 3am emerging from a Canning Town nightclub called Clitz

This bit cracked me up

 

[Gassin's finest]

My favourite bit from the 'Arry one was in the comments:

He's got a face like an ironed scrotum

 

[King of Otters]

Mildly amusing, but there seems to be fairly heavy overtones of class snobbery in the PFM stuff.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Last week's entry was about our very own Pleaty:

http://www.football365.com/news/football-people-on-tv-david-pleat

Hits and misses
Can struggle with foreign names but whether this is a hit or a miss depends on your perspective. Used to find Dirk Kuyt’s name very difficult and seemed to never say it the same twice, once calling him Dirk Kurt. Pascal Chimbonda could be anything from Pasta Shimbomba to Pasha Chimpdonna. Waiting for a Pleaty mispronunciation is one of the great joys of his work. At times you’d think he was doing it on purpose for comic effect. The fact he isn’t only makes it more entertaining.

Lovely.

 

[danielneeds]

He's a good writer, but there is a touch of middle class snidyness about some of it though.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Think he's from Middlesbrough, one of the least middle class places on earth.

 

[punkisback]

He's a good writer, but there is a touch of middle class snidyness about some of it though.

Sorry if it's snideness to condemn casual xenophobia towards foreign players and outdated views.

 

[danielneeds]

Sorry if it's snideness to condemn casual xenophobia towards foreign players and outdated views.

I don't think it's xenophobic to think that a lot of average footballers have come over to play in this country, and the development of home grown players has been stifled.

I'm not saying I disagree with all the sentiments, a lot of ex-pro pundits do really steal a living. But at the same time football is a broad church and there is room for all kinds of view points.

 

[Shadydan]

Here we go

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...anuel-pellegrini-harry-redknapp-a3846021.html

 

[Gassin's finest]

Lovely

 

[Marty]

Here we go

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...anuel-pellegrini-harry-redknapp-a3846021.html

"Pearcey could've done the job no problems."

The man once used David James as a striker while leaving an actual striker on the bench. I wouldn't trust him to run a bath.