Souness trying to fix the draw?

[prawnsandwich]

Square balls?

 

[thinktank]

Square balls?

They're all the rage.

 

[BuryMeInEngland]

It did look suspect, and why the fuck are they not round balls anymore.

Their balls are probably mouldy and rotten.

 

[StockSpur]

spurs vs chealsea final, we get fucked over on national tv for a change.

 

[neptunes]

Obviously the draw isn't what he wanted, he's a Liverpool fan and they drew the favourites. I'd have pulled that face in my home if we'd drawn Chelsea, it doesn't mean I'd try and fix the draw if I got the opportunity.

To avoid all this idiotic suspicion they shouldn't have people with known biases do the draw just in case (the same reason they asked him to remove his hand, to prevent baseless accusations like this one), but if you honestly think a televised draw in front of hundreds of thousands of witnesses would be openly fixed in the way you're suggesting, then you've cracked. Further, if you believe that they would take that mammoth risk and then not actually manage to fix the draw, you need to have a word with yourself.

Think about the implications of what you're saying. It's a simple question of risk and reward - do you really think he would risk his well-paid, cushy Sky Sports job for the sake of fixing a draw for a relatively minor cup competition? Redknapp would have to be on board seeing as he was drawing the second ball - are you saying the pair of them cooked up the scam and then Redknapp fucked up? Bottled it? Changed his mind? He's not the brighest button but he's not brain dead.

The risks are too high and the possible reward too minimal for your theory to make any sense. It's a stupid, paranoid theory based on nothing but Souness pulling the same face any fan would have done in his position. It was unprofessional to show his annoyance, nothing more.

Whatever your views, which I respect, he looked bloody irate at Jamie. And try view the video over and over again which gives away Souness''s disbelief of his planned draw. Yes planned draw, I say. At least that is how I saw it. Very very obvious.

 

[KILLA_SIN]

Whatever your views, which I respect, he looked bloody irate at Jamie. And try view the video over and over again which gives away Souness''s disbelief of his planned draw. Yes planned draw, I say. At least that is how I saw it. Very very obvious.

It's the look he has when he picks Liverpool. He looks very happy though there was still 3 more teams to be drawn but soon as Chelsea come out then his whole e pression changes.

 

[sim0n]

the conspiracy story is entertaining, but most likely fantasy stuff...

I justy think Souness is a sour old fuq and he just glares at most everyone....

 

[SpursManChris]

Now I'm not a conspiracy believer

LOL, really?
I'd say this thread should be merged with the 'Conspiracy Theories' thread!
http://spurscommunity.co.uk/index.php?threads/conspiracy-theories.96733/

 

[SpursManChris]

 

[parklane1]

the conspiracy story is entertaining, but most likely fantasy stuff...

I justy think Souness is a sour old fuq and he just glares at most everyone....

As I said earlier its good for a laugh.

 

[Bobbins]

It's fucking hilarious, Souness' face from drawing Liverpool to Jamie picking out Chelsea, he is absolutely disgusted!

I'm not going for the whole conspiracy theory thing but I'm certain that Souness put the blocks in the pot in such as way as he knew he would draw Liverpool at home first, he doesn't drop them in - he places them so he could find the Liverpool block first. Unfortunately it backfires hilariously when Dummy Redknee fucks it all up by then picking out Chelsea, and gets the daggers from the dour jock.

Fucking brilliant, absolute pair of biased ****s.

You fucked your own team
You fucked your own team!
Bindipper wankers
You fucked your own team

 

[SpursManChris]

It's fucking hilarious, Souness' face from drawing Liverpool to Jamie picking out Chelsea, he is absolutely disgusted!

I'm not going for the whole conspiracy theory thing but I'm certain that Souness put the blocks in the pot in such as way as he knew he would draw Liverpool at home first, he doesn't drop them in - he places them so he could find the Liverpool block first.

There's no way though that he could have any idea on the positioning. You could hear him stirring it.

 

[Bobbins]

There's no way though that he could have any idea on the positioning. You could hear him stirring it.

You mean you could hear him still holding all 4 blocks in the same position in his hand whilst swiping them in a circle around the inside of the pot? The pot we can't see in so we can't see what he's up to (unlike the FA Cup draws)?

He knew what he was doing. He wasn't even going to take his hand out until he was asked.

Doesn't mean it's a conspiracy though - must be hard to plan something like that with Dimmy Redknee as your partner-in-fail. Not the sort of bloke you'd want to be relying on dealing with the silent alarm in a bank robbery.

"But if it's silent, no-one will 'ear it will dey? So we dan't have to worry 'bout it?"
"That's just not how things work, Jamie, as I keep telling you..."

 

[KILLA_SIN]

It's fucking hilarious, Souness' face from drawing Liverpool to Jamie picking out Chelsea, he is absolutely disgusted!

I'm not going for the whole conspiracy theory thing but I'm certain that Souness put the blocks in the pot in such as way as he knew he would draw Liverpool at home first, he doesn't drop them in - he places them so he could find the Liverpool block first. Unfortunately it backfires hilariously when Dummy Redknee fucks it all up by then picking out Chelsea, and gets the daggers from the dour jock.

Fucking brilliant, absolute pair of biased ****s.

You fucked your own team
You fucked your own team!
Bindipper wankers
You fucked your own team

Watching that again I don't think they could have fixed it, But it was a more a 'FFS' look.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Watching that again I don't think they could have fixed it, But it was a more a 'FFS' look.

Clearly they didn't otherwise we'd be playing the Chavs .... but there sure does seem a strong argument that they gave it a good go

 

[KILLA_SIN]

You mean you could hear him still holding all 4 blocks in the same position in his hand whilst swiping them in a circle around the inside of the pot? The pot we can't see in so we can't see what he's up to (unlike the FA Cup draws)?

He knew what he was doing. He wasn't even going to take his hand out until he was asked.

Doesn't mean it's a conspiracy though - must be hard to plan something like that with Dimmy Redknee as your partner-in-fail. Not the sort of bloke you'd want to be relying on dealing with the silent alarm in a bank robbery.

"But if it's silent, no-one will 'ear it will dey? So we dan't have to worry 'bout it?"
"That's just not how things work, Jamie, as I keep telling you..."

Its not in the realm of impossible. Anyway its good for a giggle, watching those two fuckwits screw their own team over.

 

[Bobbins]

Souness and Redknapp are like:

 

[KILLA_SIN]

Clearly they didn't otherwise we'd be playing the Chavs .... but there sure does seem a strong argument that they gave it a good go

I could go with that.

 

[mark87]

Like father, like son.

So hughy is Harry Redknapp? Bloody hell!

 

[SpursManChris]

You mean you could hear him still holding all 4 blocks in the same position in his hand whilst swiping them in a circle around the inside of the pot? The pot we can't see in so we can't see what he's up to (unlike the FA Cup draws)?

He knew what he was doing. He wasn't even going to take his hand out until he was asked.

Doesn't mean it's a conspiracy though - must be hard to plan something like that with Dimmy Redknee as your partner-in-fail. Not the sort of bloke you'd want to be relying on dealing with the silent alarm in a bank robbery.

"But if it's silent, no-one will 'ear it will dey? So we dan't have to worry 'bout it?"
"That's just not how things work, Jamie, as I keep telling you..."

It does beg the question, why isn't it a transparent pot? And why the fuck is it ex footballers who have their team in the comp? Why is it footballers at all? Why not the Football League official who is standing next to them off camera?