Re: The Rangers Thread - Quadruple Contenders 2007/8 - 1 down, 3 to go
Sour grapes from Prandelli after the game:
"We gave everything we had trying to score until the last minute of extra time. Football is like this and today a team who focus on defending from the first to the last minute were rewarded. I'm sure we deserved to reach the final. Rangers came here just to stop us playing our best football and got the result they wanted."
there's something i'll never understand. why do u guys still believe this shit? It took 2 months to me to realise what the british press was all about... just 2 months.
so how can u still buy british newspapers? how can u believe and give credit to your journalists, commentators and pundits? how for fucking sake??
u see, here in italy, when a journalists lies, when he reports fake news, he faces serious consequences. he gets banned from the journalists association. wich means that he's not allowed to work as a journalist for his whole life.
but actually this doesn't happen just in italy... this happens in any civilized country.
so why doesn't it happen in uk? how is it possible for a journalist to LIE, to report fake informations, to manipulate the sources, to say that prandelli said... what he didn't say and just get away with it????
i have an opinion about it. after my "british experience" (but also after conversating for years with british friends) i realized that british journalists arent' really the ones to blame. because they just give u what u want. they tell u what u want to hear. anytime a british team faces a foreign team, they do ANYTHING to make the opponents look like "bad guys", because that's what u want. u want any sport challenge to look like a "good vs evil battle".
and that's why u keep believing this shit. u need to fill your heart with this patriotic\chauvinistic bullshits to really "feel the competition", wich is quite childish and sad, imo.
and the funniest thing is that the same journalists who LIE, who manipulate the media and the pubblic opinion, are also the ones who claim the british to be an "example of fair play"
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the italians, the spanish, the portuguese dive, we don't; everybody is dirty but us; we are the only real sportsmen"
but isn't this more dirty than a diving player? isn't this the absolute opposite of fair play??
when last week materazzi received the official apoligises from the daily mirror, the sun, and many other uk newspapers, he said....
i had to sue them for what they wrote about the zidane incident, because i just couldn't let theese journalists to get away with it. they lied, and they were aware of their disgusting attitude. they knew what they were doing.... but they did it anyway, because here in uk a journalist is allowed to lie, to defame anybody, without facing any consequences. well not this time. i wanted them to apologise. i wanted them to say "yes, we lied".
class, style, fair play... they're not just about don't diving.... and if u would have heard prandelli's REAL words, after yesterday's match, then u would know what class is really about.
however Foxtrot, i'm not blaming u personally. i'm not attacking u, as u just reported some infos u didn't even know were FAKE.
i just used your post as a chance to say something i wanted to say, after reading tons off bullshits for 2 weeks (like that ridiculous story about prandelli complaining about ibrox pitch).
so no harm intended mate :beer:. i just wanna give u an advice; NEVER BELIEVE BRITISH JOURNALISTS, FOOTBALL COMMENTATORS OR PUNDITS, because they are scum.
now, if u are really interested in prandelli's opinion about yesterday's match, here they are.
football is not about trying to win; football is about winning. tonite we tried to win, but we failed. rangers won, and that's the only thing that really matters. is not about which team played the best football, or wich team had more scoring chances. it's not about which team deserved to win. it's just about wich team went through the next round. rangers did it, so hats off to them.
now, for once in my life, let me play the "chauvinist role".
this is a fair play lesson.
moving on, talking about yesterday's match, i didn't watch rangers enough to express a reliable opinion about them. but, from what i saw , i wouldn't say rangers defended well.
u see, a team defends well when it manages to stop its opponents with 5\6 men defending... with 5\6 players behind the "ball line".
if u play this way and still are able to avoid your opponent to score, then u defended well.
but displaying 8 men behind the ball line.... well it becomes quite an easy task to avoid your opponent to score, playing this way. u just occupy the spaces, fill your own midfield and close any way to the box....... but that's not "defending".
defending is something different.
i also heard many wrong calls about rangers catenaccio. the catenaccio was a very sophisticated game system, wich implied 5 men defending...... just 5.
now, as i said before, i don't know rangers enough to talk about their gameplay..... but what i saw yesterday, and the week before too.... and also against sporting and werder.... well that's not catenaccio..... that's not even near to catenaccio
however, as prandelli said, the only thing that really matters is the result. So congrats for the win guys and good luck for the final match
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At the opposite end of the spectrum is Ujfaluši, who stood in the tunnel mouth and shook the hands of all the Rangers players as they went inside.
it was not just ujfalusi, mate. the whole team shook their opponents hands after the match (as they always do) and prandelli himself hugged walter smith just after the extra times (before the penalties)
