Petrovic: Premiership is crap

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Petrovic: Premiership is crap

by menalawyerguy on Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:38 am

We need a tempur tantrum smiley...

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Petrovic slams Premier League as crap

November 24, 2010

By ESPNsoccernet staff and Harry Harris

Former West Ham assistant boss Zeljko Petrovic has hit out at the Premier League after he was sacked by the club on Tuesday, claiming that the English top flight is ''crap''

Petrovic had been Avram Grant's No. 2 for just a few months, but left in mysterious circumstances as the club lie rock-bottom of the Premier League and has now slammed the standard of the league.

"The Premier League is a crap league, it is nothing,'' he told the Sun. ''In truth the level is shocking. Every team has just three good players. If you take those players out of the teams then there are only players left who would not be playing in the bottom team in Holland. The Bundesliga is far better."

Reports have suggested that the players were unhappy at Petrovic's training methods and 'arrogant' personality and the Hammers are now set to bring in ex-Brentford boss Wally Downes.

The confrontational Downes is a one-time member of the Wimbledon Crazy Gang, and has been out of work since he was dismissed as a member of Alan Pardew's backroom staff at Southampton in August. He has plenty of coaching experience, having been part of Steve Coppell's coaching staff at Reading after nearly two years in charge at Brentford where he was sacked in 2004.

Downes will work primarily on a West Ham defence that has leaked 25 goals this season and will hope to have an immediate impact for the match the club have officially billed as the match to save their season: at home to Wigan on Saturday.

Petrovic after licking some sour anus

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by menalawyerguy on Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:39 am

West Ham to finish top 8 now

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by kyro7 on Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:00 am

As you said, sour anus.

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by North_Sea_Tiger on Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:01 pm

Zola in

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by Ben on Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:17 pm

Wally Downes as his replacement Laughing

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by Marvin on Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:20 pm

Wow, someone must have pissed in his weetabix.

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by Jordi on Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:56 pm

Wally Downes Laughing

But yeah, what a fuck Neutral

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by Danny on Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:04 pm

"Every team only has 3 good players" rofl

Not every team is as shit as West Ham, stupid prick Neutral

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by luke. on Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:00 pm

3 good players? facepalm

VdS, Evra, Vidic, Ferdinand, Rooney, Nani, Valencia all in 1 team not good enough?

Essien, Lampard, Terry, Drogba, Malouda and Anelka all not good enough?

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by Danny on Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:05 pm

luke. wrote:3 good players?

VdS, Evra, Vidic, Ferdinand, Rooney, Nani, Valencia all in 1 team not good enough?

Essien, Lampard, Terry, Drogba, Malouda and Anelka all not good enough?

That's what I was thinking, fair enough if he said world class, but you could even debate that as well.

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by Guest on Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:22 pm

Lol.

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by menalawyerguy on Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:32 pm

All the teams are shit, and West Ham is easily the most shit of them all. What's that say about this cunt? haha

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by Gatsby on Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:50 pm

menalawyerguy wrote:All the teams are shit, and West Ham is easily the most shit of them all. What's that say about this cunt? haha

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by Jelavić7|EFC on Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:58 pm

Montenegrin Prick! Not got a fuckin clue what he's talking about Laughing

Silly Cunt!

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by Guest on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:42 pm

I do agree with him, that the quality of teams outside of Arsenal/Chelsea/United/Spurs/Everton/City is very very very bad for supposedly the top league in the world.

Compared to the likes of Italy, Spain and Germany's bottom table sides anyway.

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by menalawyerguy on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:46 pm

I beg to differ. The mid and bottom table teams are just as good, if not better, than most of the other leagues. Almost every week, we see Barca or Madrid (sometimes both) roll up some poor lower table La Liga side. 5-0, 6-0, 8-0. Scores like that. You don't see that happening in the Premiership very often.

In fact, I'd say the Premiership is the most balanced league in Europe. The table is wide open.

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by Mario on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:49 pm

It´s because the EPLs bigger teams have been shit menala dude, probably going to get flamed for this but it´s true.

No one can deny that Barca and us are a class ahead of everyone else in Europe ATM.

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by Danny on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:51 pm

Whats that got to do with anything? facepalm

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by Marvin on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:52 pm

(polskaGOLA) wrote:I do agree with him, that the quality of teams outside of Arsenal/Chelsea/United/Spurs/Everton/City is very very very bad for supposedly the top league in the world.

Compared to the likes of Italy, Spain and Germany's bottom table sides anyway.

If that was the case, those teams would be head and shoulders above the rest.

If you really think that then you can't watch that many EPL games tbh. Silly statement to make.

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by Mario on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:52 pm

Danny B wrote:Whats that got to do with anything?

My post? Menala said that we´ve been trashing teams, it´s because we´re a class ahead of others, Chelsea had the same for a while this season but that magic seems to have been gone.

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by Danny on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:53 pm

I meant what's Barca and Real being probably the best 2 teams in Europe atm got to do with the standard of the "lower" premier league teams? Neutral

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by Mario on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:54 pm

Danny B wrote:I meant what's Barca and Real being probably the best 2 teams in Europe atm got to do with the standard of the "lower" premier league teams?

If you read Menala´s post then you might know it. Neutral

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by Guest on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:55 pm

menalawyerguy wrote:I beg to differ. The mid and bottom table teams are just as good, if not better, than most of the other leagues. Almost every week, we see Barca or Madrid (sometimes both) roll up some poor lower table La Liga side. 5-0, 6-0, 8-0. Scores like that. You don't see that happening in the Premiership very often.

In fact, I'd say the Premiership is the most balanced league in Europe. The table is wide open.

This is because EPL is a physical league, not because teams are balanced.

Teams like Sunderland or Wolves can keep from having 5 goals get passed them by bullying the opposition physically. If you notice, only sides who tried to not play as physically in the EPL got thrashed, like Blackpool and Newcastle.

Plus as Egzon said, Barcelona and Real Madrid are so effective at scoring goals, it's not a comparison to Chelsea/Arsenal/United/City.

And on paper, EPL's bottom table clubs are horrendous even compared to mid-table French Clubs tbh.

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by Danny on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:55 pm

Meh, you wouldn't beat many teams 8-0 in the Premier League tbh Neutral

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by menalawyerguy on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:56 pm

iPepe wrote:
Danny B wrote:Whats that got to do with anything?

My post? Menala said that we´ve been trashing teams, it´s because we´re a class ahead of others, Chelsea had the same for a while this season but that magic seems to have been gone.

Maybe they're trashing teams because those teams they are trashing are garbage. We won't know until Barca and Madrid take on the other power brokers in Europe really how good they are. As of now, they've played a bunch of garbage and cleaned them up nicely in most cases. But Barca has two draws in Europe. Real Madrid drew their toughest game and could have easily lost it. So we'll see. Jury is still out on exactly how good they are.

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by Mario on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:56 pm

Danny B wrote:Meh, you wouldn't beat many teams 8-0 in the Premier League tbh

Not many in La Liga either, just Almeria so far, who were poor at defending in that match lol.

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by Guest on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:57 pm

coolmarvin wrote:
(polskaGOLA) wrote:I do agree with him, that the quality of teams outside of Arsenal/Chelsea/United/Spurs/Everton/City is very very very bad for supposedly the top league in the world.

Compared to the likes of Italy, Spain and Germany's bottom table sides anyway.
If that was the case, those teams would be head and shoulders above the rest.

If you really think that then you can't watch that many EPL games tbh. Silly statement to make.

I am talking on paper, that those teams I mentioned have better players than the rest of the EPL.

You have to take in account tactical decisions, poor coaching/managing and the fact that other teams can combat those above physically to draw out a point after 90 minutes.

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by Mario on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:58 pm

menalawyerguy wrote:
iPepe wrote:
Danny B wrote:Whats that got to do with anything?

My post? Menala said that we´ve been trashing teams, it´s because we´re a class ahead of others, Chelsea had the same for a while this season but that magic seems to have been gone.

Maybe they're trashing teams because those teams they are trashing are garbage. We won't know until Barca and Madrid take on the other power brokers in Europe really how good they are. As of now, they've played a bunch of garbage and cleaned them up nicely in most cases. But Barca has two draws in Europe. Real Madrid drew their toughest game and could have easily lost it. So we'll see. Jury is still out on exactly how good they are.

Could´ve easily lost it? Milan had no chance, they scored a goal that was Iker´s mistake and an offside goal, you clearly didn´t watch the game. Laughing

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by Marvin on Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:59 pm

(polskaGOLA) wrote:
menalawyerguy wrote:I beg to differ. The mid and bottom table teams are just as good, if not better, than most of the other leagues. Almost every week, we see Barca or Madrid (sometimes both) roll up some poor lower table La Liga side. 5-0, 6-0, 8-0. Scores like that. You don't see that happening in the Premiership very often.

In fact, I'd say the Premiership is the most balanced league in Europe. The table is wide open.

This is because EPL is a physical league, not because teams are balanced.

Teams like Sunderland or Wolves can keep from having 5 goals get passed them by bullying the opposition physically. If you notice, only sides who tried to not play as physically in the EPL got thrashed, like Blackpool and Newcastle.

Plus as Egzon said, Barcelona and Real Madrid are so effective at scoring goals, it's not a comparison to Chelsea/Arsenal/United/City.

And on paper, EPL's bottom table clubs are horrendous even compared to mid-table French Clubs tbh.

You're focusing far too much on technical play as opposed to taking everything into consideration.

You play to your strengths, whether that be strength or teamwork. Blackpool are probably pretty poor in comparison to some mid table French clubs, but you can't fault their teamwork and togetherness and at the end of the day that's what makes the difference.

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