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[Albion] In football terms, to get brushed aside and blown away by Brighton was a disaster. It was



vagabond

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May 17, 2019
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From this weeks Merson Says:
https://www.skysports.com/football/...go-through-the-premier-league-season-unbeaten

“It's worrying times for Tottenham.

I was all for them the other day because when they lost 7-2, I didn't really see an awful lot wrong with that. I thought they got a lot of bad criticism for no reason because that game could've gone either way.

Spurs had good chances in the first half and they could've been three or four up at half-time. At 4-2 they were still in the game, but a mad five minutes really cost them. I backed them then because I thought it wasn't as bad as everybody was making out.

However, what happened on Saturday was an absolute joke. It was a worrying, worrying joke.

In football terms, to get brushed aside and blown away by Brighton was a disaster. It was as worrying as it gets on the football field.

People said to me after the Bayern game that Pochettino looked a bit calm. He was calm because he watched the game and it wasn't as bad as what it looked. Take the last few minutes away and it's 4-2. You'd sit back and think what a great game it was and that it could've gone either way. But the game against Brighton was a joke.

They should be extremely embarrassed. I think the last time Brighton scored three goals in a game I was at school”
 


SweatyMexican

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Mar 31, 2013
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Almost gets me annoyed, but I think we’ve just gotten used to it now.

#teamslikebrighton
 


The Sock of Poskett

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Stato

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10th August Paul. Evidently you went to school when they were closed for the summer holidays. I think that explains a lot.
 


Peter Grummit

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Let's see if he wants to back that with cash. I'll give him 5s.

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vagabond

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Especially dopey as he forgot our 3-0 at Watford.. the one game that surprised most people. Guess he wasn’t paying attention.
 


vagabond

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In punditry terms, spending more than a second or two contemplating the considered opinion of Mr Merson is disastrous in the extreme.
The man has the insight, intelligence and analytical skills of a jacket potato.
And that's probably being unfair to jacket potatoes.

Well said.
 


beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003
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his point might have had some weight (we are smaller fry as things stand), until the last sentance. anyone following football would then realise how worthless his view is.
 




portlock seagull

Why? Why us?
Jul 28, 2003
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Paul Merson is a car crash of a pundit. There’s nothing to get upset about here because he’s irrelevant.
 


Motogull

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Sep 16, 2005
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In cognitive function terms, to talk about football by Paul Merson is normally demonstrative of significant impairment.
 


Beach Hut

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Jul 5, 2003
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Living In a Box
Merson is exactly the sort of pundit who will be mocking us this week (because he’s too lazy to have watched us and updated his opinion since last season) and singing our praises in two or three weeks when he manages to catch some highlights of us playing well for the ninth game in a row before confidently telling the world we’re now a changed team as though he’s the first one to notice.

And tipped us for relegation in our first Premier League season on the basis he did not know any of the players we signed.

He really is a grade A plonker
 


GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
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And tipped us for relegation in our first Premier League season on the basis he did not know any of the players we signed.

He really is a grade A plonker

To be fair, neither did we!

Having said that, he's still fick as two - no, maybe just one short plank.
 


Invicta

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Almost gets me annoyed, but I think we’ve just gotten used to it now.

#teamslikebrighton

I love to keep hearing #teamslikebrighton, shows how often we are upsetting the natural order of things !

Man Utd twice, Arsenal, West Ham (lost count) and now Spurs !!.

We're coming for you !!
 




kevo

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He's a moron. Who cares what he thinks?
 


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Weststander

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Merson’s on The Debate on Sky Sports 1 just now, analysing the weekend’s results.

He can barely string two words together.

When he does, he repeats himself to emphasise his point and to fill the void. He just told us about 8 times that “Poch is a top manager”. Everything is “massive, massive”.
 




vagabond

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May 17, 2019
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Merson is exactly the sort of pundit who will be mocking us this week (because he’s too lazy to have watched us and updated his opinion since last season) and singing our praises in two or three weeks when he manages to catch some highlights of us playing well for the ninth game in a row before confidently telling the world we’re now a changed team as though he’s the first one to notice.

This is scarily accurate of punditry in general.
 


Hugo Rune

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In punditry terms, spending more than a second or two contemplating the considered opinion of Mr Merson is disastrous in the extreme.
The man has the insight, intelligence and analytical skills of a jacket potato.
And that's probably being unfair to jacket potatoes.

Yes, very unfair to the Baked Potato indeed. Most are vastly more intelligent than the imbecile you describe. Their simple wisdom knows no bounds:

https://youtu.be/bPsY_nhTtxg

You’re lucky I don’t report you for being Spudist.
 



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