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Listed below are comments made by Illparrot between Monday, 28th September 2009 and Thursday, 19th November 2009.

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That was horrid, Henry 3:44pm on 19 Nov 2009 The concept of the Irish being so good at the 'wounded minority' act doesn't really translate onto the football pitch. They've never really been involved in a sporting matter of this magnitude in the past (unlike us English who have '86 tatooed onto our souls!)

Also, Duff was quite categorical after the game - stating that he'd have done the same thing, so if anything that was quite a refreshing reaction.

Can you imagine our newspaper/player reactions if we'd been knocked out by another handball storm? Our 'wounded majority' act would rise to the fore.
That was horrid, Henry 3:25pm on 19 Nov 2009 If Henry announced his retirement from international football, thereby denying himself WC football, would that make a difference, albeit a tiny one?

Just a thought.
That was horrid, Henry 3:08pm on 19 Nov 2009 Despite all that happened last night, I doubt France will do well in the WC and probably will struggle to qualify for the knock out rounds.
Shaun of the Dread 5:45pm on 16 Nov 2009 Anyway, i'm off home...toodle-oo people - I, for one, can't wait for the EPL to resume!!
Shaun of the Dread 5:44pm on 16 Nov 2009 Captain, you don't seem to read what you write either...and every other comment is yours so maybe you need a 10 minute break for the sake of your eyes.

Ok, Bastos - good example - he played for a while at Feyenoord, was loaned to a smaller Dutch club, and went back to Brazil, then moved to Lille (are you sure these teams could match EPL wages? Really?). He finally moved to Lyon this season.

Ok, Sandro and Tardelli weren't on the pitch but neither were a whole list of players you listed above as being paid well (Ronaldinho, Robinho, Cicinho, Baptista...). Even the players that were on the pitch, Elano, Fabiano, Nilmar, etc don't get paid anywhere near what players like Lampard and Terry are on, or for that matter what Jenas is on probably!!

The fact is we have a great U-21 team, and a good U-19 team but most of those players will be bought by big EPL clubs, paid shed loads and left on the bench to rot (SWP is the perfect example) or just get lazy (sorry to harp on about him but look at Jenas for God's sake!) and lose their bite.

We could extend this to Argentine players too (Aimar, D'Alessandro lost it after having too much at a young age, but players like Milito haven't) or German players...or Italian players - all of which seem to take longer to progress to the big clubs, and the national teams, and also seem to perform better because of it.
Shaun of the Dread 5:28pm on 16 Nov 2009 ...Actually maybe Ronaldinho is a good example, as are Adriano and Ronaldo, of what happens to most players when they have too much, too young.
Shaun of the Dread 5:26pm on 16 Nov 2009 I suppose I should clarify my comments about the Brazilian players. I never said they were underpaid, just probably - apart from a few individuals like Ronaldinho (why someone mentioned him goodness knows, he wasn't on the pitch), Pato, J. Cesar etc. - on a lot less than some of the England players, most of whom are a bit overrated (Jenas anyone?)

Nilmar is a good example, yes he plays for Villarreal but they probably don't pay anything like a EPL team, and younger players such as Bastos, Sandro and Diego Tardelli who have to prove themselves first in their league and with lesser teams in the European leagues before they get a big pay cheque.

My point also was that this doesn't seem to happen enough in the EPL - a young player with talent will come along (like SWP, say), will have a ridiculous amount of cash thrown at him early on, and then fail to live up to his these prospects...ok, maybe this is because he never had THAT much talent in the first place (although I though he was one of England's better players on Sat) or perhaps it's because he has it all at the age of 21/22/23 - whenever - and loses his hunger. It's possible.
Shaun of the Dread 4:22pm on 16 Nov 2009 Re 19: I do hope that was a joke...either that or you need glasses!

There are players in the Prem League who are raking in insane amounts of money per week for being vaguely talented (SWP, Bent, Barry for instance) whereas some of those Brazilian footballers are on probably 1/4 of the wages and they played their socks off - maybe our players need to be more hungry, which could be helped by a salary cap perhaps?

Everyone's probably stopped reading by now, but anyway...
Benitez on the brink? 2:53pm on 05 Nov 2009 More foreseeable was the equaliser, given Liverpool's ill luck right now.

roof if ever that 'Robbo' is not a north-eastern born and bred Boro fan but a London-based Arsenal fan in disguise.

Still, love the article.
Winners and boozers 12:06pm on 28 Sep 2009 And then there's Category 3 - idiot bloggers who don't read comments properly...I like Robbo's character, he is funny, his blog brightens my day and when it's good, it's very good.

What strikes me as sad are the twits who come on here and say "Great blog Robbo, merrr, you're funny...herherher" like the majority of witless idiots who commented on my comments.

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