David James, not so smart after all

Originally Posted by thrills_pills_bellyaches

Apologies if answered but...was he Meant to be smart?

Agreed. He was meant to be a keeper.
How did his financial management team left it come to this?

Originally Posted by thrills_pills_bellyaches

Apologies if answered but...was he Meant to be smart?

I remember reading his Guardian column about 5 years ago and he said he was learning a new word a day, and that day he'd learnt what pedant meant.

He must have been 40 then.

So no, no he wasn't

Originally Posted by Switching Off

I remember reading his Guardian column about 5 years ago and he said he was learning a new word a day, and that day he'd learnt what pedant meant.

He must have been 40 then.

So no, no he wasn't

I think he's considered smart in football circles; land of the blind and all that.

This a world in which Pat Nevin and Graeme Le Saux pass for intellectuals

Originally Posted by doudou

I think he's considered smart in football circles; land of the blind and all that.

This a world in which Pat Nevin and Graeme Le Saux pass for intellectuals

Doesn't he have some actual pretentions in that direction?

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Doesn't he have some actual pretentions in that direction?

Don't we all...

Originally Posted by doudou

Don't we all...

Yeah, but IIRC he has actually been asked to write about politics and stuff?

Originally Posted by Sparky***

I was working in Downham Market a few years ago and saw that guy in tesco. He was buying tesco value lasagne. I felt physically sick knowing once he had 10 million in the bank & now I'm eating better than he is. i saw his house too. it was just one medium sized house with about 4 extensions built onto it. proof money doesn't buy class.

Originally Posted by Switching Off

I remember reading his Guardian column about 5 years ago and he said he was learning a new word a day, and that day he'd learnt what pedant meant.

He must have been 40 then.

So no, no he wasn't

didn't know he lurked on here.

Originally Posted by thrills_pills_bellyaches

Apologies if answered but...was he Meant to be smart?

He's more thoughtful than the average player.

These guys leave school at a young age, which is significant, but much more significant is that at that same young age, they enter a world where absolute obedience and deference to authority figures is expected, asking questions (except specific football ones) is discouraged, and anything other than total conformity to what is expected of a young footballer makes you a target in the dressing room.

So IMO it's not so much that footballers are thick; they're just permanently 16 years old in terms of development.

Originally Posted by doudou

I think he's considered smart in football circles; land of the blind and all that.

This a world in which Pat Nevin and Graeme Le Saux pass for intellectuals

Or grimson

Originally Posted by Grimson

He's more thoughtful than the average player.

These guys leave school at a young age, which is significant, but much more significant is that at that same young age, they enter a world where absolute obedience and deference to authority figures is expected, asking questions (except specific football ones) is discouraged, and anything other than total conformity to what is expected of a young footballer makes you a target in the dressing room.

So IMO it's not so much that footballers are thick; they're just permanently 16 years old in terms of development.

Utter £#%&!ers then?

Did you get the graham le saux treatment for being a "reader"?

Originally Posted by lookingforeric

I was working in Downham Market a few years ago and saw that guy in tesco. He was buying tesco value lasagne. I felt physically sick knowing once he had 10 million in the bank & now I'm eating better than he is. i saw his house too. it was just one medium sized house with about 4 extensions built onto it. proof money doesn't buy class.

Steven Ireland's Range Rover was proof of that a long time ago pol.

Originally Posted by irk

Or grimson



Utter w****rs then?

Did you get the graham le saux treatment for being a "reader"?

Read his book to find out.

Originally Posted by Switching Off

Read his book to find out.

Can't read. Waste of time innit.