JUST WHEN WE thought you guys had reached your zenith, the festive season may have brought out even more brilliance.
Take a bow and read on!
Attention-seeker and West Ham co-owner David was out last Saturday to tell us he had regrets over buying the perennially injured Andy Carroll but one reader wasn’t taking any chances he might return to Liverpool:
“No givezies backzies!”
JJ Hanrahan’s super sidestep to give Munster a last gasp win over Perpignan got an awful lot of you excited, but none more so than this guy:
“That was better than my first shift off a young wan.”
The beauty of this comment was that it manged to combine this story about Mesut Özil wishing Rob Penney’s team good luck with this one in relation to his snub of Arsenal fans:
“Probably in a hurry to watch Munster match.”
The news that one lucky Paddy Power punter had won £30,000 for correctly predicting Liverpool would beat Tottenham 5-0 had you in typically sarcastic form:
“He should stick it all on Wales to beat Australia at the earliest opportunity”
and
“Reports just in that Biff Tannen got there ahead of him.”
While one of you spotted a huge flaw in the Sports Personality of the Year awards Unsung Hero category:
“My favourite is the Unsung Hero of the Year Award. Just when you are doing really well at being Usung, they go and out you!”
The news that the Andre Villas Boas reign at Spurs had come to an end was no great surprise but you still found time to put Tottenham fans in their place:
“At the start of each season you can classify fans’ ambitions into five levels;
In ascending order -
5. Pessimistic
4. Realistic
3. Optimistic
2. Delusional
1. Tottenham”
and make a Football Manager reference
“I suspect that AVB is now tempted to exit the game without saving and then restart at the last autosave that was made around the end of September.”
Speaking of Spurs, some of you were less than impressed that Glenn Hoddle was trying to put his hat in the ring:
“I’m open to an approach by Spurs. Doesn’t mean I’m going to get one.”
We also learned this week, when discussing Waterford’s finest sporting moments of 2013, that it’s probably best not to disrespect Blaa:
“Now Pat, you are bang out of order calling the blaa a piece of dough, every Waterford person knows the blaa is a whole lot more than a piece of dough. I see that you are actually from Wicklow so we’ll forgive that insult but give the journalist a break, he can’t know everything, I think it’s a fine article all things considered.”
Finally, this comment on a piece about a ridiculously tall basketball player was a new expression on us, but we think it’s a keeper:
“If he was any longer he’d be late.”
