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Orvilles dis track11/9/2023 ![]() “The game ended in a resounding 9-1 win for the Seagulls, still their record league victory. “Lane had been assistant to Don Welch, and was appointed caretaker manager when Welch was poached by Liverpool. “On 18 April 1951, Brighton hosted Newport County at the Goldstone Ground for a Division Three South match under their new caretaker manager Billy Lane,” recalls Adi Zalmanowicz. Then, as now, Brighton were addicted to goalscoring. Talking of European giants, Tom Whelan cites Nottingham Forest’s 7-1 win over Swindon in February 2006 at a time when Ian McParland and Frank Barlow were in temporary charge following the sacking of Gary Megson.īut the biggest victory in our mailbox comes from the early 1950s, with a tale that proves the past isn’t always a foreign country. In his penultimate game in charge, Bayern won 8-1 away to St Pauli. ![]() Photograph: Kerim Ökten/EPAĪndries Jonker had a short spell as Bayern Munich manager after Louis van Gaal was sacked in April 2011. “It may not be explicit,” begins John Dalby, “but Del Amitri’s Don’t Come Home Too Soon surely counts, if only on a passive-aggressive level, and it’s aimed at a whole team who, inevitably, returned to Scotland at the earliest opportunity.”īranislav Ivanovic scores the third of Chelsea’s E-I-G-H-T goals against Aston Villa in December 2012. I don’t have anything bad to say about him really.’”Īnd finally, one man’s wry love song is another’s diss. I’ve only known him through the Dutch national team and he was always nice there. “Football feud/diss track fans would have been left disappointed when Afellay commented on the song: ‘I’m honestly surprised by it. Heard in the corridors you’re broke, bro / You call things and don’t think about them anymore bro code / But I understand if your career comes to a dead end. “In the single Babel dissed his former Netherlands teammate Ibrahim Afellay through lines such as:īro, I don’t know you from Barça, maybe more from PSV / Oh, now you’re an analyst? / Hmm, so so. “Ryan Babel’s infamous Open Letter, released in 2021, springs to mind,” writes Dean Whearty. Given the long tradition of, ahem, honesty in Dutch dressing rooms, it’s no great surprise that the next track involves two Netherlands internationals. But at the start of next season, Valete got his wish and Bento did get sacked.” ![]() “The media made a big deal of Valete’s track and confronted Bento with the lyrics. You mix quality like Moutinho, Veloso and Romagnoli / with mediocrity such as Farnerud, Djaló and Ronny / You should know you don’t run ponies in horse races. Nobody understands how you play / a guy like Djaló, Paulo / tell him his technique is cataclysmic. How can you play a guy like Ronny as left-back / That vegetable wing-back barely attacks, barely defends. Your football is sleepy, bureaucratic, unproductive.Īnd then he fires barbs at several of their players: Paulo Bento listen, you’re basic and ridiculous. “Here are some of his lines – my translation may lack the verve and flow of the original: “Baza correr com o Paulo Bento – or “Kick Paulo Bento out” – is obviously mainly aimed at the then-Sporting manager, but several footballers are also hit by the lyrical shrapnel,” explains Alan Gomes.
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