A great example of “I don’t fancy that foreign lad” from Merson.
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"BASTIAN SCHWEINSTEIGER looks like another Juan Sebastian Veron to me.
A big-name player coming in past his peak from a lesser league, who might struggle in the Premier League.
We all thought Angel Di Maria would rip it up over here. But it didn’t work out.
It could be the same for Schweinsteiger. They’re both coming in from big clubs who are used to dominating every game and having 80 per cent possession.
That won’t happen at United.
I saw it with Veron. I played against him at Villa Park and thought: “What a player”. Then all of a sudden players start getting closer to you and you start to struggle."
I’d say your man Mark Robson escapes lightly because no one watches rugby, but I had the misfortune to listen to the cunt today.
Toulon brought on a sub near the end. Basteauraud grabbed the sub by the scruff of the neck in the manner of an elder sportsman geeing up a young chap. Robson went off on one for minutes on his own about how it must have been that the youngster had stolen his lemon bonbons in the dressing room. It was Alan Partridgesque.
Meanwhile co-commentator Shane Horgan was busy inventing his own language. The Toulon scrum half was fatiguing, someone else had been turnovered.
Jim Beglin reckons Correa dived even though repeated replays showed him nicking the ball then getting kicked by Fabinho. ‘Did he catch him?’ Fuck off Jim.