The guv'nor tackles the big issues

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Former England captain Paul Ince has condemned Premier League footballers who wear snoods, baseball caps turned sideways, headphones - and tights.

 

"Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it," the Notts County boss told Midlands Late Kick Off.

 

"Now you've got snoods, people wearing headphones when they are doing interviews, which I find disrespectful, pink boots, green boots, you name it they've got it, tights - they'll be wearing skirts next.

 

"You try to bring your kids up the right way and I think somewhere down the line managers have got to come together and say: 'Listen if you are doing interviews, you don't wear headphones, no hats, no silly stuff like that'. I don't think it's the way football should be played. We should all, as a managers' union, come together and stop all this. It's getting ridiculous I'm afraid.

 

"I'm sick and tired of seeing players, even when it's mild weather, wearing tights and these things [snoods] around their necks. It's not right.

 

"You see players coming off the buses with earphones around their ears. What ever happened to the art of conversation? You go into the changing room and they've all got their headphones on listening to their own bit of music. When I was at Inter Milan we used to have dinner together and talk together for two to three hours getting to know one another."

Ince, now 43, played for West Ham, Manchester United, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Wolves, Swindon and Macclesfield, where he was player-manager.

 

He has also managed MK Dons twice, Blackburn and now Notts County.

[muleskinner]

I think he is right about the headphones thing and people retreating into their own world during what is a team environment.

[Cobs]

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[muleskinner]

Hehehe, clearly failed at bringing up his boy the right way.

[drdooom]

He's right about the boots.

[anfield11]

He's right about the boots.

 

 

 

 

He's more right about the snoods....FFS!! Probably alone, but players in short sleeves wearing gloves does my head in too.

[heighway]

I'd add socks pulled up above the knees to the list, it just looks girly.

[Buzz]

I'd add socks pulled up above the knees to the list, it just looks girly.

Yeah, what the f*** is all that about? A Chelsea fan I know reckons they started it and it helps keeps the hammy's and knee ligaments warm. I said, What the f*** are you on about?!?!

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

KBB

[stressederic]

Yeah, what the f*** is all that about? A Chelsea fan I know reckons they started it and it helps keeps the hammy's and knee ligaments warm. I said, What the f*** are you on about?!?!

 

They're visionaries at Chelsea you know. It's that and floodlights (or was it corner flags?) they've come up with now.

[ManxRed]

They also invented Bovril. Probably.

 

And plastic flags. Don't forget them.