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Seabourne to The Cherries


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I know a Bompey fan who just posted this on his facebook wall (I really do feel a bit sorry for them not having any real rivals)...............

 

 

Nigel Adkins is keen to discover how Eddie Howe's team went on such a magnificent unbeaten run, so he decides on a visit to Bournemouth's training ground to see how Howe trains his players.

 

After one day he is not really impressed by the training practices, so he asks Howe how he gets his players so sharp. "Well, it is simple.” Howe replies. “I sometimes ask my players a difficult question, and that way they stay really sharp mentally." Of course Adkins wants an example, so Howe asks David James to come over. He asks: "David, he is not your brother, but still he is your father’s son. Who is he?" "That is not difficult," James answers immediately; "Of course that would be me." "You see? That’s the way you keep them sharp," Howe says to Adkins.

 

Adkins, who desperately needs an unbeaten run to live up to Saints fans' god given entitlement to fourth bottom in the premier league, decides to bring this technique into his training session the next day. He calls Rickie Lambert over. "Ricky, I have a question for you," he says, "He is not your brother, but still he is your father’s son, who is he?" "My God, gaffer," replies Lambert, wiping pie crumbs off his face, "That’s a tough one to answer, can I sleep on that?" Adkins agrees with the one-night postponement.

 

So that night Lambert decides to call Matt Le Tissier. He’s had years of experience of getting battered in the PL, so maybe he knows something about these top level questions. "Matthew, maybe you know the answer to this question: he is not your brother, but still he is your father’s son. Who is he?" "That is easy," says Le Tissier, “that’s me!”

 

So the next day Lambert smugly walks into training full of confidence. Adkins says: "Ricky, do you know the answer to my question yet?" "Yes it was actually very easy," he says, "It's Matt Le Tissier."

 

Adkins snaps. "No of course it’s not you stupid bar steward. It’s David James."

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