Paul Parker

[matt_undertoll12]

Originally Posted by Andi Istiabudi

Saya pernah bertemu langsung dengan Paul Parker. Orangnya baik dan ramah kok. Semoga teman-teman di Cirebon bisa menyambutnya dengan baik. Saran saya kalau bisa disiapkan souvenir khusus berupa kerajinan khas Cirebon untuknya

Wah bener juga, harus siapin souvenir khas Cirebon neh. Makasih om idenya

[Andi Istiabudi]

Originally Posted by matt_undertoll12

Wah bener juga, harus siapin souvenir khas Cirebon neh. Makasih om idenya

Iya, kalau bisa minta ke EO nya supaya UI Cirebon diberi kesempatan waktu khusus untuk bertemu dengannya. Nah pas pertemuan itulah baru dikasih souvenirnya

Oiya, boleh nitip foto saya yang bareng dia gak ? Minta tolong ditandatangani dia hehe...

[matt_undertoll12]

Originally Posted by Andi Istiabudi

Iya, kalau bisa minta ke EO nya supaya UI Cirebon diberi kesempatan waktu khusus untuk bertemu dengannya. Nah pas pertemuan itulah baru dikasih souvenirnya

Oiya, boleh nitip foto saya yang bareng dia gak ? Minta tolong ditandatangani dia hehe...

Sebelum hari H, pihak EO jg mengundang kami. Nah ntar disitu kami akan coba mnta kepihak EO.

Boleh om, ntar di Tangerang serahin aja fotonya ke saya

Oh iy, acaranya sendiri 1 kawasan dgn Venue Nonbar Cirebon, kang @moris33 juga tw tuh tempatnya..

[Andi Istiabudi]

Originally Posted by matt_undertoll12

Sebelum hari H, pihak EO jg mengundang kami. Nah ntar disitu kami akan coba mnta kepihak EO.

Boleh om, ntar di Tangerang serahin aja fotonya ke saya

Oh iy, acaranya sendiri 1 kawasan dgn Venue Nonbar Cirebon, kang @moris33 juga tw tuh tempatnya..

Kemungkinan saya tidak bisa datang ke acara di Tangerang ...
Boleh PM alamatn sekalian no HPnya gak ? Nanti saya kirim via pos deh

[matt_undertoll12]

Originally Posted by Andi Istiabudi

Kemungkinan saya tidak bisa datang ke acara di Tangerang ...
Boleh PM alamatn sekalian no HPnya gak ? Nanti saya kirim via pos deh

Kenapa om gk dtg?

Ywdh cek PM-nya om

[Andi Istiabudi]

Paul Parker masih aktif sebagai komentator di ESPN / Starsport gak yach ?
Lama tidak melihat dia ...

[Andi Istiabudi]

Kemarin siang saya pas nonton Channel News Asia (Singapore), Paul Parker tampil sebagai bintang tamu dalam sebuah acara berita ekonomi membahas skandal kasus pengaturan skor sepakbola Eropa. Dalam tayangan tersebut, Paul Parker mengaku prihatin dan kecewa hal tersebut bisa terjadi. Mungkin Paul Parker dimintai keterangan dalam kapasitasnya sebagai mantan pemain Manchester United serta timnas Inggris.

Btw, kemarin teman-teman UI juga ada yang menonton acara itukah ???

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Parker: Tough to retain title

"It’ll be said a thousand times to other players after me that it’s never enough to win a league title medal at Manchester United. It doesn’t suddenly make you a United great."

- Paul Parker, ManUtd.com

Former United defender Paul Parker believes the Reds will prove to be stronger than Manchester City in the title race.

Sir Alex Ferguson's side are taking absolutely nothing for granted but currently enjoy a healthy lead at the Barclays Premier League summit approaching a difficult assignment against Everton on Sunday.

City have amassed an impressive 53-point tally, losing only twice all season in the league, but remain adrift due to United's best-ever haul at this stage of a Premier League campaign. Nonetheless, Parker feels the champions are finding it difficult to come to terms with the extra responsibility of trying to retain the trophy.

"Nine points is a big gap at the moment and everything suggests City should not be able to catch up," Parker told ManUtd.com. "Anything can happen as the old saying goes but City, in my opinion, haven't really evolved as champions in the sense that you have to show something different in the following season.

"Everyone knows how good you are and respects that but opponents and fans are expecting something extra to be added to the squad. When we lost the league in 1992, Dion Dublin came in so we could go more direct if we were in trouble but the most important thing was, from November, the boss added Eric Cantona so we could play in a different way with a different dimension in the final third.

"It opened the door for us and mostly the same players from the previous season were finding the ball in front of them more. Denis Irwin scored more goals, Mark Hughes suddenly didn’t have three players trying to stop him, Brian McClair moved into a different role, Paul Ince and Bryan Robson played differently, and even Paul Parker scored a goal! Things changed.

"We won that first title and then Sir Alex made a bigger signing, definitely in terms of price, with Roy Keane in 1993. Roy was a different player and added a new dimension but, this time, in the centre of the park. He was just as effective tracking back in the defending third as he was going forward. That’s what Sir Alex does and what makes the difference in training and around the place. Everyone knew about Roy at Nottingham Forest and had seen his goals and lung-busting runs and we appreciated what a good player he was.

"It’s a case of lifting the players with something different and City didn’t do that. Coaches are getting wiser and wiser tactically and you have to find something different or even a lesser side will stop you scoring. City have found it difficult to break teams down in virtually every game they’ve played and it has become a battle for them. But it’s got to be the right character that comes in – Mario Balotelli was clearly a negative influence – and you can’t keep buying in bulk. It doesn’t work and has never worked. Look at Mark Hughes at QPR."

The ex-England international, currently working as a TV pundit in Singapore, thinks it is the hunger instilled in the squad from the manager that keeps United chasing silverware season after season.

"United may not appear to have City's spending power but what they do have is players who know each other inside out and a manager who knows how to get the best out of them on the pitch," he explained. "It may not be that easy to win the league once and you gain respect for it but, for everybody to take you seriously, you have to retain it.

"All of a sudden, people think: ‘Wow, here we go’. I was fortunate enough to play for United when we won the league and, at the start of pre-season, the manager warned us all that we had not done anything at all because we’d only just scratched the surface.

"So, in our second season, we did the Double. That means you have achieved something. It’ll be said a thousand times to other players after me that it’s never enough to win a league title medal at Manchester United. It doesn’t suddenly make you a United great.

"Sir Alex isn’t interested in players who think like that and, if he senses that anybody is happy with picking up one medal and believing they have cracked it, they will generally find they are gone in the following season."

[Andi Istiabudi]

Singaporeans only want to bet on football
By Ali Kasim



SINGAPORE - In the wake of the Republic's involvement in the recent wave of match-fixing headlines around the world, former England and Manchester United defender Paul Parker has described Singaporeans as people who don't take football seriously.

Writing in his weekly blog on eurosport.yahoo.com, Parker said he wasn't surprised that Europol's match-fixing investigation centred on a cartel in Singapore.

Parker, who is also a columnist with The New Paper, said that football here was merely "a vehicle for betting".

Speaking to TNP last Monday, Parker admitted to making those points, although he claimed his views were "embellished, to make it more hard-hitting".

Clarifying his comments by referencing the S-League, which has struggled to attract fans over the last few years, Parker, who has been living here for two years and is a football pundit with Fox Sports, said: "There is no great interest in the S-League. There are only a few hundred people at the matches and it isn't promoted enough.

"Many people are into it simply for betting purposes."

On his blog, published last Tuesday, Parker wrote: "In Singapore nobody takes football seriously as a sport, because if anything unusual happens they ask if money has changed hands.

"They like the Premier League when the goals fly in, but you can forget about an in-depth appreciation of the game."

When asked what he meant by an "in-depth appreciation of the game", Parker said: "Over here, it's about only the high-profile players and the high-profile teams.

"By that, I mean Manchester United and Liverpool. It's all and only about those two teams.

"If there's a game between Aston Villa and QPR at midnight - a match with massive implications between two relegation battlers - no one will care about it.

"No one will stay up to watch it, unless they're real football fans or if they're betting on it.

"But if it was a game between United and Liverpool, even after United have already won the title, everyone would tune in - because it's those two teams.

"Fans here are interested only in what goes with those two clubs. If it was just purely football, no one cares."

Different climate

Parker said the climate was very different in England.

"If Everton and Tottenham were fighting for fourth spot, it would be a major talking point in England. Here, not really," he said.

"The Premier League has a huge following here, but the league is about more than just those two teams.

"There should also be an interest in the teams in the Championship (England's second tier) and who's coming up to the Premiership next year."

Parker has appeared on television over the last two years as a pundit on ESPN Star Sports, mio Stadium, and Astro SuperSport in Malaysia.

On those shows, he has shared the discussion table with local-based pundits like Jamie Reeves, Abbas Saad, and former S-League footballers R Sasikumar, Adrian Dhanaraj and A Shasi Kumar.

When asked if any of the local pundits had shown a lack of sophistication over the Premiership, Parker said: "Abbas watches everything, and Sasi follows football universally - because it's his business and in his interest.

"Those two (have an in-depth appreciation) more than anyone else but generally, the rest I can't say so much about."

Parker insisted it was not his intention to make derogatory comments about football in Singapore and the fans here.

"I'm just saying it as it is - football here is not the be-all and end-all," he said.

"Foremost here is education for the kids, not sport.

"Football is getting bigger and bigger here, but it's nothing like in the UK where if you take it away, kids will have no idea what else to do."

Source : http://news.asiaone.com

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Wayne Rooney has been awful... the only remarkable thing about his performance against Burnley was that he got paid £300,000 for it! Ex-Manchester United star Paul Parker blasts Red Devils skipper

* Former Manchester United player Paul Parker has attacked Wayne Rooney
* He says the striker was 'awful' against Burnley and questions how he earns such vast wages at Old Trafford
* Parker also believes Rooney should be dropped after the arrival of Radamel Falcao on loan from Monaco
* Louis van Gaal should play the Colombian alongside Robin van Persie according to the ex-England man
* The 50-year-old thinks Juan Mata and Angel di Maria provide a better options in the No 10 role than captain Rooney

Former Manchester United defender Paul Parker has launched an astonishing attack on club captain Wayne Rooney, branding the striker 'awful' and calling for him to be dropped after the arrival of Radamel Falcao.

The prolific Colombian has arrived at Old Trafford on a season-long loan deal and Parker, who made over 100 appearances for the Red Devils between 1991 and 1996, believes that should spell the end of Rooney's time in Louis van Gaal's first team.

The 50-year-old also blasted Rooney's performance in Saturday's lacklustre 0-0 draw with Burnley and questioned why he earns a reported £300,000-a-week at United.


Under fire: Former Manchester United defender Paul Parker has criticised the performances of Wayne Rooney


Not good enough: Parker says Rooney was 'awful' against Burnley and questioned the money he earns

After discussing Robin van Persie's disappointing display at Turf Moor in his Yahoo! Sport blog, Parker wrote: 'As for Wayne Rooney, he's been awful. There he was at Burnley this weekend, supposedly captaining the team - but I saw a player interested only in himself, doing nothing to try and lift his game or inspire his team-mates.

'The only thing in any way remarkable about his performance is that he collects £300,000 a week to play that badly.'

The loan deal for Falcao has left many pundits coming to the conclusion that Juan Mata will drop to bench, leaving Rooney to play as a No 10 and Van Persie up-front with the club's latest signing. But Parker thinks otherwise.

He added: 'Once Van Persie is fully-fit again, Rooney must be the person to be dropped from United's new attacking line-up: for me, it'll be RVP and Falcao every time. And though there's lots of talk about him playing in the hole behind that front two, I think that'd be a huge mistake - why would you have Rooney there when Juan Mata or Angel Di Maria would do the job so much better?'

Rooney was made captain by Van Gaal over the summer after the departure of Nemanja Vidic to Inter Milan, but Parker feels the Dutchman will not shy away from benching his skipper.

'That'll leave Van Gaal with a big call to make: dropping Wayne Rooney,' he wrote.

'He's always shown in his career that he's not afraid of the big decisions; he showed it most recently with his goalkeeper substitution for the shoot-out at the World Cup, and he'll have to show it once again because the way things are looking there will be no place for Rooney in that starting line-up soon.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2741065/Wayne-Rooney-awful-Ex-Manchester-United-star-Paul-Parker-blasts-skipper.html