Lilly Savage Retires From International Football
 

Blackburn player Lilly Savage has retired form international football!!!!

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Lilly has now spat his dummy out and said Wales "are a shambles" under new manager John Toshack.
Savage retired because he couldnt get in the Wales squad of 24 players.

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From the Sky Sports story:

Savage admits he is still in a state of shock at having called time on his international career at the age of 30, but claims he was left with no other option but to turn his back on his country.

"I can't believe it at the moment. I will miss everything about playing for Wales," he added. "There are a lot of things I won't miss, but it has happened and I am gutted because it is not for footballing reasons.

Let's make up our mind, shall we?

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wales arent a shambles, toshack is, he has a problem with a player so leaves him out, obviously his job is to pick the best team, which he has not done

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i prefer the real lily savage ,ie paul o grady ,he is much more entertaining ..lol

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he probably has picked his best team,Savage isnt that good.He just took the mantle when Vinny Jones stopped playing.Who was far better in that role than Savage.Also if you are having problems with certain players most managers leave them out,the individual player doesnt make the team.Few examples ....Paul Ince,Jaap Stam and Lee Sharpe thats just 3 but there are far more and from most of the teams going...

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A division 2 player got picked ahead of him.

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Says a lot then, an international manager thinks Lily isn't good enough. Could you imagine the conversation with that ex red bas7654, "Oi boss that sheeep shager tossoff has left me out of the squad see you so I told him look tossoff( I didn't tell him thats our special name for him)Marky was a lot better player then you and he played for Manu and he scored loads of goals and what did you ever do, played for Liverpool with keegy, did you score like Marky eh, eh? no hes the greatest ever and I'm going to tell him you left me out you just wait for his phone call see you.
I know he called and said see yoou mark, now I've got the job and you don't I'm not putting Savage in the squad ,see, as he's a bad influance on the much younger players now, plus Cardiff's futher away from Wrexham then Blackburn and I would'nt want him missing his family like. I said to him you ex scouse git just because you've got european medals now see you doesnt mean I don't know a good player when I see one now and Robbie Savage will fall in to that catogory when I see him.
But Marky I covert the ground you walk on can you get me back in the Wales squad, see you?
Well I asked outright if he doesn't sh*t in your bog and doesn't wind up Ryan would you let him back in,see you?
What did he say oh love of my life?
It was a Russian word ending in OFF.

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Why would you want to play for a crappy team like wales when you already play for a crappy team like Blackburn?

Nice one Bazf bet the papers play up Marky and Lily.

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What division 2?????

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To be honest i think the critic is overdone.I see Savage as a hard working mid filed player living up to his last name ' Savage'.as to Rovers being a crappy team well they beat Burnley who by the way beat Liverpool.How can Savage be sucking his dummy when certain tea´ms in the Premiereship have players called ' Sissy'? I rest my case seems appropiate LOL!

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Lets look at this logically, if Blackburn arn't crappy then Bournmouth must be superb as they beat you and on Wedensday you should beat us about 4-0 as you beat Burnley and they beat a Liverpool side. Oh Rovers supporters they are always good for a laugh. Talk about laughing I nearly pee'ed myself when you wrote hard working midfield player lives up to his name Savage.
Etymology: Middle English sauvage,

1 a : not domesticated or under human control
b : lacking the restraints normal to civilized human beings
c : lacking complex or advanced culture
Just about sums him up and what a good team to join, one that will break players legs and blame it on the pitch.

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Well i am glad you have had a good laugh.Hope you are laughing tomorrow after the game tonight.I still rate savage as a good player.He is just a hard player, along with Tugay and Dickov.The Rovers side show some backbone now and want to play.Not like when Souness was there who i laso rated a hard player but a crappy Manager.

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No one can say he doesnt work hard.

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You need to do more than work hard though in football

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"I'm not Pele or Maradona," said Robbie Savage, who has not said anything so sensible either before or since. Loathe him or really loathe him, he has certainly given us plenty of entertainment...

Robbie: The Family Man
Poor Robbie was 'used as a punchbag' this season at Birmingham, who completely unreasonably took umbrage after he requested a transfer just six months after signing a new, long-term, much-improved contract at St Andrew's, where of course he wanted to end his career because he'd never been happier blah blah blah. His reason? He needed to be nearer his sick parents in Wrexham. Except, of course, that Blackburn's no closer to Wrexham than Birmingham.
When everyone twigged this, he then said that his new house would be closer (did anyone not ask 'why don't you just move house, then?') and then completely buggered it all up by turning down Everton, which genuinely is quite close to Wrexham.

If he'd have just said in the first place 'I'd like to join Blackburn because they're offering me more money and I really, really like Mark Hughes - he's cool' we might have had more respect.

Robbie: The Patriotic Welshman
"There's no better feeling than pulling the Welsh shirt on," apparently. Which is presumably why our hero has announced his retirement from international football. In true Andy Cole fashion, this announcement was made just minutes after he was told he wasn't actually in the Welsh squad.
Toshack has explained that he called Savage with the news that he wanted to go for youth in the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers: "I told him I wanted to have a look at something else. He said he was retiring anyway and the line went dead."

(Can I take this opportunity to say to everyone who has ever dumped me, 'I was going to finish with you anyway. Oh and you were a shambles and I still can't believe you tried to make me put bolognese sauce on my salmon'.)
Robbie v Souey
Now that's a fight we'd like to see end in a bloody draw.
Back in October - back when Robbie was devoted to Birmingham - Newcastle and the Blues played out a 2-2 draw at St Andrews and Savage came off the pitch talking about how 's***' Newcastle were, which at the time could probably be filed under the heading of 'fair comment'.

But Souness apparently overheard, took umbrage and pointed out Savage's own history at 's*** clubs'. Savage goaded Souness by saying he was only fifth-choice Toon manager, to which he replied: "Oh yeah Robbie, you are such a good player."

What happened next was that Savage lost his mind and said: "I'm a better player than you were." The answer? "You have the trophies and medals to back that up, do you Robbie?"

At this point Souness presumably got out his medals from five league titles, three European Cups and four League Cups. Which is roughly five league titles, three European Cups and three League Cups more than Savage who, as we know, is not Pele or Maradona.