I think he was referring to himself as ‘This Yank’ can’t imagine anyone mistaking you as from over the pond owl
Well one certainly hopes not. I don’t have the hair for it (although I am piling on the pounds - so I’m halfway there).
This is from an email on a spurs email list I’m on…
Total distance: 19 km
Travelling time: 00 h 22 min
Average speed: 53 km/h
1 You start from Avenell Road London
2 Follow Conewood Street for 231 m
3 Turn left, Follow Highbury Park for 12 m
4 Turn right, Follow Riversdale Road for 74 m
5 Turn right, Follow Highbury Quadrant for 498 m
6 Turn right, Follow Green Lanes for 1 km
7 Follow Newington Green for 61 m
8 Follow Matthias Road for 368 m
9 Follow Boleyn Road for 386 m
10 Turn left, Follow Bradbury Street for 112 m
11 Turn right, Follow Kingsland High Street for 257 m
12 Turn left, Follow Dalston Lane for 430 m
13 Turn right, Follow Graham Road for 1 km
14 Turn right, Follow Mare Street for 90 m
15 Turn left, Follow Morning Lane for 787 m
16 Turn left, Follow Kenton Road for 336 m
17 Turn left, Follow Cassland Road for 548 m
18 Turn right, Follow Wick Road for 419 m
19 Turn left, Follow East Cross Route for 1 km
20 Turn left, Follow Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach for 3 km
21 Follow Blackwall Tunnel for 672 m
22 Turn right, Follow Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach for 502 m
23 Follow A102 for 33 m
24 Follow Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach for 1 km
25 Follow Woolwich Road for 1 km
26 Turn left, Follow Stone Lake Roundabout for 32 m
27 Follow Woolwich Road for 862 m
28 Turn left, Follow Woolwich Church Street for 1 km
29 Turn left, Follow Woolwich High Street for 368 m
30 Follow Beresford Street for 371 m
31 Turn left, Follow Plumstead Road for 1 km
32 Follow Plumstead High Street for 105 m
33 Turn right, Follow Plumstead Road for 56 m
34 Turn left, Follow Walmer Terrace for 38 m
35 You reach Plumstead London
YOU ARE NOW FUCKING HOME
AND DONT COME BACK
Well it made me laugh.
Unfortunately (or maybe not, I’m in two minds here) this is almost certain to come true…
Spurs lead race for Beckham…
He’s 4/6 to start the season at Real, 6/1 to be at Inter, 8/1 at Tottenham or Milan, 10/1 at Chelsea, 12/1 at the Arse, 16/1 at Newcastle or Liverpool, 25/1 at Barca or 33/1 at Juve.
Ladbrokes spokesman - “We rate the chances of him going to Spurs more likely than a link-up with Jose Mourinho!”
You read it here first pop-pickers.
Well 4-0 against a bunch of lower league players is OK I suppose - Joe Cole acquitted himself well enough, but I felt he kept coming inside a bit too often.
Bring on Pyjamastan!
Telly Online on the Boy Wonder:
“My strength probably comes from going boxing for four or five years. I don’t do any weights these days because I don’t want to get too big.” He looks leaner, more athletic, since moving to Old Trafford. “Being at United is helping me in a lot of ways. I am around top players who have all played in World Cups and European Championships and who all still want to learn. Gary and Phil Neville for example - they do everything right. They eat all the right food and do all the right training. They are the perfect pros.”
A Scouser singing the praises of Gazza. Love it!
England have a top-class side at the moment, with the exception of the lack of pace on the right. Sven’s in a spot because the star-struck Scando won’t get rid of Beckham. England are in a spot because that means options are limited to replacing Gazza, and no one measures up yet (though I like the look of the boy Johnson at Chelsea). So, expect a lot of ball to be channelled down the left and to wherever Rooney goes.
Is it just me, or do you get the feeling that the other England players are in awe of the lad’s ability?
I’ll be up, wearing me red England shirt proudly, to watch this goal fest.
It’s been a long time since I could name with certainty 10 of Englands most likely starting line up.
We’re stuck with Beckham until after the WC. I’m not too bothered about this. He’s never been particularly quick but his distribution is as good as ever and he is world class with the dead ball. So he is still worth his place (even more so once he takes that step up in class from Real Madrid to Tottenham Hotspur).
I’d like to see SWP move to a bigger team and take a step up, Arsenal would seem the obvious place.
Lets hope that Joe Cole continues his improvement - he’s a different player from last years show-pony (I think that he’s got his life sorted out off the pitch a bit more which has helped - ditto Terry).
England are only 8/1 to win 6-0.
If Spurs get Beckham, they’ll be getting a Nicola Berti rather than a Jurgen Klinsmann. His touch the other day was awful. And you or I could play left back and he’d never go past us.
I can safely say that he’d get past me (Posh Spice could get past me). In fact anyone but Heskey could get past me.
Beckham to spurs: It’s not going to happen. We have made some enquiries - he doesn’t want to come, and our Director of Football - Frank Arnessan doesn’t want him. We want either Van Bommel or Rosicky, and we’ll get one of them.
In fact it’s only Posh who wants it to come off.
I saw van Bommel score a hat-trick (for PSV?) on the Dutch highlights show just this week. Looks like he’d fit in to the English game, and he could give Spurs a bit of midfield nous and steel.
Did you see a Beckham/Posh documentary made about a year ago in Madrid and back at Beckingham Palace? He was actually quite amusing, but Posh came over as an ignorant jumped-up tart.
If I was a girl, I’d do him. Which is more than I could say for Posh. And those ridiculous sunglasses. As Sinatra said, you either got or you ain’t got class.
I know that the Beckhams have reserved school places in Herfordshire for their kids - this isn’t the same as paying for them though (as if that would be a worry for them).
They have also bought a house in Putney for DBs Mum. (if they want somewhere nearby I’ll flog them mine, but it’s a bit small for them and they’ll have to park the Bentleys on the street).
If he’s coming back to England and we’re the only realistic option for him.
Chelsea have better
Arsenal really don’t need another fading midfielder
Man Utd is out of the question while fergies there
Liverpool is the obvious choice - but impossible for all sorts of reasons (amongst other being that it’s in the north).
Borough, Newcastle and Villa are all too northern.
That only really leaves us. We’d be willing to take him for commercial reasons, but to be honest we can get better footballing value from Van Bommel or Rosicky.
I still can’t see it happening.
He played well last night though in what must be the most one sided game in years (and howis Azerbaijan in Europe - look at it on a map!).
So it’s back to the league, bring on the Brummies!
Like this one?
And if you don’t want him, can we have Beckham at Palace? Posh would love Penge - great shops.
You’re welcome to him. Are they house hunting in Herne Hill? Brooklyn will like the concrete dinosaurs.
Azerbaijan is in ASIA. It’s east of the Bosphorous. They taught me this at school (when most of the map was still coloured pink!)
So are most of Turkey, all of Georgia, most of Russia, all of Armenia, all of Israel, and most of the Ukraine, yet they are all members of the UEFA. I was taught that the border between Europe and Asia ran through the Bosporus, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, and then along the Ural mountains. Basically anything South of the Black and Caspian Seas and East of the Bosporus (in other words, Turkey and the Middle East) were in Asia, and anything East of the Urals (thus most of Russia) were in Asia. The countries in the Caucasus were in Europe. This would clearly place Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan in Europe.
This map seems to confirm this. In other words: even though your school was founded in the 14th century, they still taught you crap. 
Back when those maps were drawn, there was Europe, the Holy Lands, some north parts of Africa, and the rest was dragons and sea serpents. I think Azerbaijan is about where Mordor would be.
Personally, I’d put Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey into Asia. Parts of Russia, too. The Baltic countries, Georgia and Moldova would be in Europe. Europe’s not so much a continent as it is a political entity, anyway.
BTW, what was the final England score last night. I was out with my mates and missed most of the football, although I stayed up stupid late to watch the tape of the USA v Guatemala match. Final there was 2-0, although it should have been about 5-0. A lot of desparate saves by the GUA keeper. Not much work for your friend KK, Owl.
Oh, and they showed Beckham’s goal on Sport Center’s top ten plays of the day. What was he doing so far forward and all alone?
Well, almost all Encyclopedias (Columbia, Encyclopedia.com, Encarta) agree on these facts: Modern geographers generally describe the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, part of the Caspian Sea, and the Caucasus Mountains as forming the main boundary between Europe and Asia.
The Encyclopedia Brittanica disagrees, and places the border between the Caspian and Black Sea at the Kuma-Manych depression, which would put Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia in Asia. The only part of Turkey that is in Europe, is what’s west of the Bosporus and Dardanelles.
However, the distinction between Europe and Asia are mostly cultural, and since Georgia and Armenia were once part of the Roman Empire and are mostly Christian, that would place them in the European sphere, while Azerbaijan and Turkey are mostly Moslem, and thus would probably fit better in the Asian sphere. In other words, we’re all correct, and nobody’s wrong.
Back to the football though: England won 2-0. The best part though was the after-match press conference, where the coach of Azerbaijan (Carlos Alberto, who coached Brazil to the World Cup win in 1970) must have been drinking too much cachaca, and then had this to say about Michael Owen:
Also, I just saw that Jose Mourinho has recieved a two match ban form the UEFA after slagging off Rijkaard and Barcelona. Personally, I hate the bastard, and I wish he would have been punished much harder. It seems that Frisk (who was the referee at the first Chelsea-Barca match) has retired due to receiving death threats. That’s just sad. I never liked Frisk, but when people start threatening the referees, (yes, I’m looking at you British tabloid press!) things have gone too far.
I remember after Urs Meier disallowed Campbell’s goal in the European Chamionship, the Sun published pictures of his home, after planting an English flag on his lawn. That’s just plain stupid. :wally es!
Great game by the US National Team! They completely dominated.
Eddie Johnson is the real deal my friends. 8 caps, 8 goals! And that bicycle kick! I’m really impressed with this kid.
It’s quite simple really - if they can’t do the all important treble - European City Of Culture* European Championship and Eurovision Song Contest** then they’re not European!
*Which I believe is currently Cork - Cork for fuck’s sake! (still if Glasgow can have it, it’s anyone’s)
**didn’t that bint from estonia dressed up like Raquel Welsh in A Million Years BC win it?
I think he was in the Liverpool team that beat Spanish (Basque) powerhouse Alaves of Vittoria 5-4 to win the Inter-Toto Cup a few years back. Also scored a couple of late goals to see off Arsenal in a Cup Final in South Wales, I believe. Usually on the bench, not always, Carlos. We’ll make a doper of you yet.
Just yesterday I was watching the episode of The Office where the fork-lift truck driver is being made redundant. Carlos obviously knows his midgets from his dwarfs. Come back, mate - all is forgiven. You can be a Chartered Member after all.
Come on, it’s UEFA for heaven’s sake. You got to be photographed with a smoking gun in your hand, or better still suggest cutting their entertainment allowances before they’ll take any real action.
I thought he was a so-so ref. Amy adjudicator in any sport who centres attention on himself is asking for trouble. Fine and dandy while all’s going well, but you start making mistakes and you’re gonna cop a lot of flak. There’s enough pressure anyway without heaping more on yourself. God, I love Collina. Beautiful moment the other day. He sends this guy off for a second bookable, the fellow gets up, shakes Collina’s hand, and walks off. The others get on with the game. Inspirational for any aspiring ump/ref.
I don’t think anyone takes Carlos Alberto seriously. Hell, he’s freaking coaching Azerbaijan. And even Sven-Goran Ericksen could coach Brazil to a WC title with the talent they had in 1970.
I agree. I could have coached Brazil to the tilte in 1970. Sven-Goran would have found some way to blow it though. He would probably have played Pele as left back and kept Jairzinho on the bench for every game.
I also made a mistake. Carlos Alberto did not coach Brazil in 1970, he played. The coach was Mario Zagallo