I have done it several times, though it was with Canadian 5% beer. The bartender might have had a quiet word after I sent some overly loud and broadly scouse "Fuck off"s towards the TV, but usually I was allowed even those since a guy with a strange accent getting all hyped up about silly old soccerball was such a novelty.
In a similar scouse brogue I would shout “Go edd” when a Liverpool player did something promising (which wasn’t often at the time). Once, one of my fellow patrons turned to me quzzically and asked, “Which one’s Ed?”.
Without playing any more convincingly than at Goodison, United keep the race for the second automatic European Cup place interesting thanks to young Wayne. Here’s hoping Tottenham can get that draw at Highbury toinight.
I will now go to the telegraph online to check the final Portsmouth-Soton score. Most bizarre 25 minutes of football I’ve watched in a long time. Niemi will certainly have beens truck off Fergie’s To Buy list.
What a goal! The superlatives have been exhausted on Rooney. I liked his reaction; “I’ve just scored the goal of the season, and I’m not that bothered to be honest”. Contrasts with people like Thierry Henry who lose their minds when they score a penalty!
The blues extremely laboured point from the Birmingham game turned out to be enormous. It probably means that one more win will seal fourth spot. Maybe.
Could you elaborate on this - the bribing? If I have it right, “form” is equivalent to American English for “police record,” so who is doing the bribery and how is it they are still connected with football?
Just let us know what you’ve bunged the ref; linesmen; FA; UEFA; FIFA; UN; NATO etc and we’ll out bid you.
That was a definite penalty when Kanoute was brought down (was it by Ponderos?), and the Cole handball would have been given against most teams. I haven’t seen it again on the telly (as I was actually at the Library for the game) but it didn’t feel one sided and I thougha draw would have been fair.
I just look on the trip as an opportunity to stock up on lucky heather.
The Arsenal bribed their way into the league, and got up to some pretty dodgy behaviour a few years ago (Garius will explain how many). That’s why they have “form” - they have done it before (although they’ve not been as bad in the last few years).
I’m not suggesting that they really bribed the refs (this doesn’t happen in england but Germany has recently had a scandal around this). It’s just part of the banter that the Arsenal are nomadic and corrupt.
E = Mc Before Wol embarks on another journey down the well-trodden path of North London rivallry, i’ll just point out that you should imagine that all his posts have the following at the bottom of them:
DISCLAIMER: The above commments were made by a Spurs fan. Any similarity to real facts is either purely coincidental or in reference to events that happened so long ago that they predate both world wars. Spurs fans reserve the right to mention Arsenal Tube Station, the move from South London and George Graham at every available opportunity in an effort to draw attention away from the fact that Spurs haven’t won anything of value in about 10 years. Remember, your league position is at risk if you keep insisting on buying shit Irish internationals.
You forgot to include local government on the list.
Wonder how much it would cost us to get Seven Sisters renamed…
Yes they are. The favourites for relegation are always the newly-promoted teams. The difference in standard between the Premiership and the Championship is too great for this to often be otherwise, although an underdog will often have a good run (cf Ipswich getting into Europe a few years ago in their first season back in the top flight - although we got relegated again the next year :smack: ). And likewise, the teams relegated to the Championship often are strong contenders to come straight back up.
There’s less of a difference in standard between the lower leagues, where it’s less certain that teams will yo-yo back up or down to where they came from.
And as a service to fairness I offer the following in return:
caveat: The above comments were made by a plumsted fan. This means that the individual concerned has no moral compass. They are to be pitied not scorned. This is because they have been exposed to the biggest bunch of luggage stealing, krugerand burying, brothel keeping, watch nicking, fat-wife marrying, nightclub brawling, sexpests in both north and south london. The tupitude also includes the corruption and subborning of FA officials, London underground directors and Islington Council in it’s entirity.
The value of stadia located on rubbish tips can go down as well as up. Your marble halls may be at risk if yiou do not maintain payments
If you managed to say that with a straight face, i’ll buy you a drink (Man Utd being the club who turned the manipulation and intimidation of referees into an art form).
Off the top of my head, i can’t think of any “football for beginners” type books - but i don’t think anyone would object to you asking questions here (no matter how silly you think they are) - always happy to help someone with an interest in the game.
if Arsenal stopped buying shit French, Brazilian, Spanish and Italian internationals they might have given tap-up Chelski a run for their money this season.
In more important news, Celtic sent the Forces of Darkness one step closer to banishment for another season with a well deserved 2-1 win at Mount Doom. A great goal from Stillian Petrov and a wonder finish from “9 goals in 12 games” Craig Bellamy (GET IT RIGHT UP YOU SOUNESS!! ) saved the day.
It was Doherty who sprang to mind sparked off by Kelly’s performance last night (which can be forgiven i suppose - he’s only a babe if i remember correctly).
I actually quite like Keane (although he wouldn’t make it into my top 5 in the Prem). Probably only because he always used to be my first buy in Championship Manager 3.
I found two books — Soccer for Dummies, Soccer for Idiots. I bought the latter at Amazon for $1.15.
Have any of you considered giving such a book to a friend in order to express your assessment of the depth of his football acumen? You can probably get a similar price at AmazonUK twhich would make it worth it.
All those who would see passion triumph over profit. Who would see democracy oust plutocracy. Who would see a real club defeat the temporary plaything of a thief of the Soviet people’s money.
Sing with me, at those fake fans of a fake club:
Where were you when you were shite?
Any fan of real football knows his or her allegiance tonight.
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