Mike Jeffrey, Fortuna Sittard?
(oh, okay, he’s left now…I tried, at least)
Besides, you’ve got a lot to answer for after the likes of Ray Atteveld, Orpheo Keizerweerd and Marco Boogers.
This will look a mess as I can’t figure out how to do that tables thingy … apologies.
Season Apps G
89-90 RBC 32 6
90-91 RBC 37 27
91-92 NAC Breda 35 20
92-93 NAC Breda 33 26
93-94 NAC Breda 31 25
94-95 NAC Breda 16 10
94-95 Celtic 13 4
95-96 Celtic 34 26
96-97 Celtic 21 14
96-97 Notts F 8 1
97-98 Notts F 42 29
98-99 Notts F 21 6
99-00 Vitesse A 22 18
Total 345 212
Summary: 11 seasons in senior football, 19 goals per season. Shove yer coughcoughcough’s up yer arse Matt 
Besides, how could you possibly have forgotten about Regi Blinker???
Thank you ruadh. Remember matt, she’s a Yankee
Regi Blinker. My goodness, was I glad the day we exported that idiot. But hey, he played for Feyenoord. Anyone expecting something good to come out of Rotterdam is obviously insane
One Henrik Larsson, there’s only one Henrik Larsson …
Well, I’m glad to see that I haven’t been called a bone-headed neanderthal (like I generally tend to be in political discussions ). I think that rugby and soccer quite nicely complement each other (I know several people who play both and I’d surely like some of those soccer players on the wing for me 
) if they weren’t so mutually exclusive (I think it’s the whole class thing 
). So thank you Kitty (forgive my earlier outburst…just get upset at soccer players sometimes since we have to compete with them for field space) and Jack for your open mind!
I opened up a thread about rugby and the rules right here so that I don’t have to hijack this one anymore
So if you have any questions, I (and I’m sure the other rugby players as well) will answer them at: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51552
Thank you
Oops, good points ruadh – although let’s face it, if Willie Falconer and John Spencer can be star strikers in Scotland, anyone can!
My main gripe about Mr Hooijdonk was his superb diplomatic skills – what was it, £50,000 a week “not enough for the homeless” or something?
Anyway, I can’t talk, since my lot signed Ian Ormondroyd not once but twice.
To answer your question, I am assuming that the referees are boys or men. Males generally take a great deal more punishment without complaining, and prefer the oportunity to return the favour. Guys actually feel a sense of pride when they leave the locker room bruised and limping, As long as the ref is even handed, an easy ref is just fine.
Limping and bruised are one thing and concussions and crutches are another. Limping and bruised I just got mad about because my school has no flat land at all and limping with bruises is not comfortable at all, so I wasn’t in the greatest of moods. However the ref WASN’T even handed, far from it, they see our players get pushed, punched (yes Kimbie got punched too), and elbowed and kicked in the head, but say nothing. A pefectly inocent half slide tackle from a defensive player got her yellow carded. Fair? I think not, the girl didn’t even fall.
Kitty
Soccer is a communist game.
Teach your kids baseball and football!!
Growing up on the Canadian border, we’d enjoy broadcasts of curling from the CBC. I apologize to my Canadian friends in advance, but if there’s a sport that you’re going to ridicule, it’s curling. Also beamed to Buffalo from across the border – pool where all the balls are the same color and there’s no pockets, cricket (as in darts – every game lasted exactly three or four rounds, all the shooters were that good), and bowling with two pound balls.
To those in the UKoGBaNI – does the Beeb still air Shetland Sheepdog trials? Wonder what the announcers of dog herding competitions sound like?
No elwood - sadly One Man And His Dog has bitten the dust.
Well - I say sadly but I never actually watched it. Neither did anyone I know. Maybe that’s why they pulled it.
Anyhow.
pan
er… elmwood even. I know how annoying it is when people misspell your name.
Sorry.
As a Sheffield Wednesday fan, I can never forget (or forgive) Regi Blinker, though he did spawn one fo the best songs at Hillsborough for a few years:
We’ve got Regi Blinker,
He’s a bigger drinker,
Than David Hirst,
Than David Hirst.
And ruadh, I think the one of the few useful things the commentators can tell you which team is playing in which strip. When teams like Man U have 14 different away strips, change strips mid-match (players couldn’t pick out the red shirts against Peter Schmeichel’s nose) and generally wear their away strip even when it causes more of a clash with the home team’s strip than their home strip would, it sometimes helps to be told that (as the case may be) Villa are playing in red and Middlesborough in purple rather than vice versa.
Kabbes:
Found in a Google search:
“There will be another 70 minute special edition of
One Man and His Dog which will be shown on BBC2 on Friday 29th December 2000 starting at 4.10pm and finishing at 5.20pm.”
Sounds extremely British, perhaps more so than Morningside Crescent.
You’re a Wednesday fan???!?? Huh. Well we Celtic fans will never forgive you for palming Blinker off on us!!
Mind you, I think with Simon Donnelly we managed to return the favor somewhat.
It was going on to tell us the color of their shorts and socks that I thought was OTT.
I don’t want to hijack this thread, but it seems like a good place to vent a bit.
I’ve heard much to-do about soccer vs. rugby vs. American football. I’ve played all three. Any person that says (based on a sense of superiority about their own sport) that any of the above mentioned sports are boring, pointless, or “sissy sports” is really uninformed. Every one of them are challenging, exciting, incredibly fun sports to play.
If you don’t like soccer, turn off the TV, get off your couch, and go play it. It’s a huge adrenaline rush, and it’s one of the best workouts you can possibly get. (Also, play Ultimate Frisbee sometime. It has all the running of soccer, the goal of American football, and the athleticism of basketball. Amazingly fun sport.)
If you don’t like rugby, turn off the TV, get off your couch, and go play it. It’s brutal, messy, and teeth-rattling, but there’s no better sport for overall toughness and stamina.
If you don’t like American football, turn off the TV, get off your couch, and go play it (I know this is tough for some of our EuroDopers, but it can be done, with a little ingenuity and some willing friends.) It’s rough and tumble, does NOT have to be played with pads, and it’s one long exercise in strategic as well as tactical thinking. It is an extremely worthy sport.
Being American (and a Suthunuh, where college football might as well be a religion,) my favorite will always be American football. Played full-on, without pads (my preferred style,) it’s as brutal, and as fun, as any rugby game.
My point? Participation is the ultimate way of learning about a sport. Play it a few times, and your boredom magically vanishes when you watch it later. You begin to appreciate the nuances, the athleticism, and the techniques. For instance, I used to think tennis was the most boring goddamn thing I’d ever seen. But after playing it more or less constantly over the course of a summer (and getting my ass kicked on a regular basis,) even watching it on TV is exciting, because I am now able to judge the subtle tactics, the swings, and the delicate body balance that makes a truly great tennis player.
As for the OP, which I’ve personally hijacked twice now (I’m sorry!,) people lose sight of the fact that these are supposed to sports, fer chrissakes, not all-out war. It’s a sorry sack of shit that will resort to unsportsmanlike conduct to gain the upper hand.
I don’t think many Wednesday fans would complain about Donnelly: nobody’s ever seen him play.
elmwood - I guess that it isn’t totally dead after all then.
And yes - there is something peculiarly British about devoting 50 minutes of prime TV time on one of the only four channels that everybody can get to a rather tedious program featuring incomprehensible gammy old men with big sticks whistling at their shaggy dogs and eyeing sheep lustily.
Hmm. I was going to lambast the BBC for putting such tripe on, but actually I realised that I rather like these little peculiarities we exhibit after all.
Go figure.
pan
Of course I meant 70 minutes. I can read. Honestly. Now what was that relationship I’m supposed to have with Preview again?
Mornington Crescent?