# SDMB FOOTIE FOCUS: November **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133 "2003-11-03T11:13:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/41 "2003-11-05T14:33:09Z")
Not sure about the Launderer in Fullham Palace Rd (in fact I don’t think there is a sports shop there - I think it turned into a diving shop.) George Best used to have a restaurant in North End Rd. Ted Ditchburn has a sports shop in Romford. Dave MacKay has a Tie Rack in North London. There’s something not quite right about that. Danny Wallace tours as a stand-up comedian. His show is called “wallace and Vomit” . Terry Naylor is a postman in Highbury. My taxman (ie the Inland Revenue bloke I deal with) used to play for Bristol Rovers and Doncaster. I will think of more… ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/42 "2003-11-05T15:06:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by owlstretchingtime \* > George Best used to have a restaurant in North End Rd. I didn’t know that. Fwiw, I used to share a quiet, round-the-back local with George just off the Kings Road when he was on the white wine and sodas, I suppose it was five-six years ago now. Lovely feller. Regular as clock work, he was. Terry Naylor as a postman! Well, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s reasonably happy with that. Just seems a travesty given everything he gave to the club. Quality geezer. As for a former Launderer having a shop that turned into being about diving, oh the irony! Hell of a result for them last night, though. I’m actually rooting for Ranieri, I think he’s been treated dreadfully by all this Sven rumour-mongering. In fact, I want Ranieri as England manager - Sven can take the bullion and shove it where Ulrika likes it. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/43 "2003-11-05T15:50:26Z")
Terry Neill had a bar just by Old Bailey. Think it might have closed down a year or two ago. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/44 "2003-11-05T16:07:26Z")
Thanks for the link **L\_C**. > [@](#): > > do I need hands like Pat Jennings to finger an ‘F’ chord on me guitar? Best practise barres further up the fretboard - it’s easier to press and get all the strings sounding. After some practise you’ll find a barre on the first fret becomes easier. Until then you could use the “cheat” F whereby you reach your thumb around to the bottom string, or just don’t bother playing the bottom string at all. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/45 "2003-11-05T16:24:02Z")
Okay, I’ll try that this evening. Thanks. Onwards . . . I’m quite interested in seeing how the Rooskies play Henry and co this evening (having one eye on Saturday). Last week, Peter Reid decided to: (a) play a flat back four and push right up, (b) not to man-mark Henry, and © play two defensive midfielders (Batty and Seth Johnson) to (presumably) disrupt the supply. Didn’t work too well . . . especially as Henry, Lumberg and Pires just went wide and around them. And over. I don’t really understand why Henry usually gets man-marked in Europe and not in the Premiership – I mean the results seem pretty clear. Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see if Kiev come up with something Pleat could use . . . man-marked by Taricco, maybe ? ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/46 "2003-11-05T16:36:34Z")
You can better odds elsewhere, but can someone explain to me why Galatasaray are at least 2/1 to win at Olympiakos (where Olympiakos are at best Evens) . . . is there something I’m not aware of at play ? I mean Group D is still wide open. Doesn’t seem right, I may have to get on . . . ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/47 "2003-11-05T16:45:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\* Fwiw, I used to share a quiet, round-the-back local with George just off the Kings Road when he was on the white wine and sodas, I suppose it was five-six years ago now. Lovely feller. Regular as clock work, he was. > > . \*\* Would that be the Feinie (sp?) Arms? He was a long term fixture in there for years. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/48 "2003-11-05T17:16:46Z")
The Phene, **Owl**. On the corner of Oakley Gardens. Shame his boy isn’t a footballer. How the hell do we stop Henry, without a rocket propelled grenade ? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/49 "2003-11-06T13:15:30Z")
great display by Celtic last night, Miller was excellent. and Rangers are once again the laughing stock of Europe. sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Barks\_dog\_food](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@Barks\_dog\_food](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barks_dog_food)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/50 "2003-11-06T14:11:30Z")
Well, Arsenal still has a chance in CL and I think they will make it. Haven’t got much hope of winning it though, unless we become wastly more efficient. And stopping Henry is impossible, I thought Spurs fans knew that after last years goal. An headed assist, could have been 2, even when he was man-marked. Everyone’s favourite player Tony Adams is now manager i for Wycombe. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/51 "2003-11-07T10:53:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Barks’ dog food \* > \*\* > > Everyone’s favourite player Tony Adams is now manager i for Wycombe. \*\* Not quite everyones favourite… I have a library card for Saturday which is always a fun trip. However I cannot see how we are going to get anything out of it. The only way I can see us getting any kind of result is to kick seven bells out of the filth and hope that their discipline cracks. For thems that knows a pub with a moody sattelite - it’s on Canal +. Oh well. re: Boncho’s Bulgarian Meatball Emporium - It’s closed. Its now an Estate Agents (which is just what W14 needs more of). I will remain unrequited in my desire to eat meatballs cooked by Bulgarian World Cup footballers. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/52 "2003-11-07T11:03:30Z")
Good to see channel Five have resurected It’s A Knockout. Strangely though, they have renamed it “UEFA Cup football from Bucharest”. What an utter pantomime - I genuinely expected to see Stuart Hall cackling maniacally every time Steven Gerrard fell over. The equaliser came from _both_ Hyppia and Biscan slipping, and Gerrard’s passback which stopped dead in a puddle thus becoming a perfect through ball was priceless. Next time I labour on a puddley pitch on Pontcanna fields for my Sunday League team, I will take heart that professionals would look just as ridiculous as me. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/53 "2003-11-07T11:11:38Z")
Foiled! Apparently the Wycombe players aren’t happy with Adams getting the job. They wanted the caretaker manager to stay instead. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/54 "2003-11-07T12:33:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by owlstretchingtime \* > For thems that knows a pub with a moody sattelite - it’s on Canal +. Oh good, I get to brush up on my French as well as taking Spanish! Two things: In terms of results and tactics, I can’t work out why Champions League games (at least at this league stage of it) are as unpredictable as they are. Perhaps it’s because this league system might suit some mentalities (southern European) more than others (for example, the British teams who, one assumes, like a blood and guts ‘cup tie’). Ditto the mentality of those looking to punt, maybe ‘we’ think ‘cup tie’, and the teams are more points-in-the-bin types. Actually, I have no idea and that’s the only straw floating past. Second, none-the-wiser as to how to blunt the Grovellers, although Kiev certainly gave their all I’m pretty much of the view that pushing a back four up just plays into the hands of their lightening ‘breakers’ - those acres between the 'keeper and the halfway line are made for the likes of Henry and Co. So that’s out. What else ? Well, I think I’m going to flood the midfield in my Spurs team selection for Saturday. \ Here’s the plan, boys, and it’s 4 – 5 – 1-ish. Radical, but we’ve got to give _something_ a go. Tin hats and best wishes go to: Keller Carr – Richards – Gardiner – Taricco -------- Mabizela – King Ricketts ----- Keane ----- Konchelshy ---------Zamora/Postiga - and may God bless all who sail in her . . . p.s I think Pleat may go with something similar but he will, of course, have at least Anderton (in for Mabizela). If he plays Anderton and Poyet, it’ll be a cricket score. Doherty for Gardiner if Gardiner’s hamstring hasn’t cleared up. \ ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/55 "2003-11-07T12:51:12Z")
Not a bad idea. I’d go on in a similar vein, but with Dalmat rather than Konchesky. It’s going to be a long day on Saturday. from the Observer the 10 dodgiest footballing barnets: > **[Top 10 dodgiest haircuts in history of football](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2001/jan/07/newsstory.sport1)** > > Plus verdicts from top stylist Nicky Clarke Owl’s weekend Gamble: Bolton v SOUTHAMPTON - saints win Pompey v Dirty dirty Leeds - Draw Wolves v Zulus - Zulu win Chelscum v Rapists - Chelsea win Lucky15 with william Hill - £15 stake. Lets see what comes back. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/56 "2003-11-07T12:54:34Z")
I’d go for a Pompey win, and a draw with Newcastle and Chelsea. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/57 "2003-11-07T13:09:46Z")
The death of Bobby Hatfield has given an excuse to resurrect possibly the best off-the-cuff terrace song. Man City were playing sonme bunch of no marks and Mickey Phelan was substituted for pierre Vonk… The song:- “we’ve lost that micky phelan woo-oh that mickey phelan we’ve lost that micky phelan now its vonk, vonk, vonk…” ---
**Author:** ![Barks\_dog\_food](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@Barks\_dog\_food](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barks_dog_food)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/58 "2003-11-07T13:16:08Z")
How to get a draw, or if you’re lucky win, against Arsenal: ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/59 "2003-11-07T13:18:07Z")
go on then; give us a clue… ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-november/211133/60 "2003-11-07T13:19:27Z")
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