I believe the teevee inspired perspetives of Tourette’s are a little over-dramatised 9for effect, obviously). As I understand it, he - and other sufferers - can take a ‘dampening down’ medication that controls the potential outbursts.
It’s a (now tired) handy device for teevee shows but it’s off the mark.
Still, in fooball-speak ‘Timmy Tourettes’ he is, and will always be.
Hmm. Unhappy yid here. Still we have had over a decade of this crap.
I really think that the chelsea thing is a prelude to them going bust in the most spectacular fashion. I think that Roman will get fed up with his toy eventually (what he really wants is an F1 team - and he’ll get one) leaving them with an unsustainable proposition.
Now what about the Macedonia game?
Alan Ball has relegated a fair few teams.
I didn’t really figure that he had become the best keeper in Europe yet, I just wanted to see if there was any reaction to him.
As far as having Tourette’s, he does a lot of fundraising and awareness work here in America. He’s gotten several awards for it, in fact. He doesn’t typically suffer the stereotypical “profane outburst,” but usually just an assortment of muscle tics. He does have a system of medicine and exercises that he goes through before a game to control it.
Thanks for letting this American join your discussion. Now you can continue insulting your least favorite teams. I’m just gonna sit back and watch.
There is a theory that Gazza has tourette’s
Remember:
“Paul do you have anything to say to the people of norway”
“Fuck off Norway”.
Always a class act.
Does anyone else remeber that TV prog about the boy with tourette’s. Quite the funniest thing I have ever seen. Especially when he was in the supermarket with his mum.
Yes, owl, I believe it was on Q.E.D. (BBC science prog, not SDMB member).
The next day my entire class was spitting and swearing as thought he were a role model.
In TV terms, nothing could quite beat the old Graham Taylor / Lawrie McMenemy / Phil Neal threesome for sheer comedy value.
Looks like Monday is D-Day for Oldham. The Football League is meeting to decide whether to suspend our fixtures. The players haven’t been paid again, and if the FL decide to go ahead the administration order won’t make a damn difference, we won’t be a going concern.
I feel for you, Crusoe, I really do. These clubs are our heritage (the oldest club in the world, Notts County, are also in dire straits I hear). I would like to see a governmental white paper decreeing that a certain amount of the billions invested in football go towards retaining this heritage in the same way tourist/industry sites must maintain listed buildings on their property.
I know it’s not the same scale but the first team I went to webley with - Enfield - have also just hit the buffers.
Its the same old story - dodgy property developer with big promises. Ground sold, on the promises of better to come. Property developer fucks off. Club left homeless and unable to complete their fixtures (they were trying to share with Boreham Wood).
The fans have set up a rival club - Enfield Town through supporters direct.
Best of luck to the Latics though.
I’m actually a little torn. I don’t think mismanaged football clubs that can’t entice fans away from Sky Sports deserve any kind of government handout, particularly local authority money. There’s better things to spend that on. As for heritage money - well, I’m not really convinced that a second division club is really part of the nation’s history, as much as it pains me to say that.
I do think recent moves towards club salary caps, penalties for going into administration and so on are too little, too late. I think if football clubs expect special treatment, they should be specially regulated. Stringent assessment of the executive team’s fitness to run a football club, tight restrictions on spending as a portion of income and so on.
I’ve no idea whether we’ll go under or not. General opinion leans towards pessimism, although there’s a few who wonder whether it’s a publicity ploy to garner attention in a situation that isn’t quite that desperate (yet). I’m with the pessimists; this has dragged on for several months now, and without assets or attendances our debts aren’t shrinking.
If we do go under, I’d recommend you keep an eye on some of our departing lads. Les Pogliacomi, our Aussie goalkeeper, broke the club’s clean sheets record in his first season in England, and has been linked with Leeds in the past. Will Haining is a powerful centre back, a Scottish U21 international and a great prospect. That’s about it; since Chris Armstrong left for Sheffield United, Clint Hill went to Stoke City and (most of all) “One Size” Fitz Hall went to Southampton we’ve little left.
And I really can’t understand why my fantasy league teams are doing so poorly. I thought my Times squad, including Henry, van Nistelrooy, Beattie and Mutu would be unstoppable!
John’s Not Mad fuck… cunt… bignose…
Preferred Jarrow Elvis myself…
Richard Littlejohn, Jimmy Greaves, Audrey Hepburn, Alan Gilzean, Desmond Dekker, Ralph Coates, Precious McKenzie, Alfie Conn, Peter Purves… Your boys took one hell of a beating.
I’m just trying to think of the Latics equivalent to that. The best I can manage is “Nicola Stephenson (Brookside, Holby City), Graham Lambert (Inspiral Carpets), Paul Scholes…”
Instinctively i hate the idea of the state meddling in the market, but…
It is a fair bet that a town the size of Oldham has a theatre, and that it is not run on purely commercial grounds. There’s a comparison in there struggling to get out.
I think that the only way forward for this is for the FA/UEFA and FIFA to introduce a “fit and proper person” criteria before allowing someone to take over a club.
Also there should be rules around the disposal of assets - especially fixed assets such as real estate, that cannot be replaced.
And finally the local authority - as the licencing authority should take a more proactive role and step in where there are concerns.
And finally finally, as fans we have to take some responsibility for this. We cannot expect unreasonable and unsustainable levels of spending in the hunt for short term sucess.
In other news - Stephen Gerard and the unmarried ginger Paul Scholes have pulled out of th england team. I am not over concerned about Scholes who is rapidly turning into the John Barnes de nos jours. Without even the odd goal.
Gerard is however a real loss, and I have visions of us going into the Macedonia game with a midfield of Butt Hargreaves Lumpalard and Feck’em. Not ideal, and the relude to another Sven long ball marathon.
Peter Cook, Lisa from Steps, Ian Thorpe, Iain Duncan Smith, Chas and Dave, The Dave Clark Five, Bruce Forsythe, Hunter Davies, Linda Lusardi, David Beckhams Grandad…
I could go on.
Crusoe - I think I read they only need a million and a quarter to see them through this period and then, next season, projections look to have them breaking even. It’s not even a lot of money these days – bloody houses around me cost most of that.
As I mentioned somewhere else, about 15 clubs have gone into Administration since the ITV Digital fiasco and they’ve all come out of it leaner and better. That’s obviously the goal for you. Just hope you make it that far – presumably you need someone to come in and pay the bills for a while . . . dreadful business. Good luck for Monday.
Owl - I just think a culture of transparency would help an awful lot of clubs. Paul Scholes unmarried you say ? You really are terrible.
mascaroni - I had no idea about Desmond Dekker. That’s outstanding news! You seem suitably mad - very nice to make your Spurs-loon acquaintance.
Owl - Holy crap! what f*ucking decade are you in - aren’t half those supporters dead ?
Hear hear Owl, the theatre analogy was precisely what I meant by “heritage”. There is little that brings a community together more than a sports team, and little which shatters it more than disappearance of same.
So ultimately, yes, local council interference must be countenanced along with your other erstwhile suggestions if other clubs are not to become Oldhams. This need not be too invasive, merely requiring full independent audits upon any major investment or declaration of an annual operational loss.
As for Ingle-land, I’d prefer Gerrard kept for Liverpool but then again scousers have always been somewhat reticent and ambivalent concerning the national team. But for Christ’s sake it’s Macedonia! If they can’t beat them with a few injuries they don’t deserve to go to Portugal.
Reds 'til they die (some of them hopefully soon): Johnny Ball, Cilla Black, Stan Boardman, Craig Charles, Elvis Costello, Chris De Burgh, Dr Dre (??!), Kirsty Gallagher, Mike Myers, John Peel, Jimmy Tarbuck, Ricky Tomlinson
I agree. We should be able to put out Yootha Joyce and the cast from George and Mildred to win this one.
I think even J.Cole could run this lot ragged - wouldn’t normally say that but it might actually be his kind of game. But I’m not Svengali.