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CR7, or PADQU, (Passive-Aggressive-Drama-Queen-of-the-Universe), blessed by the gods with the greatest physical tools imaginable and the emotional fragility of a 13-year-old girl. It's amazing and quite wonderful for an American like myself, who grew up as a jock (football, baseball at UGA) in our hyper-jock culture, now, in my dotage, in retirement, falling in love with fútbol for its intricate beauty and seamless flow. Having no TV, I see every ESPN3 offering on my computer. And the better games I watch more than once. And what fascinates (after the beauty of the game) is how sensitive these guys are, and how different the sporting cultural climate seems to be between the US and Europe. Maybe this has to do with being European or Latin American and/or the cross-cultural machinations in the locker room, with players on every club team from all over the world. Imagine, say, Eli Manning pouting, being sad and not celebrating TD passes because, 'I'm not happy in the locker room but I can't talk about it...' It'd take a heartbeat for one of his linebacker pals to grab him in a headlock and give him a noogie to the amusement of all, Eli laughing among them. Somehow, I don't see anyone doing that with PADGU.
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Oh satire... you fickle bitch. I am the fool here.
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Dear Mr Levy, Thank you. Thank you for completing me. I was a straitjacket short of a padded cell. But now I have it all. There’s even a little foam on the corner of my mouth. So thank you for my current state of mind, a consequence of you systematically dismantling the great club that Harry Redknapp built with his bare hands. Thank you for this empire of dirt, these ashes in a broken urn you have left for myself and my brethren to mourn over. Thank you for the cataclysm. Please send in the doctors. Order me a lobotomy, save me from witnessing further disgrace. Any minute now, Keith Burkinshaw will appear as a vision to remind me that there was once a football club here. You’ve managed to reanimate the dead after the wilderness of the 1990s only to bury it alive. You are accountable for this shambolic mess. But it’s okay, it’s of no major personal concern to you. It's all gone wrong so you can easily point the blame at the fall guy you’ve appointed in place of Harry then hire the next mug in or simply beg Redknapp to return to fix this crisis. You didn't back Villas-Boas on purpose which means your failure is really a clever little escape clause. I know your game. Waiting until the final day to do business because you know how improbable it is to get the job done so late in the transfer window. You signed Dempsey because you knew Moutinho wouldn’t happen. Why would it when there are so many complexities involved in his transfer? So many that a day’s worth of hard graft was nigh impossible to iron them all out. He was Villas-Boas number one target and you purposely side-stepped it so that the money from the Luka Modric transfer can sit in that diamond encrusted shoe box under your bed. Hugo Lloris, another mastermind manoeuvre although you seem to have ballsed this one up. The player actually signed in the end, even with your attempts to stall and change the offer made to Lyon during negotiations. How dare you show such contempt for opposing clubs, a blatant reluctance to play into their hands and accept their demands over your own? Who the hell do you think you are? Shameful you are representative of THFC. How dare you cater for your own interests, nursing your agendas. You make my skin crawl. Where was the £30M bid for Falcao? Llorente? Leandro? You were too busy pushing out club legend Rafa van der Vaart and failing to match valuations for our other alleged targets. You know the ones, refresh NewsNow or tune into Sky Sports News, they had a long list of them. Oh but wait, you signed Dembele. Whoop de doo. Let’s raid Fulham and it will be a-okay. In January we should look at pillaging Reading and if we’re feeling really really ambitious we can swagger on up to Anfield and pluck some of their gems. We’re really aiming high aren’t we? If it was up to you Dawson, Defoe and Huddlestone would have been thrown onto the scrap-heap alongside Ledley King, cruelly casted out whilst you allow ex-gooners like Adebayor get richer at the cost of hiking up our season tickets. Oh wait, newsflash, you've improved the catering at White Hart Lane. Well that's okay then. At least we won't cry our eyes out at the disarray on the pitch on empty stomachs. To add further insult to injury we are now that little club in England that Jose can tap up if he wants something new for his big team in Madrid. Should I burn my Gareth Bale shirt now or wait until his transfer is confirmed next summer? I just can't get over this transfer window and your last minute attempts at signing players. Do you set your alarm to go off on the last day of August as a reminder to do some business? But it's all good isn't it? Because you can now swap Panini stickers with Florentino Pérez and share up-skirt pictures via instant messenger. He looks the type. I’m furious. There used to be a football club here... You have once more screwed this club over. Selling off players along with that aforementioned refusal to meet the demands of other chairman, preferring instead to bully and play with them until they are tearful and broken. You need to consider other people’s feelings, our feelings, and stop being so self-absorbed on this ‘project’ you seem to be running into the North London ground. We’ve got money, I know we have. We sold Modric, so splash it around a bit. You saving it for a rainy day? We’re rich. That bloke who lives out in the Bahamas, he’s a billionaire God drat it. We should be signing Champions League quality players and paying them a kings ransom to wear our shirt. But oh no, God forbid you speculate to accumulate. Let me guess, boo hoo, we need money for the stadium. Bore off. What stadium? You think a bit of scaffolding and cement mixers can fool me? As for Villas-Boas, you've out done yourself there. The closest he ever got to playing football was reading a book about it and learning tactics and formation on a computer. He shouldn't be managing a Sunday league club let alone us. He's a researcher at best. Who's next in line? Anthony Costa? We never played this poorly under Redknapp. I refuse to give him a chance, I simply refuse. Anything below 4th is a disgrace and we're currently 14th. Unacceptable and believe me I'm being patient here. I was patient on Saturday against Norwich. I didn't start to abuse the manager until late on. I waited until the 15th minute. This isn't a transition, it's a crisis! I've been a supporter for decades but I will never set foot back into White Hart Lane again until you are removed and gone. Okay, granted, the restraining order doesn't allow me within a mile of the stadium, but my disdain will see me boycott EA Sports games and not purchase any Under Armour gear. Apart from one of the white training tops which looks spiffing. So have some of that corporate Tottenham. The points lost at the start of the season because of your reluctance to do business early and get in the players to replace the departing ones have cost us any chance of finishing top four. Our season is OVER. Have you looked at the table? MIND THE GAPS. Plural, that's plural. You have sold our soul to the devil, then nicked it back, then sold it back to us only to then take a reward from the devil when pointing him in the direction of his stolen property. This, this ugly abomination of a club is what you've birthed from your greed and self-absorption. I am Gregory Peck in The Omen when he digs up that coffin in the ruined cemetery to find a jackal's skeleton in Damien's mother's grave. I'm Gregory f**king Peck! You've turned us all into Gregory Peck! I hope you like the number ten. It’s not a shirt number Daniel. It’s the position we'll be sitting in come May. And the number 666 is no doubt glistening with pride somewhere on your body. 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quote:There isn't a single club I know of today that has, would or will ever manage to perform a similar combo of fuckups as Liverpool has done in past two years, cluminating with this summers hollow pockets crescendo. To enter a season so underpowered, to lose out on a target that ticks so many boxes (in real world not the imagined football universe of Fenway's newly found prudence) and not to do whatever it takes to replace Andy Carroll who has in all probability played his last competitive game for Liverpool. Just what club does that? What owner is so loving negligent to see his club fill columns time and time again with sheer bloody incompetence? But yes, it's about losing a game. Guess what, we'll lose quite a few this season so I guess that's why we'll keep coming back to last hours of August.
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I didn't have you marked down as a socialist, because that's what these new regulations, Euro regulations at that, amount to. At the moment we have the best, the most exciting league in the world. We have the best players and every top manager wants to play here and coach here. Let's not kid ourselves they come here for the cuisine or the climate. They come because the big bucks are here. It's simple demand and supply. What's wrong with that? Without the big spenders we wouldn't have the best football in the world here. So what if the occasional club crashes and burns. They're all capable of making choices without some nanny Euro-quango telling them how they can spend their money. Leeds overspent and paid the lesson but are still in existence. Southampton went bankrupt at around the time that we nearly did but are now back in the Premiership. If Portsmouth get their act together then they will ressurecct, but if they don't then tough- there's no divine right for Portsmouth to be a league club and anyway their absence creates a place for another club to join the league. I like the present system. It creates an exciting league. It brings in huge amounts of money, it is a big export earner. The FFP rules on the other hand are devised by Europeans jealous of our football sucess and will introduce a system that will see a drift back to the continent of the world's best players and coaches, thereby ending English domination of Euro club competitions.
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ok.let me admit it,the first united game that i had seen with a lot of interest when i was a gunner was a game in 2008 when nani was deployed as second striker and a side board showed bet365 or some other site betting 3.65 pound that nani will score the first goal .and he came quite close wearing a nike mercurial vapour yellow boots.i was hooked to this guy ever since and i believe i am one of the greatest nani fans around.combined with the berbatov transfer i had converted into a united fan ever since.Im sick and tired of defending for nani and berbatov on several sites like youtube ,united offical site etc,i felt like throwing up when he got substitued yesterday against azerbaijan and varela came on scored that goal.its like even coaches read silly websites like goal.com to estimate a players impact in a game.Im drunk right now and the only thing that makes me sick is the fact that cleverly and nani both of whom i rate very highly got subsituted by managers who base their decisons according popular opinion .just like many of the cunds here.Nani is a world class player slighlty lacking confidence to take him to cr7 level and selling him for less than 35 mil is just sickeninggggg,Just sell him so that i can go on and support some club which offers him respect and provides him ample oppurtunites to prove who he really is...
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Ugh. This is someone on Red Cafe reacting to ideas of United fans paying tribute to the Hillsborough victims in wake of yesterday's revelations.quote:YNWA is way too far. I remember my Liverpool-supporting mate's leaving do before he jetted off to Australia, the DJ played it, I just amused myself by singing our version. Some people really just don't get the point, do they?
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The first half was outstanding? i think you have lost the plot Rogers, be glad when your gone, that day will be a outstanding day  )Rogers&FSGout 15th Sep 2012 20:29
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Michael Woelk posted:Rodgers has now equaled the worst start to a season in 90+ years. we can't be put thru more of his "we deserved more" crap explainations. Rednap is out there available as an interim manager. Liverpool we must let this Mr Average Full of Excuses go ASAP. We can do & must demand better.
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Regarding Vertonghen's decision to join Tottenham:quote:Good work Levy and co... very good player and future captain.....moronic comments from arsenal fans are obviously disapointed with carthorse mertasnail? carthorse mertasnail
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Redknapp has been talking some shite in a couple of interviews todayHarry Redknapp posted:I think most people out there like me. He also talked about how Spurs would have got 3rd if not for this quote:had the West Brom goalkeeper not had a nightmare and thrown a couple in (against Arsenal) and finally a bit of genius of keeping management simple quote:It's about moving Modric from left wing to central midfield. People said he was too small but I moved him into the middle. Of course ignoring that Modric was only playing on the left because Redknapp moved him there in the first place
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Anton Ferdinand is an attention whore apparentlyquote:Yawn!!! Do we really want to hear or read something about this non-story every day from now till the end of time? NO! The res of us have moved on, why cant the Ferdinands? Oh that`s right, it keeps him in the spotlight. There we are then! quote:Anton Ferdinand (criticised for being unreliable witness)has to do something to make the headlines, as his sub-standard performances don't warrant special attention! even more amazing than people saying this is the fact that John Terry actually has people supporting him
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First thing that came into my mind when I saw this was "Slenderman".
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faustino asprilla would have worn the gently caress out of that on the bench if he still played for them. retweet if you love the 90s
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Dunban posted:First thing that came into my mind when I saw this was "Slenderman".
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Went to Bolton - me first game of the season - out of curiosity more than anything - only went to West Ham away last season, because i could walk there. Have listened to nearly every wfc match on the hornets player tho for past two seasons - mainly for my betting forum blog.. So the good, the bad and the ugly were all in play on Saturday. I'll start with the bad - The passing game - really is that what wfc are now. If so they need to learn to pass the ball on the grass and not keep lifting the ball so a player has to control the ball on his feckin shins when receiveing it - points out of 10 for the passing game when players are under pressure = 0 feckin hopeless from people who earn their living from playing football. as an ex supporter of wfc - i was half hoping I would get a little buzz out of seeing the team pre kick off but with only a couple of players who I could hold any allegiance to I just couldn't muster the energy to even clap them as they strode on to the pitch. I aint knocking the manager but i will give him some advice - DO NOT PLAY THE SO CALLED PASSING GAME IN THE WFC DEFENSIVE ZONE - it is not a clever approach in the English Championship. Watching wfc clumsily faff about with the ball around their own penalty area is more embarriessng than anything the hoofball produced and is far more risky. I can see why wfc are cracking up at the back with such ease. There is little movement so when put under pressure there is no options and wfc lose the ball far too easily. So Mr Zola - if teams do a full court press as such, the best way to get the ball to the front men is to hoof it... the front forward players should have the ability to then retain and start an attack from there - that being much closer to the opponents penalty area where wfc are meant to score goals. Having read reports that not playing a passing game, is not an option by Mr Zola - one would then have to question is Mr Zola the right man for the job but at the wrong time? - this being that I beleive he will be a much better manager in the premiership and the style of play up there, than in this divison which is in truth, still sweat, blood and tears football. The booing at half time by a handful of so called fans - typical wfc scum - and tho a great supporter the annoying geezer who sings like he is at a feckin opera - ouch you do my ears in but fair play for your support... The half time subs kick about - why do teams send out these players who do a half hearted kick about and stroll around like baboons after a feast. Surely it would be better for them to listen into the team talks and tactics etc.. Have never understood the logic.. So the first half was very bad, very bad indeed - I had a long half time wry smile - bring back the successful hoofball/direct style... it works in the chumpionship. Bolton played well enough in the first half and were good value for two or even more goals... They did what every team who plays against wfc must do - press on the wfc defenders, they make so many mistakes the next major signing MUST be a crate of tippex. Another assessment i would make is that wfc look very weak in tackling and challenging, that or the players, certian players just aint up for it - first half bullied into submission. Though the ref was a canut as well. The Good - Well it was more of a second half gift from Bolton - they sat back and let wfc play - under less pressure the defenders were at least able to get the ball up field and to wfc players. This was Boltons mistake - they had settled for the two goal lead initially, likely thinking they could smash and grab a third later on when wfc commit more forward. To be fair to wfc at times -some of the play was reasonable - i recall one move in the first half ( the only one) that was indeed very tidy and composed and in the second half the passing was much better and indeed Botlon were yielding, yet wfc didn't really look like scoring - with the Lloyd of the Doyley's overlapping and staying forward on attacks wfc at least had some width to the game now... This was being used as well and then after about 15 mins of the second half the LD does it again - wooooo - i actually instinctively stood up and cheered - hmmmm no, surely i still don't care, it is true i don't care, but my bet was back on , at least my saving bet. Why o why was I too lazy to go on my iphone to tip both teams to score when i saw the team news. WFC pressed and then BWFC decided this was to close for comfort and started pressing up field a lot more -again mistakes were made and wfc found it harder to force anything worthwhile on goal though one or two very good efforts were created. The game fizzled out in the 4 mins of injury time and what looks like a reasonable comeback, winning the second half - the game was lost at half time. Bumped into me old mate John Souter - not missed a game home and away for must be 40m years and also Viv and her bruv from the forum was nice chatting to them. was surprised the moog and the king janes weren't there being the loyal vocal, knowledgeable wfc fans that they are... The Ugly - Was chatting to a wfc fan and his son, who had recognised me from many past years of following wfc all over the country. as we all got on the train at Whorwich Parkway - i grabbed a spare seat, which were few and far between.. Hmmm - nice tits shame about the face as i oggled the typical female fashion of up north. As i was chatting to the wfc fan from my seat, the bird butted in " your a southener", "yes and ur a northerner" we chatted for the entire journey back to Man Pic - now had i had the required 6 pints inside me i would have stayed and gone on the lash with her and her mate she was meeting with a good odds of a sexual encounter - but I preferred to get back to Stoke and play the pre arranged Poker tournie. Yes she was uglier than even I am... i know beggars can't be choosers but on this occassion - as much as the tits were very inviting, the rest was not, unless the beer intake said so.
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Strawman posted:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444620104578006700850207498.html "Manchester United's owners, the Glazer family, acquired control of the team in 2005 at a cost of $800 million. The club has since won four league titles, three league cups and a European title under manager Alex Ferguson, who basically does what he wants around Old Trafford." The correlation=causation fallacy in that paragraph is astounding.
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Strawman posted:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444620104578006700850207498.html John Henry and Tom Werner are getting exactly what they deserve for the sheer idiocy of their decision making "skills". It is readily apparent that the players are completely demoralized and only the Liverpool fans - who have to pay to see this travesty - are suffering more than the players who at least have a nice paycheck still coming in. Any owner who would sack Kenny Dalglish, a team builder with Liverpool in his heart and soul has clearly shown they have ZERO business sense and ZERO credibility as someone even competent to own a Premier League team. Instead of admitting their mistake and fixing it which is what successful business owners do, they are going to continue with the party line and sink the ship. These two deserve relegation and if they keep on this way they will surely get it. They are a disgrace as an example of American ownership. Liverpool, on the other hand, needs someone with heart and total control over the team - like King Kenny or Pep - to pull them out of this slump. Criticize Kenny all you want but the players were behind him and his commitment to the Reds was absolute. There are players who will be available for lending shortly from the MLS - get someone for goodness sake! Then again, I don't even know if Pep Guardiola could pull off that kind of Hail Mary move...
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As somebody who come from this culture, I will try my best to explain the idea. Now, during the actual Hillsborough Memorial game just like during the Munich Memorial game, all fans were pretty respectful. This is because this was something that was within the boundaries of good taste. No United fan sung songs about Hillsborough during the actual match. They sang "where's your famous Munich song" as a bit of a joke between the two supporters, perhaps even as an ironic ridiculing of an event or maybe challenging others to sing it and be seen as the bad guy. But this didn't happen. United didn't approach the bad taste limit during the match. Now, when the game was over then the period of mourning and respect was over for the fans and then reverted back to normal songs, including the murderers chant. This isn't a problem as there's no fans in the ground and they are celebrating on their own. Unless you've been to an away ground, don't start with your poo poo on this. The point is, in their own way the hardcore fans paid respect to Hillsborough like we did to Munich by being silent on those often heard (at these matches) songs. After we've paid respect, we go back to our normal idea of support. The idea of support, for all of you who are happy to judge a culture that you aren't involved in, is to do whatever you can to wind up the opposition fans in an attempt to get the atmosphere rocking. You guys are the equivalent of those cunts in Baseketball who said that the psyche out is unbelievably offensive and should be stopped. You don't understand our culture yet feel free to pass judgement on it. United fans, and it does pain me to say this, did absolutely nothing wrong and behaved in exemplary fashion. Hashtag Banterzone fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Sep 24, 2012 |
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