i understand about the wish to clean the game up but i'm far from comvinced that any of it is a new development*. i recall despising the methods of the"latin" teams when i was a teenager in the 70s when i'd watch such teams perform sublimely and balletically and artistically in their home legs and transform into evil underhanded sneaky immoral unprincipled cheats in the away leg. the jeckyl and hide transformation always seemed 100% unnecessary but perfectly illuminated the latin character with a million megawatt lamp and the truthful words "we are cheating bastards" in mile high neon lights over their heads. i posted my displeasure at a blatant dive sterling did in one of the group games. that said, he's probably been england's best player so far, and certainly the most creative.
Jenas is just dull. Was never a remarkable player and now he's an unremarkable pundit and commentator. Dixon just talks absolute ****e for 90 minutes.
No keen on either set of comms but I certainly prefer the itv panel Of Keane souness and Neville hands down to richards shearer and Ferdinand and Pougatch may shout a bit but preferable to old smuggins
**** having it across several countries, but you're not quite correct It should be at Wembley every 2 years and somewhere sunny on alternate years
(nibble) Those watching ITV won't see much of the panel, they'll have the 'delight' of an assortment of adverts ranging from piss pants for ladies, tablets for hard ons, period blood catchers and various arse creams!
You can have the hair clay that was advertised during the 90 minutes to extra time ad break on Wednesday. Two cwt should do.
While you’ll have the delights of Ferdinand mangling the English language Richards interrupting everyone with his irritating laugh Smuggins providing **** puns and useless stats And shearer just looking round thinking what is this **** I carried Newcastle for years now these ****s
I arrived in Scotland as a 14 year old kid with a Hull City top and got parachuted into the roughest School in my area.Every night at 3.50,sometimes in the middle of a lesson,I was challenged to fight...I fought back,never ran,if the **** was a big bully boy like your golf club bigot,he got something wrapped around his lug as a leveller... And as a mirror image of that,we had a kid at Driff Secondary(Norman Short),known as 'Jock',suffered similar.. We're very similar really...Never took it,came through the other side and ended up being someone not to mess with...Life can be tough but it can make you stronger..
I remember Norman very well. A tough scrum half that I played alongside in Driffield colts. A good lad too.
Much like my pre match day routine in Ebenezer's, then post match in Clarendon then! None intended Urika.
I remember Dave very well, he bought my jet 200 scooter off me many, many years ago. (Strange how I can still remember the number plate of that scooter but not my mobile number). Again it was through rugby and then the full measure as I didn't go to school in Driffield. I went on the bus to Bridlington (just don't let Castro know). Next time you see him give him my regards and ask him for the £5 he owes me.
This. In a nutshell. It's all very artificial, stage-managed and naff. It's like they have no faith in their product and feel the punters need to be managed in case they get too patriotic. .
I find some aspects slightly chilling, the way 'they control the occasion. The songs, the music etc Some countries seek to control opinions and shut down the internet, block websites, seek to silence people with 'disruptive' opinions and paint them as a threat. Remember that when some commentator reads out the script at genuflection time. Baffles me the way football has so little faith in itself and its identity, and seems determined to reinvent itself to appease a new less discerning audience. Perhaps it's $$$$.
Hell will be a cold place before you see that £5!! Last time I was with him was in the Falcon after his Mothers funeral...I'm still waiting for him to buy me a drink back.. He kept that scooter in our Grannys coal bunker up Northfield Road
