Nope never met the bloke but I got that from ATD who had a meeting with him and he does talk to Webb and Newell from PASOTI so it must be true. If talking to strangers was the sign of a tart then he would be the Moll Flanders of England I've heard. Actually it is good to see him doing stuff for the kids locally. That's where the next generation of players and supporters will come from.
Couldn't agree more Sensible you should have seen the kids faces yesterday because they were playing in Home Park .... some may go on to professional status but the masses will have to be content with grass roots footy ...... Its good to see James Brent sparing some of his valuable time to support the kids along with Luke, its just a pity that Fletcher doesn't feel the same way !
That's quite true sensible........he even spoke to me last November at the PASALB meeting........of course he had his hitmen Chris & Ian standing nearby in case I turned nasty.....but no worries I was on my best behaviour.
I despair that City have got the title. They've bought it, not won it, and that's exactly what English football doesn't want as a role model given its dire financial position. PAFC fans ought to know that only too well given the events of the last couple of years. In the short-term, I'm looking forward to Blackpool beating West Ham and going back to the Premier League. That's completely at odds with all the things I said about Holloway but if Blackpool can do it...... Then there will be the Euros, which will be fantastic as all the major tournaments are. Despite the fact we despise the England players' lifestyles and know watching them will be like a train crash in slow motion, those famous plastic St George flags will be appearing on white vans and the few remaining Ford Escorts in a street near you soon. Those same flags be littering the motorway central reservations when 10-man England pluckily crash out on penalties after a brave 0-0 draw with Denmark, but there's no excuse for not getting the beer and party food out while it lasts. I'm dreaming of Joey Barton as a surprise compromise for England captain. That will give those damnable Euro refs something to think about. I'm not a big fan of solitary sports, by which of course I mean tennis and the Olympics. I am of course looking forward to see how all our money's been spent on building West Ham's new stadium. Has anyone else been watching the BBC Olympics mockumentary series "2012" by the way with Hugh Bonneville getting a late transfer from earldom at Downton Abbey? A must see classic series for any fan of bureaucratic posturing, especially politically correct bureaucratic posturing. Watch out for cameo appearances from His Olympic Holiness Seb Coe. How he gets away with taking the **** out of the very project he's leading, I don't know. Summer is the Formula One season so that will fill in some of the football free hours for me. Since Ernie Becclestone [aka The Poison Dwarf] started to provide a lifestyle for his much taller ex wife and celebrity daughters that not even they'd expected, actually going to a Grand Prix has become so expensive as to be a thing of the past. I don't why he does it, I mean have you seen his daughters? In fact if you've seen Ernie and his daughters, you'll wonder how he did it at least and possibly whether it was him that did it at all. Still, failing being stupid enough to pay £250 for each of the family to sit all day in a glamorous uncovered scaffold grandstand over a very smelly and none too hygienic toilet block [or is that the burger van?] in pouring rain or remorseless sun in alternate years, F1 on Sky is your best bet. Or you can watch Pro/Am Celebrity Darts on the BBC.
I've been checking out you tennis site to see what action there is on there Mrs laLa.......it looks as if it only comes alive four times a year......and of course the brits only last a few days generally........what the hell is the ETA doing with all those millions of £'s...... that more successful countries could only dream of ???
What? A snob because I don't like tennis? That's 3 notches above golf as a snobby game and only slightly behind polo and rowing at Henley. Formula 1 by the way is primarily watched by blokes with tattoos, bull terriers and Nissan GTR's at the top end, Subaru Ipreza's in the middle and Renault Clio Sports at the bottom. Try driving up or down the A5 just after the British Grand Prix and you'll see what I mean. You may also be thinking of corporate hospitality. That's not what I'm talking about, I mean people who pay for their tickets, have a 3 mile hike from where their car is parked, who have to arrive before 6am to avoid the traffic and don't get back out of the car park until darkness is falling. If were thinking of the Bentley set, you have mistaken it for Le Mans, not the same thing at all. Tootle down in the old Continental old boy [NB for plebs an old one, made in Crewe, not the jumped up Volkswagen that Rio Ferdinand drives], pick up some nice bottles of Pouilly-Fume or Sancerre on the way back. That's how the toffs do it, that's snobbery.
Tennis is played by rich people and watched by poor people. F1 is the same. Football (sadly) is or has become the same with players wages. Polo is for rich people watched by rich people. I certainly don't have you down as a snob notdistant. Some faults regarding the poor downtrodden workers perhaps but not snobbery. Somebody has to be somewhere to the right of Maggie Thatcher...........
Well said notDistant.......you have obviously done your homework on what is what.......you didn't mention the hunting set (they call it a sport,the fox might disagree).......do you agree with it or not notDistant. The only time we ever came across Fox hunting was quite a few years back.........we where driving down a country lane in Somerset, and were suddenly caught up by a convoy of fast moving Range Rovers,other four wheel drive vehicles plus other up market cars etc.......who literally forced their way past us with no concern for our safety or their own.......very un-nerving to be honest. A few miles down the road we caught up with them.....or should I say their abandoned vehicles....spread all over the road with doors wide open and obviously completely blocking the road........they had all run into a field to watch the hunt dogs trying to hunt down a Fox as the hunt passed by......no one cared too hoots about us trying to continue down the road.......they were completely transfixed with what was happening, we were totally disgusted with what we had come across and no one cared at all that we were trapped behind them, it took up to 30 minutes for the road to be useable again......you got the feeling that they were all disappointed not to see the dogs tear the fox apart before their eyes.
So let me get this right plym, you were pee'd off with being inconvenienced rather than pee'd off that a group of people and dogs were trying to rip another living creature apart. So is that a vote for or against foxhunting then on the basis of cruelty or that the hunters don't conform to the highway code? Incidentally all of the above are sport whereas chasing a fox with a pack of dogs isn't. That is just hunting.
Nothing to do with the sport you were commenting on Distant, just the way you rubbish things such as people's patriocism with their St George's flags and such. If only more people flew the flag of St George! We are too afraid to be patriotic in this country - it's such a shame, you only have to cross the channel to see what patriocism is, they all drive French cars and are proud of it - even if they are crap!
Hang on a minute Mrs lalala, St George wasn't even a European let alone British or god forbid English. They should be waving the Union flag rather than a foreigners flag. They may be classified "sporting dogs" in the breeders manual plym but it's still a matter of opinion on foxhunting being sport. I guess the answer to my question was that you were pee'd off by being inconvenienced then. Should drive a steamroller then and nothing will get in your way.
I'm happy to wave either flag sensible, what's more I don't drive around in a white van but I wouldn't lord it above those who do so either. I'm working class, come from a working class background and proud of the fact that I'm as good as the likes of Distant. No one had better tell me otherwise!
Oooohhhh er! Calm down Mrs. lalala. I don't think anyone was looking down on anyone else. I don't drive at all, not even a rusty van. I don't wave flags either except the white one when my Mrs gets ruffled. (That's most days). I do agree with your afraid to be patriotic bit though. I'm a bit like the Cornish in attitude. First and foremost I'm a Devonian, secondly English and never ever consider myself European no matter how many Referendi there are. I will talk to anyone of any standing from anywhere in the World if they can understand a word I'm saying.
