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  1. TC (Lovely Geezer)

    TC (Lovely Geezer) Well-Known Member

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    The combined summer spending by the bottom three clubs in the Premier League.
    2 of these clubs have sacked their managers just 9 games into the season, as have 14th placed Leicester.

    Is football now any more enjoyable than 30 years ago when players had a pint with the fans after the game before driving home in their Ford Cortina's.
    10p for a programe instead of the £10 Spurs are charging at Wembley.
    Match of the Day was a Sunday afternoon treat with commentators like Harry Carpenter, Jon Champion and Barry Davies but Des Lynham was probably the best!! No-one gave a **** about foreign football except when they played against an English team in the European Cup.

    Now, Clubs have become ‘brands’ which provide ‘return on investment’ for their owners. Fans of the game are no longer supporters but just a ‘captive market’.
    It's a great shame that football, in its quest to become a global corporate entity, seems to be losing its core identity, its connection with the fans, and its very soul. And that, sadly, is the ugly truth of the beautiful game.


    Hopefully Millwall will never get like this. Unfortunately for you lot, Leeds already has!!
     
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  2. FORZA LEEDS

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    Match Of The Day was Saturday night, The Big Match was Sunday afternoon, Harry Carpenter was a boxing commentator

    But some things never change, Millwall were **** and still are :biggrin:
     
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    Millwall should be sponsored by Crimewatch
     
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  4. TC (Lovely Geezer)

    TC (Lovely Geezer) Well-Known Member

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    Harry Carpenter was a boxing commentator, but he started on Match of the Day - know what i mean Forza ;)
    Also i clearly remember it being on Sunday's in the early 80s!!
     
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    FORZA LEEDS Well-Known Member

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    The soon to be 'out of existence' Crimewatch? Like Millwall?
     
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    FORZA LEEDS Well-Known Member

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    Yes but not 30 years ago <doh> more like the '60's

    When Millwall were still **** :biggrin:
     
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    Inspired me to dig this old chestnut out again ....

    Apparently posted on a Blades forum originally ...

    "I'm feeling all angry about these modern day footballers and I know why they have gone all soft. It's because of poncy names. That's what it is. Remember the old days when footy players kicked a f*cking ball made out of ten pounds of clay stitched inside a steel reinforced leather shell with laces made out of piano wire?

    Well, in them days, players could only survive the rigours of the game because they were called things like Albert, Arthur, Bert, Harry, Bill, Eddie, Bob, Jack and Stan. F*cking tough names for tough men them was. And what do we have now? Gareth, Jason, Dale, Dean, Ryan, Jamie, Robbie. F*cking tarts names they are. Great big f*cking poofs.

    No wonder the ball's like a f*cking balloon and shin pads are like slices of bread. In the old days you never saw a Len Shackleton or Billy Wright with a poofy little Sondico piece of paper down his little thin socks. F*cking shin pads in them days was made out of library books and socks was like sackcloth. Same with jerseys. F*cking shirts with holes in 'em now so they can breathe. Yes and so Jamie's hairless chest can breathe and he doesn't get a chill. F*ck off. Stanley Matthews used to dribble round Europe's finest wearing a f*cking tent and shorts cobbled together from the jacket of his demob suit. Aye he bloody did.

    No wonder players fall over whenever an opponent comes near them. And they never used to show their @rses at one another either. Can you imagine what might have happened if Don Revie had flashed his ring at Nat Lofthouse during a City-Bolton Wanderers game? He'd have got one of them size 13 hobnail f*ckers up his chuff.

    F*cking therapy for stress my arse! Stan Colleymore slaps his missus about and he takes three seasons off with stress counselling. What is that all about? In the old days, it was expected for footballers to belt the old sow about a bit, especially after a bad defeat. And the old women used to expect it and so they should have, they was lucky to be married to footballers.

    Ernie McShi** of Port Vale got run over with a horse and cart one Friday night and still he turned out against Bradford the next day. And he scored two goals. That's cos he didn't have a poof name. Good old Ernie. It is said he broke his hip, both legs, murdered his wife and buried her under the patio and still made the England team for the home internationals. Did he have any stress counselling? Did he b*llocks!

    And drugs? There was none of that in the old days. Oh no. In them days it was a quick shot of morphine before the kick off and you was lucky if you got that. By half time it had all but wore off so they pumped you full of Laudanum. None of this cocaine sniffing and shooting up class A narcotics.

    Goal celebrations. Don't talk to me about goal celebrations. Crawling on the floor and thrusting their hips at the crowd. Huh, I'd have liked to have seen Cliff Bastin do that after a run down the left flank and crossing for Alex James to fire home a winner. Handshakes, that was all you got. That and a w*nk in the showers afterwards. But it was a proper w*nk....all man stuff. None of these poofy w*nks between blokes that you get nowadays with players like Graeme Le Saux and Stephen Gerrard. Allegedly. It was just a harmless bit of spanking the plank among healthy young sportsmen.

    Sixty grand a f*cking week! Ha! I wouldn't pay 'em tuppence. Two bob is what Tommy Lawton used to get....a month! And Tom Finney still worked as a plumber four days a week when he was playing for England. Its true you know. Players had to work them days just to make up their money. Not like today. Stan Pearson had to clean sewers and doubled up as the Old Trafford sh*thouse cleaner. He had to go off during one game because a log jam had built up and blocked the "U" bend. And that Eddie Hapgood, he was a male model, though he never liked to talk about it.

    So I say we start calling kids real male names again. If you're having a kid don't even consider a poofy name like what people call their kids these days. Otherwise, what are we gonna get in twenty years time? The England team full of players called Ronan, Keanu, Ashley and f*cking Chesney. F*ck that, call your kids Herbert, Len, Fred and Wilf and lets get the poofs out of the game once and for all!"
     
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    It all started with this poncey soft bastard and his girly permed hair, ****ing arse bandit
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    The Man Utd v Huddersfield match at the weekend brought back memories as the last time the 2 teams played against each other in the league saw George Best & Frank Worthington going for man of the match

    2 players who liked a drink, a bird, a fast car and the odd ciggy
     
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  11. TC (Lovely Geezer)

    TC (Lovely Geezer) Well-Known Member

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    & Colombian marching powder no doubt!!
     
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  12. TC (Lovely Geezer)

    TC (Lovely Geezer) Well-Known Member

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    How much for this lot of pansies?

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    What the fook is Alves' Jacket all about?
     
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    Mr TC, Mr TC, Mr TC,

    To a very certain extent you are quite correct old bean.

    To become a member of the catergory in which you have placed big clubs, by your own spiffing admission, that includes Leeds U, you first have to be a big club, something you quite rightly observed, and honestly admitted too when you embarrassingly, and shamefully mentioned you hoped Millwall would not become like the clubs you were so astutely referring too.

    Jolly good show old bean for expressing the truth through your own, very painfull honesty I'm sure, in having the scrotum to be forthright and rightious with your peers.

    You are truly an inspiration to the few Millwall fans who follow your team....Bravo. Bravo......<applause> <applause> <applause>
     
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    Irishshako Well-Known Member

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    I was agreeing with everything you said TC and thought what an honest thought provoking article, but then you spoilt it at the end. But you are right about one thing. The wallies will never get like that.....:wink:
     
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  15. Irishshako

    Irishshako Well-Known Member

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    You mean GRIMWATCH......sponsored by uni lever:grin:
     
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  16. Irishshako

    Irishshako Well-Known Member

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    They had a team of them, even E.Dunphy played for them:emoticon-0136-giggl
     
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  17. Irishshako

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    and Frank was an Elvis fan, now there's a complete footballer<ok>
     
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    Eric Le Merde Well-Known Member

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    But they did try once to mimic greatness, at least

    09265277281debb627e798e376946781--millwall-team-photos.jpg
     
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    <laugh>
     
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    wakeybreakyheart Well-Known Member

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    feck me that one on the left looks like an overdone lord mayor.notice i put lord mayor not mayoress.one in the middle is an imitation teddy boy.
    look they even give out awards for losers the soft bastards.
     
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