That's ****e that, mate. I've only ever heard it once and that was at the SOL for a Newcastle and Sunderland under 21 game. I had to leave at half time because I had the bairn with me and it was way to colourful for her. I wouldn't let your experience taint your view, as I do believe racism is almost eradicated out of our game.
As an oldie I reserve the right to moan and bleat about everything to do with the young. Just like the oldies did in my day. The phrase "you don't know you're born" was the most common one, so the same applies now. The advances in medicine and science are the biggest plus. Quite common to get an ear full from somebody whose man was sleeping off night shift etc. The difference was that we would scatter and reform somewhere else without giving any lip.
In England anyway, I get the impression Eastern European teams and the likes of Spain and Italy have problems with it. Bananas getting thrown on the pitch and the like, pathetic.
Yeah, that's what I meant, in England. Some countries are still rife for it. Russia is terrible. A lot of Eastern European countries, and even in the Netherlands and Germany, to a lesser extent, it still exists. Italy is still plagued by racism, although I thought Spain would have been generally okay now.
It's mad how in this day and age you'd have to think twice about playing in Russia if you were black. I believe that in the future people will look back on this time as a sort of dark ages as we're still riddled with racism and homophobia no matter how enlightened we like to think ourselves as a race.
One interesting aspect of the easy availability of the internet is that you could argue that there's no need to memorise vast amounts of information as anything that you need to know can be googled on the spot. Everyone in the world with access to the internet can have the same knowledge about specialised fields as someone who has read countless books on the subject and committed it all to memory. I think for the most part this is a good thing, our brains can only hold so much useful information and if people aren't having to memorise lists of dates etc just for the sake of it then it frees brain space up for things that could benefit them in a more practical way.
I think that school today gives kids the time to learn - what I remember about my school days in the 70's was spending hour after hour writing out text in our notebooks because the school couldn't afford a photocopier. The only thing you actually learnt was how to write fast - you only really studied what you'd written in the two weeks before your exams so it is no wonder grades are going up as they are able to study all year round now.
I think there's a huge difference between having access to information and having an understanding of information. A fat person has access to a world of diet information online, but the lack of understanding is what makes them stand in the mirror and say "I've just eaten low fat pizza, why am I so grotesque?". It's great having it at your fingertips though, can anybody remember Encarta Encyclopedia on cd-rom? That was king for a while, it had everything, it's redundant as **** now.
I agree there's no substitute for real education but there is a lot of stuff that you only learned for the sake of it, like dates and stats, things like that. Not that these things aren't worth knowing necessarily but you don't need to have it all stored away. Mind you, if I had to perform an emergency appendectomy I'd rather have access to video tutorials so even if I didn't understand why I was doing what I was doing I still knew how to do it.
That will be me then, got one in my right ear as just about deaf in that one, tidy bit of kit that is and works on a teeny weeny little battery that lasts up to 2 weeks
It`s the speed of change that gets me. Seems like no sooner do I get to grips with something and it`s out of date. Phones especially. Fatha, what`s that you`ve got? It`s me phone, what do you think it is? Let`s have a look. <hands it over> You can`t still have one of these man. Nothing wrong with it. It`s ancient. So? You`re having a new one. Don`t need a new one. You`re having a new one. This one works fine. Shurrup, you`re having a new one. Aye, righto. New one arrives, brand spanking new, bang up to date, brilliant. Bloody lost with the dam thing. I knew how to use the other one. By the time I`ve got the hang of it we`ll be going through it all over again. The kids adapt to these things so easily. Watching the grandbabs with their ipods (or whatever they are) is brilliant. It`s effortless. No doubt they`ll wonder how we ever managed without them.
we used to play garages as well where you had to defend the garage door. Any one play kerbs? you had to throw or kick the ball from the opposite side of the road to the kerb and if you hit the kerb on the corner the ball would bounce back to you so you got another go. if you managed to catch the ball it was a double pointer.
