The up to date position is that the 'gentleman' in question is a Gooner. "Jump! You ****er, Jump! Into this blanket what we are holding and you will be alright. He jumped, hit he deck, broke his ****ing neck." Those of a certain age and refinement will know from where this originates.
You reminded me of a movie where Peter Falk is his girlfriend’s agent. "You’re a lousy agent. You’re a lousy lover. And you’re a lousy human being," she says at one point. "I AM NOT A LOUSY AGENT!" Peter Falk replies.
Just reminds me of how much Spammers can now do by sheer fluke / dodgy deal / incompetence / luck of getting a free stadium. Was thinking that yesterday when Payet said (allegedly) that he was staying at Spam. They can now of course afford a more expensive squad and/or pay the best players more through no good planning on their part.
If UEFA refuse to change the fixture dates and the Spanners are not lying : Take your telescopes with you if you have seats in the front row.
And the award for Today's Most Slanted Headline Not Involving Jeremy Corbyn goes to: http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/18/arsen...ter-but-still-called-a-dirty-gooner-6013906/?
Right now on Radio 2 they are discussing "The World at War" and asking if it is the best documentary ever made. Well I think that might be the case, but more importantly highlights the problem I humbly suggest a lot of people have which is not knowing about history. The old cliche goes something like those that fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. I would certainly argue that history is far more important a subject than is currently accepted in schools. It seems to me that very few current issues can be understood without a historic context, and World War 2, the subject of that documentary, certainly still has a major impact on the way the world looks currently. I would even go one step further that lack of historical perspective (at least failure to give it proper value) has led to the neocon economists who now seem to have the controlling interest in just about every aspect of business life, are insistent on imposing an economic "way forward" for the growth of countries that is in fact nothing like the path that the world's major economies historically took to develop to the way they are today. Perhaps if they thought history was more important they wouldn't maintain that their way was the only way.
According to the BBC website, it is four years since Ledley King retired. Where does the time go? I met Ledley on a stadium tour. He was as nice as you would expect, he went out of his way to welcome us all and hoped we were having a great day despite being busy with our sponsors. We all love you, Ledley!
...cue me kvetching once again that, rather than study the Napoleonic Wars or the Industrial Revolution when I was doing GCSE History, instead we were studying THE ****ING CORN LAWS.
I think I did the "standard" GCE (not GCSE!) history O Level of the time (University of London board - do you remember when they weren't private companies?) which was causes of WW1. I found it all very interesting. I wonder if kids today find subjects interesting or they've been turned so much into exam factories that they can only rote learn something rather than really understand it.
I did AEB O Level History. Which was effectively 20th century world history, with the odd dip back to events the century before to set any context for what came after.
I took GCE History in 1980, we did the causes and events leading up to WW1, The Russian revolution and the suffragettes' all of which are interesting subjects. I still love history today, but like so many things my memory of history at school is of the difference a teacher can make. I had different teachers for the 2 years leading up to taking the 'O' level, the first year we had a young vibrant female teacher who bought the subject to life and probably gave me the love of history that I have to this day, (sadly she left) the 2nd year we had the most boring old fart of a teacher who could make the most exciting aspects of history seem as dull as dishwater! I failed the exam because at this point I Iost interest and my essay about the Russian revolution descended into farce when I decided that it would be better if I used the words of Paul Weller and filled my essay with quotes from Jam songs!
There are rumours that Dier's about to sign a new contract, but I've seen nothing about this one. Great news. Should be straight into the side from the start of the season and I hope he picks up where he left off. Was harshly dropped and looked very comfortable alongside Alderweireld.
5 year contracts : meh. Not even close to the most attackingest player contracts known to man : the Leicester release clause.
Excellent post on at least two points. "Those who do not know military history are condemned to repeat it" has been the theme of US foreign policy for the last 60 years or so. Also, I saw an interesting book about how the US got off to a strong economic start. The critical element: funny money. A lot of colonies and others creating laughably unbacked currency fuled the initial US economic surge. Fake money creates real growth. There's a downside, of course. But balancing tight and loose money intelligently is the key to a good economy. Draconian solutions for debtor nations are both evil and stupid.
Here's the squad we're taking to Melbourne Goalkeepers Michel Vorm, Luke McGee, Tom Glover Defenders Kieran Trippier, Kevin Wimmer, DeAndre Yedlin, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Dominic Ball, Kyle Walker-Peters Midfielders Christian Eriksen, Erik Lamela, Victor Wanyama, Son Heung-min, Nacer Chadli, Josh Onomah, Marcus Edwards, Ryan Mason, Tom Carroll, Harry Winks, Luke Amos, Anton Walkes, Will Miller Forwards Vincent Janssen, Shayon Harrison
Excellent (Levy has understood the Euro 2016 contingent resting > PR/cash opportunities) . Bit concerned that Lamela is going (his season has been long) , and the absence of Pritchard.
