Off Topic Bill Nicholson Arms

Some days I just love football - Fabulous win for Spurs, and a very good win for The Gills - and to cap it off Judas Soufend team threw away a 2 goal lead to lose 4-2

 

Ron Saunders.Good,hard,average player. Better manager!

 

This is well worth a few minutes. Some great photography of Spurs fans on match days...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/05/a-fans-eye-view-at-the-football-a-photo-essay

 

Interesting watching that. I was a rarity.My mates didn't go to games with me too often and usually,away,I was on my own.But that was me.A quiet lad/later man(?).But had a few things to say during the game!....and after!!! I was quite happy,though, doing my own thing. Loved that winning feeling,especially away.Still do of course.
As I sit here writing this,my mind wanders to the past and present as those Spurs faces come to mind.So many players that have come and gone. Wouldn't change my memories for anything! COYS!

 

The latest health fascist iniative is put information on food wrappers/containers to show the amount of exercise required to burn off the calories in that food.
So a bar of chocolate = 22 minutes running.
This is really going to mess up people vulnerable to an eating disorder.
It also ignores the fact that you burn calories by doing effectively nothing - sitting or sleeping.
An average sized male burns around 90 calories per hour sitting - so that's the chocolate bar gone in just over two hours. Or if you prefer, you can sit in the pub for two hours and have a pint - and have burned it off before you leave!

 

I'd buy a pint and get rid of it in the toilet.Couldn't sit there for two hours.....unless Spurs were on!!!!

 

So are you saying I could lose weight if I drank 11 pints per day but didn't eat anything? Sounds an interesting diet to me.

 

Drinking a glass of ice cold water burns calories. I know, since I've been drinking four glasses a day for a few years and it's burning the excess pretty damn well

...although the fact I live a mile from anywhere and rarely eat chocolate probably helps

 

It wouldn't be very healthy, but 2,200 calories shouldn't make you fat.
But that wasn't the point.

 

No surprise Ben Stokes is SPOTY

 

Pleased he won it, not that I would denigrate the acheievements of the other nominees, but for me he was the only logical choice.

 

Yes, agreed.
Cricketers tend to win it when they do something spectacular - and he certainly did that.

 

A couple of losers!

 

Anyone else picked their team of the decade on the BBC Sport?
I've overlooked the obvious point about when the decade starts/ends.
I've also tried to work out whether a player who was around for most the decade should be preferred over one who contributed a lot but for only a short period. I decided that Ferdinand, for example, was a player of the 2000s and should lose out to van Dijk.

My team:

De Gea; Walker, van Dijk, Kompany, Robertson; D Silva, Kante, de Bruyne; Hazard, Kane, Aguero.

 

Spurs team of the decade would be obscene...

Lloris
Walker King Jan Benny
Dembele Modric
Bale VDV Son
Kane

*salivates*

 

Not bad at all, but poor Dembele would deserve everyone else's win bonus.

 

Hard to believe that SEVEN of them actually played in a Spurs starting XI in 2011-12.

 

Players on that list The Athletic's team of the decade omitted
King
Van der Vaart
BAE

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