http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2362759/Gary-Hooper-set-sign-QPR.html It is the daily fail I know.
Think i'll wait for more solid info on that one. We already knew Hooper was gunna be hard to hold on to for Celtic and QPR were interested.
opstootje has multiple meanings: vechtpartij, worsteling or small riot. In football opstootje is used when things get heated on the pitch. Dutch is one of the most difficult languages to learn, this is partly why. The grammar and spelling is a lot harder then the understanding bit.
Just woke up to this great news and thrilled and delighted with the signings thus far. Looking forward to seeing how the team plays in pre season, and the competition for places is just the ticket we need going forward. The calibre of signings coupled with the way we are not being held to ransome is just so far away from any season I remember. Happy days. Let's hope that the new boys settle in quickly and aim to have the season of their lives with the World Cup around the corner. Bravo Win or Die!
From what I've heard we've had a £4m bid rejected, Hull are considering a move and QPR have had a £5m bid accepted. I don't imagine he'll be deciding any time soon.
I guess he has a choice - NCFC, a salary of around £30K-£40K per week, living in rural Norfolk, playing against PL defenders and doing his World Cup ambitions a power of good. Or he can go to QPR, probably double his salary, live in suburban London and have to face only Championship defenders. I'll be surprised and quite happy if he chooses NCFC. I'm sure CH and DM have an alternative up their sleeve!!!!!
As things stand he doesn't have that choice. Only one club has had a bid accepted. The good thing is that our board now know the asking price, so can decide if they want to up their bid and speak to him.
I do think, if we have a bid accepted he will come. I have that nagging feeling that the board deem his price too much though!
Okay you want examples then I guess. In Dutch, verbs ending with d's or t's have different endings in different time settings or with different pronouns. Example: Ik bloed, Hij bloedt, Wij bloeden. Literally this translates to: I blood, he blood, we bloods. In correct English it's: I bleed, he bleeds, we bleed. As you can see the tense shifts and the s shifts. But there is more, with hij bloedt, a T is added but this is silent, and you pronounce this type of D in Dutch as a T, so you pronounce bloed as bloet. Add a T to that you get bloett, but you still say the same word with one T. This causes massive confusion for foreigner with the words Hart and Hard: Hart means heart, Hard means fast or just hard, similar as in English. But if you get the T or the D wrong in writing, you get completely different words at times. The spelling rule with the D's, T's and DT's is one of the hardest spelling rules in the world. Here's an expert on this: http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/05/learning-dutch And here the differences between English and Dutch:http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/langdiff/dutch.htm
Since the song was originally written for and used by local amateur teams in the 1890s, it isn't clear what "scrimmage" meant anyway in the context. One plausible meaning would be "a foray", "Kick off, throw in, have a little foray" -- "rooftocht"(?)
rooftocht translates to raid. You'll have to come with something more suitable for football, not for vikings
I take great exception to that. Hooper was playing CL football last season - hardly shoddy work. Anyway, Neil Lennon has come out publicly and said Hooper had likely played his last game for Celtic. He hasn't played in pre-season due to a 'groin injury'. Take that as you will.
Scrimmage is an interesting and slightly archaic word which, IMO, refers to the point at which two teams come together (as in the scrum in rugby). In American football, it refers to the 'yard-line' at which the two teams line up against each other. Thus a play is successful if the ball is moved across the 'yard-line' and a gain is achieved. Rush has also been mentioned from our song, and this is also still used in American football (eg. he rushed (ran with the ball) for a four yard gain. Total yards is thus split between 'rushing yards' and 'passing yards'. From this, it would be reasonable to assume that 'splendid rush' would refer to running at the opposition with the ball rather splendidly!
the only worry i have with hooper is that he might not be that fit as he's barely done any pre-season work yet due to injury (assuming he is injured rather than them not wanting to risk him) but then i suppose we haven't even played a warm up match yet so plenty of time to get fit! i've said for a long while that if hooper leaves celtic it will be for us. that daily fail article says nothing that we don't already know - they've just had a guess that harry redknapp will get him (probably cos they are onside with 'arry, he's one of their heroes) but i'd be enormously surprised if he doesn't move to norwich. everything points to that being the case, we are just being patient in order to get our man for the price we want. it's probably more to do with add ons than anything else. frustrating certainly but with a bit of patience i think we'll get our man.
just to add to that last post, it's inevitable that qpr will offer bigger wages to hooper. they know its the only way they can get him ahead of ourselves! he's believed to be a middle earner at celtic (which i find hard to believe but i've been told by many celtic fans this is the case) and is on less than £20k a week. if hooper is serious about playing for england then we are his only viable choice but if qpr suddenly offer him £50k+ a week then there is a real chance he would go there - and who could blame him? you never know with qpr - look at the type of players they are being linked with. scott parker, richard dunne, javier saviola, gary hooper - all will be on huge wages. they may say differently but they don't give the impression of a club who have learnt anything from last season...
