Blimey. I've been out all night trying to fill me 'ead with bleedin' culture watchin Chekhov (outside left for Dynamo Kiev in the 70's), I come home thinkin I'll catch up with what my good friends on the Liverpool board are discussing and find you've all gone mental. Threads with half the people ready to top themselves because we still haven't signed half of Europe and the rest trying to talk'em down, and other threads with the roles reversed. It's like Harry Enfield's Scousers. Anyway- Winter Break. Unseasonal I know but topical. I've always thought it a daft idea for this country. It's ok somewhere where you know the temperatures going to plummet to -35 at 6.23 on December 14th but not here where the weather is unpredictable. We'd have a break and it'd be balmy with light drizzle then when we start up again it'd go all brass monkey, games would be called off and we'd have more fixture congestion. Anyone still awake? My point is I've changed my mind. The summer transfer window is threatening our sanity. What I'd like to do is hibernate, but it's summer and it's too nice to do that. So, the season should go from March to November- then we could all hibernate through the **** weather and wake up to find we've bought the team we want, got a new/ refurbished stadium, and we'd be all ready for the new season without all this stress. Sorted That's better- cleared my head of all those decadent Russian bourgeoisie so I can go back to thinking about footie.
It's the silly season. Nothing interesting happends so your mind goes crazy. I do hope we get a few more people in reasonably quickly though. Jesus it's 12:15! Night.
I think it's mainly because we don't have an international tournament to take our attention. I've tried watching the Womens world cup but it's like drinking non-alcoholic beer - It looks the same but it's just wrong
Yeah, I've tried watching that and I agree it's just not the same. I've tried watching Wimbledon but I'm not getting a fix from it. There's nothing else for it- I'm just going to have to get off my arse and do something. Soon
Wimbledon isn't doing it for me because Murray is scottish... I don't buy in to all this british lark... HE'S SCOTTISH!!! I do prefer him over the other guys but i'm not jizzing over him like I did Henman when he was playing
-- Nice to see a thread about something other than transfers. I reckon a winter break of a week should happen between Christmas and New Years, but thats it. The season is congested as it is without having a restricted period.
Yes to the break. We've got the most physical league in the world and it's part of our international tournament failure. You can't convince me some spotty German youth is better than Gerrard because of a few international games. I get sick of pointing out Klose only got 6 in 38 last season but ooh, 4 in the World Cup and our media start sucking his dick while Redknapp tries to sign him. Having lived in Scotland most of my life I'm definitely in the Anti-Murray camp. I've never heard a commentator switch from describing him as a Brit to a Jock when he loses. It's an urban myth the Jocks pass around like a bottle of Bucky. They do like to feel oppressed. It's their reason for living, really, and some Jocks are actually getting sick of it. It's like a scab they constantly pick at to make themselves feel better, which is not good for their own self-esteem. They can constantly rerun one Archie Gemmill goal from 1978 in a tournament they were humiliated in in a game the Dutch had to lose by one goal to avoid Brazil (they lost by one goal and controlled the Jocks like a cat with a lame mouse and the Tartan Army spat on the players) but Heavens to Betsy, John Motson apparently mentions 1966 every ten seconds, notwithstanding that if the Jocks were ever to win the World Cup it'd be shown every night on Scottish TV and written into their national anthem. Speaking of which, how many countries have words in their national anthem about a hated neighbour? Still, we're not the Auld Enemy anymore. That honour now resides with the Faroe Islands. Ahh, the banter.
