Seaman was way too prone to stupidly high-profile fuckups to ever have been a serious BGITW contender.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 14 October 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
he fucking wishes it was (a) merely an ear and (b) a mere 'nightclub incident'
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:23 AM (14 hours ago)
not sure what u refer to here
― Cornelius Chi-Dubem Udebuluzor (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 14 October 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/71478/Stars-pal-bites-off-eyebrow.html
― r|t|c, Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
twice cuckolded and partially eaten but on the other he will of looked at the positives
― Cornelius Chi-Dubem Udebuluzor (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
marchegiani
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
illgner, kopke, taffarel (<-- last one actually a bit naff)
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
barhez / llama always shakey
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
Paddy Kenny was fucking immense in QPR's promotion season two years ago. Just saying.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
And I don't mean fat.
that's four hours now the guardian has had "Colliccini is fab and Dzeko is no sub" on the front page
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 October 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
What else is new?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 October 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, there you go: 'Chelsea's John Terry to wear anti-racism armband'. I like that they specified the type.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 October 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
"fucking black armband"
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Monday, 22 October 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/oct/23/roy-keane-book-extract
found this pretty poor.
As a player, he was of his time by not being of his time: he captured the pre-millennium angst of the outsider who cannot understand the world of which he is part. In doing so he brought to mind a number of pop-culture characters of a similar disposition. Two in particular: Tyler Durden in Fight Club and Tony Soprano in The Sopranos. Like Keane, both raged, raged against the dying of society's light. There are other similarities. The intense adoration Keane receives evokes that of Tyler Durden, while his obtuse charisma, anti-heroism and scattergun frustration is shared by Tony Soprano. Keane, like Soprano, was raging for a better world and a better him. He has always been an incredibly complex man, a compelling fusion of instinctive intelligence and pathological desire.
back in your box.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
Amused that they highlight the fact that Rafa gives them a quote for the front cover, and that the quote is "These are the writers as you don't normally see them: when they are fans with pens."
Not too sure that this is the ringing endorsement they think it is.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah exactly... fans with pens is as worrying a concept as monkeys with knives.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
rob smyth can be pretty bad
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
definitely.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
dunno if it's based on his stuff, but i've always felt there's a tendency on the guardian's football site to try and mention the wire at any given opportunity.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Like Colonel Kurtz, Ronnie Johnsen embodied the defeated machismo at the heart of the Western imperial project.
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
"pre-millenium angst", like what the fuck does this even mean? usually used to describe radiohead's music.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
people felt a unique blend of unhappiness in erstwhile-present-day-year, 1999. the former current year has long been held up as a time of great and distinct feelings of things being rather rubbish.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Klebseron's arrival emboldened Trafford-watchers who had long been used to arrivals from Scandinavia and Holland but never from that far afield. It was said that as he exited the taxi to be greeted by Paul Scholes, he had never seen a person so pale before. Like Doug Liman's thrilling 1999 cult film 'Go', mutltiple narratives were coinciding here, different ideas about what it meant to be a Manchester United player.
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
aw, i was hoping that was real
― Number None, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Are you aware of the Sachin Nakrani affair, btw?
― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
no, sadly
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
what's that?
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
a link to a summary:http://therepublikofmancunia.com/guardian-journo-will-regret-starting-battle-with-united-fans/
― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
ugh at that website.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
That's even more numbing than the Duncan thingy story
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
Put this here 'cos these guys are too old to be child prodigies as such.
In Bed With Maradona did their list of the 100 best young players in the world this time last year and now they're assessing their progress one year on. Not an obscure list, the vast majority most people will have seen play or would have heard about. The new list comes out Dec 19.
Last year's 100 - http://inbedwithmaradona.com/journal/2011/12/21/the-ibwm-100-the-class-of-2012.html
Progress report on first 20 of last year's 100 - http://inbedwithmaradona.com/the-100-2012-intro/ Click on the names on right hand side.
Some excellent photos as well.
― pandemic, Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:27 (eleven years ago) link
Looked to see if Victor Wanyama made the list, now even more depressed about my impending forties by realising he can still make the next one :(
― ailsa, Friday, 16 November 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
(putting this here coz a thread on Nigerian football would probably sink without trace)
Interesting exchange on twitter recently between Jonathan Wilson and Nigerian football writer Colin Udoh on the scarcity of away wins in the Nigerian league.
"Jonathan Wilson @jonawils@ColinUdoh Any explanation as to the poor away form in the Nigerian league? pic.twitter.com/YAetMgqs"
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A8KQHu2CAAA3-Mg.png
Colin Udoh @ColinUdoh @jonawils"Corruption/intimidation of match officials, intimidation of away team arising from desperation of home teams to win.""I have seen a player from an away team deliberately miss what could have been a point-saving PK, just so his side leave unharmed""And a GK on fire on the day being begged by his team mates to let home team score after 3-min injury time stretched to nearly 15""you hear club officials talk about 'tactical' and 'playing the politics of the game'. It's just double-speak for bribing refs""the big (rich) teams that win or draw away from home, usually pay refs to allow 'fair-play', meaning a level playing field.""I have been assaulted twice in two different match venues. Once for protecting a cameraman filming bizarre ref calls""I'll try and tell you a story about a young ref in a few tweetshere's the story. This young ref had just been promoted to the top level, and given a quite critical game to handleBefore he left, away team sent an emissary to his house to 'settle' him. He refused. Claiming he would just do his job.On arrival in match city, home team sent their own emissary. He turned them down too. On match day, he did a fab jobby his and every standard. After the game, home fans attacked him claiming he was 'settled' by away team. Security got him away At his hotel, away fans were waiting to assault him, claiming he had been settled by home team. so he ended up taking a beating from both sides. He took slaps, blows, punches. After that, he started to 'behave'"
― studge_siren.gif (onimo), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
The controversial 4-1-9 formation: Jigawa Golden Stars won't win the Nigerian Premier League 2013/14
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Bizarre that you can be relegated without losing a single home game because you don't have enough bribe money to win an away game o_O
― studge_siren.gif (onimo), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Are you talking about Rangers?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.insidefutbol.com/2012/12/21/joey-barton-mocks-end-of-world-mayan-prediction/75387/?
― r|t|c, Friday, 21 December 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
haha.
― wmlynch, Friday, 21 December 2012 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
James Milner was speaking at the opening of the Etihad Campus Metrolink tram station, which will operate for matchgoing fans for the first time on Sunday against Leeds United. Milner, along with Roberto Mancini, Joe Hart and Vincent Kompany, has recorded public announcement messages on the trams which passengers will hear.
― r|t|c, Sunday, 17 February 2013 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2289463/Martin-Samuel--The-Debate-Studs-high-tackle-red-card-Not-sure-fuss-Eh-Manchester-United-lost.html
they be callin him zingarevich
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
So just for that, here’s another little belter from Nigeria.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah samuel likes to leave a trailing leg somewhere in pfunkboy's record collection from time to time
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
it's been a long time coming but finally i get to see a daily mail columnist call someone a cunt. triffic stuff
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
Do any of you follow Henry Winter on Twitter? I don't know why I do, because he just self-importantly tweets robotic match updates non-stop. Every tweet comes with a silent FACT after it.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Friday, 8 March 2013 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
Antiquated old twats like Hugh Keevins and Jim Traynor have no idea how modern communication works.
And, a year on, Jim Traynor is now Head of Communications at The Rangers. He still has no idea how modern communication works. He writes a blog on the Rangers website in which he slags off Alex Thomson (Chief Correspondent of Channel 4 News) and dismisses him as a blogger (a dirty word for Traynor who likes to think of himself as a Proper Journalist) in his, er, blog, purely because Thomson uses the internet to relay the results of his investigations that aren't always featured heavily on the actual TV news programme. Like, y'know, how Traynor uses the Rangers website now that he doesn't has editorial leeway on the Record and two hours on Radio Scotland every week to talk pish about how great (The) Rangers are/were.
― ailsa, Friday, 8 March 2013 09:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2289463/Martin-Samuel--The-Debate-Studs-high-tackle-red-card-Not-sure-fuss-Eh-Manchester-United-lost.htmlthey be callin him zingarevich― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:42 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:42 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Too many photos interrupting the shite in between. Football writing should be something I can surreptitiously read at work.
― am a big fan ay Nani (onimo), Friday, 8 March 2013 11:06 (eleven years ago) link
xp to Ailsa
Jim Traynor hasn't learned the DNFTT rule of Internets. Repeatedly publishing articles responding to any old shite from a handful of Celtic bloggers and Alex Thomson means they've won. Why would you bother refuting some blog by a lone freelancer in Donegal unless there was something to it?
He also hasn't worked out (despite being a journalist for his entire adult life until now) that publishing a half/incomplete truth only leads to more awkward questions than would an outright denial or a refusal to even engage. He's quickly forgotten how his former peers work.
― am a big fan ay Nani (onimo), Friday, 8 March 2013 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think that's how his former peers work, tbh (hi dere Keith Jackson). And now he's couched in a role where he thinks his remit is to preach entirely to the converted (except the likes of us who read his ramblings to point and laugh) so accuracy is even less of a requirement.
I really find it mystifying that any club with aims to be taken seriously would employ a shambling idiot with a complete disdain for social media to head up their communications and PR. Instead they have someone who basically makes like me on here going "um, that man said something nasty about my team, let's slag him off for it". Except that I'm not the PR face of anything, just a random bored drone who needs a wee distraction from my work every now and then.
― ailsa, Friday, 8 March 2013 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jun/18/newcastleunited-alan-pardew
idk is it just me or is this kind of a poor fucking show from a major media organ
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:49 (eleven years ago) link
like they may as well just go the whole hog and illustrate every story with a lolcat if they're really so desperate for the pageviews
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:51 (eleven years ago) link