Lost_Johnny
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Eriksson has full responsibilty for:
1) not taking enough fit, experienced strikers;
2) probably ending Michael Owen's career;
3) being an arrogant fucker with a Messiah complex (see Hargreaves and Walcott ? Sven "discovered" them.)
and 4) Crouch is fucking useless unless he gets the ball to his feet
agreed but why stop there.
5) Being the most tactically incompetent manager I've ever seen.
6) Having the motivational skills of a wet fart in a hurricane.
And wasn't it nice seeing his own little mini me Steve McLaren sat next to him knowing that he is the future of English football, jeez I'm depressed. Sven you've really fucked us up the arse this time, cheers.
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Well, it's all terribly exciting to me! I don't understand half of what you guys are saying - okay, maybe half - but for boring footie this is quite interesting to me!
Charlie tell me you saw the Battle of Kaiserslautern between USA and Italy? That was great football entertainment, not pretty but very exciting. I even nearly found myself wanting USA to win
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Cheers Gen, I had an ace day. We all went to the local farm shop did some strawberry picking, the kids chased the animals round (and then we bought some of their friends home to eat!). Plus I bought 3 litres of homemade cider, which I then drunk as I watched football with my feet up from 2pm until 7pm, then watched Doctor Who follwed by two more hours of football. Australia got beat and France failed to win and the cider was ace (think apple juice mixed with petrol), so all in all a pretty cool day.
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Just goes to show you can't tell what someone is really like from the InternetI like to think I've a pretty sharp sense of humour, give me a little while to get going and I can have a group of people in stiches.I'm the only one who thinks I'm funny, my mind is always on football, comics, beer or (fill in the missing word) so I guess my eyes cos' they're green and sparkly!
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According to the BBC single yellow cards received during the group stage do get waived for the knockout stage. So I think resting Gerrard is probably the right thing to do (as he's more important than Lampard in my opinion and he's more likely to get another one). But I would pick Carrick ahead of Hargreaves personally. I think I would also play Owen and Rooney from the start (as much I hate to agree with Sven) solely because if we are going to have any chance of winning we need to get a strike partnership up and working and, while they're both not match fit, thanks to Sven's ace choice of bringing a mascot as our other striker, we've not got a lot of options. So on the small chance Rooney and Owen can suddenly find a spark which can ignite our spluttering attack for the rest of the competition it's worth giving it a go.
I'm feeling pretty pessimistic about our goal scoring possibilities though, it has to be said.
Bollocks, why did the glory hunting prat bring Theo instead of (insert your choice here) Johnson. For my money Johnson is one of the best players since Owen for inviting tackles in the last third of the pitch and in the climate of this World Cup that would have scared the shit out of defenders and he's also a superb header of the ball for Beckham's crosses.
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You're not singing anymore...
...well I was top for one day anyway!
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Glad you enjoyed it Charlie and Inca's right - that was not the best introduction but it is the passion of supporters which can turn watching a game of football into one of the most electric experiences I've ever known. Try to get to watch one of the knockout matches where there will be a partisan crowd: England, Germany, Holland, Spain etc. Then you can soak up the emotion and the atmosphere and if it goes to penalties.... well prepare to see grown men on their knees praying to every God you've ever heard of (and some you haven't).
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Nah can't agree with that, their defence is going to get a pasting at some point and if we can get our heads sorted in time (Sven's lack of tactical skills is only matched by his woeful inability to motivate the team). Then it could well be us that undo them, we usually raise our game in tournaments for the bigger sides at least once but then don't keep the momentum going (see Sven's failings above again).
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Sorry for the late tidings, too much football, too much beer (well G&Ts on the hot sunny afternoons). Hope you had a good one Pooks.
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No not the.... bore worms!
When I saw the title of this thread I actually thought it was going to be a homage to the Peckinpah film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia one of my all time favourites but after a moments pause I was soon grinning inanely from ear to ear, I can still remember watching it with my Dad at the flicks but now Charlie you've caused me considerable inconvenience - I now have two films I need to watch and there's no time with all this football on!
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Is it alright to rant about other Football stuff in this section, club before country and that type of thing? John can relegate the thread if not.
I'm a broken man... Stoke have been bought back by Peter night of the living dead Coates, who we managed to oust 6 years ago after years of under-investment and selling our best players at crucial times. (Paul Peschisolido was sold days before we played Leicester in the playoff semi finals to get into the Premiership, while Leicester bought Izzy Muzzet).
Coates first decision this time? To bring back Tony Pulis as manager, who left a year ago after serving up the most turgid football it has been my misfortune to watch. The results were not the worst I've seen but they were mediocre at best, but his style is best described as defending a nil nil draw!
So does Coates now listen to the fans as promised? Here's his quote from today:
"I am fully aware some supporters have been publicly voicing their opposition to the return of Tony, who was our manager for two-and-a-half years before being sacked by the club's previous owners in June... Tony has a reputation for playing a direct style of football. But in our league, is a direct style of play necessarily such a bad thing?"
God is presently taking the piss!
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I'm trying to watch the group games at home as I turn into an honorary alcoholic during the football tournaments and the cost is bloody horrendous! But the language is turning sour already, no matter how many times I tell myself it's just an inanimate object I sill rant and rave at the television.
I apologised to the kids for shouting during the Paraguay game and asked if they thought I was silly for telling the players what to do when they can't hear me, to which Amber replied: Yeh, but it makes you feel better doesn't it Dad...
that kid's too bright by half.
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EDIT - Well according to the wall chart, the U.S. is #4 in the world, how about that? :rolleyes:
And that's got nothing to do with it being the richest country in the world with FIFA needing to secure lucrative deals with all the major sponsors over there............. cos it certainly ain't on footballing merit
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What's happened to the rest of ya? I've hardly been around for the last two weeks and I've still managed to put in a performance worthy of my footballing prowess!
except wait... who's this pretender in first place? No, this is as much of a shock as me being able to beat Ronaldo in a sprint to the pies!
But now I've gone all Claudio Ranieri and dropped players for no reason and for Ukraine subs a that, shit what am I doing, I might have just thrown it all away.
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Bloody Germans (don't take it too personally I only mean it in a footballing sense). I'm in trouble with the missus now due to me not realising she was on the phone to her Mum when the German's scored.....
.... I didn't think shouting Fucking Twats was that unreasonable?
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I'm...
and I've got to find my family tomorrow, so I'm going to have another couple of drinks and then i'm going to bed.... no typos - I'm not drunk I'm just a wuss.
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I-Spy champion of the month Mr. McMahon. I hadn't noticed but I think you're spot on with that one.I may have been projecting, was the block of flats Steve and his wife moved into meant to be in the shape of the Empathy Church's symbol ?Great to be taken for a ride with John in this one, straight back to the situation being out of his control like in the first couple episodes, I think the sense of confusion is intentional and wile as everyone has said it will live or die on it's conclusion, for myself I'm enjoying being shunted from pilla to post without being able to get a complete handle on things. Cover worked really well but Iwish they'd change the style of the title, haven't they ever heard that less is more! Ilove Manco to bits but Ithink this issue did show signs of possible work overload?
8 again
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That's cos you missed out part of the equation music + beer + football = raised levels of expectations and exaggerated emotionsI really never did understand the link between football and music.of course you have to be careful not to confuse the equation with burberry cap + beer + football = twats
Playing against Brazil then it would be Suicide is Painless
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Yeh it was a good un, who'd ever have thought Maureen Lipman could be so sinister. I thought Mr. Connolly, and some of the others were a bit cliche at times but, I have to remind myself it's trying to appeal to the generation after me more so, and with 45 mins it needs to build its characters quickly.
Anyway back to the important stuff, The fact that the Doctor - a being who has travelled to the furthest reaches of space and time, experienced the cultures of a thousand species - is so excited about seeing Elvis, is perfect, fucking ace haircut as well... and riding a Vespa out of the Tardis, well the rest of the plot didn't really have to turn up, in fact I'm almost disappointed that they didn't get back in the Tardis and make it to the ed Sullivan show.... what do I mean almost, I'm gutted they didn't get to see Elvis, this episode was shit!
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Disclaimer: I'm pissed so this seemed like a good idea while bouncing round the room...
With sucha deficiency in any sort of good fucking football songs for this World Cup, what does everyone listen to in order to get their adrenalin levles to an adequate primeval pumping level.
...and don't give me no shit about your team not being in it ya sulky bastards... support Ronaldinho, I've heard he's declared independence from Brazil and has been declared a country unto himself.
I don't switich on until about two weeks to go but then a good bittle of whiskey and loud music (plus a rabble rousing decent BBC trailer designed to appeal to the dull witted masses ie. me) and I'm getting up for it very nively thank you.
Anyway England's Irie by Black Grape and Joe Strummer is my music of choice tonight (Can you imagine if they released that this year - ooo let me think....Black Grape or em-fucking-brace. Jeeeeez)
Raise a glass, a perfect pass,
and dribble around my socks
Check my shirt and drink my shots
And squeeze me in the box
It's a digital football thing,
It's a football thing
I live in a land of class hypocracy,
We're going to win the National Lottery,
e i adio, I don't think so
By the way I need a party now so if anyone knows where, let me know...
C'mon England.
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Where I used to live with my folks in Worcester backed directly onto a set of Ministry of Agriculture labs for doing animal autopsies, one night my friend and I were coming home late from a club (and yes we were stoned, so take the rest of this anecdote with a ton of salt) when we saw two shapes dart under my car, which was parked on the road. they were a bit too small to be cats and they didn't move right. So we got closer and peered under the car when all of a sudden two huge rats shot out and ran down the side of the house, through into this MoA place. I tell you they were mutant rats, way too big for normal ones!
I did once see a sheep in the field of this place with a tube coming out of it's head and feeding back into it's body further down (it was grazing quite happily
). My Mum wrote a letter of complaint (My little Johnny has suffered major mental trauma, give us some money now or we'll blab...). So these guys came and took her away, while I hid under the bed..... well that's the way i told it at school, they actually wrote back and apologised and said it was normal testing procedures. -
That film's got a lot to answer for, it comes to something when two red blooded blokes can't even go fishing and hold each other's rods without someone casting aspersions!More of a Brokeback Mountain style of fishing trip I was thinking.
Anyway what were we talking about before we derailed.... oh yeah, nipple bars....
er.... I mean Cybermen (asexual?). It was patchy wasn't it, some great stuff and some really poor stuff, most of which has already been mentioned. I think Mark's comments last week about the true horror of the Cybermen being that they originally altered themselves out of choice was right on the money but I thought that they would redress that this week with Dark Trigger willingly altering himself (as a symbol of that original idea) and also in the grand tradition of dictatorships actually show his true nastiness by creating himself more equal than the rest ie. retaining some of his emotions while banishing everyone else's. (Would help with the looking up the skirt/losing temper debate
) but no, even he had to be dragged limping and wheezing to his doom.Also very picky point in line with the old "daleks can't go upstairs" pickiness. Wouldn't you think that in creating an army of metal monsters to take over the universe (or London at any rate) someone would have thought about giving them some range attack options like guns/lasers/rockets/elastic bands ? I'm trapped, no I'm not I've climbed over a chainlink fence na na na na na (flick the Vs if you're really brave at this point).
I did think that the interaction between the Doctor and Mrs Moore and then with Mickey worked quite well though. I'm guessing next weeks is written by the same guy as wrote the "Are you my Mummy" episodes (sorry can't remeber the proper titles), looks right creepy, just hope it's not too much of a rehash of the first series.
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Those pencils are ace, and I think he's nailed JC, as the top right face looks like an older Steven Gerrard, so that must be the Scouse look...
I should say i love the cover as well. The age is starting to show John, welcome to the real world...
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Done with my squad but I need the group ID number not name in order to join the group.
Inca, I noticed that the number is in the URL, try:
ID: 2402
password: looney
If nothing else that exercise proved that outside of the English Championship I haven't got a clue about who's who in the world of international football, apart from the usual suspects.
EDIT: you wait all day for a bus...........
). My Mum wrote a letter of complaint (My little Johnny has suffered major mental trauma, give us some money now or we'll blab...). So these guys came and took her away, while I hid under the bed..... well that's the way i told it at school, they actually wrote back and apologised and said it was normal testing procedures.
Predictions : Group A
in Bring the Noise
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I think we could suffer badly with the loss of Neville in this match, I can see Ecuador ripping us to shreds down our wings and their striker Tenorio showed against Poland that he is fantastic in the air from fast crosses. I hope I'm wrong but I've hit my pessimistic World Cup run in now...