MrBen

Biting someone has deeply animalistic connotations. It's just a bit deranged in a way that other stuff isn't.

So...got a load of customers coming to a venue tonight for free booze, food and the football on a cinema screen. Plan was originally to show the England game but if you were coming...would you be watching that tonight or Italy v Uruguay?

St Kilda is by all accounts a marvellous place with an amazing history. Did you know the inhabitants developed extra long toes after hundreds of years as they used to climb the cliffs for gull eggs? There are some great books on the place and recollections from some of the last survivors of the generation that was cleared off the island. Its notoriously difficult to get to due to currents, unpredictable weather and distance. My dad tried twice by sail boat (which he chartered with his crew) and had to turn back before one summer he finally made it. It's quite an achievement just to get there. I'd love to go.

....and the same goes for that other bellend with a mullet you have, Waddle, after his radio rant yesterday.

Give Lineker and Gazza a shot again

Step One: Find airport Step Two: Get on plane

The problem is the Italians in their last game. Their style in that scenario is to field their B team and generally they won't be arsed.

SJ - agreed. The problem is clearly that England still "expects" despite what was said before the WC.

"England Expects" Used by BBC commentary only last week and surely well past its sell by date. Why should England expect? 1966 was half a century ago. Impact of this expectation on players is even worse.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am confident we'd hammer Scotland Delusion! Well you didn't at Wembley in August (3-2 after a late goal) and frankly you're even worse now. England are like a wounded duck and we are playing our best since 2008. 27 in Fifa rankings vs 70 for the Republic of Ireland and...yes above Costa Rica. On the plus side you can only get better once your Golden Generation shuffle off to do telly instead.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ???? Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- Happy to eat my words but I think we'll > not > > make it out of the group and not get a win. > > > > Just an embarrassment in terms of our standing > > rather than the actual performance. > > > > Rooney drop him and Gerrard not that great > either. > > I can't wait for the golden generation to pass! > > > Wot he said - we've gone from dull drawers to > more exciting losers...we are miles behind the top > teams, miles. > > and I am pretty sure Italy and Urugauay aren't in > the top teams either.... So based on what you said about Scotland v Costa Rica on the other thread. How confident do you feel now that you will hammer these latin minnows?

Anyone had a good WC pub viewing experience locally thus far? Or will everyone be at home with an economy six pack of Carling?

Huge game tonight with a lot to lose for both teams. Good luck to England.

That Brazil Mexico game....best so far for me and outstanding from their keeper.

Would also add that MBA s don't seem to have quite the same cache for blue chips as they did 10 to 15 years ago. That said every fecker is seemingly an entrepreneur now days.

I wanted to learn the mechanics of business and choice at 28 years old was: - Borrow ?60k for an MBA. Spend remainder of career in middle or exec management for blue chip that values it. Spend 5 years paying off fees. Long hours. Or - Read as much as possible. Then have a go starting a business myself with all the components in place to learn how it works in the real world. Use the fee spend as seed capital to support this. Long hours too. What do you want to achieve? Your own gig or steady paying corporate life? Some courses major on entrepreneurship but as El Pipe is spot on saying...its your individualism that will make the difference once the basics are there. And you never stop learning. Whichever route you go best of luck with it.

Go Ghana.

About to watch the yanks start in Harry's Corner dive bar full of characters in New Orleans. Good build up helped by an eclectic juke box triple strength mixers and generally mad people.

Can someone back in the UK pls lay me an accumulator? I can't work out how to do it online on my paddy power act. - England not to win a game - Uruguay to reach quarter final stages That said, I'd like to see England defy the odds and at least get out the group.

Based on what I just saw in Miami you boys are in trouble. Organised but no more than "decent". Hodgson has some good players at the younger end but bets are he will play it safe v Italy and only mix it up when the inevitable happens.

Competitive Dad alert!

arf. Not what I meant tho. That said, I'm in admiration of any fathers out there who can juggle work, kids and wider family and still manage long 3 hour sessions of Minecraft or whatever...how do they do it?

The effect of a bikini shot like that on a 13 year old? You surely cant be surprised.

My gaming timeline: ZX Spectrum 48k > Spectrum 128k > Maria Whittaker in Barbarian > rapid onset of adulthood

This thread is a nerd fest but fun. I'm not sure why but games back 80's then seemed to have more atmosphere than the ultra-real stuff today - anyone know why? Second thing was how tribal it was. You were either a Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad guy. If you had a Dragon 32 people were bemused/curious/took pity. If you had a BBC Micro or Acorn Electron you were a geek and your parents had thought about "schooling" way too much...