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red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All 20 PL clubs have now released their new kits > for the upcoming season, can't say one stands out > in the style > stakes... We've got the Cottee/McAvennie 80s pin-stripe look back, the other kits are pretty fecking shocking - like something out of the NASL ETA: By 'other kits' I mean the WH away kits.

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So what do people make of Vieira calling his Man > City U21 team off the pitch after the alleged > racis abuse in Croatia? Different to crowd abuse this was an opposing player and should surely have been dealt with by the ref?. From what I've read Fofana was sent off for off-the-ball incident after he was (allegedly) racially abused by a Croatian player and Viera called team off after talking to the ref. Presumably if the ref had taken action against the player who abused Fofana they wouldn't have walked - but if ref didn't see/hear it he couldn't do anything. Is there any proof it happened other than one player's word against another? Presume there must be for Viera to have acted but dangerous precedent if not.

Not as exotic but crazy as in hysterical - hitched to south of France back in late 70s with a friend. Although we were both young and newly minted punks and were trying (and failing several times) to form a band - we played some crappy folk stuff to try and busk abroad (me strumming on guitar him picking on long-neck banjo) - more 'My Grandfather's Clock' than Duelling Banjos. We camped (free) on a place called Calanque, near Cassis with some Frenchies we knew whose friends were paranoid around us (lots of pot smoking and cheap wine) because of our short hair (punk hadn't reached them yet) and thought we were police. The journey back was a nightmare. Hitching in France was never easy and after getting stuck in a motorway services kind of a place, north of Lyon, for just over 22 hours (really) my friend snapped. He took his banjo out of its case and, holding it by the neck, did a Pete Townsend and smashed it to pieces on the tarmac whilst firing a volley of anti-French abuse at all the passing cars at the top of his voice. His rage was wonderful to watch and I was helpless with hysterical laughter which wouldn't stop. We eventually walked over some fields to a town called Villefranche-sur-Saone and got a train to Dunquerque. I stayed there for a couple of days in a tent near the beach - my shattered friend stayed on the train and got the boat home.

What TJ said. Couldn't give a monkeys. We've got a plank for a manager so why not keep the theme and give it to Cahill.

When I was being higher-ly educated there was certainly no question of a 'training' element in the scheme of things. I and the oiks around me all felt we were bloody good value for money. We would have found the idea of student loans inconceivable - in fact I stood on a picket line during an NUS 'Day of Action' back in the day to call for higher grants! But it was a little tougher to get in and friends who went straight into work at 16 were earning far more by then (having missed VIth form) and had cars and flats rather than 'thumbs' and bedsits.

I say stick with Cook - his loss of form is worrying but he can work at it and I think he is a =creative captain when (as Waugh said on TMS) he stops worrying about captaining to please the pundits. A vote of confidence (a genuine one rather than a football one) and let him get on with it and things will start to change. Team has had upheaval and takes time to settle. Not convinced by some new-ish caps and we need a spinner - oh, and Anderson/Broad are in danger of being run into the ground so we need back-up there too.

It's all American (well, obviously) and a lot of stuff I never really cared for but finding Sound City (BBC4) very watchable - might be the Tom Petty stuff.

reggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > if you're gonna do...do it...stop playing with me Take it easy man - you never had tantric weather before?

It is also expected to get 'dark' at the same time with this state continuing until some time in the morning. People are expected to stay indoors and lie prostrate on soft furnishings* with eyes closed until the event passes. *or hallway floors, park benches, skips,

So Valencia signed - looking forward to him and Z?rate doing something different up front to waiting for crosses/long balls. Didn't think I would be looking forward to the new season with BFS still IC but willing to believe a buffoon can - if not change his spots - at least stay sat on his arse and be content to take home his massively inflated wage packet and not interfere with the team but rather let his players do what they do best.

Wasn't someone on here, not so long back, talking about opening a cocktail bar? Perhaps they know the secret of silk purses and sows ears.

No no no that has to be amended. Wear it but don't spray-paint your whole bloody body with it and do WASH first - nothing worse than a can full of JERK over sweaty pits and bits - like a wet-wipe wrapped around a turd.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Will burger vans and taco stands still be > attracting crowds of trendy 20-somethings in ten > years time? Seems unlikely. No because then they will be mid 30s parents waxing nostalgic about these places and paying over the odds to eat the same shit indoors - "Isn't it nice to have a sit down?" - while the new 20 somethings eat bowls of Peruvian 'Chonta' palm-pasta from converted wheelbarrows and Alaskan Moose nuggets in tundra wraps from 50s retro ice-cream vans.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pretty pleased with West Ham's business thus > far.......not sure how much BFS should take any > credit Let's just hope he doesn't misuse them like he did Cole - he's the kind of man who uses an expensive cordless drill to bang in nails.

aquarius moon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > in all honesty I really don't > care who wins because I support Millwall!) Applicable whatever the league surely? B)

Moral victory complete - margin of four games - scores-schmores.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Was this the chamionship where the old truism > about no easy games actually came true. Unless they were against England...

I think the 'verve' of teams like Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, USA were an antidote to the slowly-slowly possession-minded football everyone has been copying from the Spanish/Italians; and was delighted the pressing and creativity of the Germans (who were far from 'efficient and clinical') won out over the 'defence with counter attacks' philosophy.

ebodad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Going to see them next week and trying to work out > transpor. Just wondered what time they came on at > (7.30 on the dot? I've told you once.

The kind of goal that deserved to win it - and the team that most deserved it too.

Gripping? For a while. Not so much now as they continue to cancel each other out. Argentines relying on one man and Germans trying to pass it into the net.

Glenda "There's goals in this game. No doubt about it." Kiss of death.

Germany have their arses hanging out a bit - playing very high up and quite loose, quickly taking throw-ins and free kicks, but the Argentine bus is firmly parked - they're used to not conceding and nicking a one-nil on the break The Argy fellahs). They're missing Khedira (The german fellahs). edited for clarity of 'they're's

MOTM - Jimmy A ... for his Batting! Champagne moment? (nearly) Cook taking a wicket. Lord's Thursday - should be lively.

Am claiming a moral victory - although my score predictions have been woefully optimistic I have more correct outcomes (less incorrect to be precise - 26) than anyone and only RC can draw level if I get the the last 2 wrong and he gets them right.