Jah Lush

I doubt it and I sincerely hope not. What's wrong with the England management set-up is that it's the wrong way round. Venables should be in charge with McLaren underneath him. As for Steve Bruce, well he's obviously surplus to requirements at Birmingham once this takeover goes through so he might as well go somewhere where he's wanted.

Prince Charles is visiting an Edinburgh hospital. He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness and greets one. The patient replies: "Fair fa your honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin race, Aboon them a ye take yer place, Painch, tripe or thairm, As langs my airm." Charles is confused, so he just grins and moves on to the next patient. The patient responds: "Some hae meat an canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat an we can eat, So let the Lord be thankit." Even more confused, and his grin now rictus-like, the Prince moves on to the next patient, who immediately begins to chant: "Wee sleekit, cowerin, timrous beasty, O the panic in thy breasty, Thou needna start awa sae hastie, Wi bickering brattle." Now seriously troubled, Charles turns to the accompanying doctor and asks "Is this a psychiatric ward?" "No," replies the doctor, "this is the serious Burns unit."

pavilioncafe Wrote: You lot are tough. How very dare you.(6) That's an unbelievable sweeping generalisation there pavilioncafe. I'm big old softie I am.:))

Surely you mean the uncensored copy? Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Me me me. I remember that one Nero. Good tune, took me back there for a while. Here's another bit of old gold. Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum

I'm loving that Bike Sex Man story Mockers. I was having a bit of a miserable morning until I read that. "A bit of a misunderstanding after he'd had too much to drink." Hilarious.

He Bangs The Drums

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I remember Alan Hansen saying the best advice he > could give to a kid was when you first start > kicking a ball against a wall, make sure you kick > it just as many times with your weaker foot, and > force yourself to be 2 footed. That's good advice. It's exactly what I did when I was a young lad wanting to be a footballer.

Jamma Wrote: > Plus the dark haired girl (the boss's daughter?) > is hot. Right, that settles it. I'll be in this weekend for my pound of flesh.

Hmmm...well there is a certain element of that no doubt about it but I also think that some teams have too many foreign players in their side and perhaps there should be a cap of some sort as to how many foreign players you can field in your side in a match. This has been discussed in Italy as well for quite some time now and FIFA have been looking into it too. Then again there are certain laws of employment and movement in the European Union to take into account as well and such a thing is illegal. Having said that I think you pointed out very well in an earlier post that if you can't learn from the example that is set by great players like Bergkamp and Zola etc, not just about skills but diet and how to conduct yourself on and off the pitch as well then there isn't much hope for us is there. There are too many British players like Anton "you staring at my watch mate" Ferdinand who looked a good prospect when he started out but as soon as he starts earning a few bob and starts hanging around crappy nightclubs and acting flash with a 60 grand watch on his arm and driving around in a Baby Bentley think they've made it.

Good man. No wonder you're proud of him. He sounds like a fine player in the making. The importance of playing with both feet cannot be understated. When I was a lad I'd practice with my other foot constantly to get it as good as the other one. Sometimes going through whole training sessions just to familarise the left foot with the ball to get it to be able to do the things that came naturally with my right.

Maybe they were inspired by the Best Place To Pull in East Dulwich thread that was on here a while back.

Good call Mockney, haven't heard that in ages. Here's another single taken from the same album. Lush - Single Girl

Exactly, learning skills and tricks should be of the utmost importance. At the same time you've got to know how look after yourself and knowing how to evade a tackle with alertness and skill with a dummy here or a shimmy there is what it's all about. The art of dribbling seems to have gone out of the game. Apart from the likes of Ronaldo, Lennon and Wright-Phillips how often do you see old fashioned wing play whereby the attacker takes on defenders before crossing or scoring? Not much. Kids should be learning the basic skills, control and touch, passing and movement. What Arsenal do now started out in life as what the great Spurs teams of the 50s and early 60s were doing except it was called push and run in those days and of course there is the element of Dutch total football thrown in as well.

Exile On Main St

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Barry Exile

I wasn't really condoning the hardman thing Citizen. I'm all for the beautiful game, that's what it's all about and why I admire Arsenal's play so much. It was the going down like a dying swan (see Didier Drogba) that I'm opposed too. George Best was considered too small when he first started out and was a genius, certainly one of the all-time greats. I was a Palace junior myself for a short while and played for south London and trained at Spurs too when I was a boy but once I discovered sex & drugs & rock n'roll it was all over for me.

I think Diaby would refute that. "He ran into my boot ref, honest". In French accent obviously.

I agree Atila. You won't see rugby players writhing around like they've been shot. They get up and get on with it. This play-acting is perhaps the negative side of the foreign influence, diving and the like. It never used to be like this. You must remember the FA Cup final of 1970, Leeds Utd v Chelsea and the replay that followed. Now that was man's stuff. They practically kicked each other off the park but did they writhe around like a bunch sissies, did they f**k, they got up and got stuck in again whilst still trying to play football. You had real hardmen in those days with proper names. Norman "Bites yer legs" Hunter and "Chopper" Harris. Every team had one. We had Dave Mackay and you had Peter Storey. The only player I see these days who I've got a lot of time for is the England captain John Terry. Gets stuck in, can play a bit, great leadership qualities, scores goals and who often plays whilst carrying an injury but I must admit his constant moaning at referees isn't so admirable.

Football is a game for gentlemen played by thugs and rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen.

By the way isn't that picture taken in the Plough? I seem to recognise the blackboard. I spend far too much time in bars.

Well done CWALD and best of luck. The other contestants in this election will soon realise they are up against formidable opposition in your good self.

I couldn't stand Arsenal before Arsene Wenger came along and got them playing decent football. They would bore for England. I have an enduring image of the back four with their hands up appealing for offside. It pains me to say it but you can't sing "Boring boring Arsenal" anymore because they are anything but. As I said to the lovely Ladygooner the other night. I'm a football fan first and a Spurs fan second. And, what I'm seeing when the Arse play these days is the beautiful game played the way it should be played, entertaining attacking football with a wonderful array of passing and movement, so I understand where Dave Kitson is coming from. I'm enjoying watching Man Utd this season though too (puts on tin helmet). Rooney, Tevez and Ronaldo are playing some wonderful stuff together.

Bad blood will drive you crazy bad blood I've heard men say bad blood is like an egg stain on your cheek you can lick it but it still won't go away.