Football Focus

[titch juicy]

hopefully fulham won't be so stubborn when we get them back to the lane

they do what they do well at craven cottage- no complaints, we tried but couldn't break them down

[legalbeagle]

I have to confess, I really have no interest in football at all. But it is our national game so perhaps I ought to try. Suggestions as to how I might do that? Or should I be starting a separate thread?!

[brum]

LB - Pick up a blue and white scarf and join me and kpc in the Birmingham City Supporters Club (East Dulwich Branch). We can explain all you need to know about what football is really about - the pain of losing, and the occasional joy of winning.... and the singing....did I mention that?!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Start by supporting your local team. That would be Dulwich Hamlets or Millwall.

Get warm underwear and big woolly scarf. Learn a few phrases to be shouted at apt times, eg, "Who is the elegant athelete in the black who seems a trifle myopic?".

Go with friends and consume lots of hot bovril or beer. If you choose Millwall, the pies outside the ground are better than inside.

Enjoy.

[brum]

brum Wrote:

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> LB - Pick up a blue and white scarf and join me

> and kpc in the Birmingham City Supporters Club

> (East Dulwich Branch). We can explain all you need

> to know about what football is really about - the

> pain of losing, and the occasional joy of

> winning.... and the singing....did I mention

> that?!

I forgot to say - we can teach you the off-side rule too.

[Jah Lush]

Follow the Spurs LB. Every right thinking person does. :-)

[brum]

Jah, don't tempt LB over to the dark side please - thats a North London team you're talking about....

[Sharon_H]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Start by supporting your local team. That would be

> Dulwich Hamlets or Millwall.

>

> Get warm underwear and big woolly scarf. Learn a

> few phrases to be shouted at apt times, eg, "Who

> is the elegant athelete in the black who seems a

> trifle myopic?".

>

Haha, love it.

As a Liverpool fan living Peckham my husband does regularly go to support Dulwich Hamlet and is now one of the pink and blue army.

> Go with friends and consume lots of hot bovril or

> beer. If you choose Millwall, the pies outside

> the ground are better than inside.

>

> Enjoy.

[ruffers]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Start by supporting your local team. That would be

> Dulwich Hamlets or Millwall.

>

> Get warm underwear and big woolly scarf. Learn a

> few phrases to be shouted at apt times, eg, "Who

> is the elegant athelete in the black who seems a

> trifle myopic?".

>

> Go with friends and consume lots of hot bovril or

> beer. If you choose Millwall, the pies outside

> the ground are better than inside.

>

> Enjoy.

Although you don't need the warm clothes for Dulwich Hamlet as you can watch from the bar - result.

[Sharon_H]

Oh b*ll*ocks, messed my post up.

Yep, watching from the corporate box (bar) is good.

[ratty]

kpc Wrote:

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> Ratty - just back from Fratton. Better team on the

> day won and the 'not allowed' goal didn't really

> matter. Congrats.

>

> Edited to correct the typos caused by beer.

>

> And I'll be back for the PL game on Tuesday for

> some reason

Extremely gracious post! Thanks. Thought it was a pretty good game. First 20 minutes were all Brum, then it evened out. Home advantage swung it, but if that goal had been given then it would have been interesting!!

[kpc]

Agreed - at half-time felt that we were in control and that there was very little threat - think there were half a dozen times when you passed the ball out of play. Pompey stepped it up after the break and we didn't respond. Too many players had a poor second halfd. The first goal may have been scrappy but the second was well taken and a killer punch. And we really didn't create much in the second half. Talking to Blues fans after, nearly everyone felt let down by the team. Just make sure you do the right and proper thing if you get V***a in the semis.

[legalbeagle]

But I seem to hate footballers! Should I attempt to divorce art from artist, so to speak?

[brum]

What is it about footballers that you don't like, LB? I think some psycho-analysis to exorcise your demons may just be the ticket (to the match...)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Oh fie, LB, there are footballing heroes in every era. Just Google Stanley Matthews, Dennis Compton, Billy Wright, Neil Harris.

All good men and true - not every footballer is a wag-man-wanker.

[SCSB79]

7 wins to keep the league home.

Maybe less is the Gallowgate Galacticos slip up tomorrow.

[legalbeagle]

The outfits are terrible! The players seem to cry all the time! The club owners are very sinister! The managers have faces like a bull dog licking p*ss off a thistle!

I'm not sure a woolly scarf and some loud songs are gonna get me there.......

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

LB - this is wrong? Why?

http://s.bebo.com/app-image/7929041692/5411656627/PROFILE/i.quizzaz.com/img/q/u/08/04/20/george_best.jpg

[legalbeagle]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> LB - this is wrong? Why?

His outfit is terrible! He looks like he cries like a girl! He's owned by someone sinister! His manager has a face like a bull dog licking p*ss off a thistle! Anyhoo I dislike men who are prettier than me.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Then football is not for you. Nor opera, poetry or drama.

[brum]

Hmmmm.... LB, it seems we will need to start at the very beginning.... as a child, were you the last to be picked from the line for the football team...? Just a guess....!

[legalbeagle]

brum Wrote:

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> Hmmmm.... LB, it seems we will need to start at

> the very beginning.... as a child, were you the

> last to be picked from the line for the football

> team...? Just a guess....!

Damn! You are too smart........

[but PGC, I love opera poetry and drama! Must try harder......]

[brum]

legalbeagle Wrote:

> Damn! You are too smart........

>

>

Why thank you.... *hangs white coat back in wardrobe..*

[Annasfield]

Well in Pompey. Made up for you Ratty.

Oh and Arsenal, win the league for me. ;-)

[ratty]

Annasfield Wrote:

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> Well in Pompey. Made up for you Ratty.

>

> Oh and Arsenal, win the league for me. ;-)

Thanks!! x