Monday 5 September 2011

Left Sky and Dry

One of them strange weekends when your average non-Sky subscriber feels like a cave-bound hermit in the sporting wilderness. I was settled in to baby-sit the grandson on Friday night – I do my bit y’know but the sooner they get the young lad down a boxing gym the better. If you can’t jab with the left at six years old there’s little hope for you.

Any road, no Sky at this place so I’m scooting through the TV guide for the highlights package. Nowt. Nada. Murdoch hasn’t even seen fit to relinquish a glimpse of The Thatched One bagging his brace. And now it turns out that Tony Blair is godfather to Grace Murdoch. I tell you some days I’d happily feed the contents of my arse into the inner workings of every Skybox in the sodding country.

You tight-fisted misery!

Nevertheless I hear, via 5Live and the easily nettled Alan Green that it was a good victory for England, punctuated by the dropping of one Frank Lampard, halle-fuckin-lujah. There’s a phrase in football – let your feet do the talking – and I’ve noticed with Lamps in an England shirt that his feet are positively garrulous. He takes more touches to complete one pass than the number of passes Xavi Hernandez completes in an entire game.

Refreshing then, but a bit bewildering, that Capello, his job clearly up in a year’s time, finally finds the bollocks to pick the right team. Not sure what they’re doing with that new kit, mind you. There’s summat about the phrase ‘black shirts’ that makes me uneasy.

I’d like to think that Andy Carroll might be a top international striker, but he needs to start treating his body more like a temple and less like a back-alley rock venue.

So in the Murdoch-induced absence I shared the pain of Scotland’s draw with the dodgy Czechs. A blatant dive wins a match-saving penalty. Berra’s riposte – a poor enough performance to earn a walk-on part in Taggart - earned him a yellow card. Cue spurious arguments about the fact that the ref – a Dutchman called Kevin – gave one spot-kick when it wasn’t and so should make the same mistake twice in the interests of balance.

Hmm... that way madness lies. I reckon if they’d had another ten minutes of that game left, each team would have had all its outfield players rolling around in the opposition penalty box with tears in their lying eyes.

And this is where football gets it so bloody awfully wrong at the moment. There’s this tacit approval of conning the officials within the game. The times you see Steve Bruce, Mick McCarthy (or indeed any one of them managers at whom Lady Luck is always flicking the V’s) saying ‘we had one go our way today... that’s football.’ The referee always gets the flak but surely the only one to blame is the sneaky bastard who threw himself to earth in the first place. Or am I being naive?

It was left to the athletics to lift the soul this weekend – and in the form of young Mohamed Farah, the Robbo spirit soared like an eagle attached to umpteen thousand helium balloons.



Denied in the 10,000 metres by the latest lad off the Ethiopian production line, Farah hit the home straight in the 5K with the same death skull grimace on his face. Lagat, chasing him, looked no less in fear of his life. In fact it was hard not to imagine a bloody great lion looming up in the background.

And that’s why I love athletics. No bikes, motors, gloves, pads, just a lad or lass in his/her vest with his eyeballs out, going for it. OK you have to exclude Usain Bolt from that description as the lad just flows across the track like a duster across a newly-polished floor. Whereas, currently, the UK sprinters move like wonky-wheeled shopping trolleys on a cobbled street.

If I’m honest, I tend to enjoy the lads’ races more than the lasses. There’s summat about a female athlete’s body that’s intimidating and well just not sexy. Them six-packs for starters.

Put em away love!

On balance I prefer the hour-glass figure to the brick shithouse when it comes to your lasses. Still, despite the fact that they’re barely wearing owt, they’re not there for my delectation are they? And that Aussie hurdler Sally Pearson would just tonk me in the gob with her leading leg if she read this. She was just magnificent.

And that’s where athletics seems to embrace a good swathe of the assortments of humanity. Scrawny little Kenyans, gangling Croatians, women the size of wardrobes, men the width of the Wirral, all seem to have summat they can have a crack at.

But the sprint finish off the back of a middle distance race... there’s nowt to beat it.

Footy resurfaces tomorrow with England at home to the 115th ranked team in world football. Yes, Wales come hunting a shock, this time armed with the left-wing wonder-monkey that is Gareth Bale. A bigger test for Smalling you might think than some scurrying Bulgur egged on some racist thicksters from the terraces.

I shall be watching it on ITV, bless it, with his dough-faced host the saggy Baggie Adrian Chiles. An Eeyorish attitude suits watching England games, I reckon, so I’m looking forward to the old grouse’s presentation.

He’ll no doubt be accompanied by a whole welter of former Middlesbrough managers – and I think Boro’s current position in the English game is testimony to how much these blokes know.

I see A narrow England win – 2-1 – but that’ll be enough to start gearing ourselves for another let-down over the summer. England fans have sat through more anti-climaxes that the neighbours of my Uncle Keith after he married that Croatian nymphomaniac. We’ll see.

But temporarily at least, with Rooney at the top of his game, there’s a tiny flame of hope for the England team again, even if it has all the permanence of a lit match in a hurricane.

251 comments:

  1. TWD, here you go...

    Robbo blog league - 120130-41350
    Robbo H2H league - 120130-41415

    Get in.

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  2. Second. And not a mention of SS' team being denied their possible first victory of the tour!

    Jedi

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  3. OK make that third.

    Jedi

    And 4th

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  4. Yeah no victory yet on the English soil this summer and the list of players in doc's treatment room keeps on piling. Sachin Tendulkar's 100th century will have to wait until next series.

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  5. Int'l break meant I was able to properly enjoy festive period. Joining back to work tomm seems a daunting task.

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  6. SS - all those Injuries - its known as Losers' Limp, mate ; )

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  7. I like the African athlete chased by lion visualisation training technique. Perhaps we could train up some of those delinquent tottenham chavs into world beaters this way - they don't wear trainers they carry them,a persuing training partner dressed as special constable with gun ...

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  8. left wing wonder monkey? sounds like che guevara - he was a fabulous Marxist gorilla....


    Coat!

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  9. anti/auntie climaxes .... coat for Robbo I should say

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  10. Bloggs, we would still do better and beat England in ODI Series.

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  11. BBC NEWS - max mosely applies for soon to be vacant post as England football manager

    "its the black shirts" max is reported as saying, "pater would have approved. I vill, sorry, will also be decking out wembley more appropriately with torches, black and red banners and ENGLAND SHALL REIGN FOR VON THOUSAND YEARS IN ZR WORLD OV FUSSBALL , Sieg heil, sorry slip of the old tongue ha ha just play acting don't you know. I meant 'Schteve, hi!' look there he is, McLaren! I say! "

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  12. Robbo & Co... I know this is out of your general jurisdiction, but what are your thoughts on Zlatan Ibrahimovic's facial hair when playing against Ukraine? Personally, I think he resembled someone out of Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch.

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  13. Nice one RR.

    Do you really have a 6y.o. grandchild?

    I can imagine that the cartoon Robbo did, but unless your blog photo has been digitaly coloured and re-mastered from an old black and white snap, then I find it hard to Adam & Eve.

    Unlees ofcourse you started the procreation game at an early age (as I did) and your offspring did the same (mine we're smarter then me, thank gawd)

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  14. Here in the Lowlands all of the National teams' games and all european games featuring dutch teams are shown on terrestial tv. It seems hard to believe that the inhabitants of the land that gave football to the world can't even see their national team unless they pay a kings ransom to an aussy-yank hybride tyrant.

    By the way, Kevin is not an uncommon name in Holland.

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  15. Amen to that H. Everythings for sale. Haven't seen a live test match or a man u match in a decade. Murdoch had the political elite in his deep pockets now its too late.

    My best mate in delft was a Kevin but he s from London so...

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  16. I have mo thoughts whatsoever on ibrahimovics beard, Stephen.

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  17. they've finally finished painting the forth bridge which is disappointing

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  18. From previous blog;

    blogdignag said...
    wtf walcott has written 4 children's books ...

    5 if you include his latest biography.

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    TWD.

    Shame I missed you when you were in the Lowlands, but the name and location of my bar has been posted here many times, just as the invitation to join the FFL leagues have been. I can only conclude that you haven't been reading all the comments. Was that deliberate or did you just forget? ;)

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  19. When will they start on the fifth Blogs?

    I've also never had any interest in any part of Bignoseavich, but now I have to find out how bad the face fuss was.

    Surely it can't be as bad as GNevs?

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  20. Well, I suppose I'll never know.

    I googled "zlatan ibrahimovic new look 2011" and all pictures were sans bumbluff.


    http://www.google.co.uk/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=576&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=zlatan+ibrahimovic+new+look+2011&btnG=Search&oq=zlatan+ibrahimovic+new+look+2011&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=3297l5735l0l8188l9l9l0l8l8l0l141l141l0.1l1l0

    Images on page two make him look awfully like that little portugeese snot ape.

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  21. the fifth bridge crosses the firth of forth, h

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  22. East fife of Forfar?

    Nah, nevermind.

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  23. which is more under evolved? snot ape or left wing wonder monkey. and do they play at the bonobo stadium

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  24. I think you can find the latter at WHL.

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  25. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has called a New Zealand beer advert "unethical" and "disrespectful" for making fun of match-fixing scandals.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/14788041.stm

    "It is rather unfortunate that the advertising company became insensitive to the feelings of the Pakistani nation while airing their ad, which is not only unethical but also disrespectful".

    Really? Is it more unethical and disrepectful than deliberately bowling no-balls and losing matches to make money?

    Evening all. Colch

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  26. or a nation (or its corrupt cricket board) getting in fits over a beer commercial when general sale of any alcoholic product and their advertisement is banned in the country?

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  27. Robbo, re cheaters in footy and dodgy decisions:

    I lay he blame firmly at fifa's feet.

    The fuck is wrong with giving gthe 4th ref a telly and the authority to over-rule any major decisions free-kicks/penalties/cards before its consequences are met.

    the time it takes to set up a wall or clear the penalty area off protesting team mates of ither side is enough to have it cleared and the game to be resumed.

    or is a simpleton?

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  28. I'd go further than that Spit. If the ref isn't sure if it's a penalty he should ask the player who's been "fouled" if it's a penalty. If the player says no it wasn't he avoids a yellow card for diving. If the player says yes and it turns out he dived he gets a 5 match ban. If it happens to another player from the same team again and the player dived he gets a 10 match ban and so on.
    I can't see any problems with that but am happy to be shot down if you can.

    Colch

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  29. Id wire up a polygraph to the inside of the goal posts, spike the drinks with sodium pentathol and have Jeremy Kyle as the ref. For persistent offenders, a pair of Orange pajamas and rendition to guantanamo bay

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  30. Scratch my idea. Let's go with blog's idea with one small change. Instead of wiring up the goal posts to a polygraph wire up the players testicles to the mains and if he lies about it then flick the switch.

    Colch

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  31. the north Koreans had the right idea colch just fucking shoot them

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  32. Snipers on the floodlights Blog. You might be on to something.

    Colch

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  33. > "On balance I prefer the hour-glass figure to the brick shithouse when it comes to your lasses. "

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    I draw the line at any girl who can beat me at arm wrestling. Uncharitable types might claim that eliminates some 90% of the world's females, but in reality I just use Pakistani cricket tactics with the unattractive ones (...).


    The poster formerly known as NTOKA

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  34. To deal with diving cheaters I suggest we turn back the clock.

    Keep starving lions in galleries under the pitch – first sign of a potential dive, open trap doors and release the beasts around the player. If they devour him on the spot, he was obviously guilty of cheating ... and if they don't, his claim was a good one.

    This combination of the Roman feel for mass entertainment and strict Medieval justice would have all sorts of advantages: players would henceforth do their best to stay on their feet, boring games could be enlivened by a bit of gore, there would be no interminable appeals from unwarranted bookings, and the most annoying, whingingiest players would, by natural selection, tend to have the shortest careers.


    The poster formerly known as NTOKA

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  35. Three to the one from the one to the three,
    Robbo likes good pussy and he likes good tree,
    Smokes so much weed you wouldnt believe,
    and he gets more ass than a toilet seat.

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  36. The poster formerly known as NTOKA said

    I draw the line at any girl who can beat me at arm wrestling. Uncharitable types might claim that eliminates some 90% of the world's females, but in reality I just use Pakistani cricket tactics with the unattractive ones (...).
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    You intentionally miss with your balls?

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  37. More good news from the Grove.

    After losing JW for a few months it looks like the Verminater will be joining him.

    Once again his achilles heel is turning out to be his... eerr.. achiles heel.

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  38. good stuff Robbo, Coe, Ovett, Cram, them were the days (well, not so much Cram).

    TWD, NooJoisey, nowhere near you. Have you got the "Ann Arbour is a whore" T shirt yet?

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  39. NTOKA and the arm wrestling she

    reminds me, many moons ago I played works squash league Div 3/4/5 not possible to get higher, played against a medium sized amazon, who narrowly beat me, ythen joined me in the bar for a few beers wearing her leathers(no not that sort) and carrying a HD bike helmet. Not played since

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  40. Trott - cahill the first bolton player to score for England since Nat lofthouse

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  41. Revell looks a promising replacement for le fondle, tone, also less touchy feely and sweeter

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  42. Remarkable piece in today's Times about how to fit Gerrard into the "new look" England team.

    Do these people not get it?He's done nothing for England for years yet you still want to pick him?

    Half wits.

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  43. some will never learn Jacks.

    the sooner we rid our selves of the remnants of the golden shower generation the better we'd be at hyping about the new age of skill-full yet miserable at the highest level bunch.

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  44. After Wilshere and Vermaelen, Walcott out injured too.

    it just never ends.

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  45. Wenger's King Arthur, spit; he explains his vision of Camelot to Fabregas his beloved guinivere. But she falls for another. This makes barca Launcelot which doesn't fit the analogy very well as its hardly a trusted friend, but whatever.

    When the king findd out about his beloveds infidelity he faces a dilemma, should he pretend he doesn't see it in order to preserve the vision of camelot? If he enforces the law, he loses her forever. If not he is humiliated. One way or another the king must be sad. Betrayed or avenged, sadness is the condition of the king...

    So the king banished his beloved and the revenge is wreaked upon the playing field. The king experiences his human weakness within and without the law.

    There is one way out. He could have offered himself as a human sacrifice....and resign.

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  46. yes. thats a way to stem the decline. Re-sign fabregas.

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  47. So next week Arsenal are going to be fielding their U7 side then the way injuries are going.

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  48. 1129 FOOTBALL: - BBC Sport's Leon Mann on Twitter: "Arsenal's Emmanuel Frimpong has signed a written agreement to play international football for Ghana.
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    why could he not be convinced to play for England?

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  49. http://www.thefootballramble.com/blog/entry/last-minute-shopping-fuels-d-day-hyperbole

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  50. ahhh Blog, so true and if we'd sold him last week at a bargain basement price we'd still be waiting and hanging our hats on a hooker from Bolton who scored repeatedly with England's top striker.

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  51. Have to admit it, I'm not missing Gerrard in the England team. Wilshere to come back. Get to the back of the cue, Stevie, with the TV presenter's husband.

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  52. That last comment was courtesy of me, Robbo, aka the Tees Mouth, who can't even manage to get his own Google ID to work so he can comment on his own blog!

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  53. Spits, good call on 4th ref. They use it when they feel they need to. E.g. when genius French-Algerian tries to swallow-dive through chest of harman bigmouth Italian in a 'showpiece occasion.' Robbo again! FFS!

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  54. I'm starting to feel decadent being one of something like 4 regular posters who still have some form of I.D upon their person around here.

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  55. I don't usually use a pc to post but last time I did, I unchecked the "remember me" box when I signed in and my fucking stupid web pseudonym worked fine

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  56. Lumpard's replaced Parker tonight. Yawn.

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  57. What a great result for Wales to only lose 1-0 against the "4th best team in the world"™ and if Earnshaw could finish they would've had a draw. He puts Lampard back in the team and we play like shit again. Not that I'm blaming Lampard for the performance. There were plenty of them who were shit tonight.

    Colch

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  58. Twats got to ne the end for rampart surely

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  59. Is that your ducking productive tocks again blog?

    Colch

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  60. Or have you been on FBH's typing course for the terminally fat fingered?

    Colch

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  61. terminally fat fingered: the state of being Scottish?

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  62. Wot a load of shite that was

    Oh and for you gooners, Bendy scores twice

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  63. "The most recent World Cup in South Africa produced revenues for Fifa of $3.7bn (£2.3bn) but only $40m (£25m), about 1.5%, was passed on to the clubs. This works out at about $100,000 (£63,000) per club: a small price, they say, for providing the talent".

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14813668.stm

    I wonder what Blatter does with the £2.26 billion.

    Colch

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  64. Lampard was selected to kill the game -- which he did most efficiently. Now to select him for the Montenegro game and get England to lose.
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  65. I think in the next game, we don't even need an opposition team -- just put Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard together and England can lose the game all on their own.
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  66. And that’s why I love athletics. No bikes, motors, gloves, pads, just a lad or lass in his/her vest with his eyeballs out..
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    ... and a kitbag full of drugs.

    We should have all the lads back come the new year, just in time to fight against relegation.

    Schneider not good enough to replace Scholls eh... or so the papers say ol' red nose says anyway.

    You picking on Blatter again Col. The poor guy has a lot of expenses you know and he needs to save for his retirement. Misunderstood is the great man.

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  67. heres my favourite football chant, to the tune of Top Cat...

    Kop-twats. You thieving bastards!
    Kop-twats!, You thieving bastards!
    We know you all ... sign on the dole
    And you live in a fucking shit-hole
    Kop-twats. You thieving bastards!
    etc etc

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  68. No offence tommy. Just a comic stereotype

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  69. Colch yes mate text mingling software usually check these days

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  70. Hehe that chant would liven up MOTD if you knew they wouldn't edit it out Blogs.

    Glad I got an early night last night .... I was reliably informed the footy was shite again.

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  71. As a child I saw that Tarzan roamed around almost naked, Cinderella arrived home after midnight, Pinocchio told lies, Aladdin was a thief, Batman drove over 200 miles an hour, Snow White lived in a house with 7 men, Popeye smoked a pipe and had tattoos, Pac Man ran around to digital music while eating pills that enhanced his performance, and Shaggy and Scooby were mystery solving hippies that always had the munchies. The fault is not mine that I misbehave.

    I never had a chance.

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  72. http://youtu.be/F4ZY9sJe0rY after seeing that dive in scot v czech match i came upon this video, the literal meaning of hesgone down as if he's been shot

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  73. Unconfirmed reports from France the Samir Nasri has broken his metatarsal.

    I'd be upset if I had just signed him up... for my FFL.

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  74. tone1947 said...

    Wot a load of shite that was

    Oh and for you gooners, Bendy scores twice
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    Not too upset about it.
    RvP scored 4 and the new signing Park scored 3 as well.

    I am of the opinion that Bendtner is a better striker than the press and most fans give him credit for but not as good as he himself gives himself credit for.

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  75. Spitfire said... "As a child I saw that Tarzan roamed around almost naked, Cinderella arrived home after midnight, Pinocchio told lies, Aladdin was a thief, Batman drove over 200 miles an hour, Snow White lived in a house with 7 men, Popeye smoked a pipe and had tattoos, Pac Man ran around to digital music while eating pills that enhanced his performance, and Shaggy and Scooby were mystery solving hippies that always had the munchies. The fault is not mine that I misbehave.

    I never had a chance."
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    Brilliant comment -- just don't try to emulate Superman...
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  76. A couple of white geeks do rap -- Work It http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=369FGAb1iI8&feature=share

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  77. well having avoided the score last night and watched the game this morning....what a crock of shite! never a truer word spoken than the match in a hurricane.... 1 positive tho, downing regularly finding a red shirt with his passing
    bisq

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  78. i know he provided the cross for the goial but ive just never found downing convincing. maybe its the ben foster-esque blank expression. maybe its the run up and down banality of his play. all indications are - blank mind. why he started ahead of johnson i dont know.

    mind you capello doesnt seem any brighter does he. £6 million? for what? the genius insight that they play better away from the "pressure" of wembley is only likely to come true if your flaming manager keeps saying it...

    to my mind they played like they thought they were too good to try hard against their lower league inferiors (ramsey and bale aside). i thougth wales were good.. especially earnshaw (snigger)

    young is now guaranteed a place. lampard was there as a stand in for pa

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  79. ..rker who was on a yellow. so hes in a long line now after wilshere ... gerrard ..parker .. crusty the clown and that bloke with a hat on

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  80. no bisq the other one.

    so- how did the americans fake those photos of the moon landing evidence?

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  81. mornin' Lads, great performance last night, Euro Championships and World Cup 2014 in the bag. Happy days are here again.

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  82. Don't forget bolton's premiership and euro glory double, trott.

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  84. Srry f-icking predictive tox...that post should have read

    "I see Nasri has broken his middle finger from over-use in the direction if arsenal fans"

    tsk

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  85. If lampard wants to prolong his England he's going to have to take the Oscar pistorius amputation below the knee and hi tech blades route

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  86. blogdignag said...
    Don't forget bolton's premiership and euro glory double, trott.
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    now, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

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  87. Robbo is it true you are really Niall Ashdown and you post on football365 under the alias "The Big Fresh Flava"?

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  88. Robbo is it true you are really Lord Lucan and you sail the seas with Red Rum on the Mary Celeste?

    Colch

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  89. Robbo is it true that you are a little magical gnomish fella with a pointy beard and if we guess your real name the spell is broken and we can stop writing utter bollox on your blog?

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  90. I hope that one's true Blog. I'd be able to leave here never to return.

    Is it Rumpelstiltskin? Johnny Howard? Rowan Atkinson? Rolf Harris?

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  91. It's Phil McNulty Bo. Robbo is just a cunning disguise to see what people really think of him.

    Colch

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  92. It seems we are still reliant on Rooney even though he has frozen at every major tournament he has appeared in. The lad standing in the wings, Andy Caroll, is Rooney's mental equal but seems to be suffering the fate of late of being a Liverpool striker. Defoe is another that cannot produce his club form when playing for his country. Bent is a non-starter as far as I am concerned, he's never impressed me either in an England shirt or at any of the clubs he's played. Rooney is an automatic selection if he is fit but he's no Shearer is he.

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  93. It can't be McNulty Col, on rare ocassions he makes sense.

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  94. I just read McNulty's take on England's performance against Wales and their furure prospects. He just regurgitates the same shit that he written in the past, just changes the opposition's name. Mind you that pretty much sums up most England performances too.

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  95. This is the kind of passion and committment I want to see from those wearing England shirts. Get stuck in lads..........

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA

    Morning all.
    Colch

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  96. You see that kind of passion all the time from those wearing an England shirt Col... if you watch the England rugby matches.

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  97. Bo, McNulty performed an even greater trick by producing a blog last weekend after the Bulgaria game stating that everything was good and we were going along perfectly, and that Capello was growing into the job (??!!), and then followed it three days later with a blog stating the exact opposite of what he'd written previously.

    Noel

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  98. well looks like we have found a more useless bunch of numptys than the F.A. in the organisers of the us open!
    bisq

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  99. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMdY_2I9p78

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  100. It was hard to tell where his shirt ended and his kneck began after that effort Jack.

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  101. Balottelli you silly boy ..

    The forward will be grilled on his links to Mario Iorio, a catering entrepreneur charged with money laundering in connection to an investigation into the Lo Russo clan of the city's Camorra.

    Balotelli was given a guided tour of the Scampia district of Naples in June last year by Iorio and two other Camorristi after asking to be shown the locations featured in the gangster film Gomorrah.

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  102. just to explain the oo ah oo tikki tikki .. i was watching spongebob squarepants at the time as i am an interlekchewal

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  103. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14843842.stm

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    Good move. He's going to be a big player once he's fit.

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  104. Something to cheer Bo up no end, Arsenal loanee helps beat Os

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/leyton_orient/9584449.stm

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  105. In answer to them that doubt that I am Robbo...
    No, I am not McNulty - although I hear he's a lovely bloke. Banal column, lovely bloke.

    Neither I am a goblin (that's a joke isn't it - punchline summat like 'No. I've got a headache')

    As for Ashdown - well, it's true to say that we've never been seen in the same room but I wouldn't want to be in the same room as that twat.

    ROBBO (still can't log in to my own blog with me Google ID!)

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  106. Szesney vs. Ze Germans.

    http://youtu.be/m4y6SHVFKxY

    Imagine how serene he is in face of determined attack. The practice of playing behind a crappy Arsenal defence does pay somewhere.

    Lets hope Arsenal take good care of him as we might be on to a true legend (baring robbo doing a tribute blog in his honour thereby damning him to all eternity, for proofs read his blog demanding an urgent british passport for one Al Munia of North London)

    Lets ManU come with a bid of 30 mil next year and we have to let him go.

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  107. Not much cheer for me as far as football goes up to now Spit. Arsenal 3 games 1 point, the O's 6 games 1 point. Worse fucking start to any season in my memory

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  108. Its not the Football Bo.

    Its you.

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  109. What! You think I'm just a miserable fuck Spit?

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  110. If you use Firefox, don't install the addon Tubetweak... it really fucks up youtube... well it did for me, on two separate ocassions.

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  111. or was it Tweaktube... something like that.

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  112. All I am saying Bo,

    if one of your teams is 1 point after 3 games and the other is 1 point after 6, guess you picked the wrong teams.

    twice.

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  113. I see. At least things can only get better from this point on. The point the O's got was their last game so it's on the up there.... and a win at Swansea this week for the gunners will get the season underway proper for us.

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  114. Czezney had a decent game against Germany by the looks of things Spit.

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  115. A win at Swansea would really be a miracle Bo, since the game is in London.

    Thats what we need. More miracles.

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  116. All I knew is we played Swansea and for some reason assumed it was away... all part of the joys of aging I guess.

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  117. Szesney did brilliantly against the germans. Had plenty of german friends text saying how we were on to a winner.

    The lad is unfazed by what goes on around him and thats the bonkers side a keeper must always have.

    Hopefully Mertesacker will help command the defence in front of him to make his job easier.

    Looking forward to our game against Swansea.

    Just a shame Vermaelen and Wilshere and possibly walcott will miss it through injuries.

    With Gervinho, Song and Frimpong back in the next games I trust we'd be just fine.

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  118. Peter Hill-Wood revealed the Gunners felt short-changed in the sale of their captain.
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    I don't get it. They were the selling club, it was up to them to get the price they asked. Obviously Barcelona have better negotiators than do the gunners.

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  119. Should get a look at most of the new signings over the next couple of weeks I'd say Spit... I know it will take a while for the new guys to fit in but I am looking forward to watching Arteta in an Arsenal shirt.

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  120. Nicklas Bendtner was never going to be a success at Arsenal because he can't accept criticism and has a poor work ethic. That is the damning verdict of former team-mate Havard Nordtveit, who spent three years with the Gunners.
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    That fits in pretty well when you consider the opinion Bendtner has of himself... from my experience the over-confident can rarely accept criticism. Well rid of the twat.

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  121. PFA wants more black managers
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    The only thing that should come into this is the person's ability... not the person's skin colour, nationality, age or any other non-contributing factors.

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  122. I always considered the difference between Ngog and Bendy. both always miss golden chances, but IMO Bendy is better, his work rate is relative high compared to a lot of forwards, and he does have this self beilief.

    Ngog in the other hand, whenever he misssed a chance always looked sheepishly to Rafa saying why the fuck have you put me on this green field

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  123. Dumb question of the day. Are Bank of Scotland currency valid in England?

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  124. Yes they are Bo. Some places will look at them funny when you hand them over but legally you can use them.

    Morning all.
    Colch

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  125. Finally, a good article in mirror. I knew there would be a point to it eventually.

    http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/john-cross/John-Cross-The-truth-about-Arsenal-injuries-Thomas-Vermaelen-Jack-Wilshere-Theo-Walcott-article795990.html

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  126. Bloody hell Spit. Next you'll be telling us you read the Guardian as well.

    Colch

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  127. I must admit Colch, it has happened.

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  128. Afternoon all.

    Busy, busy, busy, so not much time to post lately.

    Who's this anonymous geezer pretending to be Robbo?

    Or

    Who's this Robbo geezer pretending to be anonymous?

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  129. Cheers Col. I received a few 20's when I changed up some dollars today, so I wanted to check with you guys first before taking them back.

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  130. That last comment took about 15minutes to post.

    Come on Blogspot you basterds, sort out the account business, it's as frustrating as watching En-ger-land.
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    Spit.

    Chessy Wotsit was unbelievable against ze Germans in mid week. How he managed to keep a clean sheet in the first half, I'll never know.

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  131. The pub becoming in the hot spot in town H2?

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  132. I've had a lot of other things to do too Bo.

    Been looking for loopholes to exploit in the Anti smoking laws, which I have found and I'm now in pocession of the only bar with a license to smoke in in a radius of at least 20km. (A lot of time and effort, but hopefully worth it) plus I had to be in The Hague a few times this week (also boring legal stuff)

    When's your trip commencing?

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  133. You becoming a Dutch lawyer H2. Must be a good loophole. You a smoker?

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  134. Your money over there is big... I'm going to have to buy a wider wallet to put it in.

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  135. I'm not a lawyer Bo, just a smart arse who enjoys flying in the face of the written rules.

    I'm not what you would call a traditional smoker. I can stop or start whenever I want, sometimes I don't smoke for days/weeks, then I'll smoke for a while, then stop again.

    The only time I'll have a ciggie lit is if I'm having an alcoholic beverage, which is almost always, that's why I use restraint. ;p

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  136. I'm the same. I every week for 2-3 days, when I get to my daughters place and have a few wines I start up again. I'm getting pretty good at quitting though.

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  137. Sir Alex Ferguson wants more protection for David de Gea
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    Why is he always asking for his players to be treated differently to any other team?

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  138. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/football/article-23985432-gaffe-prone-garry-cook-quits-manchester-city.do

    About time too, even for a club full of Chavs, that guy was an embarrassment.

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  139. Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has revealed he was priced out of transfer deadline-day swoops for midfielders Daniele de Rossi and Fernando Gago.
    Full story: the Sun

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    Priced out?

    What did those clubs want for those players?

    Two Death Stars and a fleet of intergalactic luxury battlecruisers?

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  140. Now then that must be an embarrassment for a big club like Man C to get priced out in transfer market. Sheikh's ego must have been hurt...

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  141. I looked at that bit in the gossip column about Man City being priced out but when you read the article it is more to do with Mancini being unable to spend more money due to the financial fair play rules... or at least it's what the sun have quoted mancini as saying.

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  142. Mancini said: "Gago is a player who we liked a lot. In the end we couldn't spend any more money due to the financial fair play rules."

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Haaaaaaaaaaaa.

    What a joke. Their full seasons income from all revenues doesn't even cover their wage bill, let alone all their transfer business and now they're quoting the FFP rules?

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

    Comedy gold.

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  143. Think Cook's 'error of judgement' was that he lied that his account was hacked when it wasnt.

    Sending a bad taste joke to an old time friend is not the end of the world.

    Should have admitted it was sent by 'mistake' & appologised

    takes balls to do that tho.

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  144. Cook was always a bit of a twat Spit. Always ready to run his mouth off about this and that.

    To be honest I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did.

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  145. More, albeit well justified praise of Ze yung Germans.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14824053.stm

    We are kidding ourselves if we think Ingerland is a favourite. world number 4th team? we are having a larf.

    Podolski has 92 caps to go with his 26 years. Mind boggling.

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  146. That Fifa list is so wrong that you might even go so far to think that it came from a corrupt orgainasition............

    Oh, wait......

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  147. It was an OK article Spit and I agree that ze Germans have a very good team.

    I think they'll have to be at their very best to trouble the Dutch though, who have only lost one game (the WC final) under v Maarwijk. That's some record.

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  148. I like the bourne filmswith Matt dillan the hitman with amnesia.

    he'd be a shit hit man - a shitman? - in real life tho ... ok I'm off to kill ...whatsisface....target identified....nuts I forgot me gun again

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  149. Rugby world cup starts today

    Loads of posh middle class men watching some fella kick a ball over a bar


    Bit like stamford bridge when Torres is playing

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  150. or Wembley when the Welsh are in, mornin' Lads, how goes it?

    Next victims Man Utd, I hate to do it but sometimes you just gotta get the easy ones out of the way and move on, City, Liverpool, UTD, come on, who wants a piece?

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  151. Good luck against Un**ed Trott... I put you down for a 2-2 draw in my tipping but I'll accept a home win.

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  152. Went out this morning looking for a wallet to fit those UK pounds in but couldn't find one wide enough... I'll have to buy one over there.

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  153. just mug somebody when you land Bo, that's what everyone else does.

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  154. Sounds like a plan Trott.. not sure if they allow mugs on a plane though.. come to think of it they had better else I'm up shit creek.

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  155. Got the same problemo Bo - the missus bought me a wallet last birthday which is just big enough for Aussie notes, but I will only be able to fit half an English or Falkland note in. I may have to go American and wear a fanny pack. Is that what you use Trotts??

    Call me a heathen or whatever you want - but the proper footie is back this weekend! Will Spurs get their first points of the season at Molineux? I fucking hope so. Been hearing all them jokes from the Juande Ramos era again. Wolves are my second team though so I won't be too devastated if we lose. I fancy Adebayor to get a few. And then fall out with a teammate.

    Noel

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  156. Steve Kean to be out of a job by October.

    Noel

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  157. No wonder the rent is pretty cheap in this new place. Mossie season is on and these bastards are huge. I noticed a small clearing at the estuary just down the road, I thought it was a landing strip for model planes.... I was informed it was indeed a landing strip but it was for the mossies.

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  158. Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish believes Craig Bellamy's new calm nature has been helped by the fact that he has "given up golf".
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    Food for though Trott.... mind you wait and see how long the "new calm nature" lasts, I'm predicting 45 seconds into his first game.

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  159. Possible line up for the Gunners later today... Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Walcott, Arteta, Frimpong, Ramsey, Arshavin, Van Persie... which, on paper, looks a far more solid lineup than what we put on the park two weeks ago.

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  160. fine on paper, bo, but unproven in grass. But ..... if arsenal replace their current pitch with one of our enormous Pound notes, problem solved

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  161. strange life Wayne bridge leads as recounted in the grauniad today ... mega buck salary glamorous girlfriend ... like a
    George best without the talent charisma or alcoholism, where did it go wrong Wayne ... but it did go wrong because the man who wasn't even first choice with his wife has now chosen to be non playing footballer ie a useless parasite. What price self respect? What do you see when you look in the mirror Wayne?

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  162. John Terry standing behind him?

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  163. H,

    for the EURO2012, I reckon the Spanish and the Dutch are the favourites to the final with Germany a respectable third.

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  164. but obviously, not worth coverage in the medjya as with the crisis at Arsenal...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14856010.stm

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  165. Not bothered with the rugby world cup , btw.

    who wants to watch big breasted men grope each other all huffing and puffing, heavily panting...

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  166. Spitfire said...
    who wants to watch big breasted men grope each other all huffing and puffing, heavily panting...
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    Have you been looking through my DVD collection again Spit?

    Morning all.
    Colch

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  167. Haha Spit... is that why you like working on the oil rigs?

    Agreed Blog, proof of the pudding etc.

    What crisis at Arsenal Spit... everything is fine.

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  168. OOps... first Spit should have been Col.

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  169. BojanglesOfOz said...
    What crisis at Arsenal Spit... everything is fine.
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    You sound like the Iraqi information minister during the Gulf War. "There are no American troups in Bagdad" as an american tank rolls past in the background

    Colch

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  170. Trying to be positive Col.

    It's a bit hard to see tanks rolling down the streets of Baghdad when you are sitting in a hotel room in Bali mate.

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  171. Colch ha ha I had the Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf t-shirt with those words on it ...there are no Americans in Baghdad ... the words only faded after 2 washes and left me with a t shirt bearing the image of a guy who looked like sadam hussein with specs ...Wenger should take his denial up a notch ... I did not see any 8 goals .. I did not see any relegation zone ... who knows what ze ostrich sees in ze sand etc etc

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  172. Bo - how's Bali and are you really Wayne bridge ?

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  173. Sir Alex Ferguson is considering leaving goalkeeper David de Gea out of Saturday evening's Premier League game at Bolton.
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    After trying to get special treatment for his GK, he's now considering leaving him out... more mind games from the wily scot.

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  174. Never been there mate... have no inclination to go either.... the wayne bridge inquiry threw me there... errr no?

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  175. Pity jacks left the blog (effectively) too soon the schadenfteudefest at arsenals slide

    I would be happy for Arsene to prove that jibe wrong. Arsenal are a well run, honest, economically sound, decent, well supported, good footballing, mid table side who like stoke deserve to do better heh heh heh

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  176. I'll give you my opinion of Stoke after I've been there Blog... we may yet feel what's it's like to be sitting mid table at the end of the season... doubt it though, more like somewhere between 4 and 7 more like.

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  177. I think Jack may have been the reason for Arsenal's slide... I caught him sending subliminal text messages to Wenger.

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  178. Former Manchester United defender John O'Shea has admitted that it was an easy decision to leave the club to join Sunderland.
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    Of course it was easy after being told his services were no longer required.

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  179. BojanglesOfOz said...
    Former Manchester United defender John O'Shea has admitted that it was an easy decision to leave the club to join Sunderland.
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    Of course it was easy after being told his services were no longer required.
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    Some players would've been happy to sit on the bench or in the stands and get paid plenty do do nothing. No names mentioned of course but Wayne Bridge springs to mind.

    Colch

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  180. Bridge never played for Un**ed Col

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  181. I haven't gone anywhere,just been a busy bunny.

    That and I've nothing to add about Ar***al.

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  182. I've also had the girls in the shop a lot over the summer hols,plus watching a fantastic Vuelta a Espana.

    Some sort of normality will resume,especially as Ar***al have a reasonable run of fixtures coming up to ease their relegation fears.

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  183. Good to see you Jack... what's new?

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  184. Not a lot Bo.

    Been a busy summer with one thing and another.

    I see you've got the Mighty Colchester today.

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  185. Should be an easy win for Col's team Jack.

    Luckily for Arsenal, the Swansea goalkeeper felt sorry for us.

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  186. Will that be good enough for AA to get his mojo back?

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  187. It won't be that easy Bo. I've backed Colchester to win in my accumulator so that almost guarantees a draw or defeat.

    Colch

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  188. You guys got a good link to a live stream for the match?

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  189. http://veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4e5aad3a2272d

    --BeeZee

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  190. might need you to install a plug-in if its the first time you are using Veetle,

    but its pretty shitty trying to find a link for matches ever since they took down myp2p.eu, that wiziwig.eu site is never running, guess they managed to shut them down too,

    -- BeeZee

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  191. phewwww,

    we survived Swansea, what times are upon us..

    --BeeZee

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