Roiling football blather

[baboon2004]

yeah, was gonna say, torres seems worse than rosenthal, though rosenthal had time ot steady himself, whereas torres seemed to be off balance.

 

[IdleRich]

Nah, the Rosenthal one was way worse, he had time to take several touches and could have dribbled it into the net should he have so decided. Torres was off-balance and only had a split second to throw his foot at it.
Anyway, in other news, Hargreaves has scored tonight, maybe it's not such a bad transfer after all, has anyone seen the goal?

 

[IdleRich]

Well, split-second is being a bit generous to Torres but you get my point.

 

[IdleRich]

This is worse than both actually I think

 

[luka]

i had a fat mate from birmingham who had that rosenthal miss on vhs. he was a villa fan. evrytime you went round his place for a few beers the evening would always end with him watching this video repeatedly while howling ROSENTHAL YOU WAAAAANKER with a ferocious, feral glee and making vigourous 'wanker' hand signals at the television. it was like protestant bigots still gloating about the battle of the boyne.

 

[luka]

shamefully thats not true. i just made it up.

 

[e/y]

 

[crackerjack]

Lovely piece that.

 

[bandshell]

 

[baboon2004]

Last night was interesting....City get owned by old skool European royalty, Basel look like another 'smaller' team that could make a really big impact in the CL; United look ruthlessly exposed in Europe like it's 1996; Real look like potential winners....

And Tevez.

 

[bandshell]

 

[Slothrop]

They pay millions for him because he's a top striker, then complain when he goes on strike.

 

[baboon2004]

written really well, but so sad. and about a very british maleness that i'm so glad i haven't inherited from my own father's side of the family, i have to say.

 

[paolo]

I wouldn't complain if Chelsea signed Tevez in the next transfer window. Nando would probably be pissed off though

They pay millions for him because he's a top striker, then complain when he goes on strike.

Ba boom!

 

[e/y]

I really hate football sometimes.

 

[Phaedo]

Forest in turmoil, wondering what will happen next.

 

[Sectionfive]

Karen Murphy wins her case

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/04/premier-league-tv-coverage

 

[IdleRich]

I was just about to post this in the News of the World thread. Blow to Murdoch anyway.

 

[IdleRich]

Although reading it it looks as though it won't benefit pubs as such, merely individual fans.

 

[Sectionfive]

Faisal Islam was just saying pub fees completely underwrite the huge costs of bidding for tv. More on the Telegraph here