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don_quixote

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not as bad as liverpool fans bricking the ambulance as alan smith went to hospital with a broken leg in that fa cup match. that was an absolute disgrace.
 
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crackerjack

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don_quixote said:
not as bad as liverpool fans bricking the ambulance as alan smith went to hospital with a broken leg in that fa cup match. that was an absolute disgrace.
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was that the same game where some were chucking shit on the united fans in the stand below? a shameful day, that
 
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Newcastle Utd are really due some kind of award or perhaps a government grant - Services to Comedy, that kinda thing.
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Man City should present it to them, as previous holdres of the title "World's most unwittingly hilarious sports club"
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

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"Newcastle Utd are really due some kind of award or perhaps a government grant - Services to Comedy, that kinda thing."
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How can they top this though? The only thing I can think of is to appoint Gazza as manager.
 
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IdleRich said:
Joe Kinnear press conference
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the man is a LEGERND.

seriously though, great respect for his end-of-tether, past-caring rudeness. that's the kind of candour only a man whose had a heart attack can pull off.

glad to see warren barton and robbie earle have still got his back. it better not be alan kimble who sold him down the river.
 
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crackerjack

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This should be in the 'what are you currently enjoying' thread, but listening to Liverpool coming back from 2-down at City :D:D
 
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don_quixote

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fucking hell, barca were 3-0 up against athletico madrid in 9 minutes last night and 5-1 up in half an hour! it finished 6-1
 
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datura

white collar loafer
The Henry goal is well worth watching, brilliant football.

Liverpool are looking like they may actually be able to mount a lasting challenge this season, great comeback from them.

Thankfully Utd look like they are starting to click, Berbatov is adding another dimension up front. Such a natural footballer.
 
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Commentary in Russian. Natch....

Edit: Amazing, amazing goal
 
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datura

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great goal, reminded me a little of this one by van der vaart a few years back



you could probably try it 100 more times and it wouldn't come off again.
 
IdleRich

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Forever blowing (credit) bubbles

One thing after another for West Ham as their owner is one of the main stakeholders in the (soon to be nationalised) Landsbanki.
 
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crackerjack

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One thing after another for West Ham as their owner is one of the main stakeholders in the (soon to be nationalised) Landsbanki.
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I was thinking of mentioning that under your Iceland comments on the global crash thread, but was concerned about lowering the tone. It did leave me pondering, though, while I was just stood on the post office queue
a) how many football clubs are owned by billionaires who are in fdanger of downsizing to millionaires?
b) how many have massive overdrafts that are about to get very expensive?

At the other end of the table, where billionaires never tread, I hear Brighton have apparently revised their plans for the ground that took years of planning applications and ate up millions in legal fees. Seems they can no longer afford the 'green' roof which would blend neatly into the surrounding unspoilt* south downs. And they want a bit more retail space. So they may have to go back to the planning permission peeps. So they've extened their lease at the 7000-capacity Withdean by a few more years.:(:(:(


*unspoilt, except for the university, railway station and dual carriageway already running through it
 
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crackerjack

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I want it noted, if you check the timing, I beat him by one minute.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/oct/07/footballpolitics.premierleague

The Football Association chairman Lord Triesman today added English football to the list of industries facing mounting debts because of the global credit crisis. In a speech at the Leaders in Football conference, Triesman revealed the game was £3bn in the red and needed forceful action to prevent the problem getting worse.

"The best estimate I could get in the City yesterday was that debts in English football as a whole have probably edged to the £3,000m mark," said Triesman, before adding that in 2006-07 the Deloitte group identified over £950m of debt in the top four clubs alone, with wages growing at 12% a year.

He claimed that such "toxic debt" could cause massive damage to the game and called for a review of the fit and proper persons test in order to make football club ownership more transparent.

"Transparency lies in an unmarked grave," he said. "Nobody has real confidence in what they cannot see. The fit and proper persons test does not do the job sufficiently robustly. A review is now inevitable because football clubs are not mere commodities. They are the abiding passion of their supporters. We forget that at our peril."

However he would not be drawn on Thaksin Shinawatra's sale of Manchester City nor on the problems facing West Ham and their Icelandic owner Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, whose country's banking system is in peril.
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IdleRich

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a) how many football clubs are owned by billionaires who are in fdanger of downsizing to millionaires?
b) how many have massive overdrafts that are about to get very expensive?
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Yep, damn right. If Whateverhisnamisson's money is in Krone he lost a third of it yesterday.
 
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