So I was watching Liverpool at home instead of at the pub with the Philadelphia Scouse Contingent (of which Footie Geeza is a proud member / leader in debauchery) and holy shit I was bored. First half there was one real gasping chance that Crouchinho had bouncing off the crossbar. Then we were bored for another 35 minutes further until Fernando Torres (El Nino, la) scored. It was a nice goal (not on youtube yet) then 4 minutes later. There was a WELL dodgy penalty that shouldn't have been awarded but Steven Gerrard proved his worth by converting. So there you go a 2-0 win that probably should have been 1-0 but even that isn't a fair enough scoreline for how well Fulham were defending all match (until the last 10 minutes which is pretty much their "thing" now).
Ok now onto the important things. The glasses really do make Lawrie Sanchez not look like an idiot.
Before After
hmm...
Actually in that last picture he looks a bit... hr I dunno.
He's a complete fruitcake, that bloke, isn't he? We've got to be careful with him, he's after the old crazy mantle and he's going to win it hands down.
You'd better ask Superman what he thinks about it, someone impersonating him playing for Man City.
I, like Pies, love Ollie and he's 100% Ireland is a fucking fruitcake. He's steppin in for Sir Joey of Barton. Only with more dead Nans.
Jose Mourinho has been involved in a playground spat with a 12-year-old boy. The former Chelsea boss was not so special when he was forced to write a formal apology to one of his daughter's classmates after pulling the child's hair.
I also think Jose is fucking Legend and can not wait for him to come back to England and manage some team with money. The unintentional hilarity will last for ages.
oh another note, I started tracking traffic into this site (so there are 30 of you not 2--wooooo) and someone came in through searching google for "fucking old birds". classic. Sorry to disappoint. I'm only 26.
Pele has called on world governing body FIFA to ban defending teams setting up walls after conceding free-kicks close to the box.
Basically he doesn't think it's fair that you can pull down a striker right outside the penalty box when he's about to score and then get to put 10 people behind the ball to keep him from scoring. I admit that he has more of a point than that on his head. However, giving basically long range penalty kicks will result in every Mediterranean and Steven Gerrard falling down all they can.
Besides aren't goals like this all the more exciting because of a wall?
apologies for the video phone doesn't seem like there's any proper shots on youtube.
woo all 2 of my readers can celebrate with this new classic quote via Who Ate All The Pies.
Staff at Old Trafford have told the pacy Portuguese to cut back on his intake of pies before he begins to put on weight. Ronaldo said: "I dated a girl from Manchester and she showed me that steak pies and chips are very good. But I have to be careful. the club do not want me to eat too much of this food as it would not be good for my game. They have told me they do not want me gaining any extra weight."
I could not stop laughing at this.
Northerners will always lead you astray a fact to which yours truly can attest.
To be honest, I was supposed to do that celebration with him. We both bought the same pants at the same time!
However, I was not playing so I could not join him - and I am quite pleased now because otherwise I would have got the same stick.
Well then. I can just picture them in the Asda by Eastlands buying their undies together and talking about how fantastic it will be when one of them scores a goal to flash the world their knickers.
Liverpool set a Champions League record last night with an 8-0 victory over Besiktas, the most resounding in the competition in its revised format. They may still require victories in their final two group games to reach the last 16, but an emphatic triumph, the club’s biggest in any competition since 1989 and best in Europe for 27 years, has given their campaign a spectacular, if overdue, kick-start.
Kuyt will still start on Saturday because Rafa is a stubborn bastard. I mean he's right in a way--Crouch is rubbish, but he's on form. Even those 10 minutes he gets to play at the end of the match esin the league he's really looking stellar. BUT HE'S RUBBISH omg it makes my head spin.
VALENCIA, November 6 (Champions League) - Ronald Koeman's Valencia career got off to a dismal start on Tuesday after visiting Rosenborg stunned his new charges in their Champions League Group B clash at the Mestalla.
HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN???? Rosenborg who finished 5th in the Tippeligaen (and my beloved IK Start were relegated), and they beat Valencia twice?!?!? Will Rosenborg benefit next year from the Liverpool rule?? If Porto could win so could Rosenborg haha.
They're being raided by all the big sides of their players after beating big clubs so it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Boring match last night save for this strange goal celebration:
I've got the match on tape and Setanta kept showing it from all angles, but I have no way to get the tape onto youtube, because I'm old school like that. At least the FA isn't going to fine him.
The excellent Chris (the reason I've not thrown the towel in on this blog yet) posted a fantastic analysis of which countries have the stadia infrastructure to host the World Cup in 2018.
It's really informative and basically highlights what England needs to do to get the bid. And why China and the US are prolly set.
Personally, I'm pulling for the US or England so that I can go easily. Travel around the US will be expensive (unless your FB learns to drive in the next 11 years, which is not likely). Travel TO England will be expensive but once I'm there it'll be relatively cheap to travel around.
What a fantastic thing for them to do! It's a acknowlegement of their shit form as well as a fact that they are a damn CLUB not a business. While their players aren't getting John Terry money, they will not be put out by sponsoring a bus from Reading to Manchester. It's a shame that the fans will still have to pay out of control prices at Eastlands.
Last year some clubs (in the North but not City) decided to lower ticket prices with the increased television revenue. Those clubs (with the exception of Blackburn) are not doing super well this year but at least the fans know that they are not being gouged for the privillege of seeing shitty football.
Ian Wright, the former footballer and television presenter, has been accused of calling an African traffic warden a "monkey".
He is also alleged to have told the man to "**** off back to his own country" in a dispute over a parking ticket.
Wright denies all the warden's claims, which followed the row outside his home in St John's Wood, North London.
Ian Wright confronts the traffic warden
"He's a liar," he said.
"He called me a white man who lives in a white man's road.
"I said to him, 'I'm sure your parents are happy that you've come to England and been a traffic warden instead of a lawyer or something'."
Ian Wright is an asshole, I believe he would have called an African guy a Monkey. Simply because he is too stupid to come up with his own insult. That "white man in a white man's road" comment sounds so fucking made up. It sounds like something Wrighty said white footballers said to him in the 90s. I really do believe that Ian Wright would have done this. I have no respect for the man.
So it's November and I am going to try to NaBloPoMo this month. That's write a post every day in November in the hopes that it will start a habit and this blog will turn out to be something. I love football and talk about it 24/7 srsly, but I can never get my ass together enough to actually update this blog.
First off, the Scotsman wins for the headline to this article:
THE draw for the semi-final of the CIS Insurance Cup has descended into farce after it emerged that one of Scotland's most senior politicians apparently messed it up.
Hearts were initially told they would be facing Dundee United after First Minister Alex Salmond performed the draw live on BBC television.
But within hours it emerged that his colleague, the Scottish Parliament's Presiding Officer Alex Fergusson, had matched up the wrong teams with the balls which Salmond pulled out.
Hearts were then told they would be playing Rangers instead.
Hearts just beat Celtic 2-0 yesterday and then get told they've got to plan fucking Rangers after thinking they've had a (relative) cakewalk. I'd be fucking PISSED OFF too. Rangers are on fire this year. How a member of Scottish Parliament can fuck up 4 balls numbered 1-4 is beyond me.
Actually, it's not beyond me but I thought I'd be nice to the Scots for my first post "back". Don't expect another kind word about Rangers tho.
I love that even though City were a much better team in the late 60's early 70's than Manchester United
they were still trailing most of the match and are happy with a draw at home.
This guy jungneil on youtube has a TON of classic city stuff. That the premierleague doesn't have the rights to lladdy laddy laaaa (but the FA does so who knows if they'll order it down)
“I wish to explain the circumstances surrounding my departure from the Republic of Ireland international squad following the Euro 2008 qualifier against Slovakia in Bratislava last Saturday."
Basically it's: my grandmom died. oh, she's not dead? I meant the other one. Oh, she's alive too? it was my lying manipulative girlfriend. she had a miscarriage. sry.
It reminds you that so many of these people are basically kids with more money than sense. And thickos too.
Second half, Emile Heskey is in the box by himself with a great chance to set up something fantastic. Sends the ball via a cheeky back heal to--a russian defender. English kid two stools down from me "Aww bless. He does try though"
Second half again, some mystery black guy scores for England making it three - nil. Everyone including myself and the aforementioned English kid get up and cheer. Camera zooms in on mystery black guy's face. English kid and me: "OH FUCK". Then we look at each other and give high fives. The goal scorer? Rio fucking Ferdinand. English kid: "Well at least we'll get another series of Rio's world cup wind ups"
Ireland lost and there was some WELL DODGY sending off. Noirn lost on an own goal. SCOTLAND BEAT THE CHEESE EATING SURRENDER MONKEYS Norway drew. My 2nd favorite Norwegian scored the equalising goal (well early in the 1st half mind) of his rocket of a left foot.
former Liverpool star/ worst Man City Manager since Allan Ball (also worst English Manager since the beginning of time) teaches us how to cross the road
grandmom died. oh, she's not dead? I meant the other one. Oh, she's
alive too? it was my lying manipulative girlfriend. she had a
miscarriage. sry.
It reminds you that so many of these people are basically kids with more money than sense. And thickos too.