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I don't know why , but looking at the inside of a pomegranite makes me feel physically sick. I hate the fuckers.

Have rarely seen Chelsea play with less energy than they showed today. I was amazed how leg-weary they looked. Hope they play Makalele on Wednesday , he looks glacially slow & bogs their whole game down. I'm sure they will raise their game for us , but think we must play relatively positively & look to score at least once.

Congrats to Dermot (#16) hope you got to the bookies.

Remember one from the 1978 ? world cup , with Sweden playing a 0-0 game get a free kick & Coleman shouts ' lets be honest this game has been poor , but things might get interesting now because the man crouched over the ball is Bendt'

I agree with Platini on this & to be fair the bluenose has been fairly witty in his summation , but lets be honest Tesco Value FC must have much more pressing worries than these pipedreams.

Lets be realistic , what were his options.? Madrid at the time had no interest in him football-wise - just his image-rights Couldn't see any top 4 club in England wanting him so, realistically its probably only Spurs ( team he supported as a boy ) & I'm sure he pondered long & hard over whether to take his family out on fabulous money to a fabulous climate where his wife will be in her element , or to spend weeks in the spare room while he builds up a rapport with Paul Stalteri .

I'll be honest , i've never really understood the bile on here aimed against Drogba. Admittedly he has been guilty of some pathetic swan dives , but lets be honest its endemic in the game & we have some guilty parties ourselves. Off the field I have never heard him call down an opponent & he is always generous in his comments about them whoever he plays against. Compared to some of the pus that Chelsea have bubbling , I would say that Drogba has always been one of their most 'acceptable' characters , along with Cech & Bridge. On the field he is a titan & I have never seen him come off without his shirt wringing , which is unusual for a foreign player in the Prem ( probably explains his love-in with Dirk ) I can usually understand & sympathise with why the various bogeymen are held as such on the forum , but I'm honestly at a loss to see what Drogba has ever done to upset us specifically (except terrorise us on the pitch , which is his job to be fair )

On the second link ( Newport ) at about the 3.30 mark , I remember being at that game. it was Liverpool v Bradford with that wanker Jeff Winter refereeing. He gave a pretty blatant penalty & Dean Windass fucking belted the ball into the side of his head. Being Jeff 'the character' Winter he shit out & gave Windass the benefit of the ( no ) doubt. Little was Jeff to know that we were already practising our appreciative applause for his final appearance by the Kop ( ahem !! )

I am a fairly calm person , but when people ( mainly women I'm afraid ) take fucking hours at the cashpoint , my blood boils. How difficult is it ? I can get cash and be away in literally 20 seconds. Mini-statements me arse !

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Do any forumites take much notice of the French League. I only ask as ( assuming no misprints in the Sunday Mirror ) 14 of the 16 teams playing last night didn't score There were 6 nil-nils & 2 two-nils. Is it a particularly negative league or an unusual week ? My first thought was that maybe Cisse hadn't done as bad as it seems & my second thought turned to the fixed-odds coupon.

Just be a bit careful price-wise rome 84 , its £5 / £2 for tickets bought before the day , but £10 / £5 at the gate according to the Echo

Is anybody as sad as me & look at the hilariously bad cartoon 'Scorer' in the Daily Mirror ?. Its only redeeming feature is Dave Storry's woman Ulrika who is definitely an 'I would '. How Dave , even on premiership wages , manages to pay the gas bill with the lack of clothes Ulrika wears is beyond me. i m afraid i can't do the technology to show any pictures but if anybody can , I'm sure you'd see where I was coming from ( ahem ! ) The general storylines are so stupid they are probably worth a thread of their own , including a recent medical breakthrough whereby gritty midfielder Paul Grazier was cured of alcoholism by Dave sending round 3 prostitutes to clean him up & sort him out.

was impressed by the West Ham taunting of Spurs this season over the Pizzagate game at the end of last season. ( to the tune of Volare ) Its got cheese , its got bits It gave Tottenham the shits Thats lasagne !! When it could have been Sky But you're on Channel 5 Thats lasagne !! The Derby County lad was called Francis , who ended up quite prolific around the lower leagues for the likes of Stockport . I was at the game and actually felt really sorry for him ( I usually like banter with a bit of edge , but the humour that night was fairly uncomfortable where I was - Kemlyn/Centenary)

Gratified to see the last 3 comments which appeared whilst I was composing

I am always amazed how ambivalent the comments regarding Sami are on this site ( and in general conversations with other reds ). I suspect this may be down to his quiet & self-effacing nature. I consider him to be our best signing of the past 10 years, and our best non-Scouse player of that era . Some of his massive displays , particularly in Europe , would definitely be in the top ten ( five ? ) personal performances over the Houllier /Rafa years. When adding this to his professionalism off the field ( I cannot remember a single adverse comment or episode reaching any facet of the media in all of his time with us ) particularly when unceremoniously stripped of the captaincy & also this season as he has been gradually sidelined by Daniel's brilliance. His arrival blew away the era of watching our defending through the fingers & laid the major foundation of our defensive stability over the Houllier/Rafa period. In response to the thread question , I would certainly keep Sami for another year as; 1) None of the younger lads seem ready to take over the mantle of 3rd central defender. 2) Alvaro is still an unknown quantity in the middle ( and seemed a little lightweight on occasions on Saturday when Adebayor and Baptista drifted to his side ) 3) We would be very lucky to get away with as few injuries to central defenders as this season 4) Defenders not capable of lacing Sami's boots like Upson are going for £8/9m and I feel our priorities lie elsewhere this summer. p.s. If anybody disses Sami , I am going to change my name to Hypia Boy & let rip with the dayglo strobe stuff

I thought Pennant's performance & attitude were good today & he made a significant contribution. What is the consensus , should the security staff at George Henry Lees be put on red alert under 'Operation Fivetimes arse ' ( see #18 )

Sorry Weeksie , have to disagree ; no taste and an annoying crunch. Totally agree about watercress though

Just had sweet & sour chicken for tea & have realised that water chestnuts must be the most irritating & pointless non-food in the world. They add the square-root of fuck all to any meal. Anybody think of anything blander / more annoying in a food sense ?

RedroseTints; If punching each other in the face or stamping on each others heads is 'part & parcel' , it certainly shouldn't be & to stick to the original thread question , it certainly isn't classy its pathetic

Take the point that there are lots of annoyances in football , but would also note that the sheer size of the sport tends to sensationalise the coverage as well. Fans appreciation - we've not done too badly recently with our ovations for Benfica etc. I can't imagine the rugby fan who got thumped by the Irish rugby player felt very appreciative. Thuggery - the England Rugby Union captain has recently been concussed by an off the ball cheap shot & missed 2 massive 6-nations games. Imagine that happening to Terry , the nationals would have the player executed. It always amazes me that football violence on the pitch is always massively exaggerated ( see the Arsenal / Chelsea handbags ) while extremely nasty RL or RU violence for instance is laughed off. To take the point further , did you see that the idiot playing for Barrow in the early rounds of the FA Cup , who punched his opponent ,recently received a jail sentence ( 6 months I think ). Whilst I hold no sympathy for him I cannot think of any comparable sentence in a rugby context when it happens literally every other game. is it therefore OK as long as you have a pint in the bar afterwards with your opponents. Football has its problems certainly , but whilst the likes of diving & cheating are annoying , placed against the drugs issues in say Cycling / Athletics / Baseball / American football , I feel most of football's ills are relatively parochial.

The Jam @ Deeside Leisure Centre ( 1980 ? ) - absolute chaos; The Piranhas were the main support , came on did 'Tom Hark' & got a decent response , tried a different song & got bottled. Eventually played 'Tom Hark' five times & then got off sharpish. The fighting started then between Scousers & Welsh and made any football violence I have seen look extremely tame . At this point Paul Weller's dad ( The Jam's manager ) appears & says there would be no show if the fighting doesn't stop . A bottle hits him directly between the eyes & voila the Jam appear ten seconds later The next 2 hours piss over any live gig I had seen before or since. On a slightly different tack , my first gig was Kraftwerk at the Empire in the mid 70's & amazingly looking back the place was only about 30% full & the stage hand told everyone to come down to fill up the front seats. The main thing I remember was the 'light show' which consisted of the guys' names on neon signs roughly 12 inches by 6 inches in front of each of their their feet.

When rugby union went professional a few years back , the clubs started doing medical checks on the players. Jeff Probyn , the England prop was asked how many units of alcohol he drank. He asked what 'units' were & when told to double his amount of pints , he said 44. The expert was amazed and asked how he managed to be an international sportsman after drinking that much in a week. Probyn's response ? ' no one said 'a week 'to me , I thought you meant in the clubhouse after a Saturday game.