Lestat

5 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Saw a cracking rainbow today. You could see it hitting the ground both sides, with a hint of a double rainbow over top. A little reminder that nature can still dazzle.

This one? It was indeed a cracker!

10 hours ago, dave u said:

 

Yeah he was trending on twitter, as was Libertadores. Weird.

Fluminense won the Carioca (Rio State Champions) this season but that was back in April. Don't think they've won anything else?

The Libertadores final isn't until 4th Nov (Fluminense x Boca). The BBC have shown the final in the past so hopefully we'll all get a chance to declare André the messiah or just a naughty boy based on one game.

10 minutes ago, Jennings said:

If Webb wants to suspend someone, then the person responsible is the on-pitch referee. The others are just assistants.

 

Now we have seen how Webb runs his ship, he needs to go. It is unacceptable. There is no trust anymore. 

 

No-one can be asked to respect that.

This is the only satisfactory outcome for me. If anyone's going to lose their job it has to be the man at the very top. Cheerio Howard!

5 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

So has Andre played a full season nearly then, he'd be joining right at the start of ours if we buy him now?

The Brazilian league usually runs from April to December. They're just about halfway through. 

Time wasting is a misnomer. It's the breaking up of play and disruption of attacking momentum that needs to be addressed and adding an extra 10 minutes at the end of the game won't stop it. Players need to be booked for it straight away and not in the 87th minute when the damage has already been done.

Great report as always, well worth the subscription (plug plug).

Agree with the description of Gakpo's style. "The Authority" has got a nice ring to it...

I'm also nearing the end of a 22 year wait for a ST. I've reached the heady heights of position 1,277!

The thing is, since I joined the list I've got married and have got two kids now (both boys, both well into their footy). We're all members and have started to build up our credits from scratch over the last couple of years (we lived abroad for a short while). The boys are obviously desperate to get to as many games as possible and we won't want to lose the loyalty they've built up, however, I don't know how this will work once I get my hands on a season ticket.

Anyone else in a similar position - STH but have kids who are members?
Is there a way we can all go together still, for example to the odd league game they get tickets for?
I presume the ACS will be the only way we can guarantee it?

Smaller, heavier ball promoting close control and technical skills.

We lived in Brazil for 3 years and both my boys (4 & 8 at the time) played futsal at school. Very fast paced to the point that the boys now seem to have loads of time on the ball back in the UK. Not sure about the agricultural language, it was all Portuguese to me!

8 hours ago, Tony Moanero said:

 

Flamengo away? Nice.

I'm working in Brazil currently and can confirm he's not rated highly by a lot of people here. I have made it my mission to spread the Gospel according to St Bobby at every possible opportunity.

I think it's a combination of only spending one season in Brazil at an unfashionable club (Figueirense), before moving to Hoffenheim - hardly well known when the kids here are only interested in the likes of Barca, Real, Bayern or PSG. He's not seen as a skillful player like Neymar or Coutinho, or a goalscorer like Jesus.

Jo, on the other hand, experienced a bit of a renaissance last season, scoring in the big games that took Corinthians to the title. Whether it's coincidence or not, I've found it's the Corinthian fans that have been the most sceptical about Firmino.

Disappointingly couldn't find a specific thread for Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish, so here we are.

Sent shivers down my spine...

Gotta be honest I'm getting a bit tired with these Marvel crash bang wallop CGI driven movies....In the last one they destroyed a city beating the baddies and again in this one by the looks they're flattening a city again....Wouldn't it just be easier and less costly to let the bad guys win?

Which is loosely where the Captain America: Civil War storyline is derived from - governments fed up of clearing up after their mess introduce registration scheme...

Apparently he injured some lad who hasn't played since. Can't remember it myself as that game has been erased from my memory.

"The tie continued its ferocious start when Raheem Sterling scythed down M'Changama and Simpson followed in on Reds keeper Jones after he spilled a shot."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21106938

She'll be the bike at Christmas.

Fixed that for you...

The Lost Boys - 7/10

On the telly last night. Excellent, cheesy 80's entertainment that brought back many, many memories. The closing scene still makes me smile! I'm sure I've got the soundtrack in the loft somewhere on a C90...

Ah, I see, cheers. As simple as that eh? Health and safety gone mad.... ;)  

Can anyone tell me the significance of the ski goggles please???

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/10/31/1383198983624/6776eab9-f1ed-41db-8b75-b8b989c9612c-620x372.jpeg

Can this revenue stream created by LCC be used to keep my lads LCC run Nursery open please? Thanks Joe, good lad...

Steven Gerrard claims Luis Suarez is being victimised by referees - who think he's a diver.

 

Gerrard believes Suarez was denied a spot-kick by Mark Halsey when challenged by Manchester United's Jonny Evans in Sunday's 2-1 loss because of his reputation for going down easily.

 

The Reds skipper insists this is wrong, and wants officials to judge Suarez on the action in front of them, rather than his reputation.

 

"I think even when Luis gets blatant penalties now, he's never going to get them," he said. "It's down to referees to not judge him. They have got to make their decisions based on what they see.

 

From my seat on the Kop I thought that Evans had won the ball and that Scholes had cleaned out Sterling - looks like the complete opposite happened but it takes multiple viewings to come to a confident conclusion.

Main thing that gets me though is why wasn't a free kick given against Lindegaard for handling the back pass? Seems pretty clear now but was probably lost amongst the penalty appeals at the time.

Who is Paul Dempsey? Never heard of him. Is he Clint's brother?

I share your bemusement at the vitriol directed at him. He took our job as it was an honour and step up, but he couldn't handle the non-footballing side of things. If he had not taken the job when he did, Kenny might never have become manager and offered us the healing which the club so badly needed. The circumstances when KK did end up taing over were very different to those Hodgson inherited.

Eh? This implies he could handle the football side of things, which he patently couldn't. He was a bumbling, embarrassing fool off the pitch but it was the way that he sent his teams out to "play" and refusal to recognise how that alienated the fans that did it for me. Blert.

I'm not struggling to find shite centre halves, all of the above were bargain basement signings with no little or no expectations, hardly massive wastes of money. With the exception of Pelligrino nobody on here would ever had heard of any of them before we signed them.

Point taken - still stand by Torben though. Had "starred" for Denmark in the Euro's but fuck me he was awful.

Paul Stewart has to be in there somewhere.

Struggling for Centre Halves??? Kvarme, Piechnik, Pelligrini, Tanner, that young Argentinian Rafa signed...