

Talismanic
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Great thread title on GOT - What is improvement?
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/what-is-improvement.93500/page-2#post-5115504
We should get them a dictionary for Christmas!
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Was it just me or were the Sally Army band playing their "History" song before the game last night? Surely the club can't officially condone the playing of a song with the lyrics "We don't care what the redshite think"?
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I'm expecting an announcement about their new stadium in the next few days, something like "we're looking at several sites, exiting times ahead, etc,etc,etc.......
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They're due a win, but I just can't see it happening (I hope)
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Great Piece in the Sunderland Echo http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/football/sunderland-afc/i-was-star-struck-by-my-sunderland-team-mate-paul-stewart-but-i-m-even-more-in-awe-of-him-now-1-8269308
By David Preece
First of all, let me say that as shocking as these child sex abuse revelations are, they aren’t a total surprise. The potential extent of them are, but from the moment I set foot in the full-time game, there was always a shadow hanging over football for me. At the time, it was only rumour and hearsay, but when conversations turned to Crewe Alexandra, the dark insinuations were never far away. I just saw it as people making twisted jokes and unfounded accusations on the basis of the club’s emphasis on youth Then I spoke to a someone who had not begun his career at Crewe but had been transferred there in his early 20s and the anger with which he spoke of these ‘rumours’ said to me there must be some truth in them. But surely if they were true, something would have been done about it by now? That’s what I thought. Naively. That it has taken this long shows the just how heavy the burden has been carried by victims. Not that Crewe are the only club. Players around the country – like Stewy – are now coming forward. It was difficult to watch someone who I have always identified as a strong individual look so vulnerable. Watching Stewy repeatedly bare his soul in front of the television cameras drew a myriad of emotions from me. Sadness. Anger. Sympathy. Above all, what I felt was an overwhelming admiration for the man. A man I’d known in our time together at Sunderland as a genuinely funny guy who lit up the dressing room. As a 20-year-old I was in awe of Stewy. He had achieved things I was still dreaming of, and despite the slight star-struck anxiety I had when I was with him, I was drawn to him. Not that we got off on the best footing. In one of our first training sessions, I came sliding out at his feet to block his run. It was one of the perverse situations you miss as a keeper when you no longer play. The type of 50/50 challenge where your upper body collides with the ball and the forward’s legs in perfect synchronicity. The timing is like the perfect golf shot; minimal contact, maximum impact, leaving just enough pain for it to somehow feel satisfying. Both of us ending up entangled on the floor. The ball free somewhere, expelled by the force of the challenge. As I struggled back to my feet, I could feel resistance. I was being pulled back. Instinctively, and somewhat stupidly, I kicked out, catching Stewy somewhere around the throat. Have you ever had your life flash before your eyes? That moment in a movie when the camera does an extreme close-up, right into the eyes the victim of misfortune, just in time to catch the pupils dilating as the adrenaline shoots through their veins. That was me. Pure panic. As Stewy grabbed me, I waited for my punishment. Bobby Saxton attempted to defuse the mismatch from the sidelines – “Stewy! Leave it. It was an accident”. We all knew it hadn’t been but he seemed to value my life enough to step in. My mouth, still disconnected from my brain, offered some resistance. A final act of bravado. And it was an act. The rest of training and the journey back to Roker Park was a blur. Reality was setting in. I was heading back to the dressing room and I was going to have to face Stewy. At 20, apologising and admitting you were wrong in front the whole dressing room doesn’t enter the equation. Do that, and no matter what the real perception is, your ego takes over. Rather than saying “Look, I was wrong. I’m sorry,” and holding out your hand, you prepare for confrontation. Show weakness and you’re as good as dead anyway. Or that’s what you think. I walk in and scan the dressing room. Stewy’s sat with his head down, taking his socks off. Richard Ord sees me come. He looks over at Stewy. This is it. “Stewy, what about Preecy starting on you?” he says. Stewy hasn’t seen me yet. “Yeah, I know. Fair play to him.” Then he looks up and sees I’m in the room. At this point I don’t know what the hell’s going to happen. He gets up and makes a beeline for me. My breathing gets more shallow. Regret engulfs me. Stern-faced, he asks “What do you think you were doing?” I shrug my shoulders, the disconnect between my mouth and brain more notable now. His nose is six inches from mine and just as my whole body tenses, a smile breaks out over his face, confusing me. “Don’t do that again, Preecy. I thought you were going to kill me. I was really scared.” He was the one holding out his hand. He was the one forgiving me for my act of immature stupidity. He could have embarrassed me in front of everyone and after my behaviour, I’d have deserved it. But he didn’t. What he did was teach me a valuable lesson that I took forward from that day. I’ve fallen out with almost every player I’ve played with in my career but with rare exception, the first thing I’ve done as soon as I step off the training pitch was to apologise, whether I was at fault or not. Whatever ignorant crap the likes of Eric Bristow might spout, men like Paul Stewart aren’t wimps. He stepped away from the stereotype of what was expected of a “man” and showed me how to rise about ego, bravado and faux machismo. And what he is doing now is a far greater than any kind of physical retribution he could hand out. Paul Stewart’s bravery is in helping others come forward and deal with the demons they’ve held inside for so long. And that makes him more of a man than anyone I know.
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The reaction has started on GOT....
They'd never be ballsy enough to tackle Kopites in such a fashion of course
I think we need to develop a bit of a siege mentality now in all honesty, because the media are being outright overt in stacking the deck against us and trying to stir the pot
The entire point of this article is to cause dissension amongst the fan base
Why don't we use it as a call to arms instead?Or they could just set a Markah?
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Anyone seen this in the Guardian?
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/nov/16/ronald-koeman-everton-romelu-lukaku-liverpool
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Work Blue has been giving me an update on Stevie G's house being built in Formby
Apparently the local residents are fuming because all the lorrys etc have ruined the road. He's not offered to pay for the repairs.
But is Stevie having any cladding put on it?
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Good to see Wozniacki dumped that Celebrity Manc mouthbreather
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If they don't get top 4, they'll make the Valencia loan permanent out of the Lukaku money.
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L'Equippe saying Sakho want to stay and "seduce" Klopp!
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Isnt that dock still full of water and right next to the sewage works?
First club to literally send on the sub!
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We'll need to tread carefully.
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I actually think Williams will be great for Everton. He's their level and will improve them. He'll be solid enough for 2 or 3 seasons and probably not get injured much (although you have to think with his age combined with luck he must have had not to be injured) it won't be injury free. Just slightly disappointing for them when they thought they were going to out bid Chelsea for Koulibaly.....
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The sales of shite players who wouldn't have contributed.
We've improved our team and not spent anything.
Maybe he's just not that concerned about left back as we are.
But maybe he should be!
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Stones will go this week funding Kone from Sunderland and the fella who sounds like a cheese from Villa and also for the Everton delegation of Tony Bellew and Co to go over to Madrid to get James Rodriguez :D
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Stones will go this week funding Kone from Sunderland and the fella who sounds like a cheese from Villa.
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OK - which one of you started this on GOT? :ph34r:
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/do-we-over-estimate-the-lure-of-everton.90137/
So Arnautovic, a Stoke player is turning us down...
Stones/Lukaku want out
Almost every target we are linked with want nowt to do with us ie Witsel, Arnautovic, Mata, Jose, Emry etc
At what point do we realise that we just are not that relelvant anymore and no one of any significance wants to come near us !
We cant even get lads to leave Stoke FFS...
Players are going to nomark clubs ahead of us for the past few years
We seem to be seen as similar in draw to the Hulls of this world.
Is this really where we are at now
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Apparently Moshri has had a meeting with the fat corrupt lord Harkkonen, or Joe Anderson as he's known to his bluesh*te mates
Great meeting with Farhad. Still believe a new stadium in 2 yrs is achievable. #COYB pic.twitter.com/hmZmCZFx6s
— Joe Anderson (@joe4metromayor) July 19, 2016
2 Years!!!!
Have they already started work down the Kings Dock. Anyone noticed?
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...and then he said he'd win the Ballon D'Or is 2 years.....
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This is the worst deal the club has done, Carroll had an outstanding attribute with his ability in the air and Benteke had a 1 in 2 goal record.Mane is a poor striker who can do a job out wide, he's a very poor mans Bellamy and is very inconsistent.
If we are willing to have someone out wide who is shit for large parts of the season we should have let Ibe have a run of games to develop.I was laughing when Manu were linked with him last season and I hoped they would sign him as he is not good enough for a top club, embarrassing deal and we should have stumped up for Teixera.
After this, I'm all for Mané and think he will be a huge sucess
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I'm having great fun....
I've registered, I need a shower!
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There's not much between Allen and Alonso imo
WTF!? Do you mean alphabetically?
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James Milner is....
in FF - Football Forum
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James Milner is ..... This http://www.football365.com/news/millie-an-ode-to-liverpools-timeless-cup-of-tea