Gid
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Basically the English media kissed his ass coz he always gave them a good story. foreign media don't lap up his bullshit quite so much so he takes the huff.
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Keep the Europa League but stop 3rd place clubs from the Champions League from dropping into it after the group stages.
Only cheapens the competition as some sort of booby-prize.
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I'd rather lose a title under McCoist or Smith than win it under a manager like Lennon.
I can't even begin to exude how sincere that is.
Couldn't agree more mate.
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My knees are in some state with sliding on AstroTurf.
I was well known for my bloody knees when I played for RM.
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Best keeper I've ever seen and can't believe this discussion is even taking place.
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Scary that these are the idiots that run our game
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He'll never brush his teeth either the mhanky bastard.
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Oleg Kuznetzov - probably made the best debut I've ever seen at Ibrox vs St Mirren.
The was deliberately hatcheted by that St Johnstone twat and never really hit the heights I expected he would.
Didn't he just twist his knee on the plastic pitch at McDiarmid Park? If I remember correctly there was no tackle.
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Really don't think Real have only "recently" started to dive & feign injury. In every Classico I have watched over the past couple years, di Maria & Alves seem to be having a competition to get each other booked by diving, rolling about on the floor and then running to the ref with their imaginary yellow cards.
You say Barca's antics have caused Real to try combat this with likewise; could alternatively say Barca feign injury and pressure refs because they know they will get fouled a lot and want to exaggerate this and highlight this to the ref so as to ensure he acts upon it. If it was Barca's actions that caused Real to sink to their level answer this; when was the last time Real beat Barca when the only thing you could talk about in the game was the football being played not the antics of the players?
I also wouldn't accept Pepe to be guilty of some sort of more noble cheating in that it is only hard tackles, he also seems to love throwing himself to the ground and holding his face, while also being guilty of cynical and sometimes brutal attacks not hard tackles. The standing on Messi's hand, stamping on Villa's knee last year and before that did he not receive something close to a 10 game ban for laying boots into a player who was lying on the ground (not in a classico and can't remember the opposition). If Busquets never plays again, he can take Pepe with him!
Fact is the feigning injury & haranguing refs etc. is endemic of the Spanish game not simply Barca, it is even within their fans nature. Watching games here I see fans roaring and shouting at TVs for yellow and red cards when it is clear their player is at it, holding his face or whatever. And then when an opposition player does likewise it is greeted by mocking laughs and criticising the cheek of the player...basically it is OK for your team to do it but not the opposition. I know when I saw Lafferty's dive against Aberdeen, for example, I cringed and certainly not shouting for Mulgrew's red.
This may be heightened and exaggerated by the pressure and media attention given to El Classico but it is really widespread regardless. I love the technical ability displayed in Spanish football but hate the cynical side of it, although the more I see it the more numb to it I probably become and just sort of accept it as "normal" sad as it is to say that.
Playing physical and defending with your life is not the same as kicking everything in front of you. The sheer number of fouls committed by the likes of Carvalho, Pepe, Lass & Ramos make red cards inevitable despite JM's attempt to coerce refs in to not doing by claiming beforehand he expects his team to get a player sent off...maybe tell them to stop committing so many fouls?
The Inter game may have been the ultimate show of defence, but didn't JM previously critise teams going to the bridge and "parking the bus", much like Xavi criticises Barca's opposition for being defensive. Sticking with this game, it is often used to highlight Busquets play acting for Motta's red...rightly so; but there were numerous instances of Inter players doing likewise, Maicon slid in to an advertising board got up walked forward 5 yards to get back on the pitch and then collapsed so the game to waste time. Lucio on numerous instances gave the impression he was having some sort of fit rolling about in apparent pain only to recover when the medical team arrived but with a couple more minutes wasted.
JM also took last year to say Guardiola should be ashamed at never having won a clean UCL (citing refs influence at Stamford Bridge and El Classico semis), I take it he feels the same about Inter beating Barca with the help of an offside goal & a clear penalty denied in the 1st leg and the incorrect decision to rule out Barca's winning goal in the last minute of the second leg...without which he would not have won the UCL with Inter.
I have never tried to defend the unsavoury side to Barca's game, but find it quite tiresome that they are constantly vilified for such actions while many others do likewise and it somehow is not so much of an issue when they do it.
Fantastic post. Can't argue with a single word.
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Yes.. One with prescribed prices, or even a function to place the item for auction
.What a great business idea. We should give it a go and call it Eauction.com
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If only there was some sort of website where you could sell goods that you didn't want.
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They are a lending company, but they are trying to word it to make it looke like they are a low risk company which hasn't made an error in this saga.
If you sell future tickets to someone, which at that point in time are worthless and you receive money for it, they are giving you an advance. It is a loan being repaid by future ticket sales whether they want to admit it or not.
Correct. It's basically the same thing.
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Don't know where he is or care why but I know he'll be cracking one off tonight at the knowledge someone cared enough to start a thread about him.
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Over the last few years, mainly under Lawwells stewardship, Celtic have truly started acting like the lowest twisted little bigot element of their support. Tommy Burns must be turning in his grave. There was a man who had dignity, despite his misguided love of Celtic.
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Did this guy also happen to write the famous Al Pacino speech from Any Given Sunday?
Awesome
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I sit next to a Hearts fan at work who today said Templeton "blows hot n cold" and "flatters to deceive".
Said he wouldn't be gutted to see him go.
Make of that what Yu will.
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I should have been a gambler - predicted Jellyfish wouldn't be available before this announcement (a sickness bug in the family? aye right) - I also predicted elsewhere (Off-Topic) that Murray would choke.
He did.
Even Judy Murray could have predicted he would choke FFS. Doesn't exactly make you Nostradamos!
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Question for the older bears.
When I was a kid and started watching Rangers, Bett was an Aberdeen player n there always seemed to be a real hatred towards him from our support.
What was the reason for this or was it just because he was with the sheep?
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That is his modus operandi for every single one of his blogs.
He steadfastly refuses to even acknowledge the fact that some if not all of it could have a basis in fact.
He sees nothing wrong with the BBC
He sees nothing wrong with our media
He sees nothing wrong with Liewell
He sees nothing wrong with Brady, FARE, Spiers et al
All you ever get is fault and blame at our door and how we should change, adapt or apologise.
I think it says all you need to know about BP that, although he has posted in this thread after this Adoniram post was made, he has chosen to ignore it.
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I love it when they do this.
Makes it all the more sweeter when we lift the trophy.
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I think the pressure is starting to get to Mancini.
City's last nine competitive games have produced 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats, while their next opponents, Tottenham Hotspur, come into the game on a nine match unbeaten run (6 wins, 3 draws).
While it would be foolish to say that the wheels have come off City, there are certainly signs that a few of the nuts are loose and they are showing definite signs of a wobble.
Spurs last 9 results (Spurs score first):
Wolves (H) 1-1 4 home games in a row!
Everton (H) 2-0
Cheltenham (H) 3-0
West Brom (H) 1-0
Swansea (A) 1-1
Norwich (A) 2-0
Chelsea (H) 1-1
Sunderland (H) 1-0 pre-Martin O'Neil
Shamrock (H) 4-0
Apart from the home draw against a stuttering Chelsea, they've hardly faced the top teams in the league.
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Can someone please explain the difference between Mancini waving an imaginary card and any other manager (Fergie, Wenger - two of the biggest culprits) screaming at the ref/4th official to send a player off?
I don't disagree that he was being a hypocrite btw.
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A pre-injury Michael Mols. Just the creative spark we need upfront.
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To be fair, something has been made of the free kick because St Johnstone decided to moan about it.
Pathetic from St Johnstone.
The old "It's no fair. We wurnae ready" excuse.
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Scum v Hearts
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This is truly dire. Where's all this Barca-esque football from Celtic that we're always hearing about?