bennyboy said:
Jimster said:There is a bird at work with a Rickman-esque mug and great body. So for me he will kind of live on in a weird way.
This made me laugh so I indicated my casual approval. Nice.
It totally put me off my mid-afternoon stroke.
TAKE THAT SHIT TO THE-BRITS.COM
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bennyboy said:
Jimster said:There is a bird at work with a Rickman-esque mug and great body. So for me he will kind of live on in a weird way.
This made me laugh so I indicated my casual approval. Nice.
It totally put me off my mid-afternoon stroke.
Junior said:
Duderonomy said:
Senior said:
Hey *eo, good to hear, congrats on the local lady! How is your Spanish coming along? I'm guessing better than my German.
I wouldn't bet on it
Sorry, forgot it was Doc in Berlin and you were elsewhere. RE: taking that shit abroad, I just thought now - maybe it's the Tory government's fault? Are you happy in Cologne? Getting by with broken German and English whenever possible? I'm also curious if you feel this a long-term move for you as I've had no misgivings about leaving England and no desire to return. There's things I miss, but the cost of living, shit weather, and general aggressive air of the big cities is something I don't want to go back to.
Speak upon it!
Ha, it's amazing how much harder I find it to learn something when I can't take shortcuts and skip the boring bits....
Yeah I'm very happy to not be living under the latest Tory government, especially considering they're only getting started with the clusterfuck, It's an interesting question about long term plans; for all its appalling, unforgivable, faults, I love London to pieces and I'd be really sad if I thought there was no chance of me ever living there again.
The way the cost of living and house prices are, you probably won't ever be able to afford to live there again!
Just looked at an article on how privatised British Rail is subsidising European rail companys...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/18/foreign-state-owned-railway-british-train-companies-revenue_n_8003970.html
...then there's the utilies that used to be state owned and are also owned by foreign countries leeching profits. I really felt like I couldn't afford to live in the UK anymore. Well, not live and buy records and tequila.
While you might miss London, it feels like rest of the country tightened it's collective belt so that it can be business as usual in the capital (or shit hitting the fan there too?).
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/11/david-cameron-slams-his-o_n_8531208.html
and this guy's reaction is quite funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFR8IBdXdJE
PEP!
Srs doe, chickens are still innumerable as the Prem has been the rock that has scuppered many managerial egos. Fact is City are still far from fielding Messis, Suarezes and Neymars. Will be interesting to see if Pep can bring in bigger names. Otherwise, Pellegrini will be having the last laugh.
Srs doe, chickens are still innumerable as the Prem has been the rock that has scuppered many managerial egos. Fact is City are still far from fielding Messis, Suarezes and Neymars. Will be interesting to see if Pep can bring in bigger names. Otherwise, Pellegrini will be having the last laugh.
Jimster said:
PEP!
The pep puns doe.
HT Pep talk inspires Citeh comeback
Citeh have more Pep than under Pellers
Peppering over the cracks
Pep:si over Koke transfer rumour
Duderonomy said:
Jimster said:
PEP!
The pep puns doe.
HT Pep talk inspires Citeh comeback
Citeh have more Pep than under Pellers
Peppering over the cracks
Pep:si over Koke transfer rumour
Sheik Mansur dis-Pep-tic over Champions League group stage elimination
I can see the Metro headline now:
PEP-POSTEROUS! Last minute Sterling pen seals win
Any way you cut it, these are all better than the Klopp / Kop puns that keep whizzing by. There's a lot there to work with already, but maybe I'm just Klopp-timistic.
skel said:
The opposite of classy.
Ferran Soriano, just before Pellers arrived:
"We are not changing the culture of
the club. I know that Roberto Mancini complained about [Begiristain’s
predecessor] Brian Marwood but I saw them working together. The
difference in role between football director and the manager is that the
director of football has, and has to have, a long-term view.‘So
what we are asking him to do is build a squad, but also football
concepts, and a way of working that will last for the next 10 years. We
want to play good football, beautiful football. We want a good show. The manager has a shorter span. We are asking the manager to win this season, next season and every Sunday.I
have seen this working very well in Barcelona. The style of play will
run through the club but when it goes to the first team, the manager can
make as many changes as he wants. Normally what shouldn’t happen is
that he will make radical changes, such as playing lots of long balls
etc.We
are not telling the manager how to do his job, we are just providing for
the manager technically skilled players who are talented enough to play
this kind of beautiful football. He can then do that as he wants."
Soriano is clearly
preoccupied with stability and rightly so. His definition of the term is
interesting, though. During our interview, he talked of coaches working
in ‘cycles’ of three or four years and it is clear he feels one man
cannot reasonably be expected to be function well beyond two of these.
"Three years in football is a long
time. In football, teams have cycles and you can have managers who go
through several cycles and managers who go through one cycle. Obviously,
we want the next manager to stay for a number of years, but I think it
would not be wise to speculate. Maybe
a manager can do one or two cycles, but people get tired. Players need
another way, another excitement, and managers also want to move. It’s
normal.’
Soriano didn’t talk directly about
Pellegrini. That appointment is yet to be rubber-stamped. He admitted,
though, that his former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola will in all
likelihood head to England in years to come and it is clear he remains a
possible City manager of the future.
‘Pep is very young,’ reflected Soriano.
‘After Germany he probably will come to England to coach somewhere. Pep
and Txiki speak regularly, maybe weekly, so that would have been an easy
one. But we are now convinced that we will bring a manager who will be
what we are looking for.’
Pellers is probably the least surprised.
I have a number of acquaintances of similar vintage who follow Chelsea. That is to say, who recall dark days of the 70s and 80s.
To a man they pine for the days before the money came in. When a football day out had only a peripheral dependence on the result.
I went with such dude recently to the game vs West Brom. Pitiful atmosphere. Surrounded by arrivistes in tweed jackets, opining on tactical formations. Statistics and league table position were the focus. Lamentable shit.
I view all such specimens as fundamentally plastic, to varying degrees natch but essentially missing the vital point of following your team.
No doubt Chelsea are particularly prone to this, vis location and the manufactured provenance of the club since its inception in 1905, being based not on local verve and need but a means to filling an under-used athletics facility.
I also have no doubt that a chunk of Man City fans feel similarly, but I don't know them dudes.
And equally no doubt that us oldies' perspective increasingly diminishes with the inevitable decline in our demographic.
But excuse us for not buying into the current ethos. It's fake to me.
To a man they pine for the days before the money came in. When a football day out had only a peripheral dependence on the result.
I went with such dude recently to the game vs West Brom. Pitiful atmosphere. Surrounded by arrivistes in tweed jackets, opining on tactical formations. Statistics and league table position were the focus. Lamentable shit.
I view all such specimens as fundamentally plastic, to varying degrees natch but essentially missing the vital point of following your team.
No doubt Chelsea are particularly prone to this, vis location and the manufactured provenance of the club since its inception in 1905, being based not on local verve and need but a means to filling an under-used athletics facility.
I also have no doubt that a chunk of Man City fans feel similarly, but I don't know them dudes.
And equally no doubt that us oldies' perspective increasingly diminishes with the inevitable decline in our demographic.
But excuse us for not buying into the current ethos. It's fake to me.
I understand the price clubs pay is expectation - gone are the days
of nothing mattering after the final whistle and the players getting
mullered together in the clubhouse. You can still find that magic at a local ground in the lower echelons of the FA, but with the sponsorship money, it's very much an entertainment brand and the boards at all PL clubs are keen that the sponsors get return on dey investment.
And let's face it, the pecking order was based on money before. The thing that City are doing that's different is they have a global vision for their partner clubs and for City Football as a whole. The scale of what the hay-rabs want to achieve still seems hard to believe, but they are going to make it happen, regardless of how our myopic press want to spin it. The investment has been massive and the profits will arrive long-term. Regardless of what the Maine Road die-hards might miss, they can't deny the local investment alone has been worth it for the profile and economy of Manchester in general.
So it's no longer personal - but personally I don't mind the money at City. If it all goes T.U. with the price of oil, so be it. It was nice to see the likes of Aguero and dem turning out instead of Joey Barton. The alternative is more of the previous "Big" clubs elbowing Leicester and such away from the table. And f*ck knows, I've had enough of gloating, bandwagon Un*ted "Fans" over the last 25 years. Expectation is a small price to pay.
of nothing mattering after the final whistle and the players getting
mullered together in the clubhouse. You can still find that magic at a local ground in the lower echelons of the FA, but with the sponsorship money, it's very much an entertainment brand and the boards at all PL clubs are keen that the sponsors get return on dey investment.
And let's face it, the pecking order was based on money before. The thing that City are doing that's different is they have a global vision for their partner clubs and for City Football as a whole. The scale of what the hay-rabs want to achieve still seems hard to believe, but they are going to make it happen, regardless of how our myopic press want to spin it. The investment has been massive and the profits will arrive long-term. Regardless of what the Maine Road die-hards might miss, they can't deny the local investment alone has been worth it for the profile and economy of Manchester in general.
So it's no longer personal - but personally I don't mind the money at City. If it all goes T.U. with the price of oil, so be it. It was nice to see the likes of Aguero and dem turning out instead of Joey Barton. The alternative is more of the previous "Big" clubs elbowing Leicester and such away from the table. And f*ck knows, I've had enough of gloating, bandwagon Un*ted "Fans" over the last 25 years. Expectation is a small price to pay.
An admirable stab at glass half full there Jim but it's still fake.
talk of global vision GTFOOH etc
For the Arabs it's about diversifying their economy away from oil revenues.
For Ruski it's about having a western raison d'être that mitigates polonium risks.
All those who buy into this bs are welcome to go rub shoulders with their new found Korean and Chinese bredren and discuss #assists, pressing strategies and the like. The minute my club and match day experience turns out like that, I'm out.
At the West Brom game, Costa nastily fouled some Scandi hippy. I got to my feet and gave loads of 4 letter invective to send the cunt off. And I was in the Chelsea end. Old days I would have got pelters, if not a clump. At the Bridge, in 2016, not a murmer. Just some scared looks. Steward came over and asked me to mind the language.*
Used to be a football club there.
*next day, relating this to work dude, he said my rant came over loud and clear on a radio commentary via pitch-side mic, and commentator apologised to listeners. Real Football 1, Entertainment Industry 0.
talk of global vision GTFOOH etc
For the Arabs it's about diversifying their economy away from oil revenues.
For Ruski it's about having a western raison d'être that mitigates polonium risks.
All those who buy into this bs are welcome to go rub shoulders with their new found Korean and Chinese bredren and discuss #assists, pressing strategies and the like. The minute my club and match day experience turns out like that, I'm out.
At the West Brom game, Costa nastily fouled some Scandi hippy. I got to my feet and gave loads of 4 letter invective to send the cunt off. And I was in the Chelsea end. Old days I would have got pelters, if not a clump. At the Bridge, in 2016, not a murmer. Just some scared looks. Steward came over and asked me to mind the language.*
Used to be a football club there.
*next day, relating this to work dude, he said my rant came over loud and clear on a radio commentary via pitch-side mic, and commentator apologised to listeners. Real Football 1, Entertainment Industry 0.
Duderonomy said:
Junior said:
Duderonomy said:
Senior said:
Hey *eo, good to hear, congrats on the local lady! How is your Spanish coming along? I'm guessing better than my German.
I wouldn't bet on it
Sorry, forgot it was Doc in Berlin and you were elsewhere. RE: taking that shit abroad, I just thought now - maybe it's the Tory government's fault? Are you happy in Cologne? Getting by with broken German and English whenever possible? I'm also curious if you feel this a long-term move for you as I've had no misgivings about leaving England and no desire to return. There's things I miss, but the cost of living, shit weather, and general aggressive air of the big cities is something I don't want to go back to.
Speak upon it!
Ha, it's amazing how much harder I find it to learn something when I can't take shortcuts and skip the boring bits....
Yeah I'm very happy to not be living under the latest Tory government, especially considering they're only getting started with the clusterfuck, It's an interesting question about long term plans; for all its appalling, unforgivable, faults, I love London to pieces and I'd be really sad if I thought there was no chance of me ever living there again.
The way the cost of living and house prices are, you probably won't ever be able to afford to live there again!
Just looked at an article on how privatised British Rail is subsidising European rail companys...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/18/foreign-state-owned-railway-british-train-companies-revenue_n_8003970.html
...then there's the utilies that used to be state owned and are also owned by foreign countries leeching profits. I really felt like I couldn't afford to live in the UK anymore. Well, not live and buy records and tequila.
While you might miss London, it feels like rest of the country tightened it's collective belt so that it can be business as usual in the capital (or shit hitting the fan there too?).
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/11/david-cameron-slams-his-o_n_8531208.html
and this guy's reaction is quite funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFR8IBdXdJE
What with the current suggestions of the In/Out vote happening in June I may have the choice about staying abroad taken away from me anyway...Any thoughts on this? Quick wedding the most obvious option (what could possibly go wrong)?
Also paging Doc on this, where he is anyway?
Not directly related but, fuck a Pep. What an overrated sulky twat. Give me a Jose or Klopp any day of the week.
This made me laugh:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12139080/Businessman-forced-to-give-650k-house-to-Lithuanian-girlfriend-he-met-while-she-was-working-as-cleaner.html
"Miss Cerniauskaite - who is now a businesswoman and model ..."
For what? Hatchets?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12139080/Businessman-forced-to-give-650k-house-to-Lithuanian-girlfriend-he-met-while-she-was-working-as-cleaner.html
"Miss Cerniauskaite - who is now a businesswoman and model ..."
For what? Hatchets?
Jimster said:
This made me laugh:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12139080/Businessman-forced-to-give-650k-house-to-Lithuanian-girlfriend-he-met-while-she-was-working-as-cleaner.html
"Miss Cerniauskaite - who is now a businesswoman and model ..."
For what? Hatchets?
haha she may not be your typical supermodel but her Vorderman-like maths superpowers give her the edge over Kate Moss any day.
"I have already completed 4 professional photo shoots. The first one was studio based for an agency. 2nd shoot was for an fashion editorial on a country estate and the 3rd shoot was for portfolio development."
