tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83998350066795096932024-02-08T05:54:45.989+00:00When it all falls through...Mainly moaning about BBC Radio Five Live.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-10692842834490045302016-07-21T13:41:00.001+01:002016-07-21T14:52:26.369+01:00How much does a Rolex cost?Rolex watches vary greatly in price, but you will be lucky to find one less than about $5000 (£4000) for a basic steel Submariner model.<br />
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Rolex make a phenomenal amount of different models and specifications and the price can go up dramatically depending upon the specification. For example a Submariner in 18 Karat gold with diamonds can easily cost as much as $20,000 (£18,000).<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-90514508615744737752015-02-01T19:11:00.000+00:002015-02-01T19:11:17.967+00:00Psycho is no longer our leader...Oh dear. <br />
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I suppose it was inevitable, what with the appalling form, the loses, the abject results etc. But it's still a sad day.<br />
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Psycho is no longer our leader.<br />
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It looks like losing 0-1 to Millwall was the final straw. To be honest I was that confident in Nottingham Forest's current form that I put £2 on Millwall winning 0-3 so I can't say it was a surprise. <br />
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Even so, I really wanted it work, and I was happy for Pearce to be given until at least the end of the season, but clearly something is just not working. He has a good squad, and he has brought in some excellent signings, so maybe we could make him director of football or head of player recruitment? It would be nice to keep him involved in the club in some way.<br />
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So goodbye Stuart Pearce. Just because it didn't work out for you as the Nottingham Forest manager doesn't mean we still don't love you, because we do. You tried your best and it didn't work out. No big deal.<br />
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Now lets try to get Martin O'Neil involved to sort things out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-91118638273831895582015-01-06T21:07:00.002+00:002015-01-08T00:37:41.434+00:00Dear Fawaz, please don't sack Stuart Pearce!<span style="font-size: large;">Psycho is our leader! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Psycho is our leader! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">La la la la!
La la la la! </span><br />
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Nottingham Forest's season started so well. Well, sort of. At least we were winning, even if the performances were a bit dodgy. But now we are in full relegation form, with only 2 wins in 19 games. Then last Saturday came the inevitable FA cup defeat to Rochdale. The next two matches see Sheffield Wednesday at home, followed by (gulp) D*rby away. Lose both of those and any chairman in the country would not be up to the job if they were not at least <a href="http://www.nottinghampost.com/Stuart-Pearce-face-questions-Nottingham-Forest-s/story-25801588-detail/story.html" target="_blank">considering changing the manager</a>.<br />
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But wait!<br />
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This is PSYCHO! </h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PSYCHO IS OUR LEADER! </span><br />
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It is essential that Pearce is given all the time that is practically possible to rebuild the club from the shambles it has recently been. This means that anything barring relegation should be tolerated this season, and any improvement at all accepted next season.<br />
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Injuries have not helped. Hobbs, Reid and Cohen all going down against D*rby wrecked this season; they were the spine of the team, simple as that. It doesn't help that form seems to have deserted other quality players such as Lansbury, and that the defence seems leaderless.<br />
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Lets face it the club has been a basket case for years. Fawaz seems like a good man and is doing his best to sort us out financially, and I think the best option is to give somebody like Pearce, who lives and breathes football and Forest, all the time it takes to rebuild.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-55814956518737904422014-12-14T15:39:00.002+00:002014-12-15T13:05:45.441+00:00Louis van Gaal is a jammy bastardI thought Alex Ferguson was a lucky fucker, but this Louis van Gaal <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jul/10/louis-van-gaal-lucky-manchester-united">takes the biscuit</a>.<br />
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Take today's match against Liverpool: Liverpool could have scored six, but Man U kept a clean sheet and won 3-0. Jammy. Mind you Liverpool are useless.<br />
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Man U have now won six games on the trot, but looked pretty shit in all of them.
The jammy bastard is going to win the league isn't he?<br />
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As for Brendan Rodgers, if Liverpool want a manager who picks no forwards against their most bitter rivals, and drops all their best players for their most glamorous European match of the season, then it's about time they gave Gary Megson a chance to work his anti-magic in the Anfield dugout. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-17326283097612950952014-12-04T18:19:00.001+00:002015-01-10T20:07:27.983+00:00Robbie Savage's Hair<div style="display: inline-block;">
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By Christ what the fucking fuck is going on with <a href="http://whenitallfallsthrough.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/fucking-robbie-savage.html" target="_blank">Robbie Savage</a>'s hair on BT Sport?<br />
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When he had his preening highlighted long locks, I thought he had a shocker of a haircut, but one that matched the utter bell-endery of his personality. But by cutting some off and building up that ridiculous quiff, Robbie has somehow managed to make himself look like even more of a prick than he did before, which is quite an achievement. <br />
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It's not often anyone goes to the barbers with a picture of Mark Kermode, but Robbie did.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'll have a Kermode special please barber, no I wont be needing any prophylactics thanks.</td></tr>
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You've got to take your hat of to him. Please, give him a hat.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-51404995632197508792014-11-26T22:49:00.003+00:002015-01-08T00:42:44.199+00:00England's one day team is the worst in the World, and will not get any better in the foreseable future<div style="display: inline-block;">
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ARGGGGHHHHHH!
<a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v-england-2014-15/engine/match/750663.html">England have just lost to Sri Lanka</a> in one day cricket. </h1>
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Nothing unusual about that, you might say. And you would be correct, because England are <b>absolutely terrible at one day cricket</b>.
However, England have some very talented one day players, so why are they so utterly shite?<br />
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Here is why: it is not the players, it is the selectors and management, who for the past 3 years under Flower, Giles and now Moores, have picked a team on these two overriding principles: <br />
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<b>Pick the batsmen based on their ability to bowl</b><b>
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<b>Pick the bowlers based on their ability to bat</b></h3>
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This has meant that increasingly, England are turning up to one day matches with only three or even two specialist bowlers.<br />
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This is madness. No, its worse, it's stupidity.<br />
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You have to bowl 50 overs! Making up 30 of them in bits and pieces bowlers is just stupid! Why has nobody in the press noticed this?<br />
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So today we have bowling in one of the specialist slots Ben Stokes, a promising and talented cricketer who should be NOWHERE NEAR the one day side at this stage of his career, because he is in the class: "can't bat, can't bowl" (because of form, not talent). He bowled poor to average, and batted like a rookie (which he is) and everybody knew he was about to get out 5 balls before he did. He looked like a walking wicket. Rubbish.<br />
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Then we have Chris Woakes. Again a fine, talented cricketer WHO IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO PLAY FOR ENGLAND either as a batsman or a bowler, so obviously they keep picking him as him can do both disciplines to a "not quite good enough" standard.<br />
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The bowling is completed with poor old Tredders, who keeps getting dropped after playing well, and Gurney who is a tyro and may or may not turn out to be a good bowler at this level, but asking him to carry the attack at this stage of his career is ridiculous.<br />
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So, there's 4 bowlers, two of which are not <i>really </i>bowlers. But where is bowler no. 5? Well obviously the fifth bowler's innings don't count as real innings to Englands mentalist management, because there isn't one. Rooty can twirl a few, Moeen will trundle in a bit, Ravi can have a bash. We'll sort it out somehow.<br />
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So onto the batsmen. Or as I know them now: the shit batsmen.<br />
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Moeen is a player I really admire, and he played a blinder today, however dropping Hales at the top of the order for him "because he can bowl a bit" is lunacy. Play him by all means, BUT PLAY HALES TOO. Why is Cook still playing in one day cricket? He is simply not an effective one day player. Again I genuinely admire the man, but he should be nowhere near the one day team in any sane world, he's a fucking clogger at best, he has 2 shots, WHY IS HE THERE? Tactically he's a shit captain too, so that is no excuse.<br />
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Oh here comes Bell, in at three. Oh there he goes again, out after not making much impact. This has been Bell's one day career for 5 fucking years. WHY IS HE STILL IN THE TEAM? He is an excellent test player, no doubt, but he is SHIT at one day cricket.<br />
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No problem. Rooty is coming in now. Oh he's out. At least he bowled some overs and did nothing. Root will become a great player, but he should not be picked for all forms of cricket on this basis. I do think he actually deserves a place in the team, but the fact he can bowl a bit should not KEEP him in the team if he keeps failing. <br />
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Morgan is a fantastic player, but he is horrifically, heroically out of nick. Not his fault, he will be back. Give him time, at least he has proven he can do it at this level.<br />
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Buttler will come good. He simply can't win the game on his own everytime. <br />
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Finally in the "batsmen", here comes Ravi. Bowls a few dobblers, uses up some overs, and now he comes in his role of the "not quite finishing the job off" man. Does well, doesn't support the tail properly, and ultimately fails. Again. Despite never qwuite getting over the line, I still quite like Ravi a lot, and do think he should be no. 7, even though the management decided he shouldn't be in the team last summer when he was in cracking form, the fucknuts.<br />
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For fucks sake England, this team is shit.<br />
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Start picking proper players. Pick the best batsmen, and pick the best bowlers. Stop picking people on reputation (particularly players who's reputation in this form of the game is AWFUL), and<b> STOP PICKING BATSMAN BECAUSE THEY CAN BOWL A BIT, OR BOWLERS BECAUSE THEY CAN BAT A BIT.</b><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-5060633362727873062014-05-27T13:37:00.000+01:002014-06-01T22:33:16.378+01:00UKIP - the Katie Hopkins of political parties<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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A new poncey bar has opened near me in one of the rich suburban towns that
however on the edge of my city. No surprise there; at least 5 other poncey bars
have opened there in the past few years, all exactly the same and all catering
for the exact same market: 30 somethings with spare cash and a wish to spend
their evening somewhere "Nice".<br />
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This one is different however, because its been done up like an Edwardian
house, and the staff are dressed as "servants" in full Downtown Abbey
(yawn) gear. This produces a frankly creepy atmosphere of domestic servitude,
misery, drudgery and of course privilege for the few that is very much
"not my cup of tea", but it did get me thinking that since this area
loves UKIP so much, why not start up a nazi themed bar, much in the style of
the Edwardian bar, but where these UKIPers can really enjoy the jackboot of
oppression, just like back in old Adolf's day? They could do it up like a Munich
beer hall, make everybody wear brown shirts and ban Jews and Gypsies. I'm
pretty sure it would go down a storm, what with this country's new found love
of far right ideology. <br />
<br />
How do we stop the raise of UKIP? Well <b>UKIP are essentially Katie Hopkins
in political party form</b>, but nobody has noticed yet. This is good news,
since Katie Hopkins is universally reviled. How did Katie Hopkins become so
reviled? That is easy: she was invited to give her opinion on things on
platforms that "ordinary" people watch and enjoy (i.e. not fucking
Question Time). As soon as Holly Willoughby destroyed her for her snobbish,
hypocritical, mental rant about children's names on This Morning Katie Hopkins
was effectively fucked.<br />
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UKIP's mentalness is there for all to see, but for some reason the
mainstream media have not challenged them about it. Some (Farage) know that
their party is full of nutcases, loons, and probably paedophiles, so he keeps
quite about their policies, even going as far to call his last manifest (from
waaaaaay back in 2010) as "drivel", but others in the party are out
and out David Icke and are proud of their anti-women, anti-workers, anti-NHS,
anti-fun, anti-people, anti-nature, pro-corporations, pro-super rich conspiracy
theory led message. Get them speaking and get voters listening and these
arseholes are proper FUCKED.<br />
<br />
So here is the plan: get Farage on This Morning talking about something
(anything) that is not Europe or immigration, preferably
something his party has mental views on like the NHS, VAT, income tax rates or
climate change, and get Holly to destroy the dickhead on national telly. Even
better, get one of the other less media savvy nutters on vs. Holly (I'm
thinking human fly paper Neil Hamilton) and they will never get a vote again.
Lets face it, it could work, and nothing else is working.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/edZjdgU0asM?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-35443489829795884042011-11-22T22:19:00.001+00:002011-11-28T22:37:20.148+00:00Ian Hislop: My Journey...I started out as this little public school twat on telly. I meant no harm. I was a fucking waste of oxygen, but no more than that. I played a sort of anti-authoritarian, leftish-liberalish heir of Peter Cooke.<br />
People liked me.<br />
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I got a little I got lucky when it turned out my colleague was funny. But everybody loved me. I had power, I had authority!<br />
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I had everything.<br />
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I started to believe.<br />
I started to believe that I knew so much better, and that people were all fools. That my school was actually quite good. That the Conservatives were not actually all that bad after all. That maybe "the market" wasn't some crazy load of old bollocks, but could actually improve all our lives! ... or at least, mine.<br />
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Then it all started to slip...slip...slip....slip away.<br />
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Suddenly I became a Tory cunt.<br />
"Perhaps we deserve the bankers that we get..." I said today on TV.<br />
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Ian Hislop, you sellout little fuck. "Perhaps we deserve the bankers that we get?". No of course we don't you prick.<br />
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You might as well say: "perhaps we deserve all the painful bowel cancer we get?".<br />
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What a fucking idiot this man has become.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-12366407902551432612011-07-11T11:13:00.001+01:002011-10-20T00:16:11.008+01:00Carole Malone is out of a jobI am delighted to report that as off today Carole Malone, that brave accuser of the poor, the needy, and the vulnerable, is out of job. No longer is she free to write the first horrible and nasty thing that comes into her head in a national newspaper, since that newspaper has been shutdown due to (among other things) its disgusting predeliction for hacking into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirls and their families.<br />
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<a href="http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notw/columnists/carolemalone/765476/Our-government-wants-to-destroy-hard-working-successful-people.html">I bet she can't wait to get her "free house and free plasma TV". </a><br />
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She must have worked up to 30 minutes a week to write the hateful, misinformed, ignorent, stupid, destructive bullshit that used to pull her in upwards of £250K a year. Let's hope she never works again, is mortgaged up to fuck, has a serious drink and/or drugs dependancy, and ends up losing it all. Still, at least she doesn't have to worry about her hard earned dole money being spent on <a href="http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/notw/showbiz/564615/Illegal-immigrants-amp-cars.html">immigrants getting free cars</a> anymore.<br />
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Fuck her. Fuck her and fuck all the rest of them at the NotW. Cunts the lot of them.<br />
Have no sympathy for any of them, they would have no sympathy for you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-45682872496081653732011-04-27T23:14:00.002+01:002014-11-28T11:57:48.225+00:00Five political commentators the BBC should never use again<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thesim06-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1568584407&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>
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1) <b>Katie Hopkins</b> - This evil harpy delights in "saying the unsayable", or to put it another way, being an absolutely selfish, thoughtless, nasty, greedy, reactionary, grasping, Tory shitbag. She compliments this with a smug self satisfaction that makes her perhaps the least likable human being currently on the planet.<br />
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2) <b>Ruth Lea</b> - This remarkably twattish woman is supposed to be an economist, and in fact used to appear on Newsnight every night to tell us all about how the economy was doing ("very well indeed"), how house prices were fine ("they can only go up! It's simple supply and demand!"), how neoliberal economic policies were the saviour of the World ("we must deregulate the banks more, oh and stop taxing the rich!"). Post 2008 and the worldwide economic collapse that following her favourite policies caused, she wasn't booked much. Not surprising, as she was wrong about EVERYTHING. And I do mean everything. She is now starting to poke her head above the (very low) parapet again though and the BBC have started to use her "expert" opinions again. Look BBC: she is a fucking idiot, her economic policies are nasty, selfish and failed, and now she has bravely rejoined the Conservative Party (she left when Labour were in power, make your own mind up why) we all all know her agenda. STOP BOOKING THE BITCH!<br />
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3) <b>Kelvin MacKenzie</b> - The twat's twat. Another nasty, reactionary apologist of the super rich, a proponent of any policy that hurts the poor and protects the wealthy. Please BBC, if you're having a debate, and you perhaps think you need someone to give a right wing view on some subject, then please do not pick up the phone to Kelvin Mackenzie! Let him fester alone with his opinions, opinions destined never to be listened to, never to be allowed to leave his rotten, broken head. It's the only way he will ever learn. <br />
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<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thesim06-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0312427999&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>4) <b>Edwina Currie </b>- Horrible, arrogant, pompous old trout. Another failed right wing shit bag who appears to have absolutely no fucking clue about the world. Her solution to people being stuck in the snow we had before Christmas? A tax cut on 4x4 vehicles. I honestly don't think she was joking, she is just really, really dumb. Really, really dumb, and earning OUR MONEY in BBC fees to spout this shite on the radio. STOP BOOKING HER BBC!<br />
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5) Any arsehole from the fucking <b>Taxpayers Alliance</b> - Now these really are the worst of the lot. A fake "grassroots" organisation, funded by Tory donors (see <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/09/taxpayers-alliance-conservative-pressure-group">here</a>), these sinister pricks used to turn up every day on the BBC. Touch-wood they seem to have fucked off ever since the Tories got in, I guess the rich and powerful that fund them think they have won now they have the evil party in charge, and would rather spend their money on sweatshops, or campaigning to remove the minimum wage. But they will be back, and they will be spouting the same lies and misinformation as they did before, so keep vigilant BBC, and STOP LETTING THEM GET FREE AIR TIME. Oh and just to some-up what a bunch of utter shite hawks these people are, Ruth Lea used to be on the board.<br />
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<i>2014 update: This was written several years ago, before the scourge of UKIP ravaged across the land. Nowadays you can't turn on the BBC without that UTTER WANKER Farage showing his froggy head and lieing through his teeth. I was right about the Taxpayers Alliance though - they have gone proper quiet haven't they? Tossers. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-66556638443207004302011-01-25T10:00:00.003+00:002011-01-25T19:43:56.892+00:00Kelvin MacKenzie, lickspittle of Murdoch.Christ I hate Kelvin MacKenzie. This twat is on Radio 5 right now banging on about how much he loves Rupert Murdoch in light of the phone hacking allegations. "He's a great man, a brilliant bloke, I wish there were thousands of him", he says. "He created 30,000 jobs out of mid air!". "He is no threat to democracy, only 20% of the population buy a newspaper!". "Buying a newspaper is a CHOICE! That is why he is no threat!". Honestly the sophistry and hero worship are combined to such an extent I think he might actually being wanking whilst talking live on the radio. Surely nobody in the country ever loved a former boss with such passion as the former editor of The Sun MacKenzie does? It makes me wonder how Murdoch holds such power over him, but I doubt it's anything particularly sinister. I just think that MacKenzie is an absolute bell-end of epic proportions who loves the sound of his own voice and will forever play the apologist to the rich and powerful to the detriment of the "common people" he so often claims to be a crusader for. <br />
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Well good for you Kelvin, you hypocritical knobber. Why don't you go whoring yourself around the networks prostrating yourself for the cause. It can only raise your shitty profile as a twat-for-hire after all. Go for it Kelvin, after all nobody could possibly think any worse of you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-44223810430526669582010-09-29T22:12:00.004+01:002010-09-29T23:49:24.910+01:00Robbie Fucking SavageLast year, it was Gabriele Marcotti. This year's Radio Five Live's obsession is: Robbie Fucking Savage. A man so in love with himself that he considers sleeping with the wife a threesome.<br />
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Like Marcotti last year, he has infested Radio 5 like a particularly virulent case of gonorrhea, only less popular. Why are the BBC obsessed with this twat? HE HAS NOTHING INTERESTING TO SAY. <b>HE IS NOT FUNNY</b>. <span style="font-size: large;">HE HAS NO GREAT INSIGHT.</span> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> HE IS JUST AVAILABLE.</span><br />
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What makes it worse is that he will not criticise his fellow professionals, making him a pretty dull pundit. This is completely understandable because he is too close to them, he is still playing the game. He over compensates by being completely unreasonable with any opinion that does criticise players, not allowing anyone else to get a word in.<br />
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Why do the BBC do this to us? They already inflict Allan Green and Steve Claridge on the public, we don't need another opinionated twat on the radio. And don't get me started about Nicky Cambell, what a fucking arsehole he is.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-66511155436607289622010-05-12T21:43:00.000+01:002010-05-12T21:43:59.106+01:00Finally, Fulham get on Radio 5<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thesim06-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B002J1UDQY&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>They had to get to the final of the UEFA Cup before the BBC could be bothered, but finally Fulham actually get a live match in Europe. The way the BBC have hyped this up, you would have thought they actually cared, at least until Green and co. started to remind us how this is "very much Europe's second class competition". For fucks sake BBC, give it a fucking rest! Accept that Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal and especially Liverpool (who you followed lovingly in this competition after they were "relegated" from the Champions League) were a bit crap this year now that the recession, low pound, and cuntish owners are finally starting to bite. Let Fulham have their night, give them some respect!<br />
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Next week they will be telling us how the quality of the Champions League final is way down because none of the English clubs or Barcelona are there. <br />
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Well I can honestly say to that: fuck off. The teams that get to the final deserve to be in the final; sport is not about your pre-conceived commentary "stories", it's about what actually happens.<br />
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Just start reporting on it, and leave the tabloid hyperbole and opinion pieces to TalkSport. Thanks.<br />
<iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=thesim06-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0752444506&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-19628274372096808142010-04-04T18:37:00.001+01:002010-04-04T18:40:00.379+01:00Football managers about to be sacked always take off the wrong playerMy team has had a string of bad managers over the past 12 years, and I have learnt to spot the signs of a manager who has lost it. The clearest sign is when the substitution policy of you manager makes sense to the manager only and nobody else. Time after time I have seen a manager take off our best player, only to replace him with somebody who is at best an average journeyman, at worst a complete waste of space. Normally, withing a month or two that manager has gone.<br />
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The reason I am raising is this is that I was listening to thr Birmingham City vs Liverpool match today. It was poised at 1-1 in a game that Liverpool had to win, but were finding it difficult to break down a determined and skillfull Birmingham City. There was approximately 25 minutes left, and Liverpool's subsitutes were warming up, clearly a change was about to be made. The pundits were discussing who would come off, perhaps Benayoun for Aquilani, or a defender for an attacker.<br />
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I knew instinctively who would come off, because this is what happens when your manager has lost the plot. "I bet he takes Torres off", I said to myself.<br />
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Sure enough, he dragged off a fuming Torres and replaced him with Ngog. Torres actually shook his head at the manager as he came off, and sat there fuming under his bench coat. Why take off your best player in a match you have to win? Perhaps he was injured, but he didn't look it. The only real reason for taking him off was that Benitez is now in that zone that all managers get to before they are sacked, he has started seeing things that only he can see, and started making decisions that only he thinks make any sense.<br />
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Ngog naturally missed a couple of sitters and Liverpool dropped two points.<br />
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Taking Torres off was Benitez big decision in this game, and it was the decision of a man who has almost finished his time at the club<br />
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It was the kind of night that real football fans dream about, Fulham were huge underdogs, trailing 1-3 after the first leg, then went 0-1 in the first few minutes of the match, making them 1-4 down on aggregate with Juventus having an away goal. This meant that in order to make the match go to extra time, Fulham need to score 3 goals.<br />
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That they did manage this, and even score a forth in order to win outright, is testament to the team's management and desire to win. For too long this competition has been derided as second best, as teh place for teams not good enough for the Champions League, and not given any creadit at all. English teams have been sending out reserve teams even as late as the last eight or last sixteen of the competition, as Bolton did under Gary Megson a few years ago. This is Bolton who had only ever qualified for Europe once before, it's not like they are likely to be winning the Champions League any time in the next 200 years. Martin O'Neal famously bought dinner for the fans that had travelled to Moscow to watch Villa lose pathetically last year after fielding an under-par team. The pundits love banging on about how this competition is a waste of time, particularly the proper twats such as Marcotti or Green. Alan Green never even seems to commentate on it, it is so far beneath him, the big fat cunt. <br />
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The thing is, supporting as I do a mid-sized club, the UEFA Europa League is the only European football I'm likely to see. I'm lucky enough to have followed my team in Europe (the UEFA Cup in the nineties), and let me tell you it's fantastic! Most fans would absolutley love to see their team in this competion, maybe not glory hunting fans of the big four, but lets face it they can just about fuck off, they don't really count as real fans.<br />
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So I say well done Roy Hodgson, well done Fulham, well done for giving it your all. I hope you win it, and can parade that might cup around West London, preferably with Chelsea winning nothing :).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-33200012979014956872010-02-21T18:57:00.004+00:002010-02-22T00:48:14.224+00:00Why do the pundits hate the idea of a playoff for the fourth Champions League place?They all hate it! Eveyone on Five Live, including Gabriele "The Twat" Marcotti, Alan "Ref Hater" Green, Steve "Unreasonable" Claridge and Spoony "What is the point of?" Spoony. They say it will dilute the quality of English teams in the Champions league, worse: it will make a mockery of it! If a team finishing seventh can qualify for the Champions League, then it's not the Champions League anymore is it! It's disgraceful!<br />
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I can't see the problem with it. .<br />
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When the tradition and history of European Cup was destroyed in the quest for more money that was the Champions League, it became a different type of competition: it became essentially a closed shop for a few annointed clubs. This did not happen by accident, these same few annointed clubs (originaly called the G14) threatened UEFA that if they did not get a restructuring of European competitions that allowed them to play each other more often, they would set up their own league and stick two fingers up to UEFA. That is why we now have the same clubs playing the same pointless group matches each and every year. That is why the European Cup is no longer the pinnacle of excitement, at least until the later rounds. If Manchester United Vs AC Milan is your idea of the most exciting tie in the world, that's fine, but if that tie happens every other year, then surely the excitement is tarnished? Doesn't it become, well, boring?<br />
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The Champions League has been carefully designed to make a few clubs a lot of money. That is why the top four are against the idea of a playoff, they want to keep the status-quo, and that's perfectly understandable.<br />
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But why do the pundits hate it? Surely they are supposed to be the voice of the fans? If you support any team outside of the top four, then creating a playoff that might allow you to qualify for the Champions League is surely only going to make supporting your club more exciting?<br />
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Most clubs have no chance of finishing in the top four anymore, because frankly, according to the pundits at least, you need to qualify for the Champions League before your club has the resources to qualify for the Champions League (just listen to what they are saying about Manchester City). At least a playoff would give us non-glory hunting supporters of smaller teams something to aim for, a chance to break into the big time. <br />
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I like the idea of a play-off, it's a better idea than the "39th" game, but it will never happen because the the top four money clubs are against it, and for some reason the pundits have weighed in behind them, despite this position being against the best interest of most fans. We live in strange times.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-15684916831575414372010-01-30T12:20:00.007+00:002010-02-02T10:17:20.967+00:00John Terry's scandal stories - a victory for tabloid bell-ends, not for free speechReally, do we have to know all the details of John Terry's infidelities? No, not really. It's not like he threw a game or killed a neighbour and disposed of the body with acid is it? He hasn't fiddled homeless Haitian eathquake victims out of powdered milk in order to buy a gold plated Rolls Royce. It's no big deal. But here are the tabloids, supported by the "World's biggest bell-end" Max Clifford, claiming that the lifting of an injuction brought out by John Terry to keep the story out of the papers is in some way a victory of free speech over draconian privicy laws.<br />
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It is not. It is simply purient tittle-tattle.<br />
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There is no free speech justification for this, there is no public interest argument. The tabloids exist on the back of the misadventures of people in the public eye, alternating with contrived, exaggerated or simply made up stories protraying the same people in a more sympathetic light. Both of these types of stories are either supplied by, or fuelled by "the World's biggest bell-end" Max Clifford and his PR ilk. Why do the tabloids keep regurgitating this rubbish? Because they think that people enjoy reading about this sort of thing. I would prefer they did some actual journalism from time to time, but they don't because that would cost money. <br />
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Clifford has reported already signed up the lady involved with Terry, he said so on a radio interview on Five Live this morning that was two parts hypocritically damning of Terry and how he has brought it on himself, and one part smarmy in justification of his trade. If you do not know his trade: his trade is in the public humilation and misery of others and how to get make money out off it. What an absolute arsehole.<br />
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The next time you hear about the papers moaning about how their sales are down, or how the internet is killing them because its free, consider this: without the tabloids "the World's biggest bell-end" Max Clifford would not have any clients to buy his stories. The world would be a finer place if Clifford was out of work<br />
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<b>Whilst Terry's actions may be morally dubious, the reason the papers are going for him is for revenge for applying for a high court injunction. They know that these injunctions are killing them, since thier trade is in the kind of idle tittle-tattle that these injunctions prevent them from publishing, so they are trying to teach Terry and any other public figures watching what will happen if you don't let them have their slice of salactiousness. The outrage is driven and supplied entirely by the tabloids, not by public opinion.</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-30674449149729836102010-01-18T23:22:00.003+00:002014-11-28T11:49:56.508+00:00Manchester United 0 - £1 Billion The Shysters<div style="display: inline-block;">
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Manchester United are £700 million in debt, all of which was incurred when the Glazer family "bought" they club using leveraged finance, meaning they loaded the club up with the debt they had to raise to buy the club from the previous shareholders. This has left the Glazer family debt free and owning the richest football club in the World. They were then free to appoint themselves as directors, and pay themselves handsomely for sitting on board and occasionally attending matches on expenses. They also reportedly charged the club £3 million for management consultation last year, on top of an estimated £28 million pounds spent on financial advisors, bankers and hedge fund managers who organised the deal. Theoretically the club will pay off it's debt in ten years time, at which point the Glazer family will have paid themselves somewhere in the region of £50 Million in management fees, and own a debt free asset worth approximately £1Billion, which is not bad for organising a few loans amongst your friends in the banking and hedge fund community and taking no personal risk yourself.<br />
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Of course it's not all good. it appears that the club will now have to repay this debt (I know, who would have thought it?), and that as the Glazer family were borrowing money that they would not be personally liable for, it also turns out that the banks and hedge funds that funded the deal wanted rather higher interest rates than would normally have been available on a loan of this size, with reports that several hundred million pounds of the loan were lent at rates of 15%. On £200 Million that is £30 Million a year, or in other words, all the money that manchester United earn from getting to the latter stages of the Champions League.<br />
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So now Manchester United are in trouble. Ticket prices have raised every year since the Glazer familiy took control (11% last year alone), but that is not raising enough money. They are trying to issues a bond and refinance the debt, the prospectus offers a number of money making schemes to ring more money out of the club: there are reports that the training ground (or even Old Trafford) could be sold and rented back, or the naming rights to the stadium could be sold. They may need to sell more assets to finance the debt, and the after the training ground and Old Trafford the only assets they have left are the players. If they start selling people like Rooney then the club is finished, and a Leeds United style plummet and bankruptcy beckons. Ronaldo was sold for £80 million, but Man. U. have no more Ronaldos to sell.<br />
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This type of takeover has been happening across all levels of business and commerce over the past ten years, and it's plain old fashioned shyster-ism, rampant speculation leaching of the hard work of the majority. Each time it happens, it benefits only a tiny cabal of the super rich, but impacts on thousands of ordinary people who either work for the company in question, or have a pension fund with holdings in the company that can no longer reap dividends.<br />
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There is a positive side to this story: the fact that this has happened to Manchester United means that it is happening in the full spotlight of the media. Now hundreds of thousands of people now know what a "leveraged buyout" is, and what a negative impact it can have on a previously extremely well run company. It's clear that the only winners in the boardroom manouverings at Old Trafford are the Glazer family. The club, the players, the manager, the staff and the supporters have all been royally buggered. <b>But since this is happenening all over the stock exchange, the more people that understand it, the more likely we are to force the govenment to do something about it.</b><br />
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<b>This sort of rampant risk free speculation should be outlawed immediately. Manchester United were probably the best run football club in the World before the Glazer family </b><b>took over, now they are crippled by debt that should be encumbent on the Glazer </b><b>family, not the club.</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-26491590969085047182010-01-02T18:52:00.004+00:002010-02-22T00:49:07.490+00:00Goodbye "the Noughties", hello "the Wanties"So that is another decade over, a decade in which life for the average person has consistantly got slightly worse year on year. A decade in which for the first seven years bankers and economist's repeatedly told us that the boom would go on for ever, "or at least plataeu", then claimed that "no one could have know this crash was coming" when it finally came, despite the fact that many academics, investors and even whole books had been prediciting it for years.<br />
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And these people are still in a job. A nice, highly paid job, with a lucrative bonus scale and fat pension. They did not pay for what they caused.<br />
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They should be in jail, but instead the likes of Sir Fred Goodwin "retire" on a £750,000 a year pension. This man can be considered to be singularly responsible for the downfall of the Royal Bank Of Scotland, due to his obsession with mergers and aquisitions. But instead of being pursued by the law for criminal malfeasance, he walks free and enjoys the finer things in life. I would not be surprised to see him re-emerge in the media in a few years time, as an "expert financial advisor", he could complain about how the pension funds of PLCs are dragging the country down, how we all need to tighten our belts, how we should be happy with teh fact we even have a job in these trying times, and that pay cuts should be all the rage over the public sector.<br />
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There has been a lot of debate over what this new decade should be known as, but I think I have the answer: "the one-ties" (pronounced "wanties"). Thanks to Sir Fred and his ilk, we will all be wanting this decade.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-7486690937534811142009-12-03T22:29:00.004+00:002011-03-13T21:39:21.162+00:00Gabriele Marcotti - why?Gabriele Marcotti must have pictures of the BBC sports editor boning a watermelon or something; his presence has infested every level of sports presentation across all of the BBC's "content streams". He's currently banging away on Radio Five Live. On a Thursday night. Like he does on Friday. And Sunday six-o-six. And Match of the Day on BBC. And the Football League show on BBC 2. And Football Focus. And the Monday Night club back on Radio Five Live. And on Tuesdays and Wednesday on Radio Five Live. Got a news story about football, need an expert soundbite? Call Marcotti. So he's also on the news reports. <br />
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Who is he? His opinions are about as well thought through as Garth Crooks'. He is not as entertaining as Kris Akabusi, or as good looking as Steve Claridge. So why is he everywhere?<br />
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Speaking of Claridge, I've always thought of him as a self important tosspot, but he gives every impression of loathing Marcotti whenever they appear together, which is a lot considering that they are both on the TV or Radio every single fucking day of the year. Sometimes I think he is about to snap and kick Marcotti in his smug face, but he never has. Come on Claridge, grow a backbone and deck the bastard you boring twat!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-24404667407095864242009-11-27T19:12:00.002+00:002010-01-05T01:36:37.144+00:00Jeffrey Boycott's "Growin"Geoffrey Boycott has just said (about the SA bowler Albi Morkel): "he lasted about 14 balls at Yorkshire before he tore his grow-in".<br />
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I bow to the mighty Geoff on most things, but even in Yorkshire it's called a "groin", surely? Maybe Geofrey knows more about Morkel than we care to know about?<br />
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One thing is for sure: I would hate to see Geoffrey pull his "grow-in".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-59636157576232589422009-11-26T22:12:00.003+00:002009-11-27T01:40:39.843+00:00Peter Beardsley's magic chairsEverton have been barred from moving their ground from the lovely old Goodison to Kirkby, 20 minutes down the road and not in the city, and the fans seem happy about this.<br />
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But not the pundits.<br />
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"They need the income generated by a new ground!" they cry, "They need to 'sweat the asset'!" they say, in that bizarre business wank speak that seems so appropriate on these occasions. "They should build a new ground with Liverpool and share it, after all it works in Milan so why not here?".<br />
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I'll tell you why - Peter Beardsley has come up with a problem that has nothing to do with boring things like tradition, heritage, community connections or the wishes of the fans: the colour of the seats at the shared stadium. Should they be red? Should they be blue? I would prefer a nice purple, but I can see it's going to be an issue.<br />
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Peter, having raised this issue, then immediately solves it: "<b>I'm sure with technology and whatever that we have today, that the seats could change colour from red to blue overnigh</b>t" he says.<br />
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Now I'm no expert, but I recon a plastic chair that can change colour is worth it's weight of gold. For a start, teams like Bolton could get rid of their big screens; they would just need to broadcast highlights on the blocks of empty seats they innevitably have at every home match.<br />
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I want Peter to pursue this idea, and perhaps set up a business to take the idea on further. I for one will not be happy until I have set in one of Peter's Magic Seats.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8399835006679509693.post-76529532734666422892009-11-26T19:57:00.003+00:002010-01-05T01:38:15.620+00:00The question of Garth Crooks<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Garth Crooks has been off my radar, but last night he turned up on Radio Five Live and spent 3 hours spouting ill-informed, patronising drivel. And I though: if he can do it, so can I! So here I am.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Among Garth's more outlandish statements was this one on the topic of building a new football stadium and how it can improve things for your club: "it works, Arsenal are the proof of that!".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Well are they now? Lets think....no they are not. In the preceding ten years to the move <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">the</span> the Emirates, at the gloriously ancient and marbled <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Highbury</span> they won three championships and four FA Cups, including two doubles in 1998 and 2002. Since moving to the swanky new Emirates, they may be able to cram in another 20,000 or so glory hunters a match, and I dare say their corporate facilities are smashing if you like that sort of thing, but they have won a sum total of fuck all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Is that proof that moving <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">to a new ground </span> works? It is to Garth, and he makes his living knowing about this sort of thing.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0