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[Black can man]

Games off , 3 explosions apparently


fks sake

[The jiffle king]

Looks like the BVB game is moved to Wednesday

[FN2TypeR]

Juve are already rollin' - it'll be interesting to see whether or not Barce can sort it out from here on in.

[Lance Catamaran]

FN2TypeR said:

Juve are already rollin' - it'll be interesting to see whether or not Barce can sort it out from here on in.

Barca will need their referee to be at the top of his game for the return leg

[Black can man]

Lance Catamaran said:

Barca will need their referee to be at the top of his game for the return leg

[hornetrider]

Justice in the Bayern Real game. Never a pen but the taker wallops the pen into row zzzz

[Lance Catamaran]

Apparently The Sun published an article comparing Ross Barkley to a Gorilla before swiftly taking it down

said:

‘Could Everton’s Ross Barkley represent the missing link between man and beast?’

‘PERHAPS unfairly, I have always judged Ross Barkley as one of our dimmest footballers. There is something about the lack of reflection in his eyes which makes me certain not only are the lights not on, there is definitely nobody at home.

‘I get a similar feeling when seeing a gorilla at the zoo. The physique is magnificent but it’s the eyes that tell the story.

‘So it came as no surprise to me that the Everton star copped a nasty right-hander in a nightclub for allegedly eyeing up an attractive young lady who, as they say, was “spoken for”.

‘The reality is that at £60,000 a week and being both thick and single, he is an attractive catch in the Liverpool area, where the only men with similar pay packets are drug dealers and therefore not at nightclubs, as they are often guests of Her Majesty.

‘However, 23-year-old Mr Barkley will have learned a painful lesson. He is too rich and too famous to be spending his time in local hangouts where most of the customers have only just broken through the £7.50-an-hour barrier.’

The day before the Hillsborough anniversary as well. What the actual fk?

http://www.football365.com/news/the-sun-manage-to-...

[Flip Martian]

Wow. Talk about stereotyping the male population of a whole city... Makes you wonder how an article like that even gets past an editor...

[uk66fastback]

Sent by an Ipswich-supporting mate ...

http://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/403711/spurs-stepping-...

Poor really ...

[Flip Martian]

uk66fastback said:

Sent by an Ipswich-supporting mate ...

http://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/403711/spurs-stepping-...

Poor really ...

His heart wasn't really in it, I don't think...

[Cie]

Aaron Lennon has reportedly been detained by police over fears for his mental health. I hope he comes out of this okay.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/articl...
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11671/10861...

[hornetrider]

Poor bloke hour he gets all the assistance he needs.

P.S. Long time no see chap.

[FN2TypeR]

Nottingham Forest are doomed.

EDIT: Now slightly less doomed!

Edited by FN2TypeR on Sunday 7th May 12:47

[Lance Catamaran]

Behind a paywall, but this must surely be the best/worst article about football I've seen.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/arsenal-fans-n...

article said:

‘I had 20 good years supporting Manchester United but now I follow Arsenal, and I find the treatment of the magnificent Arsène Wenger by large sections of my fellow fans mystifying and depressing. I supported Manchester United because when Rupert Murdoch bought top-tier English football in the early 1990s and started marketing it aggressively at the middle classes – who, like me, had previously had no interest in the sport – United were the only logical choice. They played pulsating, swaggering football and often scored thrilling wins from seemingly impossible situations. The young men who made up the spine of the team had grown up together in a boys’ own story and – most importantly – they had a manager in Sir Alex Ferguson who was a high priest of romance.

‘But then he left. And what followed has been very dull. So I stopped supporting United and started following Arsenal. Chiefly out of admiration for their dignified and daring French manager’

Blimey....

[hornetrider]

[Flip Martian]

Lance Catamaran said:

Behind a paywall, but this must surely be the best/worst article about football I've seen.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/arsenal-fans-n...

article said:

‘I had 20 good years supporting Manchester United but now I follow Arsenal, and I find the treatment of the magnificent Arsène Wenger by large sections of my fellow fans mystifying and depressing. I supported Manchester United because when Rupert Murdoch bought top-tier English football in the early 1990s and started marketing it aggressively at the middle classes – who, like me, had previously had no interest in the sport – United were the only logical choice. They played pulsating, swaggering football and often scored thrilling wins from seemingly impossible situations. The young men who made up the spine of the team had grown up together in a boys’ own story and – most importantly – they had a manager in Sir Alex Ferguson who was a high priest of romance.

‘But then he left. And what followed has been very dull. So I stopped supporting United and started following Arsenal. Chiefly out of admiration for their dignified and daring French manager’

Blimey....

AAAARGHHH!!!!! God, people like that...ugh! Go and watch rugby or something.

[Lance Catamaran]

I think I found him in this crowd shot

[Flip Martian]

[DeltonaS]

Lance Catamaran said:

I think I found him in this crowd shot

Basket case.

[hornetrider]

BBC said:

Panenka - same place, 41 years later

Serbia 0-1 Wales

Panenka serendipity here.

Aaron Ramsey's cheeky chip of a penalty is known as a Panenka - named after the man who made it famous, Antonin Panenka.

It was in this very stadium in Belgrade, when it was called the Red Star Stadium, that Panenka scored the winning penalty in the shootout of the Euro 1976 final against Germany.

Did Ramsey know? Was it homage? Hope someone asks him.

Boss.