[FANCY SOMEONE AT WORK?]

Ah, but nobody actually likes Smooth Operator.

[Emre banned for six games]

...for Turkey, that is.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4690948.stm

 

Turkey get six-game Fifa sanction 

 

Turkey have been ordered by world soccer's governing body Fifa to play their next six home matches at a neutral ground and behind closed doors.

The punishment comes following a fracas after their World Cup play-off against Switzerland in Istanbul, last November.

 

Switzerland's Benjamin Huggel and Turkey's Alpay Ozalan and Emre Belozoglu have been banned for six games for their part in the incident.

 

Turkey were also fined 200,000 Swiss francs (£88,000).

 

Players and officials from both sides were involved in a scuffle in the tunnel after the final whistle of the ill-tempered first leg of the play-off for Germany 2006.

 

Swiss substitute defender Stephane Grichting needed hospital treatment after receiving a kick in the groin.

 

Meanwhile, Turkey's Serkan Balci also gets a two-match suspension and, Mehmet Ozdilek, who left his role as the national side's assistant coach after the incident, has been banned from taking part in any football-related activity, within associations, confederations or Fifa for 12 months.

 

Switzerland's physio, Stephan Meyer, has been handed a two-game suspension.

 

"I describe this decision as unacceptable. This is a political decision rather than a sports decision," Turkey's sports minister Mehmet Ali Sahin told NTV news channel.

 

The Turkish FA and those players given six-match bans can appeal against the punishments and go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne.

 

Turkey won the first match on 16 November, 4-2, but were beaten to a berth at the World Cup, after losing the second leg 2-0 in Bern.

[FANCY SOMEONE AT WORK?]

I would never have imagined Smooth Operator resembled Foppish Franz Ferdinand front man Alex Kapronos!

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...tbh.

[Should Hamza be bound over.........]

Feed him to the crocodiles..

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But the hook'll rip open their internal organs! Bunch of no-good crocodile-hating Nazis on this board...

[Shearer should have his own statue]

Bunch of canned worms on here tee bee aitch

[F1's greatest drivers]

Don't know enough about F1 or motorsport generally to comment, but I thought this at the weekend was quite interesting:

 

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1699565,00.html

[The First Time you Flew]

I'm an engineer FFS, I've studied machinery at depth - particularly aircraft.....

 

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"Air traffic control, mayday... we have engine failure, requesting clearance for emergency landing..."

 

"Have you tried switching it off and on again?"

[Shearer should have his own statue]

Bunch of fucking comedians on here tee bee aitch

[Hitzfeld flyers]

Was Dave Jones a whoosh btw?

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No, I think they threw the case out...

[Ah those we're the days.]

since then I've been pretty cutting edge tbh

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Cutting yourself HUGE SLICES OF CAKE more like, lol etc.

[Happy Birthday SLP!]

Wszystkiego najlepszego zokazji urodzin!

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[Hitzfeld flyers]

I was under the impression tha Dave Jones was our choice?

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Oh balls, you mean I have to fire up Paint again?

[Hitzfeld flyers]

I'm probably going to Villa like (Soopafan tbh), I'll do the deed

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Excellent. I welcome the influx of new posters.

[Democratic Muslims imposing their ways again]

One (tempered by a  ) out of two... I'll take that. 

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Nothing for a winky?

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I think the going rate on the Reeperbahn's 20 euros...

[Was listening to the after match phone-in]

It's either that or digging up Wilf Mannion I suppose... who else have they got?

[Hitzfeld flyers]

Anyway, I think we need to hit back with a campaign in favour of the Official Fan Choice. Anyone volunteer to stand outside Villa Park handing these out?

 

[Democratic Muslims imposing their ways again]

One (tempered by a ) out of two... I'll take that.

[Democratic Muslims imposing their ways again]

Well sure, it's bad news for the Danes, but think of all those little piggies who get to run free!

[Hitzfeld flyers]

Don't they speak Romansche (sp?) in parts of Switzerland, i.e. a modern form of Latin?

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No, that's what Martin Jol gets up to after hours.

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Romansch is spoken in parts of Switzerland, but very small parts... about 50,000 people or so, I think. Probably not helped these days by the fact that it's got similarities to Italian (in particular) and French. Didn't stop them writing their 1989 Eurovision entry in the language though.

[Racism alive and kicking in England, say Uefa]

You don't see many bananas thrown at Norwegians, HTL.

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Pickled herring tbh.

[Ah those we're the days.]

10-15 years ago I'd have been firmly in my thrash metal phase. Ah, the joy of faded T-shirts, ripped jeans and dodgy hair.

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Was that before or after you turned the bat the wrong way round?

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During! Christ knows how...

[Happy Birthday SLP!]

Wahey! Herzlichen stuff-and-nonsense to you

[Favourite poster?]

Pissup types excluded (because if I singled any of them out, the others would get in a girly strop), I always enjoy a dose of Sicklee Sausage Roll, and Django's musical musings make me happy.

 

And damn Elric/Insincere Dave for ending up on the dark side. He was lovely.

[Ah those we're the days.]

10-15 years ago I'd have been firmly in my thrash metal phase. Ah, the joy of faded T-shirts, ripped jeans and dodgy hair.

[Caption Competition]

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"Oh look, Kieron's dead"