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Of course he is, our first team, at full strength, always do so well down there

Your Honour I rest my case

"being there" is an irrelevance in forming an opinion/comment, if you see the game on tv/Internet your viewpoint is in truth probably more "on the button" than just about anyone in the ground apart from those at a reasonable elevation in the expensive halfway seats. Additionally, many ( as I did, when I went) have a few beers before/during the match, alcohol impairs judgement, so it could be a sober non attendee watcher's opinion is actually more valid than a well served attender, especially if said attendee sits at an end of the ground, where lets face it, you can see nine tenths of fuck all what's going on down the other end apart from 18 or so subbuteo sized players pelting about.

Is the correct answer. Even playing well below par we were a much more potent team than them, we will give someone a howking soon.

I'm no Thatcherite but that is all totally laughable (especially the bold bit)

In the bigger picture, a government cannot undermine the police publicly (however justified) the vast majority of who wouldn't deserve "devastating criticism".

Piffle!! Social division is not a new 1970's/80's invention, it's embedded in our very history. Shit man it's totally natural, nature itself is violently hierarchical to the point of genocide. As for ruining this country, that's bollocks, try some third world states for social division and ruin. Whoever is "lowest of the low" in this country is a hell of a lot better off than some "mid-table" in other countries. I now expect some answer on the lines that the third world is the third world because that's our fault an all !!

I must be some of the above then, first started work in 78, married and mortgaged in 81, kids mid/late 80's don't recall me or my mates etc going through any "special" brand of social hell tbh. Life can be tough at times whenever, you just get on with it. That said, the 80's did bring some pain as most of the music was utter wank. I do recall working with several wives of miners who's husbands, to a man from various pits, did not want to be on strike, but were threatened/scared into it by the threat of downright thuggery (based upon their comments/opinions at the time not mine, btw it was a fairly regular topic of conversation). My opinion of the miners strike (formed from conversations with those involved) is not the picture of the oppressed miner rising up en mass to fight injustice but of left wing activist lunacy becomming a snowball down a mountain sweeping all with it, however reluctant they were, and those who I actually knew of personally, were hugely reluctant. Said snowball was screaming out for a big fist to stop it, and it found one. IMO It's what Scargill etc really wanted, he just thought he would win.

I believe he classes himself as a marxist.

Father Liam Finnegan ????

I jihad the urge and couldn't stop myself

What a Shi'ite thing to do, but looking on the Sunni side, no one got hurt

I'm not gayist I met one last week

Nearest I could find, as many die "in the line of duty" in car accidents as get shot though. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079428/Big-rise-number-U-S-police-officers-killed-work.html

The over the line "incident" was so quick and close that it's prefectly undertsandable that the linesman missed it, without technology it will always happen, they'll err on the side of caution unless they are 100% sure. As for the offside, that also is perfectly understandable, in real time it looked offside, it was only in slow motion with the line thing drawn in that he looked onside, played on by Taylors heel (don't they usually draw that line down the centre of the body?), which was moving fast in the opposite direction as they crossed. The Lino would have seen Mopheed's body behind Taylor and thus flagged, was a marginal decision and nowhere near the "howler" category. The only "howler" decision all game was stopping HBA on the break, having not given the "goal" (which is simply akin IMO to not giving a blatant penalty) they played on, he should NEVER have blown up.

It's not a pure team sport, but they race in teams and it is very tactical within the race with the team riding as a unit to support the primary rider, setting pace etc it's a million miles away from everyone just jumping on their bikes and seeing who can go the fastest. The TDF is a series of races over weeks, you can win the thing without actually winning any of the individual races/stages, it's futile comparing sporting achievements across different sports, each should be admired on it's own merits. The only thinng I would add is the achievements of Murray and Wiggins put the efforts of the so called athlete footballers, who get tired after two games a week, to shame. The Murray djocovic first set lasted as all but 3 minutes as long as a football match and they played four more, at an astonishing level, straight after

Think it was because it got shunted to the Monday and they wouldn't change their schedules and it was first Monday night football of the year as well. still couldn't believe it wasn't on anywhere mind !!!! Was in Houston during the Olympics and your brother is just about right, they did show both Mo Farrahs races and had big build up for him, probably because he trained out here and his best pal/training partner is the American guy who came second in the 10,000 They also showed Murrays gold medal match in full to be fair

This Had to "watch" it via. BBC text thingy, am in Florida on hols 500+ cable channels and it wasn't on any of them !!!!

We're a good team not kicking just now, encouragingly thought Cabaye who's been extremely poor started looking more up to speed last 20 minutes, at which point we looked a lot better all round. Tough game comming up they'd better play more like they finished this one than the way they started it.

We were by far the better footballing side but our delivery/crossing was outrageously bad, after Cisse's shot went off the keepers heel and wide I thought we were in for one of those days, much happier with second half.

You probably should have asked what jar and on what shelf are you in tbh

The ones that piss me off no end are "he won the foul" or "he was clever there", no he didn't/wasn't, he cheated. That argument is long lost though, sadly.

The contact was with the leg that was being withdrawn, oh aye it was a penalty "won" by today's standards, doesn't make it sit well with me. Contact doesn't necessarily mean a foul, used to be contact sufficient to bring someone down, those days are long gone and the game is absolutely the worse for it. About the only player you see regularly practice the near dead art of riding a tackle these days is Messi, (and I fucking love him for it) yet they all used to do it, falling over was usually because you couldn't physically stay upright. Can't understand it tbh, if someone goes to ground and slightly catches you, try and stay on your fucking feet, the guy's on the deck and out of the game. How many times do you see someone "win a freekick" through minimal contact when there's acres of space in front of them (had they stayed upright), the fuckers even do it in/around the box when if they stayed upright they may actually have a shot on. Drives me nuts. Was a point second half yesterday when HBA "stayed on his feet", bang on the edge of the box, with more contact that Torres got from Anita. He should have gone down, terrible thing to say but true (that said Dowd wouldn't have given it).

Cheating in other words