Jump to content

Park Life

Legend
  • Posts

    35323
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

Posts posted by Park Life

  1. Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!

     

    Luque's hero – when the (micro) chips are down

     

    Nov 16 2006

     

    By The Evening Chronicle

     

     

    Albert Luque turns out to be a scoring hero for Newcastle United in their hour of need.

     

    That's the verdict of the boffins behind computer simulation game Championship Manager 07.

     

    In yesterday's Chronicle we asked them to assess how differently United's season might have gone if Michael Owen had been fit.

     

    Using the ProZone stats so highly regarded by many top bosses, they factored in Owen - and insisted that United could have been as high as third in the table, with the England striker chipping in with eight goals.

     

    So we then asked the Championship Manager team to simulate United's 10 Premiership games between now and the transfer window opening in January - WITHOUT Owen in the equation and relying on the players Glenn Roeder has available to him.

     

     

    Story continues Continue story

    ADVERTISEMENT

     

    Again using the ProZone stats, the CM07 team brought Luque in from the cold to weigh in with eight goals in a run which yields 14 points (three wins, five draws and two defeats).

     

    In their simulation the Spaniard scored both goals in a 2-1 win over Blackburn - and another double in a 3-3 draw with Manchester United!

     

    Here's how the results turned out in United's run until the end of the year:

     

    Arsenal 2 United 2

     

    United 2 Portsmouth 3

     

    United 2 Reading 2

     

    Blackburn 1 United 2

     

    Chelsea 4 United 2

     

    United 2 Watford 0

     

    United 2 Tottenham 2

     

    Bolton 0 United 2

     

    Everton 2 United 2

     

    United 3 Man Utd 3

     

    Oliver's verdict on the next 10 games

     

    If the Championship Manager boffins think that Albert Luque's goals are going to save United I have one piece of advice for them - go back to the drawing board!

     

    They must be spending too much time with their heads in their ProZone stats as they cannot have seen the Spaniard play for United.

     

    People more informed than myself who see Luque in training every day tell me he does not look interested.

     

    And I have seen with my own eyes that United cannot even get him to warm up before a match if he is not in Glenn Roeder's starting line-up.

     

    I did see him score the winner in Palermo when, in the eyes of the North East Press, he was the worst man on the field.

     

    If Luque was up to scratch don't you think he would be the first name on Roeder's team-sheet in the current situation?

     

    Unlike the Championship Manager team, I don't have the answer to United's scoring problems.

     

    But I can still hope that Kieron Dyer forms some sort of partnership with Oba Martins.

     

    And pray that Damien Duff finds the form which made him such a great player with Chelsea, and that James Milner, Charles N'Zogbia and Nobby Solano can get some end product to their approach play.

     

    If United can keep their head above water until the transfer window opens on January 1, I am convinced they will be OK.

     

    But I am not as confident as the boffins about the 10 Premiership games between now and then. My forecast (two wins, three draws and five defeats):

     

    Arsenal (a): No points

     

    Pompey (h): One point

     

    Reading (h): Three points

     

    Blackburn (a): One point

     

    Chelsea (a): No points

     

    Watford (h): Three points

     

    Spurs (h): One point

     

    Bolton (a): No points

     

    Everton (a): No points

     

    Man Utd (h): No points

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Arsenal (a): No points

     

    Pompey (h): Three points

     

    Reading (h): Three points

     

    Blackburn (a): One point

     

    Chelsea (a): No points

     

    Watford (h): Three points

     

    Spurs (h): Three points

     

    Bolton (a): No points

     

    Everton (a): One point

     

    Man Utd (h): No points

  2. Happy Face: "According to Mark Kermode, blah, blah, blah, the scene where, blah, blah, blah, I wish I'd done filnm studies at university, blah, blah, blah."

    Oh, and :D

     

     

    A tad harsh? <_<

    I reckon he'd take it in the spirit in which it was intended. at least I'd hope so.

     

    Depends if it was a shot-reverse shot or slow pan with emotional close up. ;)

  3. ;) @ Gemmill. Following on from what Parky said, the worst thing about the cinema (apart from mixing with the public in general) is the people, normally middle-aged men, who piss there pants at the 'hilarious' advert that has been shown on telly for the past three months.

     

     

    Honestly Alex if it is a film I've really been looking forward to I sometimes stand in front of the snacks kiosk and mull if I should buy up ALL the nachos and bin them. (That's not right tho is it?). :icon_lol:

    I can't really be arsed with the flicks unless it's somewhere like the Tyneside. It's so uncivilized man.

     

    It's the only time my girlfriend gets a bit nervous when I start scanning nearby seats for snack noise pollution or idle chatter. What's wrong with these people!!? :icon_lol:

  4. ;) @ Gemmill. Following on from what Parky said, the worst thing about the cinema (apart from mixing with the public in general) is the people, normally middle-aged men, who piss there pants at the 'hilarious' advert that has been shown on telly for the past three months.

     

     

    Honestly Alex if it is a film I've really been looking forward to I sometimes stand in front of the snacks kiosk and mull if I should buy up ALL the nachos and bin them. (That's not right tho is it?). :icon_lol:

  5. Just flown back from Holland tonight and had the misfortune of coming across two of the poshest, most badly behaved arsehole kids you could ever wish to encounter. Their mother was a dizzy posh bitch, and the kids were called Hugo and Piers. Yes, I'm not lying - Hugo and Piers. What the fuck two kids called Hugo and Piers were doing flying into Newcastle I have no idea, but fucking hell they were annoying.

     

    They started at boarding. This Chinese woman with a baby got called to board first cos she was carrying the baby, at which point Hugo and Piers start screeching "Mummy, mummy, why can't WE get on the plane first! We're children mummy. SHE'S getting on because she has children mummy! Mummy go and see the woman mummy. GO AND SEE HER MUMMY."

     

    I'm stood in disbelief looking at this woman take all this shit off these two little toerags and basically negotiating with them by pointing out that the queue is quite short so that they'll let her off with not going and asking the woman if her two little darlings can get on first.

     

    Anyway then we get on the bus thing to go to the plane and it's PACKED. That doesn't stop Hugo and Piers swinging from the fucking poles on the bus that people are trying to hold onto with mummy begging them "Please Piers! Stop that! Pleeeeeease! Come on Hugo, mummy's asked you nicely. You're bumping into people. Please darling!" with me fighting the temptation to just turn round and go "HOY! FUCKFACE! PACK IT IN!"

     

    We get off the bus and I'm at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the plane door, at which point Hugo decides he wants to be ahead of me in the queue and literally starts shoving me to try and get past. I'm beyond pissed off with dearest Hugo at this point and again I can hear his mam behind pleading with the little twat to wait his turn to get on the plane. Fucking infuriating.

     

    I felt like turning round and going "Oi! Fucking HUGO you puffy-named PRICK. If you don't pack it in, I'm gonna throw you backwards down these fucking stairs. And don't even get me started on you Piers you floppy haired little nancy boy - somehow, against all the odds, you've actually managed to end up with one of only a handful of names in existence that makes you look an even bigger ponce than your twat of a brother! <_<:(:blush: "

     

    Anyway, what I actually said was nothing. :icon_lol: Perhaps if I had I wouldn't have had to listen to the two little twats hitting each other and singing at the top of their posh whiny little voices for the duration of the flight. TWATS on a plane. :angry:

     

    I feel better for the rant though. :angry:

     

     

    I always intervene, it makes life more interesting. I said to one bitch in the supermarket queue yesteday that if her 'child' (he was massive) stood on my toe again I would stand on his head.

    In broken Germanise obviously. :icon_lol:

     

    I'm even complain if someone puts their seat back against my table on a short flight.

     

     

    Get in there man.....Have fun!!!

     

    Why is it the twat in front of me always insists on reclining from the minute we take off to the minute we land? I'm a shiten coward like Gemmill and keep my rage contained but one day I'm going to explode and garotte the bastards!

     

     

    If they're not too big and ideally a woman, better still a business woman I say, "What are you doing?!!" Loudly. And normally after a brief interchange and the victory of reason they put it back up or I kick the back of the seat for the whole flight. :angry: It is something I won't have on a 50 min flight. ;)

     

    I had proper air rage once against some German that actually turned round and had a go at me because my knees were in the back of his seat after he'd FULLY reclined his seat from the second the seat belt light went off on a 10 hour flight. I could have knocked his fucking head off when he turned round with his inflatable pillow still tucked under his neck and his eye mask thing up on his forehead and went "I VANT TO KNOW WHY I AM HAVING YOUR KNEES IN ZE BACK OF MY SEAT!"

     

    It ended up with me telling him he'd "better turn round and shut up you dickhead", to which he replied "No, YOU are ze dickhead" before turning round and shutting up. :icon_lol: I then played keepy up with his seat for the remainder of the flight.

     

    That's a full 100 Parky points Gemma. :angry:

  6. Just flown back from Holland tonight and had the misfortune of coming across two of the poshest, most badly behaved arsehole kids you could ever wish to encounter. Their mother was a dizzy posh bitch, and the kids were called Hugo and Piers. Yes, I'm not lying - Hugo and Piers. What the fuck two kids called Hugo and Piers were doing flying into Newcastle I have no idea, but fucking hell they were annoying.

     

    They started at boarding. This Chinese woman with a baby got called to board first cos she was carrying the baby, at which point Hugo and Piers start screeching "Mummy, mummy, why can't WE get on the plane first! We're children mummy. SHE'S getting on because she has children mummy! Mummy go and see the woman mummy. GO AND SEE HER MUMMY."

     

    I'm stood in disbelief looking at this woman take all this shit off these two little toerags and basically negotiating with them by pointing out that the queue is quite short so that they'll let her off with not going and asking the woman if her two little darlings can get on first.

     

    Anyway then we get on the bus thing to go to the plane and it's PACKED. That doesn't stop Hugo and Piers swinging from the fucking poles on the bus that people are trying to hold onto with mummy begging them "Please Piers! Stop that! Pleeeeeease! Come on Hugo, mummy's asked you nicely. You're bumping into people. Please darling!" with me fighting the temptation to just turn round and go "HOY! FUCKFACE! PACK IT IN!"

     

    We get off the bus and I'm at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the plane door, at which point Hugo decides he wants to be ahead of me in the queue and literally starts shoving me to try and get past. I'm beyond pissed off with dearest Hugo at this point and again I can hear his mam behind pleading with the little twat to wait his turn to get on the plane. Fucking infuriating.

     

    I felt like turning round and going "Oi! Fucking HUGO you puffy-named PRICK. If you don't pack it in, I'm gonna throw you backwards down these fucking stairs. And don't even get me started on you Piers you floppy haired little nancy boy - somehow, against all the odds, you've actually managed to end up with one of only a handful of names in existence that makes you look an even bigger ponce than your twat of a brother! :icon_lol:<_<:( "

     

    Anyway, what I actually said was nothing. :icon_lol: Perhaps if I had I wouldn't have had to listen to the two little twats hitting each other and singing at the top of their posh whiny little voices for the duration of the flight. TWATS on a plane. :blush:

     

    I feel better for the rant though. :angry:

     

     

    I always intervene, it makes life more interesting. I said to one bitch in the supermarket queue yesteday that if her 'child' (he was massive) stood on my toe again I would stand on his head.

    In broken Germanise obviously. :icon_lol:

     

    I'm even complain if someone puts their seat back against my table on a short flight.

     

     

    Get in there man.....Have fun!!!

     

    Why is it the twat in front of me always insists on reclining from the minute we take off to the minute we land? I'm a shiten coward like Gemmill and keep my rage contained but one day I'm going to explode and garotte the bastards!

     

     

    If they're not too big and ideally a woman, better still a business woman I say, "What are you doing?!!" Loudly. And normally after a brief interchange and the victory of reason they put it back up or I kick the back of the seat for the whole flight. :angry: It is something I won't have on a 50 min flight. ;)

  7. Just flown back from Holland tonight and had the misfortune of coming across two of the poshest, most badly behaved arsehole kids you could ever wish to encounter. Their mother was a dizzy posh bitch, and the kids were called Hugo and Piers. Yes, I'm not lying - Hugo and Piers. What the fuck two kids called Hugo and Piers were doing flying into Newcastle I have no idea, but fucking hell they were annoying.

     

    They started at boarding. This Chinese woman with a baby got called to board first cos she was carrying the baby, at which point Hugo and Piers start screeching "Mummy, mummy, why can't WE get on the plane first! We're children mummy. SHE'S getting on because she has children mummy! Mummy go and see the woman mummy. GO AND SEE HER MUMMY."

     

    I'm stood in disbelief looking at this woman take all this shit off these two little toerags and basically negotiating with them by pointing out that the queue is quite short so that they'll let her off with not going and asking the woman if her two little darlings can get on first.

     

    Anyway then we get on the bus thing to go to the plane and it's PACKED. That doesn't stop Hugo and Piers swinging from the fucking poles on the bus that people are trying to hold onto with mummy begging them "Please Piers! Stop that! Pleeeeeease! Come on Hugo, mummy's asked you nicely. You're bumping into people. Please darling!" with me fighting the temptation to just turn round and go "HOY! FUCKFACE! PACK IT IN!"

     

    We get off the bus and I'm at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the plane door, at which point Hugo decides he wants to be ahead of me in the queue and literally starts shoving me to try and get past. I'm beyond pissed off with dearest Hugo at this point and again I can hear his mam behind pleading with the little twat to wait his turn to get on the plane. Fucking infuriating.

     

    I felt like turning round and going "Oi! Fucking HUGO you puffy-named PRICK. If you don't pack it in, I'm gonna throw you backwards down these fucking stairs. And don't even get me started on you Piers you floppy haired little nancy boy - somehow, against all the odds, you've actually managed to end up with one of only a handful of names in existence that makes you look an even bigger ponce than your twat of a brother! :icon_lol: :icon_lol: <_< "

     

    Anyway, what I actually said was nothing. ;) Perhaps if I had I wouldn't have had to listen to the two little twats hitting each other and singing at the top of their posh whiny little voices for the duration of the flight. TWATS on a plane. :(

     

    I feel better for the rant though. :angry:

     

     

    I always intervene, it makes life more interesting. I said to one bitch in the supermarket queue yesteday that if her 'child' (he was massive) stood on my toe again I would stand on his head.

    In broken Germanise obviously. :icon_lol:

     

    I'm even complain if someone puts their seat back against my table on a short flight.

     

     

    Get in there man.....Have fun!!!

     

     

    Once I sat there in the cinema and pretended to eat noisily (even though I had no snacks) to get the nacho eater in front of me to shut up.

     

     

    .......People have no manners these days and I won't tolerate it!! :blush:

  8. Just flown back from Holland tonight and had the misfortune of coming across two of the poshest, most badly behaved arsehole kids you could ever wish to encounter. Their mother was a dizzy posh bitch, and the kids were called Hugo and Piers. Yes, I'm not lying - Hugo and Piers. What the fuck two kids called Hugo and Piers were doing flying into Newcastle I have no idea, but fucking hell they were annoying.

     

    They started at boarding. This Chinese woman with a baby got called to board first cos she was carrying the baby, at which point Hugo and Piers start screeching "Mummy, mummy, why can't WE get on the plane first! We're children mummy. SHE'S getting on because she has children mummy! Mummy go and see the woman mummy. GO AND SEE HER MUMMY."

     

    I'm stood in disbelief looking at this woman take all this shit off these two little toerags and basically negotiating with them by pointing out that the queue is quite short so that they'll let her off with not going and asking the woman if her two little darlings can get on first.

     

    Anyway then we get on the bus thing to go to the plane and it's PACKED. That doesn't stop Hugo and Piers swinging from the fucking poles on the bus that people are trying to hold onto with mummy begging them "Please Piers! Stop that! Pleeeeeease! Come on Hugo, mummy's asked you nicely. You're bumping into people. Please darling!" with me fighting the temptation to just turn round and go "HOY! FUCKFACE! PACK IT IN!"

     

    We get off the bus and I'm at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the plane door, at which point Hugo decides he wants to be ahead of me in the queue and literally starts shoving me to try and get past. I'm beyond pissed off with dearest Hugo at this point and again I can hear his mam behind pleading with the little twat to wait his turn to get on the plane. Fucking infuriating.

     

    I felt like turning round and going "Oi! Fucking HUGO you puffy-named PRICK. If you don't pack it in, I'm gonna throw you backwards down these fucking stairs. And don't even get me started on you Piers you floppy haired little nancy boy - somehow, against all the odds, you've actually managed to end up with one of only a handful of names in existence that makes you look an even bigger ponce than your twat of a brother! :icon_lol: :icon_lol: <_< "

     

    Anyway, what I actually said was nothing. ;) Perhaps if I had I wouldn't have had to listen to the two little twats hitting each other and singing at the top of their posh whiny little voices for the duration of the flight. TWATS on a plane. :(

     

    I feel better for the rant though. :blush:

     

     

    I always intervene, it makes life more interesting. I said to one bitch in the supermarket queue yesteday that if her 'child' (he was massive) stood on my toe again I would stand on his head.

    In broken Germanise obviously. :icon_lol:

     

    I'm even complain if someone puts their seat back against my table on a short flight.

     

     

    Get in there man.....Have fun!!!

  9. some of Gemmils best mates have watched the Cosby show... so he can't be a racialist

     

    I call for Gemmill to be indighted under the race relations act.

     

    Although he has said nothing untoward on this thread and is clearly not racist, his stubborn stance in not getting involved in 'this thread' has raised suspiscions of a) His sexual orientation and :dancing: His irrational hatred of fish and chip shops. The fact that these two issues seem unconnected and arbitary is no excuse, WE WANT ANSWERS GEMMA!! :razz:

  10. I don't agree with the death penalty, or even the way this whole episode has been conducted tbh, but I'm a bit pissed off with the way he's being painted whiter than white on the basis of people's hatred for Blair and Bush. He was and still is a totally evil bastard.

     

    yes of course and im not disagreeing that he is an evil bastard, & shud have got rid off

    it's just funny

    how other presidents have done worse things, if not worse e.g. Airel Sharon??

    but nobody has done nowt...

     

    it's just strange dont you think??

     

    Killing someone is the easy way out, why not let him suffer and prison him for life

     

    My faith in scousers somewhat restored. :dancing:

     

    :icon_lol::razz:

     

    It's clear they will hang one of his doubles and Saddam will retire to Miami on a CIA pension.

  11. Film snob tbh, just take it as a laugh, no need to look into it so much!

     

    Happy Face is a film snob? :dancing:

     

    Heard a sly rumour that the Pope is Catholic today aswell. :razz:

     

     

    Define 'snob'. I'll watch anything and everything, and enjoy most of it.

     

    You want to see Parky's top 50, the definition of a snob tbh.

     

    The savages are clueless about cinema and I think most of 'them' would be first to admit it. :icon_lol:

  12. I can't be certain but I'm pretty sure I've never seen a gay work in a chippy tbh. Not a Danny La Rue type gay anyway. They all seem to work in clothes shops in town.

     

    Now we're getting to the heart of the matter. Smells it seems somehow trigger the lower brain and survival becomes paramount.

  13. What did Gemmil say like?

     

    I am more than prepared to haul Gemma before the Haig as his absence from a thread of these proportions is surely a henious dereliction of some kind. Guilt by absence, he will be tried in absentia and ritually hanged along with all his 'doubles' to be sure. :unsure:

  14. I've never trusted Kermode since he recommended 'Witchfinder General' and put it on a par with 'The Wickerman'. Even Vincent Price at his hammy best couldn't rescue that pile of plop.

     

    Who is he like?

    Marcus Tandy's chunkier brother (Kermode not Price).

     

    That Alex Cox bloke says good things about films sometimes. Kermode looks too happy and healthy to be a film critic.

  15. Rather that than smelling of the blacks or the gays, eh? :D

     

    The gays tend to smell quite fragrant tbh. Thats wasn't a comment on the blacks by implication btw.

     

    Bollocks, it's like a fucking klan meeting around here sometimes.

     

    That wasn't an implication that the blacks smell of bollocks btw.

     

    This thread has Gemmill potential. :unsure:

    I hope you aren't implying blacks or gays smell like Gemmill.

     

    By default in the this context I err on the side of insanity. :angry:

  16. Rather that than smelling of the blacks or the gays, eh? :D

     

    The gays tend to smell quite fragrant tbh. Thats wasn't a comment on the blacks by implication btw.

     

    Bollocks, it's like a fucking klan meeting around here sometimes.

     

    That wasn't an implication that the blacks smell of bollocks btw.

     

    This thread has Gemmill potential. :unsure:

  17. Kermode didn't like it.

     

    He didn't. And I think he raised some very valid points. I've only seen the trailer and selected clips so far, so call me Renton, but it does seem that his targets are getting less and less worthy of ridicule. If a bloke turns up at your house and puts a little bag of shit on the table and invites a crack whore, he's not so much making you look stupid as himself.

     

    Both Ali G and Borat were at their best exposing the bigotry/stupidity of deserving targets. Don't get me wrong, I think telling a woman she has a small brain to cause offence is funny, but not 5 stars funny, Harry Enfield has already done it better anyway with "Women, know your limits!". Perhaps the majority of footage released has been de-politicised to encourage a wider audience, but I far prefer it when Cohen's characters make a point.

     

    Get off your high horse Nicos. It's hilarious and very close to the bone. Not bad as Borat is one of his weaker characters imo.

     

    I apologise for attempting to discuss the film further than than "FUNNY AS FOOK".

     

    Accepted. :unsure:

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.