NJS

If European qualificiation is your criteria for a decent season then 2 of the 3 seaons before Ashley took over can be defined as shite as well.

The only relevance it has to now is the legacy of debt that still exists. And by the way there were at least 4 absolutely shit seasons when Shepherd was Chairman so this "golden decade" shite really is that.

Two good managers not good directors - the fact that they appointed shit managers who failed and fleeced the club for millions proves that. Yes the bigger picture - in debt with credit running out and no chance of investment as the summer of 2003 and the following years under Souness and Roeder proved. No need for psychic ability - shit league positions and millions wasted - no hindsight required.

Still been to more games than you since 1980 as I've saiid before so that doesn't wash with me - looking down on people who might not go now for any number of legitimate reasons makes you a twat. There are also thousands of people who go to every home game whose knowledge is non-existent. There is no direct correlation no matter how much you think there is. Maybe people booed because the club was obviously going backwards in 2004 and thy're happy now because it's going forward - not that you would ever see that.

Why don't you fuck off and support the progessive cunts then.

That makes me doubt you've ever been to a European away game - to seriously think tickets are limited or anybody who wants one can't get a ticket for any game is fucking laughable. It is also shows you think spending a few quid makes you somehow superior to other people - what a fucking wanker.

they qualified by winning the carling - there are 3 places.

Virtually guaranteed to finish at least 6th - EL now 5th+6th

Still need a point or two like. Doesn't sit right with me wanting them cunts to win so I'll settle for wanting them to lose the final.

Yes and no - I think she always thought of it that way but bear in mind that the miners strike was policed by "mercenaries" from all other forces around the country who were paid shit loads of overtime. It's also alleged that troops wore police uniforms as well which though I could believe, hasn't ever been proved as far as I know. I know there was a lot of "politicalisation" of the police in the 70s with the race riots etc and even going back to 60s protests like Grovensor square but I still think the miners strike was the real watershed in demonstrating that the police act in the interests of the establishment and the government rather than the people and the law. They claim to get away with it by insisting they swear an oath to serve the Queen rather than the state but that's just window dressing in my view.

Re that David Conn article - One of the first really big away games I went to was Sheff Wed at the start of 80/81 - there were a good 10k there and though there were a lot of heed the baals and quite a bit of bother, that was the first time I really realised that the police at football were cunts. Of course in the context of the times many will argue they had to be but South Yorkshire really stood out - later West Midlands nearly matched them but I was never surprised at the way the miners strike was policed by those bastards and sadly I wasn't really surprised that Hillsborough happened. My complete distrust and lack of respect for the vast majority of British police to this day is shaped by my experiences of them mainly in the 80s and I'd say the majority of that stems from that one police force. I don't know why SY were so bad - maybe it was bad leadership or they'd had a bad time in the 70s with football but I will always think of them simply as mass murderers.

Derry fell foul of their stubborn "the ref saw it in normal play" shite. It was bad enough that Doni appealed but Ivanovic should have had the ban at least doubled for surely the stupidest "appeal" ever - what the fuck were his grounds?

Read the breakdown of survivor/death rates by ticket class the other day. Surprise, surprise most of the rich got to the lifeboats and most of the steerage died.

I've never read Fever Pitch but have enjoyed his other books. The reason I refused to read that one is I found out that when he went to Cambridge University he gave up watching Arsenal as it was too far to travel so I thought I'm just not going empathise with him as a football fan.

I think its Jackie Milburns autobiography where he mentions how seriously Leeds took it at around that time - they were the beaten by Upest in the semi and Revie was quoted as saying how they were going to hammer us in the final.

I don't really have a problem with them giving more weight to league titles - I know Stevie argued that fans used to put more emphasis on the cups which I'm not sure about but I think as we stand now looking back leagues do mean more. Of course the way they argue you would think that 6 was a lot more than 4 or that cups meant/mean absolutely nothing (and that's leaving asid the dismissal of the Fairs cup) in order to conclude that they have the better history - that's just taking an angle for their benefit far too far which is why I do find it full of shite. As I think I've said before the only place on earth which doesn't acknowledge that the Fairs cup was the forerunner of the UEFA cup is the SMB which really shows how small-minded they are.

Only two of them were in the twentieth century. (I know three of ours were very early but still.) Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk 2

Could yet benefit us - third choice keeper plays in semi and is the hero.

Worst pen ever.

Jesus wept on a bike as he passed Mary on a moped whilst being chased by Satan on a scooter! What possible justification could they give for not rescinding the red? Blindly standing by the idiots involved. Should have charged Young.

Hard drives are completely portable. Only thing to watch for is if It's an IDE one you'll need to set it to slave mode via the dip switch to mount it with a master. If you're putting onto a SATA setup then it should be okay anyway.

Just cleared out my garden shed which I hadn't entered for about 10 years. There are a couple of bowls filled with a sludge which I'm sure contain brand new lifeforms. Couple of trips to the dump planned for later.

I fucking love watching a Liverpool manager whinging about a penalty not given at Anfield - nearly 50 years of the red shirt rule (Anfield sub-paragraph) you absolute fucking cunt.

Watching Rodger's comment about the beautiful football they played late last night was a perfect end to the day. He said they just couldn't put the ball in the net - no you didn't create any chances.

Tiote off - shit