madras

re amir 9's post about developing a feel for the area, has this happened to anyone else, has the interest in the football team lead to an interest for the wider area and what way ?

Back to bed.......you can't sleep ?, Oh well snuggle down and I'll tell you a story. Well I was still at school, 15 I was and the lad I whose locker I'd hijacked (there weren't enough to go round) at school told me someone in West house who I vaguely knew was going to Rotherham with his Uncle in the car, space in the back, did I want to go ? Yeah I was up for it, I'd been dining on greggs jam doughnuts (2 for 10p out of 50p dinner money) so I was a relatively rich dude. We were set! Saturday morning arrived outsidee Maid Marion store Westerhope, picked up in a Blue Austin Allegro off for a tour of South west denton to pick up the Uncles friend, a slightly smaller, Scottish version of Rory McGrath Dundee (or maybe Dundee Utd) fan comiong along for the day out. The journey there is much of a blur save for the smell of whiskey from the Rory-a-like and his tunes on the cars cassette, Supertramp and Bob Dylan....then a few laps round Rotherham thinhking that the floodlights from the railway were the football ground. Now, there was a bit of pre match controversy about this as they not only ramped up the price for us but also had no concessions and I'd said at the outset "I'm not paying eight quid, I'll go in their end", something that seemed less and less likely the closer we got with Rory-a-like slagging off all the locals from thew car window. We basically pulled the car onto a grass verge /wasteland not too far from Millmoor and away we went. Before far my eyes were opened, what was to seemingly become the SPG were out in force (coppers without ID numbers leathering the shit out of anyone they wanted) and ploughing their horses into crowds to try and get a reaction. Not that they/we were all angels, ther were many walk by slappings of innocennts on either side. I stood by what I said and wouldn't pay the £8 so went in their end, behind the goal and what did I get, 2-0 up right in front of me by HT, it's bloody tough even at that age to keep schtum when you see everyone going mental at the other end. That brought on half time, well that'll be quiet and peaceful, I'll keep my cover easy, well nah!. Culture club had made their debut on top of the pops that Thursday or not far off and they played "do you really want to hurt me" at half time, Group of lads in fron t of me with a big gobbed yorkshire type ring leader "I'd give her one, did you see her on't tele t'other day"". I couldn't hold "It's a fucking bloke"..."d'ya see her / what do you mean like?"....."she is a bloke, BOY GEORGE is a clue" and to be fair once my cover was blown they were great, second half we got another 3 and I think emlyn missed a pen, they even ironically cheered when we got our last. the match had been constantly punctuated by sporadic "geordie aggro" as anything happened in the ground and many nugc seemed to be in their ends, Then exit ground left......managed to find the car, met the other 4, right get out of here,,,,,,,,,,,,,via an offie. My first purchaes of alcohol, a litre bottle of woodpecker cider while everyone else in the little corner offie picked up and just walked out with what they wanted and a bit more besides. A few minutes out the offie "Rory" and the driver decide to fight some locals who were slagging us off. chased them down an alley and scudded them a bit while we watched from the car, scared to leave our freshly bought/nicked booty................and scared to get involved. Journey home...followed a box luton for a while with the back open with NUFC fans sat on the back ledge (mick will explain), then "Rory" needs to hoy, hard shoulder, very whiskey-ey, as he's barfing a car pulls in behind us and this fella starts talking to the driver "do you want to buy some parts"...what the fuck, this bloke, black slacks, black poloneck sweater (terminology of the time aswell yey!) with blond slicked back hair and perferation dots tattoo across his neck. no no don't need any spares "he looks a mess (rory) i'll take him back for you"...no it's ok, ", "i can leave this car here and come back with yous in case he gets stroppy".....what ?. a year or so later when I wasn't a school kid but an about towner I saw the bloke in town (friday night type town) and he told me he'd regularly go to aways with friends and just nick a car to come home, this was backed up by his mates. made it back to the local park for a game of football with whoever was out, felt so grown up regale stories of the day, it was really just an eye opener and a starter. Shhhh now...............................sleep, mwah.

this is a case like the one recently in the seychelles, maybe maldives in which a woman is raped, after reporting it it's judged that fair enough it may have been without her consent but shes had sex out of wedlock or adulterously, therfore she is the guilty one.

was she found guilty and imprisoned ?

Russia is ranked higher than England, was in the semifinals of Euro 2008, has one of the better leagues in the world, and has a deep history of success dating back to the CCCP. If we are limiting ourselves to places that are more of a hotbed than Russia, not many places will be hosting. In what way is Qatar not civilised? One of the countries where if a woman gets raped and reports it it's a higher possibility she'll go to jail than the rapist, for one. Is this really true though? Or is this your opinion based on what happened to that norwegian girl? if it happened to the norwegian girl then its true, no ?

pleased you got it. I was worried it would be seen as my normal typos.

colbeck,gardener, o'shee, fletcher, larson.

I think people exaggerate how easy it is to not be playing and suddenly come into a game and 'take your chance' type that in the (if there is one) obertan thread.

on the other hand what you have said really that it is a rich country, with all that brings, technology etc and while uncivilised may seem strong the rape thing and many reports of institutionalised abuse of migrant workers hardly makes them scandinavian.

that thinks rape is really adultery and then punish them for that.

can someone find out what our commercial revenue is like compared to everton and villa (probabaly the largest of the national as opposed to world wide clubs ) ? also is it possible to compare spurs investment over revenue compared to ours ?

been a few things in the press about that recently, they even have their own malaga supporters club. similar goes on at mallorca.

when the atmosphere changes for the good and everyone gets caught up in it (duncan ferguson coming on in the semi v spurs stylee)

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/di-canio-regains-control-of-sunderland-in-military-coup-2013092479731 probs ryan

shearer and ferdinand, while not primarily poachers were both very good at it. david kelly maybe ?

when a shot comes in, particularly from distance and you know it's going in and you are up before everyone else.

never really heard (or read) southall talk about football so wouldn't know if he's one of those who played at the highest level but seems to know fuck all (rodney marsh, phil thompson, peter shilton for example). interesting bloke when on about other things though.

doesn't " taking chances in the area created by others" account for the majority of goals ? for me he's a good all round forward. his build up play is more erratic than crap (not helped last season by no support or movement). the goals he doesn't score are ones where he takes his man on which he doesn't normally need to do due to getting into positions where it's best to hit early.

yeah, that would be the natural result of players being disciplined for twattish behaviour.

He wasn't a poacher during his first half season. or in jormany from what I remember.

surely the opposite to Di canio would be mahatma gandhi (he plays for atletico goianiense in the same squad as john lennon)

can't be that natural when it doesn't happen in most other sports.

too much hassle and why punish a team for a genuine injury ?. if a player is injured the physio can come on, game carries on, player is considered out of the game and must leave the pitch after treatment.

there are some things football could learn from rugby, I pointed out one, i'd also put in respctful behaviour to officials.

I'm massively with you on all of that, not a lot has me shouting and balling more than that s****. seen it a couple of times aswell when they player is injured off the pitch and they still put the ball out and wait for him. bring in rugby rules, if a player goes down injured play carries on.