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What kind of fucking bird is it?! Come on itv, you fucking charlatans, BBC would have bill oddie on the red button by now.

Was going for the shoddy phonebox leaflet look I'll have you know Oh, alright, I noticed straight after I posted but it was an ms paint job so I couldn't edit it.

Polyester? Some kind of shit made from oil and tyres anyway.

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And the catalogue you can order it from is an .exe file

http://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/WorldCup/TournamentNews/FIFA-denies-players-are-missing-20100618

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http://www.footballshirtculture.com/components/com_joomgallery/img_pictures/fantasy_kit_design_1/nufc_20100409_1078649157.jpg Out of all the shirts in this thread, never thought this one was going to be in the right kind of area for any of the kits. http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/787/keeperi.jpg

The badges with the white border around them remind me of those rice paper characters you go with those cup cake kits. You know, like pictures of Tom and Jerry or something. Does that make sense to anyone except me?

Right, are people willing to believe these are pictures of the real kits now then? http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/7813/21052010206.jpg Offical site photos: http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9452/secondrn.jpghttp://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9415/thirds.jpg That or someone was very lucky with their photoshop guess I suppose.

South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic Angered By Soccer Games Breaking Out During Concerts

Well, the last premier league game I saw was against Villa, and the next one I see will be against them as well. Would love to turn them over and bury that memory.

You can change your captain after he's played to someone else you think will do better that hasn't played yet.

Any idea when Sky usually do their first round of fucking about with everything? Not sure if I should wait for that before booking all the home games off work.

Only one thing to do, isn't there? Hope our players are excited enough about playing Man U now instead of fucking Plymouth to get stuck in and upset Sky.

Same as our last prem season then. One good thing is that Man U seem tog et out of the blocks pretty slowly, their last three first games of the season (all at Old Trafford) were a 1-0 win against Birmingham, 1-1 against us and 0-0 against Reading.

Bahahaha, yep, sneak out, take those fucking horns with you. When was the last time the hosts didn't get to the knockout stages?

Yeah, click round 2 on the top bar.

Right, I see the trick to this. Make your starting 11 the players who play earliest, not matter how shit they are. Make the first one to play captain. If they don't do well, sub them and move the armband to someone else. If they score a hatful, leave them on.

Maybe the Turkish fans should demand people respect their culture by allowing all fans to take a load of smoking flares or something into the stadium as well, then we can have people not seeing anything as well as not hearing anything. Worth just seeing how far we can take it.

The horns are tuned to the exact mid-range of what we hear, so reducing them also dampens commentator voices, singing and things like the sound of the ball being kicked.

You seem to take quite an umbridge to people's dislike of the vuvuzela, do you sell them on your stall?

If the World Cup was being held in England and some Del Boy had decided to make a few quid by selling some variety of droning plastic noise makers on every street corner, which created a white noise that totally nullified the atmosphere, I'd expect pretty much every other country to rightly tell us to fuck off. In fact, I doubt we'd even have been allowed plastic tubes of that size into the stadium anyway, even if they'd been around for five years and we decided it was our "culture". That's the main problem with them - people who are saying "Oh, I just tune them out after a while so I don't know why they get to people" are missing the point. Have you ever been in a room with a noisy air conditioner and you've not even noticed it's there until it turns off? When you suddenly realise that the room wasn't, as you assumed, silent? That's what this constant drone becomes after half an hour, the base level, silence. That's why when someone scores, even though there is actually noise, it has the eerie feeling of when a goal is scored at a match that's being played behind closed doors. It's not about ignorant foreigners trying to oppress South Africa's culture and creativity, it's about the people of whatever nationality with these plastic tubes stopping anyone else from singing, cheering, drumming, playing instruments... What about all of those aspects of countries football culture that aren't being respected? Maybe if we host the world cup we could drown out the Brazilian samba by having people everywhere selling our own pointless cultural noise maker, the football rattle, on every corner. Oh, hang on, last I saw it was top of the list of verboten items when you walk into about any stadium in the country, and would probably fall foul of this FIFA World Cup Rule The following items are prohibited in the stadiums: ... •n) mechanically-operated instruments which produce an excessive volume of noise