OzzieMandias

How about "too angry"?

Getting to the quarters is no shame. It means we're somewhere between 5th and 8th best team, which seems to me roughly the reality however you look at it.

So you think Glen Johnson was "excellent"?

Whatever you can say about the players (ie plenty) that was ultimately Capello's failure. He selected Green. He selected Milner, then subbed him early. He selected King, then subbed him early. He had us playing to a target man, with Rooney lying way too deep, and none of our players apparently capable of putting in a decent cross (the only good one I can remember was from Gerrard, late on). The problems were basically tactical, but not only did the substitutions indicate a worrying indecision, they were also made to no great tactical effect, like replacing like. Up until a few months ago I had absolute confidence in Capello. Lost that now, and maybe the players have too.

I could have sworn he set up our goal, like.

:omg:

So explain.

It's a slightly odd amount, though. Why £96,000 and not, say, £100,000?

Except he said "no new capital outlay" not "no capital outlay".

I think we'll scrape it. England always seem to start slowly in these tournaments.

His name has come up before. I'm sure he has directly denied any interest in buying the club.

Good piece about Capello: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/jun/06/fabio-capello-england-world-cup-2010

And I'm as amused by the concept of nothing as evidence. f*** knows what's going on behind the scenes, but whether they're doing absolutely f*** all, or everyone at the club is working their bollocks off to bring in loans or bosmans or whatever, we'd see precisely the same evidence of it either way. Nothing. Hughton said this week that they’re “just using the first few weeks of the summer to decide what we’re going to do” and “on the back of a very good season where we’ve won promotion it’s now time to sit back and evaluate”. Doesn’t sound like they’ve being doing much to me, and it does appear to contradict his statement about having a head start. The sitting back and evaluating should have happened at the start of April when we secured promotion, and if they are just getting round to it now what do you think they have been doing for the last two months? Well, if we're taking this quote as gospel, what they are doing is "evaluating". As I believe someone has already pointed out, most of the players we might be after are not even yet out of contract. Plus, history teaches us that a) there is rarely much activity in the early part of a WC summer and b) even if there was loads going on, we're unlikely to see much evidence of it.

And I'm as amused by the concept of nothing as evidence. Fuck knows what's going on behind the scenes, but whether they're doing absolutely fuck all, or everyone at the club is working their bollocks off to bring in loans or bosmans or whatever, we'd see precisely the same evidence of it either way. Nothing.

Isn't that a little back to front? Last window, we didn't hear a whisper of any of the signings before they happened. They should change that modus operandi... why exactly?

Where's the evidence that they're "doing nowt"?

Probably took the glory-hunting route re. test cricket but now has to take regular spankings on the football pitch.

Bad news about Drogba. First African world cup and the biggest African star maybe won't appear. Sad for the whole tournament, really.

Hairdo?

I normally hate The Sun but that EASY cover was hilarious. Heard the Youessay manager on the radio today saying that it was a "tough group". That was funny, too.

Mate, a Swedish meatball is fucking tiny, I don't think either one of them would care too much if I threw it at them You have a knife. Do they have knives in Sweden? Right. You have a knife. Nigel or Gunnar. The Swedes will never go to war man, they're cowards like the Swiss running around in circles shouting "WE DON'T WANNA PLAY WITH YOU GUYS, LEAVE US ALONE, LEAVE US ALONE!!" you Scando's have been rubbish at war since years became 4 figures. Every time I read that it's funnier. http://heathrowkennedy.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/telemarkdvdcover.jpg What do the Swedes have from WW2? huh? HUH?! Raoul Wallenberg? Weirdly, I just watched Heroes of Telemark this afternoon.

Real Salt Lake.

You'd need a route planner too, like, as there are few easy connections between the Millwall and Charlton parts of the city and the Crystal Palace area -- and the same only more so for people living further west. If you're not in the same "corridor" as another area, it's often a case of travelling into a city-centre station and then out again. South London is a big area with three million inhabitants, and Millwall feels a very long way from Selhurst Park. I suppose I thought of this because I can remember watching football on Sky at my local in Brixton, and there were a bunch of dreads who'd aimably cheer for "Sarf London" when Wimbledon (then still in London, and in the Prem) were playing. They weren't Wimbledon fans, really, but preferred a bit of local-ish pride to the big North London clubs. (There was also a Geordie dread called Martin, from Wallsend -- the only other guy cheering the Toon.) Yeah, there's fuck all south of the river really. You've got Millwall in bermondsy but unless you actually support them most people would rather rip their own eyeballs out than follow them, Charlton are fucking miles away so Palace would be a big miss. Having said that, everyone wants to be a 'prem fan' these days. Huge numbers of Chelsea, Arsenal and even fucking Spurs fans in Sauf Lahndan these days. I think it's long been the case that many people from south-west London will nip over the river to Chelsea or Fulham. If you're in Battersea, Clapham, Putney etc they're probably your nearest clubs. And yeah, Charlton are so far over to the east that their big local rivalry is with West Ham, even though their catchment area overlaps a bit with Millwall's.

You'd need a route planner too, like, as there are few easy connections between the Millwall and Charlton parts of the city and the Crystal Palace area -- and the same only more so for people living further west. If you're not in the same "corridor" as another area, it's often a case of travelling into a city-centre station and then out again. South London is a big area with three million inhabitants, and Millwall feels a very long way from Selhurst Park. I suppose I thought of this because I can remember watching football on Sky at my local in Brixton, and there were a bunch of dreads who'd aimably cheer for "Sarf London" when Wimbledon (then still in London, and in the Prem) were playing. They weren't Wimbledon fans, really, but preferred a bit of local-ish pride to the big North London clubs. (There was also a Geordie dread called Martin, from Wallsend -- the only other guy cheering the Toon.)

Eh? Which part did you not understand? Nothing, just seemed an unusual thing to comment on. Why? I lived around there for a while, and Crystal Palace were the nearest club.