Vinny Green Balls

It really is hard to believe how fucking remarkably stupid this manager is...and he's all ours.

Pardew really is part of the mackem 5th column, isn't he?

Cubillas was a brilliant player. One of the best ever strikers of the ball.

now that you mention Peru. those Cubillas free kicks were ridiculous.

van der Sar diving when Ortega made minimal contact in the 98 quarterfinals, and the subsequent red card. Poetic justice if there ever was. That odious little prick fully deserved it, and for Argentina to lose in such a painful way with that Bergkamp wonder goal at the death. Fucking brilliant.

32 goal attempts by Dortmund. We will be lucky to get that out of our first 10 games.

'94 did have a shedload of drama what with the Escobar own goal and his subsequent assassination. Also the World Cup started on the day of OJ Simpson's low speed chase.

pretty inspiring avatar, Demtex. It's like Saving Private Ryan, if Private Ryan was a power bottom at the local bathhouse.

He was my first :'( did he at least buy you dinner?

fucking hell, admins. I just lost half of my drink. but you shouldn't have spelled it out, man.

I'm still laughing out of control at your, um, adjustment. Somebody is on a rampage.

1998. Denmark-Nigeria. That Ebbe Sand goal. Michael Laudrup's pass was absolutely ridiculous. Laudrup dripped pure footballing intellect. Loved everything about his play.

agreed, but as I said before, it may well be because we attended a bunch of games. Hagi was so fucking brilliant in that tournament.

Not to get the footballing heroes too far off the track. Romania-Argentina at the 94 World Cup probably for me, with Brazil-France in 86 a very close runner up. Best moment: making tea at 3 am, preparing for the inevitable pasting that Portugal was going to give the US. I heard the goal from the kitchen and threw a tantrum, thinking we couldn't even last 5 minutes...until I go out and see that we actually scored. (and this after some pretty horrible performances in the World Cup qualifying).

I think the 82 World Cup and Italia 90 are the best tournaments I saw. 82 and 94 for me. 94 only because we got to see a bunch of the games live, and that Romanian team was something special to watch. That Romania-Argentina game... 94 probably my least favourite> the final was dogshit, but there were some incredible games, although the Sweden-Romania quarterfinal really did piss me off. But to be fair, if I didn't attend the games, it probably wouldn't be near my favorite though.

I think the 82 World Cup and Italia 90 are the best tournaments I saw. 82 and 94 for me. 94 only because we got to see a bunch of the games live, and that Romanian team was something special to watch. That Romania-Argentina game...

They're throwing me a birthday party bbq tomorrow. Would rather have a pre-match meltdown, so some of my miserable cuntness attenuates by the time the party starts.

this is true. And his look of utter contempt as Battiston lay on the floor. Prick of the highest order was Shumacher.

Jesus Christ, ten years ago if you told me that Shola would still be here, I wouldn't believe it. Yet 2013 is over half over, and this apple-eating donkey may well be starting

When I was a little older, he and Platini became my favorites. Still remember that shit game against Italy in the '82 world Cup. Brazil really should have won the World Cup that year. And worse, the France-Germany semifinal. The most horrendous call in World Cup history when Shumacher took out Battiston.

http://www.football-history.net/pics/players/johan-cryuff-1974-world-cup-argentina.jpg This man. When I was 4-5, we used to see him play for the Washington Diplomats. The game I remember the most was against Beckenbauer and the New York Cosmos. RFK stadium was packed, and the atmosphere was incredible.

I should have posted my distaste for it here. Onion bag. Apparently Pardew's Marauders have a distaste for it as well.

You're talking about 2 different periods of Spurs' history as if they were one. 91-01 they were majority owned and run by a top English businessman who made his fortune selling cheap tat to the mass market. He supposedly saved them from their financial troubles (I have no idea if this is actually true or a myth spread by himself) and ran them as a proper business. In Sugar's 10 year run they finished 15, 8, 15, 7, 8, 10, 14, 11, 10, 12 - the very definition of mediocrity (the 10 years prior to Sugar they finished 4, 4, 8, 3, 10, 3, 13, 6, 3, 11). If forums existed then they'd probably have had Sugar apologists telling everyone they should be grateful he saved them, they were doomed before he arrived, how he had sorted out the finances and was running the club on a sound financial footing, etc, but they were going absolutely nowhere on or off the pitch, and we easily out performed them financially. It's only since ENIC & Levy took over that the club actually started to be run with the ambition we once had, which sees them where they are now. Yes they have sold their best players on occasion when they have wanted out - NO club is immune to that - but when they do, they spend all the money they get and more on top to try and keep pushing forward. This obvious ambition is what brings in the supporters, the corporate money and the sponsorship, plus it tends to have a happy side-effect of better football, higher league finishes and the extra cash which that brings in. Now they are on the up and making money they are not looking to pay off the debt, instead they are looking to invest in the infrastructure of the club and build a new £250m stadium to bring in even more revenue. I'm convinced Sugar would never have spent £250m on a new stadium, just as Ashley would never have spent £42m to extend St James - in 6 years, a bore hole, underground heating for the training pitches, and lots and lots of advertising hoardings is the sum of Ashley's investment in the infrastructure of NUFC. Under Ashley we're absolutely nothing like the Levy-run Spurs and never will be until he's gone or has a genuine change of purpose towards the club (but that's just a fantasy IMO). Any short term success like the 5th place season will always be a blip and we will never look to build on it, rather it will be a reason to sit back and run with what we have for another year without having to spend money on improving the squad. Any windfall player sale will not be used to boost the season's transfer kitty, but will be used to fund it entirely for the next few years. The commercial and matchday income we had which set us apart from the second tier of well supported clubs (Everton, Villa, West Ham, Sunderland, etc) was down £23.5m per year from when he bought the club in the last set of accounts. The longer he's here, the closer we get financially to theses clubs, and any advantage we built up under the previous owners will soon disappear. Eventually if they're run half decently they too will start to pull away from us. A quarter of the club's yearly revenue gone and nearly double the debt despite a £35m windfall from a player he inherited, and people say the club is better off financially than when he bought it. ridiculously good post.

The man casts a pall with his words. FFS, given the couple of weeks I've had, I'd like at least NUFC to take my mind off of it. The best surrender-man in the business. This club will get absolutely no optimism from Ashley and his two undescended testicles.

And the Maginot line ended up being as useless as our defence too um...that was the point.