Vinny Green Balls

Best is on the perfect wavelength with his namesake, the namesake 5 years removed form this planet.

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How the hell are those not illegal throw-ins?

It's time for 'Subduction Zone' Shola to work his slow-moving plate magic.

Born in Maryland. Grew up in Hawaii and Northern California. Went to uni for a year at the University of Glasgow.

and I live in the town with the most plastic idiots per capita in the world. Los Angeles.

10-33% of 15 million -----> 1.5 to 5 million non-douchebags. You are right. That is still a lot. But I may be a bit generous with my percentages. I do like to give people the benefit of the doubt though.

Fuck Carroll. The thick prick isn't going to ruin my love for the game. Granted a lot of the romanticism has been eroded away by the rampant capitalism of the modern footballing era, but I have a lot of memories unsullied by it. And these big money fuckers haven't quite figured out how to get into my mind and corrupt these memories.

And what a revisionist prick. The 8 games Shearer was in charge did not get us relegated. The 30 games before that did.

Hitler was born in Austria. Doesn't mean every Austrian is like Hitler. Just 75% of them

absolutely underwhelmed by this news.

The average person from NYC or Jersey: douchebag. The area is like the Eden of the Douchebag. In biblical terms, the genesis of the douchebag occurred somewhere around there. The conception wouldn't have been immaculate though.

And say what you will about Shearer, he generally tends to keep his mouth shut in a dignified manner and let the other guy skewer himself.

Llambias is amazing in his ability to grow in levels of odium each time he speaks. I salute the man. I thought he was just an absolutely horrendous tit. He blew my expectations out of the water.

If this is true, and I am still a bit skeptical, then that monstrously fat fuck will be absolved of blame on this one. Still think it was like the beginning of WWI where nobody had the desire nor the will to stop it from happening.

Not to be a dick, but one of our ironclad memes is an inflated sense of self-entitlement. So we probably do have more glory hunters per capita than in the UK. However, when I lived in Scotland, there were enough glory hunters there to make me question this. I certainly see nothing to defend. However, there are regions in the country where people are absolutely mad about their local team, even if it is a high school football one.

Most footballers are thick as pig shit. We just have to accept this. Once we do fully, then the disappointment from their daft comments will lose its edge.

And even better, baseball has Albert Pujols, the most hilarious name in sports. When I first heard the commentator say, "Pujols takes a ball", I just about shit myself laughing.

Baseball is great in other ways. Go to Pac Bell Park. Get absolutely drunk. Watch your buddy make a complete ass of himself. Every once in awhile, focus on the movement out of the corner of your eye, that movement being the actual game. Watch a few drunk idiots get arrested when the Dodgers are in town. Drink more. Barely remember the score the next day.

I honestly didn't know what to do when the Giants won the World Series. 35 years of heartbreak. That utter shit World Series in 2002 when Dusty Baker snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Even when we were winning 3 games to 1, in the back of my mind I still expected us to blow it. And that fucking team. Who would have guessed that they were going to win the World Series, let alone be in it?

College football has plenty of diehard, passionate fans. The Deep South lives and breathes for their high school and college football. For years, the only person greater than Jesus to my grandad was Bobby Bowden. On baseball, you've got Red Sox fans. In the NFL, you've got the Bears, Steelers, Packers. So the passion is there, but only really entrenched in relatively small regions.

That's how we roll in the avant-garde. I like your style

Well done polpolpol for your encyclopedia caliber example of pedantic. I particularly like your elegant ability to skewer this holier-than-thou argument with a holier-than-thou spearhead of an argument yourself. Quality.

well said. We don't have enough information to rate him as a manager. That said, the guy will always be The Legend to me. His goals, his intelligence, and when he lost his pace, the ability to adapt. Fuck it man, the guy was a force of nature with an indomitable will. How he played on the field was always a template for me in how to perform your best. I fucking hate the cliche 110%, but if there was one man on the pitch who could achieve that, it was Shearer. The question is will he be able to translate this philosophy to less dedicated players just riding on the crest of a wave? Or will be an utter asshole to them, and end up like Souness in alienating a fair few of his players? Could go either way for me. Wouldn't be surprised if he succeeded, or if he failed. But I will certainly give him a fair shake, and not assume that he is utter shit because of those 8 games in charge.

This is why I think it is unlikely that we will go down. After cooling down, I even think a 30% chance of relegation is way too high now, particularly with West Brom's abysmal form. I am not comparing the squads. I am more looking at our position in 2009. We were horrible, but there were some absolute piles of dogshit in the league that even a horrible squad like ours should have limped ahead. I did not expect us to get relegated that season. I really didn't. But we did. It seems that Ashley is quite good at manufacturing chaos when there doesn't need to be any. The fat fuck is clearly an agent of entropy.