Village Idiot

Wasn't there a yank team with that name? Dallas Burn? "Elona" sounds a bit girlish.

Castle is awesome, makes me think of The Punisher.

I wish they showed more Bundesliga down here to be frank. Odd game I can catch has been cracking, Dortmund specially.

An useless one. Cold comfort.

He ate them after the match, was just testing they were tender enough.

Have seen stick figures with bigger breasts than Ms Kightley: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/14/article-1180855-004EE99700000258-427_468x358.jpg

http://www.blaugranas.com/foro_blaugrana-iforo-67.htm Do you post on there at all? I just lurk. Tons of good info actually. I only post in one football forum other than this, and it's mostly because of the FF league we run there.

http://www.blaugranas.com/foro_blaugrana-iforo-67.htm

Shola Ameobi, the football magician.

I'd have never thought of Mendieta as a "playmaker" either

What a cunt :lol:

As a fan, seeing local boys bringing home the trophies makes me feel prouder of the team. If the teams are meant to represent their communities (and for me Barça does represent Barcelona/Catalonia), you need local lads on them otherwise you might as well be supporting a team 1000 km from where you live. But I agree it's not a necessity to achieve success.

You've had enough to make up for it. Bellamy v Feyenoord was pretty special to go with Albert, I ran out into my street screaming. I know, but the "we are not good enough" feeling really stung at the time!

His parents couldn't afford the treatment (remember how f***ed Argentina was at the time), and Newell's wouldn't contribute to it. His agent (yes he had one) shopped him around. We gave him a trial and our chief scout agreed to sign him and finance his treatment on behalf of the club after he played a single match (the contract was signed on the back of a napkin). Story goes that he even footed the bill for the first injections for Messi to keep him in town while the board agreed to the contract.

Sorry, I fail to see it as stealing. Surely Barca had the opportunity to keep him there? Or is there some kind of loophole I don't know about? There is a loophole. We can't offer 16 year olds professional contracts. English clubs can. Same way we lost Cesc (and Piqué, and Mérida, and Pacheco...). But you signed Messi at 13 didn't you? Or was there still a change he could have gone somewhere else for a few years? We didn't "sign" him. Had a trainee contract like everybody else but we threw in some kickbacks like his treatment and gave his dad a job in here. Dunno if he was ever offered anything to leave actually, but he could have. Always wondered by English scouts picked Cesc and Piqué from the same youth team and disregarded the little Argie with the ball stuck at his feet. I guess suitors were put off by his growth problems?

Clean break, it should be absolutely no doubt he will be the same player bar any psychological blocks. Given his ego I doubt we'll see that, though. Exactly. There's a big difference between HBA's break and those of Smith and Eduardo. HBA's bones were broken at the middle of the leg. Smith and Eduardo's bones broke down at the ancle. That f***s up both the ancle and the leg. When a broken bone heals, cartilage is attached to it. This extra cartilage makes the area around the fracture stronger than it was before it got broken. This apply for HBA's case. But for Smith and Eduardo, the same cartilage causes them problems: Since the bones snapped down at the ankle, the cartilage that grows on the bone, hinders the ankle's flexibility. In other words, the ankle will never be the same again. Also I think Smith and Eduardo snapped some tendons too, making the injury even worse. And as we've seen, both those players never fully recovered. So all that's left for HBA is to fix the mental part. But seriously, I want him rested against the most physical teams. The man has such an acceleration that brutes are probably going to miss the tackle completely and take his leg. And yes, I want him rested the next match against City. If De Jong performs such an act once again, I will FUBAR him. Actually I think Eduardo's issues were more mental than anything. You could see him never fully commiting himself again.

I just love the logic behind it: "I know of 5 people with STs that died, if - say - 1000 other people know 5 people each that accounts for 5000 dead ST holders!" I know of 2 close people that died in the past year, if everybody knows 2 people that died Mankind has been extinct twice over

There's a plaque memorializing the gym where Barça first played, but I don't know if our first proper pitch (L'Escupidora) is memorialized. I don't work far from the site so I might check tomorrow.

Rumor going round that we'll try to get Cesc to do a Webster this summer in reprisal. That would bring the cost of signing him down to 25m-ish. Don't think it's true, mind, since I'm adamant Cesc wants to leave Arse in friendly terms and NO big club wants to open that can of worms (cue Alves leaving for €5m)

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=572430&page=12 f***ing fantasic stuff, people worrying about Quinns health because of his recent comments, and some guy claiming attendances may be down simply because people have died since 2004!!! You couldnt make this s*** up. just a point of order re missing fans. i know personally 5 people who have died, who had a season ticket in 2004. it is possible say 1000 people know something similar. a possible reason for 5000 missing people when quinn keeps talking about the seasons we had 45000 plus crowds back in the 2000/2001 season GOLD Mackems are an endangered species (Don't usually mind Sunderland but this was too good to pass up)

Samper is amazing, Ballesté is a good goalkeeper. There seems to be a lot of hype about him but I always find difficult to judge young goalies. Toral is a great loss, but we had known that Arsenal had made an offer to Samper since December and I'm relieved we'll get to keep at least him. We don't have control over who attends our youth away games. Also a lot of the scouts become club members and we can't weed those out. A lot of the games at this level are very informal and you really don't have people at the door enforcing attendance rules, etc... mostly just the families of the players and some odd loon attend.

They routinely scout our youngsters. It's a bit of a joke, if you go to a youth game near that age bracket, there's always a bunch of English scouts piled up on a side of the pitch. As you said, it's not that easy to convince a youngster to move to another country and this same week Sergi Samper and Pol Ballesté refused Arsenal, while Toral accepted.

http://www.nuwfc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106:alice-stroyan&catid=34:first-team&Itemid=56 "Person you would like most to meet: Channing Tatum"

Just checked the Spurs game stats, Blackpool 4 shots on goal, Spurs 10...