Belfast Mags

Fucking get in Just back from being out all day (with no Internet coverage) and logged on for a catch up. Really hope we can get this one "over the line" [/Pardsspeak] Just two world class CB's and another CM and we'll literally romp the Championship next season.

HH is nice, but a bit posh (it's the richest city in Germany)...When you live here you realise the locals think they're a bit special and so I often have to make jokes that this city isn't much bigger than a village. I didn't find it posh at all Parky, probably wasn't there long enough though and we stayed mainly around the docks and also the arty bit up beyond the reeperbahn at St.Pauli. The people we did speak to I thought they had quite a working class kind of attitude which was cool. The people reminded me of Glaswegians which is quite strange I know but I got that kind of vibe off them. It's certainly posh in neighbourhoods like Pöseldorf, Rothenbaum and outlying places like Blankenese and Poppenbüttel. In fact very posh. There are rougher parts in the south and east of the city but the district you were in, which IMO is the best part of town, is more trendy lefty and "bohemian" nowadays than it was in it's tough working class past. St.Pauli embraces the working class, left traditions of the past and scorns upon anything posh, though in reality many of their fans are a lot more well heeled than they'd appear or admit to being on match days. Belfast Mags -although I say it through gritted brown and white eyes.a day at the Imtech watching HIV would be a great day out too, and you're right it's a city which is well worth the trip. Belfast Mags versus Benwell Lad in a strange inter-forum second team, cross city derby rivalry thing St Poorly's stadium looks a bit mad, would be worth the trip alone just to see it. Until recently it resembled Croft Park (Blyth Spartans) but was crammed with 23,000 highly vociferous fans every game. It was fantastic. It's currently being redeveloped into a very tidy c 30,000 capacity but will retain a "pure" football stadium feel - not like a flatpack SoL,Riverside,Pride Park type thing. On a recent visit HSV were at home on a very cold Friday evening and I was out wearing a St.Pauli hat, I returned by U and S bahn at about midnight on the line which comes from the Imtech and had to make a couple of changes, standing on the platform wearing that hat amongst hundreds of pissed up HSV fans was quite strange and not something I'm sure I'd get away with in many other places. In honesty, as an outsider, I struggle to dislike HSV, in fact I have a certain empathy as they remind me very much of a German equivalent of our beloved Newcastle. Been to Germany on business and had my stag do in Berlin so have had a keen interest in the country for a while now. Went to see Hertha versus Stuttgart at the Olympic Stadium and really enjoyed it. Atmosphere was terrific and the standing sections are immense, a heaving mass of flags and scarves and some excellent "Germanic style chanting", all-in-all a really great experience. So anyway, after all that I decided to follow (in a remote sense) a German club. But who? Well, I started to think of a connection to a club and Kevin Keegan popped into my mind. So HSV it was Glad someone else can see a connection between the clubs because I was wondering if I was seeing something that wasn't really there for selfish reasons. Two very old clubs in the high North of the country, massively well supported who's successes haven't matched the passion of the fans in recent decades. Two sleeping giants (or in HSV's case should that be Dinosaur ) Spent a few hours on google street view one night cruising around Hamburg and was in Blankenese, very nice indeed. Plan to make a trip to the Imtech some day. Looks class on match days.

Fuck me , even in Krul comes up to celebrate, the whole team around the captain Winner, final minute, game over :'(

HH is nice, but a bit posh (it's the richest city in Germany)...When you live here you realise the locals think they're a bit special and so I often have to make jokes that this city isn't much bigger than a village. I didn't find it posh at all Parky, probably wasn't there long enough though and we stayed mainly around the docks and also the arty bit up beyond the reeperbahn at St.Pauli. The people we did speak to I thought they had quite a working class kind of attitude which was cool. The people reminded me of Glaswegians which is quite strange I know but I got that kind of vibe off them. It's certainly posh in neighbourhoods like Pöseldorf, Rothenbaum and outlying places like Blankenese and Poppenbüttel. In fact very posh. There are rougher parts in the south and east of the city but the district you were in, which IMO is the best part of town, is more trendy lefty and "bohemian" nowadays than it was in it's tough working class past. St.Pauli embraces the working class, left traditions of the past and scorns upon anything posh, though in reality many of their fans are a lot more well heeled than they'd appear or admit to being on match days. Belfast Mags -although I say it through gritted brown and white eyes.a day at the Imtech watching HIV would be a great day out too, and you're right it's a city which is well worth the trip. Belfast Mags versus Benwell Lad in a strange inter-forum second team, cross city derby rivalry thing St Poorly's stadium looks a bit mad, would be worth the trip alone just to see it.

The details may not be but the implications are, let's not forget, Colo is a multi-million pound investment for this club, his future, our future (certainly in the immediate term) and very much interlinked. That's true, but my point is similar to colinmk's above. He's a human being, and we have to do right by him as a human being. For me, there's a practical dimension to it, as well as a moral one. Pleading and pressuring him to stay gives the message all round that we're weak and scared and can't do without him. If we let him go and face up to the uncertain future quickly, that feels like a braver and more positive move. That's apart from the assessment of whether he as an individual is going to be able to play at his best. That's fair. Just hope we can strike an agreeable outcome for all parties on it if the situation is as serious as is being suggested. Still not entirely satisfied with the lack of clarity as the San Lorenzo statements don't seem to "fit" with all of this. Agreed also that forcing someone to play wouldn't be the "right" thing to do. I know it pails into insignificance but the timing is absolutely chronic.

The details may not be but the implications are, let's not forget, Colo is a multi-million pound investment for this club, his future, our future (certainly in the immediate term) and very much interlinked.

Get to bed man

It's fucking bad form if he didn't pick that pizza up from Aroma after leaving his name like.

The San Lorenzo thing looks like simple opportunism to make themselves look big time players, doesn't exactly paint them in a good light Sounds incredibly cynical when you think his Dad's there. Would football even be on his agenda. Side question, is his wife in Argentina? Is that why he wants to be there?

Really sad news if this is true. Still can't quite make the connection between this story and San Lorenzo though. They sound psyched at the prospect of getting him, really? with major personal problems right now? If his Dad is at that club, surely they must know of this situation? Right? Their "statements" seem even more strange now in this light. Equally if this is the position and he feels that back home is an altogether better place to be right now, then a vague but firm statement from both Colo and Club could (and probably should) have been made before now to avoid salacious rumours. Strange

None of this is making any sense

Terminally? Doesn't say. Link ? http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/norwich-vs-newcastle-preview-fabricio-1530552

Terminally? Doesn't say. Link ?

Won't fit in here at all

Not according to his career stats if they're anything to go by. {Providing Wikipedia is correct}

Probably my favourite gif tbf class

Is it me, or is it quiet in here

At least with Bong we can play a high line. You're Bongkers if you think that's going to happen

As San Whatstheirface are making pretty in depth statements about it, I suggest this has been in the offing for a while now. Sounds like it's been discussed between them all (Colo, Colo's Dad, Club etc) and this is the "way" they're going to go about it. Not sure if it's going to work or not, but would a mentally unsettled player be of any use to us in any case? Particularly in our given predicament? Fuck only knows

How old we're you, 8? I was 15, really hurt as the Manu twats at school were loving it the bastards. 9, first ever footballling hero and the only time I've cried over football. :'( bless ya. I skipped school. Was just after lunch in maths I found out off someone who'd went home for lunch, got up and walked out, teacher asked where i was going, said I needed to find out if Col had been sold and off I went home. Just couldn't do that these days 8-9 I was just getting in to football, a player was a player tbh, games weren't televised as much apart from FA cups and I had just started attending very sporadically, couldn't imagine my 9 year old self being too bothered about a player leaving, which reminds me, must get my 6 year old to endure more pain as a newcastle fan, as it is he's got off lightly. Want him crying over us at least before he's 9 SOON

Fortune vomits upon my eiderdown once again :'(

He's knocked somebody up

Read an article on that earlier: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story/_/id/1292362/rewind-to-1995:-andy-cole-joins-man-utd?cc=5739 Still makes me cross when I think about that