TaylorJ_01 Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Roman Abramovich's food tab: http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/what-rich-people-eat-cci Haha, I love the $7,000 gratuity charge! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Oh look another club that has lots of history with the following: St James, Ashley & Llambias. No surprise its FUCKED. London Casino has called in the administrators. It has been bust by its own clients! As if to prove that it is not always the casino’s that win, the London Fifty Casino, located at 50 St James’s Street, has been taken to the cleaners by a number of high rolling clients who have made multi million pound wins. It closed its tables in October to stem any further losses whist the Casino’s owner, London Clubs International, desperately tried to sell it. The asking price is anything between £10million and £30million. It seems that nobody wants to buy it, so the owners had no choice but to announce that they intend to appoint administrators. Despite the fact that there is no more gambling, the bars and the restaurants remain open for business. London Fifty Casino is a place that was mostly patronised by high rolling gamblers. Its members included such people as Mike Ashley, the Newcastle United owner and Philip Green, the multibillionaire king of the retail business, and it seemed that many of them were highly successful gamblers. On one notorious occasion Mike Ashley popped in for a bit of fun on the roulette wheel and walked out less than an hour later with over £1,000,000 profit. Nice work if you can get it. London Fifty Casino was opened in 1827 and it is claimed that it was the first club to take gambling off the streets and turn it into a respectable activity for the upper classes. The casino rapidly established a reputation amongst the rich and the famous and it became a favourite haunt for gambling members of the royal family. Until it closed the tables, it cost £650 to join. http://casino.gamingsupermarket.com/news/1443/london-fifty-casino-goes-bust-due-to-huge-payouts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Dennis-Wise-drops-30m-bid-for-Charlton-article205547.html Dennis Wise has pulled out of a £30million bid to buy League One Charlton. Former Millwall boss Wise and business partner Tony Jiminez dropped out after their Middle East backer ended interest in the debt-ridden club. They should put that £30m into the NUST. Actually that's an interesting point. Will never ever happen, but if Wise & Jimenez went to the NUST and said we'll invest £30m towards the £80m, would they accept it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Dennis-Wise-drops-30m-bid-for-Charlton-article205547.html Dennis Wise has pulled out of a £30million bid to buy League One Charlton. Former Millwall boss Wise and business partner Tony Jiminez dropped out after their Middle East backer ended interest in the debt-ridden club. They should put that £30m into the NUST. Actually that's an interesting point. Will never ever happen, but if Wise & Jimenez went to the NUST and said we'll invest £30m towards the £80m, would they accept it? It would be interesting if it was ever likely to happen but its just not is it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Van Persie's injured Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Van Persie's injured Pretty badly it seems as well. Rotten luck for Arsenal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Arsenal top of the table (in physioroom.com) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Just keeping our title warm until we return. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Arsenal top of the table (in physioroom.com) :celb: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Any Norwegians online tell me/us a bit about Tommy Hoiland a lad who says his favorite player is our Alan Smith. went to school with this one. Complete nutter and a grade A wanker on the pitch, but still a decent prospect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Anyone hear about Nigerian footballer Stephen Worgu? He plays in Sudan and got caught drunk-driving. He was sentenced to be flogged foutry lashes with a karwats. He's fighting it though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 My fucking God. Just saw a TV advert for the Sun with loads of gobshites talking shite about the Sun. And then up pops Alan Shearer who says "The Sun is to football what St James Park is to Newcastle". Did he really need that extra 50 grand or whatever? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 My fucking God. Just saw a TV advert for the Sun with loads of gobshites talking shite about the Sun. And then up pops Alan Shearer who says "The Sun is to football what St James Park is to Newcastle". Did he really need that extra 50 grand or whatever? Maybe it was a good chance to have a dig at the renaming? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 My fucking God. Just saw a TV advert for the Sun with loads of gobshites talking shite about the Sun. And then up pops Alan Shearer who says "The Sun is to football what St James Park is to Newcastle". Did he really need that extra 50 grand or whatever? Maybe it was a good chance to have a dig at the renaming? Yeah I did consider that it was topical but still - The Sun - what's he playing at? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 I have no other defence your honour Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfast Boy Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 The Sun is, without doubts, a ropey paper, but whenever I buy a paper its that one purely on the strength of it's football content. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Argentina coach Diego Maradona banned for two months by Fifa guardian.co.uk, Sunday 15 November 2009 21.32 GMT Just when Argentina thought it was safe finally to prepare for the World Cup, their coach, Diego Maradona, was banned from football for two months last night. An often surreal, intensely controversial and deeply troubling year will draw to a close with no manager on the bench and a shadow hanging over the troubled national team who were defeated 2-1 here on Saturday by Spain. The ban was handed down by Fifa in Zurich following a three-hour meeting tonight and a 40-minute appearance from Maradona himself. The world governing body said that it had taken into consideration Maradona's apologies and "sincere regret" but the subsequent ban was still more severe than had been expected. Maradona will not be allowed to have any formal involvement in football until 15 January 2010 – less than six months before the start of the World Cup. He was also fined 25,000 Swiss francs (£15,000). The punishment follows Maradona's remarks after Argentina reached the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Uruguay in their final qualifying match on 14 October. He told journalists they "take it up the arse", grabbed his crotch and insisted the world's media should "suck it and keep on sucking". Fifa punished him according to Article 57, which relates to "offensive gestures or language". He has been warned a repeat will lead to even stronger sanctions. The Argentinian Football Association is expected to stand by the coach but no appeal is expected. Julio Grondona, the president of the AFA, is also vice-president of Fifa and was aware of the deliberations being made by football's governing body. In view of his coming in for severe criticism himself, it suits him for the media to focus more on the national team's coach than their president. Maradona is also a hugely lucrative draw, if not a particularly successful man, to have in charge. Maradona's assistant, Alejandro Mancuso, will take charge when Argentina face the Catalonia "national" team in a prospective friendly on 22 December in Barcelona and will also assume control if a proposed friendly against the Czech Republic is confirmed for 16 December. Maradona will be back in charge by the time the next formal international break comes round in March. Despite boasting arguably the world's best player in Lionel Messi, Maradona's time in charge of the Argentina has been a largely disastrous one. He fell out with Juan Román Riquelme, despite once naming him as his footballing successor – something he also did with Javier Saviola, Pablo Aimar and Messi – and the playmaker has refused to return to the squad. Maradona has used 78 players since taking charge just over a year ago. Maradona's relationship with Carlos Bilardo, his coach at Mexico 86, also soured. Bilardo was employed as technical director to provide support for Maradona, only for the coach to demand he spend games in the stands "with a suit and tie on". In the relieved aftermath of the win over Uruguay, with emotions running high, the pair embraced and appeared to have settled their differences. But Maradona has continued to say he wants complete control over all footballing decisions. Fifa's officials had to decide if Maradona had breached Article 58 of Fifa's discipline code by "[offending] the dignity of a person or group of persons through contemptuous, discriminatory or denigratory words". That offence carries a mandatory five-match stadium ban which, if applied to competitive matches, would have sidelined him until after the World Cup quarter-finals stage. However, Maradona was judged by Article 57 relating to "offensive gestures or language". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Alex Ferguson and Allardyce have been told they have post-match interviews to the Beeb, due to a new ruling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidAK Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Argentina coach Diego Maradona banned for two months by Fifa guardian.co.uk, Sunday 15 November 2009 21.32 GMT Just when Argentina thought it was safe finally to prepare for the World Cup, their coach, Diego Maradona, was banned from football for two months last night. An often surreal, intensely controversial and deeply troubling year will draw to a close with no manager on the bench and a shadow hanging over the troubled national team who were defeated 2-1 here on Saturday by Spain. The ban was handed down by Fifa in Zurich following a three-hour meeting tonight and a 40-minute appearance from Maradona himself. The world governing body said that it had taken into consideration Maradona's apologies and "sincere regret" but the subsequent ban was still more severe than had been expected. Maradona will not be allowed to have any formal involvement in football until 15 January 2010 – less than six months before the start of the World Cup. He was also fined 25,000 Swiss francs (£15,000). The punishment follows Maradona's remarks after Argentina reached the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Uruguay in their final qualifying match on 14 October. He told journalists they "take it up the arse", grabbed his crotch and insisted the world's media should "suck it and keep on sucking". Fifa punished him according to Article 57, which relates to "offensive gestures or language". He has been warned a repeat will lead to even stronger sanctions. Legend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Arsenal top of the table (in physioroom.com) Pfffft. They'll never reach the heights we used to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Arsenal top of the table (in physioroom.com) Pfffft. They'll never reach the heights we used to. Having Dyer, Owen, Ramage and Duff at the same point in your books was probably like having Zidane, Ronaldo, Messi and Maldini in regards of this particular competition Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Ramage? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 When I used to play Fantasie Footie, he always seemed to have that red "i" by his name when I checked for replacements. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Dyer is such a joke though, it might have been because of managerial decisions too, but I just checked wiki and he has managed 11 league appearances for West Ham in roughly 2 seasons and a half? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 When I used to play Fantasie Footie, he always seemed to have that red "i" by his name when I checked for replacements. The PL banned him from playing as it was embarassing for both him and the league. Nothing to do with injuries. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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