Not Worthy Of A Thread

[Thespence]

Can people stop calling him that name he is now known as Abu Hamza

[madras]

27,750 - The attendance at Celtic tonight.

 

The Irish don't do midweek league games live on SKY.

The rest of Scotland not willing to travel to Glasgow for midweek game live on SKY.

The Glasgow totally pissed off after getting beat by Ross County, being s*** in the league & having a ginger in charge.

 

Celtic like ourselves saw a increase in average crowds from the mid 90's. Sky & cheap flights being the main reason for them.

1946-47 19,860

1947-48 21,000

1948-49 37,205

1949-50 29,867

1950-51 28,768

1951-52 29,568

1952-53 23,933

1953-54 28,067

1954-55 30,654

1955-56 21,467

1956-57 17,706

1957-58 18,384

1958-59 18,411

1959-60 20,588

1960-61 19,324

1961-62 25,332

1962-63 24,643

1963-64 19,800

1964-65 18,284

1965-66 24,102

1966-67 31,082

1967-68 31,373

1968-69 34,740

1969-70 33,188

1970-71 29,647

1971-72 31,241

1972-73 26,606

1973-74 24,762

1974-75 22,775

1975-76 28,066

1976-77 28,063

1977-78 29,568

1978-79 25,303

1979-80 28,499

1980-81 22,836

1981-82 22,718

1982-83 23,740

1983-84 18,390

1984-85 20,827

1985-86 25,335

1986-87 25,311

1987-88 33,199

1988-89 31,713

1989-90 28,616

1990-91 29,012

1991-92 25,086

1992-93 22,684

1993-94 22,637

1994-95 24,601

1995-96 34,342

1996-97 47,504

1997-98 48,532

1998-99 59,271

1999-2000 53,887

2000-01 59,370

2001-02 58,587

2002-03 57,614

2003-04 58,516

2004-05 57,800

2005-06 58,149

2006-07 57,927

2007-08 56,677

 

 

 

do the same for us, the mackems,man utd ,liverpool etc and it would all be quite similar. football has grown massivly in the sky years....................................and there's folk that say the press and advertising cant influence them.

[Thespence]

Madras you find me the websites & I will do the C & P.

[Village Idiot]

Weirdly, attendances in Spain have declined quite sharply since the 1990s.

[madras]

Madras you find me the websites & I will do the C & P.

err............ take my word for it then.

[gazza ladra]

Weirdly, attendances in Spain have declined quite sharply since the 1990s.

 

Duoply syndrome?

[alexthegreat]

There is our attendances for the same period:

 

 

2009 48.750

2008 51.321

2007 50.686

2006 52.032

2005 51.844

2004 51.966

2003 51.923

2002 51.373

2001 51.309

2000 36.333

1999 36.665

1998 36.672

1997 36.467

1996 36.506

1995 34.691

1994 33.794

1993 29.048

1992 21.012

1991 16.879

1990 21.579

1989 22.815

1988 21.059

1987 24.792

1986 23.434

1985 26.228

1984 29.811

1983 24.166

1982 17.276

1981 16.001

1980 23.345

1979 20.494

1978 24.729

1977 33.599

1976 33.060

1975 34.614

1974 32.861

1973 27.939

1972 32.664

1971 29.735

1970 37.553

1969 34.016

1968 37.239

1967 32.081

1966 33.793

1965 35.659

1964 29.435

1963 31.634

1962 27.946

1961 26.500

1960 36.037

1959 39.458

1958 36.241

1957 35.202

1956 37.666

1955 42.925

1954 45.392

1953 44.521

1952 50.476

1951 46.651

1950 46.468

1949 53.839

1948 56.283

1947 49.379

 

taken from here: http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/england.htm

 

[JH]

Why is Phil Brown in the Nicorette advert?

[Incognito]

Why is Phil Brown in the Nicorette advert?

 

Obvious smoker,he's covered head to foot in nicotine stains.

[Village Idiot]

Latest gossip reports seem to confirm that Iker Casillas has finally won Spain's most prized trophy:

 

http://api.ning.com/files/nt02pgpm-KdSOsj2OeDhzBE-C9IeFrXhP3R4L6cKX0H6ta20-hGJG*bDMh55mpwUoJaiWKnFF2l*GZ3lZ2bEVlS1s3Zn*J9b/saracarbonero.jpg

 

Sara Carbonero.

 

Beats our treble tbf 

[Disco]

Latest gossip reports seem to confirm that Iker Casillas has finally won Spain's most prized trophy:

 

http://api.ning.com/files/nt02pgpm-KdSOsj2OeDhzBE-C9IeFrXhP3R4L6cKX0H6ta20-hGJG*bDMh55mpwUoJaiWKnFF2l*GZ3lZ2bEVlS1s3Zn*J9b/saracarbonero.jpg

 

Sara Carbonero.

 

Beats our treble tbf 

 

From the Michael Reiziger school of lips.

[clintdempsey]

Latest gossip reports seem to confirm that Iker Casillas has finally won Spain's most prized trophy:

 

http://api.ning.com/files/nt02pgpm-KdSOsj2OeDhzBE-C9IeFrXhP3R4L6cKX0H6ta20-hGJG*bDMh55mpwUoJaiWKnFF2l*GZ3lZ2bEVlS1s3Zn*J9b/saracarbonero.jpg

 

Sara Carbonero.

 

Beats our treble tbf 

 

From the Michael Reiziger school of lips.

She could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch with that mouth. Damn.

[Ketsbaia]

la Sex in the background? she must be gagging for it

[ponsaelius]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-club_men

 

Shame, I was about to add Shola to this but his 6 game loan spell disqualifies him. Wikipedia Nazis 

[clintdempsey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-club_men

 

Shame, I was about to add Shola to this but his 6 game loan spell disqualifies him. Wikipedia Nazis 

He is added though.

[ponsaelius]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-club_men

 

Shame, I was about to add Shola to this but his 6 game loan spell disqualifies him. Wikipedia Nazis 

He is added though.

 

Christ somebody must have taken it upon themselves to add him

 

He wasn't there literally seconds ago. Probably get taken off by afforementioned WikiNazi's.

[Foluwashola]

Looks like Birmingham are going to be the latest team to be fucked over by a foreign owner 

[WarrenBartonCentrePartin]

no idea where to put it, but our groundsman has just been on SSN talking about our pitch in comparison to that of Wembley, and how ours looks decent.  He blames the way the Wembley pitch is laid.  We have a combination of sand and elastic bands in underneath the turf that strengthens the turf and prevents it from cutting up easily.

[Thespence]

BREAKING NEWS IN THE EPSOM GUARDIAN

 

Brentford hotshot Charlie MacDonald reckons pinning strike partner Carl Cort down to a new contract would be a major boost for the League One outfit.

 

Boss Andy Scott has confirmed he is set to open talks with the 32-year-old after the former Newcastle United frontman bagged his second goal in three games on Tuesday night.

 

Cort, who spends most of his training time in the gym looking after a persistent knee problem, has netted seven goals in 15 starts this season as the Bees have enjoyed successful return to the division after lifting the League Two title last year.

 

And MacDonald reckons Cort, who orginially joined the Griffin Park outfit last summer on a short-term contract, can make an even greater contribution next season.

 

“Carl has been outstanding in the last three or four games he has played. His ability is second to none,” he said.

 

“If the gaffer can get him on a new deal it would be a big plus for the club.

 

“Anyone would want someone of his experience and football ability in their squad.

 

“He has proved he can put back-to-back games together and hopefully they can come to some sort of arrangement.”

 

http://www.epsomguardian.co.uk/sport/8099484.MacDonald_urges_Bees_to_keep_Cort/

 

Bellamy, Dyer, Cort & Shola all have  problems which stop them training/playing regularly I guess drinking alcopops in places such Baja, Ikon & Legends midweek catches up with you in the end. Hopefully Cristal will not have such a impact on the next generation of footballers.

[Ketsbaia]

From The Guardian:

 

Aaron Mokoena: 'Mum dressed me as a girl to save me from killers'

It is not a typical footballer's tale of youthful hardship. Aaron Mokoena will play for Portsmouth at Wembley in the FA Cup final against Chelsea and then captain South Africa at the continent's first World Cup but he might have failed to see his 12th birthday if his mother had not dressed him as a girl to hide him from an atrocity in the grim days of apartheid.

 

Mokoena's township of Boipatong near Vanderbijlpark was the site of a massacre in June 1992, when Inkatha party members, aided by the police, swept in by night to kill more than 40 people, including pregnant women and children. In the aftermath, it was rumoured that the murderers wanted to purge the township of its next generation of men.

 

"I was still young, only 11 years of age, but I remember the following day that I was on my way to school and people were coming back, crying," Mokoena said. "That's when we heard there had been a massacre. It happened at night when people were sleeping. It was awful.

 

"After the massacre, there were a lot of rumours saying that these people wanted to kill the young boys. So my mum had to protect me in any way and she decided to dress me as a girl. She also took me to this community hall where there was enough protection for people from the township, especially the boys."

 

Mokoena was the youngest of seven siblings and he lost his father when he was only seven. "My sisters and my brothers really experienced apartheid," he said. "Afrikaners were really in control of our township because it was not very far from their territory. So it was easy for them to control.

 

"For other townships as well, it was really, really bad. The story I tell is what we went through in the small township where I was born but it was not an isolated thing."

[Belfast Boy]

Fair Play to them: 'Typical Germans'

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Cologne are offering frustrated airline passengers stranded because of the volcanic ash that has blanketed much of Europe free tickets to their Bundesliga match on Friday.

 

Hundreds of thousands of passengers have been stuck at airports across much of northern Europe due to a volcano erupting on Iceland that has sent a plume of smoke across the continent.

 

Cologne/Bonn airport shut down on Friday along with most of the country's airports.

 

Passengers need only show their airline ticket to get free entry to the stadium for the match against VfL Bochum, the club said on their website (www.fc-koeln.de).

 

"As long as stocks last," the statement added.

[Guest ObiChrisKenobi]

 

Thats well canny.

[madras]

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2010/04/14/aston-villa-the-sound-a-disappointed-frog-makes-when-it-realises-that-no-matter-how-hard-it-tries-its-tongue-just-won%E2%80%99t-reach-a-tasty-fly-140401/

 

 

Once the storm of burning rage following Tottenham’s magnificent bottling of another FA Cup semi-final had eventually subsided, it was widely agreed that the events of Sunday were very ‘Spursey’. Very much in the mould of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Flog through the earlier rounds, treat a lower league side or two very badly, get into a position to make the final and then Spurs it right up on a pitch apparently constructed from pistachio ice cream and razor blades.

 

Sunday really was the epitome of ‘a Spursing’ – to go 1-0 down in extra-time and then have a perfectly good goal disallowed before shipping a penalty that never was despite battering a team likely to disappear into cashless oblivion within the calendar year. It does not get more Spurs than that.

 

Which made me wonder what the rest of the inhabitants of Sky’s soaraway wonder-league mean to the most important arbiter of footballing good taste.  Me.

 

So here for your delectation are the definitions of every football club in the Premiership accepting as we must that ‘to Tottenham’ means ‘to sporadically promise the earth only to defecate in a pie and present it as a gift’.

 

From the top -

 

Chelsea: to raise a rival’s hopes of a humiliating collapse only to emerge from the depths of despair somehow more powerful than anyone could ever imagine while simultaneously shedding tradition in favour of jester hats, corporate entertainment and ‘synergies’.

 

Manchester United: a prog-rock band living on past glories who insist on giving their comeback tour an overly-grandiose name despite their lead singer having been replaced after a contretemps over royalties by the guitarist from Roxette.

 

Arsenal: to consistently prove to not, in fact, be the second coming despite the confident predictions of a legion of commentators, pundits and fools and instead prove, year-in-year-out, to be a moderately talented juggler and comedian with a massive fanbase in Albania.

 

Manchester City: the winner of the largest Lottery payout in history who resigns from his job in a toilet paper factory and spends his leisure time reminding former friends of just how wealthy and deserving of their respect he is.

 

Liverpool: a worryingly perished novelty balloon filled with rancid condensed milk which, for some God-forsaken reason, an ageing lothario is poking with a candy-striped stick.

 

Aston Villa: the sound a disappointed frog makes when it realises that no matter how hard it tries, its tongue just won’t reach a tasty fly.

 

Everton: a broken door handle that requires a knack to open but you simply can’t be bothered to replace. Will work perfectly for a week and then lock you out causing you to kick the door and scuff your favourite trainers.

 

Birmingham City: an evangelical preacher in the Deep South who makes much of the fact he used to run a stable of whores but is much better now thanks to the love of our Lord Jesus. May have a collection of little shoes.

 

Stoke City: the two-carriage 1970s locomotive that arrives when you really wanted to go home on one of the fancy trains. You know, with the internets. Scotch eggs will be available.

 

Blackburn Rovers: a sneaking feeling you have peaked far too early and the story you’re telling can only end badly for everyone involved. With overtones of stale lager.

 

Fulham: a confectioner who bases his entire life around the two weeks he spends in a villa on the Amalfi coast. Well-regarded in his home town but refuses to stock sherbet UFOs.

 

Sunderland: stunningly lifelike street scenery used in the background of a tawdry daytime soap opera which on closer inspection proves to be two-dimensional and supported by little more than bags of sand and window putty.

 

Wolverhampton Wanderers: the smell of pipe tobacco that reminds you of your grandfather’s shed.

 

Bolton Wanderers: the frying pan you only discover you’ve jumped into after fleeing the fire when it’s far too late. And Kevin Davies is holding the handle.

 

West Ham: a misplaced apostrophe on a blackboard advertising “pie’s n mash”. It makes you sad but you’re not really sure why. Russell Brand thinks it’s brilliant though.

 

Wigan Athletic: a shop you thought had closed down years ago but turns out to still be trading and have an untouched tin of Creamola Foam on a dusty shelf. Has one day-glo star in the window with ‘BEANZ’ written on it in felt-tip.

 

Burnley: a hospital A&E department at 5am on a Sunday morning. Not pretty but it’ll be over soon.

 

Hull City: three elderly gentlemen looking half-heartedly at a traction engine and wondering when they might be allowed a sandwich.

 

Portsmouth: the noise the cuckoo in a broken souvenir clock makes when a child forces it to chime.

 

And that’s what the Premiership means to me.

 

That and endless disappointment.

 

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[Doctor Zaius]

2 days old now but Tommy Craig has been sacked by Charleroi. How he ended up there is anyones guess.

[David28]

Has been talked about this before? Mike Ashley was at the FA Cup semi final Spurs - Portsmouth. Is he still a Spurs fan? 

 

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/98391572.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921A343B2C87A49D8F5FC25680194CC3D3CD1D168C4C9896DEDBE607FBDFF3F7C5C

 

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 11: Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley sits in the stands during the FA Cup sponsored by E.ON Semi Final match between Tottenham Hotspur and Portsmouth at Wembley Stadium on April 11, 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Jed Leicester - The FA/The FA via Getty Images)