Not Worthy Of A Thread

[jdckelly]

Anyone read Andy Cole’s article in the independent today? He reckons there are only 4 toon players good enough for the PL. Joey Barton, Kevin Nolan, Alan Smith and……… Nicky Butt!

he always was dim

[Guest WashyGeordie]

Anyone read Andy Cole’s article in the independent today? He reckons there are only 4 toon players good enough for the PL. Joey Barton, Kevin Nolan, Alan Smith and……… Nicky Butt!

he always was dim

 

Plus he probably hasn't even watched us this season, or very little, and just went on reputations or something like that.

[jdckelly]

Anyone read Andy Cole’s article in the independent today? He reckons there are only 4 toon players good enough for the PL. Joey Barton, Kevin Nolan, Alan Smith and……… Nicky Butt!

he always was dim

 

Plus he probably hasn't even watched us this season, or very little, and just went on reputations or something like that.

yup its just a thought off the top of his head (a rariety in itself) "ah nicky sure hes good enough me old mate" meanwhile everyother paper is saying butt is on verge of retirement and certainly wont be a player here next year

[Guest palnese]

Blackpool striker DJ Campbell has been arrested in connection with a stabbing outside a nightclub.

 

Lancashire Police led Campbell away from Blackpool's training ground in front of astonished players and management. He was allowed to change from his kit and was formally arrested.

 

Campbell, who has played in the Premier League with Birmingham City, was held in the cells at Blackpool Police station before being handed over to detectives from the Metropolitan Police.

He was taken to London and questioned at Hammersmith Police station by officers investigating the stabbing of a 24-year-old man outside The Crescent Club, West Kensington in the early hours of a Sunday morning in January.

 

The victim was stabbed in the side and rushed to hospital but has since recovered.

 

Club-goers fled from the scene before police arrived but now over two months later London-born Campbell - real christian names Dudley Junior - has been arrested. He was granted police bail pending further inquiries.

Blackpool would only say that Campbell is fit to play against Peterborough on Saturday. The game has been described by Seasiders' boss Ian Holloway as the most important match of his career with a place in the Championship play-offs beckoning the seventh-placed club.

 

Campbell is on loan at Blackpool from Leicester City who bought him for £2 million. He joined Blackpool desperate for first-team football and scored twice against Nottingham Forest last week.

A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed that a 28-year-old man had been arrested in Blackpool at his place of work in connection with a stabbing incident.

 

Campbell has represented his country at a junior level. The Crescent Club had been staging a special Paparazzi night on the night of the incident.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Murder on the dancefloor

[jdckelly]

Blackpool striker DJ Campbell has been arrested in connection with a stabbing outside a nightclub.

 

Lancashire Police led Campbell away from Blackpool's training ground in front of astonished players and management. He was allowed to change from his kit and was formally arrested.

 

Campbell, who has played in the Premier League with Birmingham City, was held in the cells at Blackpool Police station before being handed over to detectives from the Metropolitan Police.

He was taken to London and questioned at Hammersmith Police station by officers investigating the stabbing of a 24-year-old man outside The Crescent Club, West Kensington in the early hours of a Sunday morning in January.

 

The victim was stabbed in the side and rushed to hospital but has since recovered.

 

Club-goers fled from the scene before police arrived but now over two months later London-born Campbell - real christian names Dudley Junior - has been arrested. He was granted police bail pending further inquiries.

Blackpool would only say that Campbell is fit to play against Peterborough on Saturday. The game has been described by Seasiders' boss Ian Holloway as the most important match of his career with a place in the Championship play-offs beckoning the seventh-placed club.

 

Campbell is on loan at Blackpool from Leicester City who bought him for £2 million. He joined Blackpool desperate for first-team football and scored twice against Nottingham Forest last week.

A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed that a 28-year-old man had been arrested in Blackpool at his place of work in connection with a stabbing incident.

 

Campbell has represented his country at a junior level. The Crescent Club had been staging a special Paparazzi night on the night of the incident.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Murder on the dancefloor

wow thats some serious shit

[ponsaelius]

Anyone read Andy Cole’s article in the independent today? He reckons there are only 4 toon players good enough for the PL. Joey Barton, Kevin Nolan, Alan Smith and……… Nicky Butt!

 

 

x 1 fucking billion.

 

Piss off Cole you twat.

[Thespence]

What a awful group to start, I mean it is 2010 now ffs has someone been thinking about Hooper all this time

 

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/How-Sht-In-Goal-Was-Mike-Hooper-for-Newcastle/108983345809242?v=wall&ref=pymk

[WarrenBartonCentrePartin]

Anyone read Andrew Cole’s article in the independent today? He reckons there are only 4 toon players good enough for the PL. Joey Barton, Kevin Nolan, Alan Smith and……… Nicky Butt!

fyp.  Don't want to go upsetting the lad, do we?

[J7]

So Cole thinks the four players who played in our weakest position when we are relegated are the only ones good enough. Hahaha.

[Magpie]

What a awful group to start, I mean it is 2010 now ffs has someone been thinking about Hooper all this time

 

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/How-Sht-In-Goal-Was-Mike-Hooper-for-Newcastle/108983345809242?v=wall&ref=pymk

 

Mike Hooper is a bouncer at Studio in Chester le Street. He's fuckig huge!

[M4]

Do you speak football?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2006/mar/08/theknowledge.sport

 

Sprechen sie Fußball?

 

A Knowledge special: which football-related terms are there in other languages that have no direct equivalent in English? Email your questions and answers to [email protected]

 

 

"What football-related terms are there in other languages that have no direct equivalent in English?" we asked last week. "Don't the Brazilians have a word for dinking the ball over an opponent's head and dashing around to collect it? And does anyone have a better name for the move PlayStation games refer to as the Marseille turn?"

 

Time for the Knowledge to make like Lenny Henry on Children in Need night and thank you all for your amazing response. Our inbox was so full of mails from polyglot football afficionados (or fans, as we say in English) that the ads for penis extensions almost got lost. First things first, dozens of you pointed out that the term Brazilians use to describe dinking the ball over an opponent's head and dashing around to collect is chap? ("hat"). That theme is repeated in French and Spanish, where it is known as a sombrero.

 

The move PlayStation games refer to as the Marseille turn is, apparently, also known in English as the double drag-back, Zidane turn, Maradona turn and, according to earlier computer games, the Rocastle 360. Zidane himself calls it la roulette, which, again, is similar to the Spanish (rul?).

 

And now for the rest (literal meanings in brackets):

 

CZECH

 

Angličan ("Englishman") - a goal that goes in off a post (thanks to Rod Lambert).

 

Bundesliga - what Czechs call the mullet hairstyle!

 

Česka ulička ("Czech alley") - A reverse pass through the opposing defence.

 

DANISH

 

Moses - dribbling between two defenders and into the penalty area (figuratively dividing the Red Sea).

 

Optimistblikket ("the optimist look") - describes the focused expression on a player's face as he intently watches the trajectory of a shot, suggesting it is going close when in fact it is travelling midles wide.

 

Pong- from the old Atari game, refers to the practice of knocking the ball around the back to waste time.

 

T?ler ("toe howler") - a desperate kick with the big toe, lacking elegance, finesse and foresight (thanks to Mikael Colville-Andersen).

 

DUTCH

 

Panna ("door or gate") - nutmeg (especially in Surinamese Dutch).

 

Vuurpijl ("rocket") - a bad attempted clearance whereby the ball is whacked straight up in the air.

 

FRENCH:

 

Aile de Pigeon ("pigeon's wing") - whereby a player raises the lower half of his leg behind him to sideways flick the ball forwards with his heel (eg Zlatan Ibrahimovich's goal for Sweden against Italy in Euro 2004).

 

Le Foulard ("scarf") - passing or crossing by bringing one leg behind the other so that legs are crossed (as often tried by Messrs Ronaldo and Cole).

 

Lanterne rouge ("red lantern") - the team at the bottom of the league.

 

Le grand pont ("big bridge") - knocking the ball to one side of an opponent and dashing around the other side to collect it.

 

Le petit pont ("little bridge") - nutmeg.

 

La roulette - the Marseille turn, double drag-back, Zidane turn, Maradona turn, Rocastle 360, etc.

 

Le saut de grenouille ("frog's jump") - clasping the ball between both feet and jumping over the outstretched leg of an opponent.

 

GERMAN

 

Aufzugsmannschaft or Fahrstuhlmannschaft ("elevator/lift team") - a yoyo-team (i.e. one that keeps getting promoted and relegated).

 

Anschlusstreffer - the goal that reduces the deficit to one (eg brings the score to 2-1 rather than 2-0).

 

Angstgegner ("fear-opponent") - a bogey team.

 

Bauerntrick ("farmer's trick") - the Cruyff turn.

 

Bauernspitz ('farmer's point') - like the Danish toe-howler, an oafish kick with the tip of the boot.

 

Blutgraetsche ('blood straddle' ) - sliding tackle that goes through the opposing player.

 

Ehrentreffer ("honour strike") - consolation goal, also referred to as ergebniskosmetik ("result cosmetics").

 

Englische Woche ("English week") - a week in which a team plays both at the weekend and in midweek.

 

Gurkerl ("gherkin") - nutmeg (in Austria).

 

Kerze ("candle") - a bad attempted clearance whereby the ball is whacked straight up in the air (like the Dutch 'rocket', then).

 

Notbremse ("emergency brake") - professional foul; when the lsat defender or the goalkeeper brings down a forward to prevent an almost certain goal.

 

Rote Laterne ( 'red lantern') - the team at the bottom of the league (this theme is also found in France, where the basement-dwellers are known as 'la lanterne rouge'; in both countries, the last carriage on a train has a red light at the back).

 

Schwalbe ("swallow", as in the bird) - blatant dive (also used in Dutch). Den sterbenden Schwan machen ("to do the dying swan") is also very common.

 

Tunneln - to do a nutmeg.

 

Wembleytor ("Wembley goal") - A 'goal' that is awarded even though the ball didn't cross the line. No hard feeelings over 1966, then! (Thanks to Peter Darbyshire)

 

HUNGARIAN

 

K?t? ("apron") - nutmeg.

 

ITALIAN:

 

Catenaccio ("door bolt") - a game tactic based on rigid defence and strategic fouls.

 

Cucchiaio ("spoon") - The chipped penalty into the middle of the goal (as made famous by Czechoslovakia's Anton?Panenka in Euro '76 and regularly repeated by Francesco Totti).

 

Il Fantasista - the man in the hole behind the front two (whom Italians clearly believe should be a creative type).

 

Melina - passing the ball sideways in front of the defence to waste time when you are leading.

 

Zona Cesarini - Injury time (named after Renato Cesarini, who struck a very late winner for Italy against Hungary in 1931).

 

JAPANESE:

 

Boranchi (derived from the Portuguese word "volante", which means "steering wheel") - a holding midfielder.

 

Jisatsu-ten ("suicide point") = own goal (Thanks to Simon Atkinson)

 

Rifutingu ("lifting") - keepie-uppies.

 

PORTUGUESE (including Brazilian):

 

Artilheiro ("artilleryman") - top scorer.

 

Brinca-na-areia ("plays in the sand") - said of players who have excellent skills but no end product (thanks to Hugo Carreira).

 

Ca? ("drinking straw") - nutmeg.

 

Chap? ("hat") - sombrero, or dink over head and dash around to collect on other side.

 

Drible da vaca ("cow's dribble") - knocking the ball to one side of an opponent and dashing around the other side to collect it.

 

Embaixadinhas ("little embassies", possibly derived from verb "baixar", which means 'to lower' or 'let fall') - keepie-uppies.

 

Frango ("hen/chicken") - originally only applied to when the ball went through the keeper's legs but now the term for any goalkeeping blunder that results in a goal.

 

Ganhar de virada ("win by turnover") - to come back from behind to win.

 

Jogador triatlo ("traithlon player") - a player who runs about a lot and has an impressive repertoire of tricks but no end product.

 

Pedalada - multiple stepover.

 

Peixinho ("little fish") - diving header

 

Piscin? ("big swimming pool") - dive.

 

SPANISH:

 

Armario ("wardrobe") - a burly central defender.

 

Chalaca - the term used in Peru and elsewhere in South America (though not Chile, as becomes clear below) for an overhead kick. Chalaca is the name given to anyone from Callao, a seaport a few miles from central Lima. During the 50s, the club Sport Boys of Callo employed a string of strikers who were experts at scoring from overhead kicks (thanks to Kevin Thompson).

 

Chilena - what Chileans calls the overhead kick.

 

Cola de vaca ("cow's tail") - to stop the ball and change direction.

 

Chumpigol - a shot from a free-kick that goes through the wall and into the net (especially South American).

 

Gambeteando ("shrimping") - the term used for long, swerving Maradona-style dribbles.

 

Gol Ol?ico - A goal scored directly from a corner.

 

Hacer la cama ("making the bed") - When a player with a defender behind him doesn't jump for a high ball in order to create the impression that the defender has held him down.

 

Hacer un sombrero ('to make a hat') - dinking the ball over an opponent's head and running around to retrieve it.

 

Palomita ("little dove") - diving header

 

Pepinazo ("big cucumber") - powerful long-range shot.

 

Rabona ("cow's whip") - kicking the ball from behind the other leg (Argentina).

 

Ca??nel - the nutmeg.

 

La vaselina - a chip over the goalkeeper's head.

 

Veronica - a term sometimes used in Spain to describe the Zidane turn/double drag-back (according to Luca Barratti, it's from bull-fighting where some particularly daredevil matadors perform a similar move).

 

SWAHILI

 

Kuvalisha kanzu ("wearing the a long prayer robe") - sombrero, to dink the ball over an opponent's head and collect it on the other side (thanks to George Ndicu).

 

NON-UK ENGLISH

 

Rainbow - the term used in the United States to describe the trick of flicking the ball up with the heel of one foot and instep of the other while running over it so that the ball travels from below/behind you over your head ("or what me and my mates call the Ardiles flick because he did it in Escape to Victory," says Kevin Thomas).

 

Shoeshine - South African term for running the outside of the boot around a stationary ball, usually to taunt a less skilful opponent (thanks to Patrick Lawlor).

 

YORUBA

 

Ogede ("banana") - a curling shot (thanks to Seun Kolawole).

[Exiled in Texas]

Wembleytor ("Wembley goal") - A 'goal' that is awarded even though the ball didn't cross the line. No hard feeelings over 1966, then! 

[Ridman]

I miss Oba

[madras]

hey ridman are you going to give us a kaizero style rundown of the icelandic league saying as that will be kicking off soon ?

[Ridman]

hey ridman are you going to give us a kaizero style rundown of the icelandic league saying as that will be kicking off soon ?

 

Well I'm Polish, so I don't give a shit about the Icelandic league 

[madras]

hey ridman are you going to give us a kaizero style rundown of the icelandic league saying as that will be kicking off soon ?

 

Well I'm Polish, so I don't give a s*** about the Icelandic league 

just going off your profile....sure we had an icelander on here...

 

 

anyhoo if you know anything about the polish leage get it in the betting thread. a little knowledge is better than................................well it probably aint really.

[Ridman]

hey ridman are you going to give us a kaizero style rundown of the icelandic league saying as that will be kicking off soon ?

 

Well I'm Polish, so I don't give a s*** about the Icelandic league 

just going off your profile....sure we had an icelander on here...

 

 

anyhoo if you know anything about the polish leage get it in the betting thread. a little knowledge is better than................................well it probably aint really.

 

Aww shame the season is just about over. Will keep it in mind for next season 

[madras]

hey ridman are you going to give us a kaizero style rundown of the icelandic league saying as that will be kicking off soon ?

 

Well I'm Polish, so I don't give a s*** about the Icelandic league 

just going off your profile....sure we had an icelander on here...

 

 

anyhoo if you know anything about the polish leage get it in the betting thread. a little knowledge is better than................................well it probably aint really.

 

Aww shame the season is just about over. Will keep it in mind for next season 

why iceland in your location then ?

[Ridman]

hey ridman are you going to give us a kaizero style rundown of the icelandic league saying as that will be kicking off soon ?

 

Well I'm Polish, so I don't give a s*** about the Icelandic league 

just going off your profile....sure we had an icelander on here...

 

 

anyhoo if you know anything about the polish leage get it in the betting thread. a little knowledge is better than................................well it probably aint really.

 

Aww shame the season is just about over. Will keep it in mind for next season 

why iceland in your location then ?

 

Because I moved here with my mum and some Icelandic bloke she met in Poland when I was 4 years old.

[madras]

hey ridman are you going to give us a kaizero style rundown of the icelandic league saying as that will be kicking off soon ?

 

Well I'm Polish, so I don't give a s*** about the Icelandic league 

just going off your profile....sure we had an icelander on here...

 

 

anyhoo if you know anything about the polish leage get it in the betting thread. a little knowledge is better than................................well it probably aint really.

 

Aww shame the season is just about over. Will keep it in mind for next season 

why iceland in your location then ?

 

Because I moved here with my mum and some Icelandic bloke she met in Poland when I was 4 years old.

so shouldnt you have more idea of icelandic football than polish ?

[Ridman]

hey ridman are you going to give us a kaizero style rundown of the icelandic league saying as that will be kicking off soon ?

 

Well I'm Polish, so I don't give a s*** about the Icelandic league 

just going off your profile....sure we had an icelander on here...

 

 

anyhoo if you know anything about the polish leage get it in the betting thread. a little knowledge is better than................................well it probably aint really.

 

Aww shame the season is just about over. Will keep it in mind for next season 

why iceland in your location then ?

 

Because I moved here with my mum and some Icelandic bloke she met in Poland when I was 4 years old.

so shouldnt you have more idea of icelandic football than polish ?

 

Guess I should but I've always felt very patriotic. I'm born in Poland and all my family is Polish, sure I've lived in Iceland for most part of my life but you are what you and I don't have single drop of Icelandic blood in me. I've never understood those American TV shows you know, where some Vietnamese/Cuban/Mexican family comes to the US and they're all like "We're Americans!", how can you be american when you are born in a different country and don't have a trace of US blood in your system?

 

As for the football goes, we have a satellite disc which provides us with all the Polish TV channels so I can watch all the Polish footy I want.

 

Yea well, that's about it. Stay tuned for Ridman's life story volume II in the near future 

[madras]

hey ridman are you going to give us a kaizero style rundown of the icelandic league saying as that will be kicking off soon ?

 

Well I'm Polish, so I don't give a s*** about the Icelandic league 

just going off your profile....sure we had an icelander on here...

 

 

anyhoo if you know anything about the polish leage get it in the betting thread. a little knowledge is better than................................well it probably aint really.

 

Aww shame the season is just about over. Will keep it in mind for next season 

why iceland in your location then ?

 

Because I moved here with my mum and some Icelandic bloke she met in Poland when I was 4 years old.

so shouldnt you have more idea of icelandic football than polish ?

 

Guess I should but I've always felt very patriotic. I'm born in Poland and all my family is Polish, sure I've lived in Iceland for most part of my life but you are what you and I don't have single drop of Icelandic blood in me. I've never understood those American TV shows you know, where some Vietnamese/Cuban/Mexican family comes to the US and they're all like "We're Americans!", how can you be american when you are born in a different country don't have a trace of US blood in your system?

 

As for the football goes, we have a satellite disc which provides us with all the Polish TV channels so I can watch all the Polish footy I want.

 

Yea well, that's about it. Stay tuned for Ridman's life story volume II in the near future 

good to know ridman. consider yourself lucky to be living in such a place as you are. if you fancy some reading norman davies has some fantastic books on polands history ....."gods playground- a history of poland (in 2 parts)" and "heart of europe....the past in polands present"

[Ridman]

hey ridman are you going to give us a kaizero style rundown of the icelandic league saying as that will be kicking off soon ?

 

Well I'm Polish, so I don't give a s*** about the Icelandic league 

just going off your profile....sure we had an icelander on here...

 

 

anyhoo if you know anything about the polish leage get it in the betting thread. a little knowledge is better than................................well it probably aint really.

 

Aww shame the season is just about over. Will keep it in mind for next season 

why iceland in your location then ?

 

Because I moved here with my mum and some Icelandic bloke she met in Poland when I was 4 years old.

so shouldnt you have more idea of icelandic football than polish ?

 

Guess I should but I've always felt very patriotic. I'm born in Poland and all my family is Polish, sure I've lived in Iceland for most part of my life but you are what you and I don't have single drop of Icelandic blood in me. I've never understood those American TV shows you know, where some Vietnamese/Cuban/Mexican family comes to the US and they're all like "We're Americans!", how can you be american when you are born in a different country don't have a trace of US blood in your system?

 

As for the football goes, we have a satellite disc which provides us with all the Polish TV channels so I can watch all the Polish footy I want.

 

Yea well, that's about it. Stay tuned for Ridman's life story volume II in the near future 

good to know ridman. consider yourself lucky to be living in such a place as you are. if you fancy some reading norman davies has some fantastic books on polands history ....."gods playground- a history of poland (in 2 parts)]" and "heart of europe....the past in polands present"

 

I've read that, might check the other one soon!

"Bitter Glory Poland And it's fate 1918-1939" is also a really good read. "The Forgotten Holocaust" ain't bad either.   

They also show an endless amount of historical documentaries on the telly so I consider myself to be quite well informed 

[Fugazi]

Citeh want to bring in another keeper on an emergency loan deal.

[pedro111]

Can somebody tell me how much Birmingham City have spent in transfer fees this season. Just this Mackem at work is adament they have spent between 40 and 50 million.

 

Cheers