U2 Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Seems he'd pulled some random lass whilst on a massive bender and was driving back to her house in her VW Beetle https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4374756/wayne-rooney-drink-drive-arrest-coleen/ What an absolute mess of a man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4374756/wayne-rooney-drink-drive-arrest-coleen/ What an absolute mess of a man. I’m not a marriage wrecker. Probably not best to sell your story if you think it might in any way alter that perception you have of yourself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/philippe-coutinhos-great-sadness-missing-13558280 "I'm very happy that he scored a goal because at this moment he lives a very great sadness." Flip to pop up and explain why they're both fantastic people in 3, 2, 1... Yeah, have no idea what all that is about Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Like a Byronic hero, he'll spend the rest of his life drowning himself in sadness, not thinking of what it was, but of what it could've been. Those who mock him will never get it, for he witnessed the face of true greatness and fatality let it slip away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Like a Byronic hero, he'll spend the rest of his life drowning himself in sadness, not thinking of what it was, but of what it could've been. Those who mock him will never get it, for he witnessed the face of true greatness and fatality let it slip away. What I love most about this is that this reads exactly like something off RAWK if it was the other way around, except there wouldn't have been a hint of irony. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maybe_next_year Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 http://www.tiranatimes.com/?p=133597 The three new players Pannuci has called up for the next two qualifiers include Spain-born defender of Albanian origin Ivan Balliu. Balliu, recently awarded the Albanian citizenship, is regarded as the most promising entry. He is expected to team up with Napoli fullback Elseid Hysaj, the target of many big clubs this summer, as well as Hamburger defender Mergim Mavraj, strengthening Albania’s suffering defense after the departure of former captain Lorik Cana in mid-2016. Born to an Albanian father and a Spanish mother, Balliu, 25, grew up as a professional player from the Barcelona youth academy. He was called up for Spain’s U16 and U17 and played Barcelona B and Portugal’s Arouca before joining Metz at the top French league in 2015. Funniest thing is that Balliu reportedly had no idea of his Albanian ancestry and was scouted by the Albanian FA, because his surname "sounded Albanian" (his father isn't Albanian as the article says, rather he descends from Albanians) and fast-tracked for citizenship Bloody hell, never thought I'd see someone post a link from the Tirana times on here Albania's scouting system spends a lot of its time looking abroad to find young talent that may have some sort of link to Albania, more in terms of ethnicity than the actual place. Which makes sense given that something stupid like 20% of the country left when communism fell, then you've got all the kosovans (who are ethnically Albanian) who fled that war, so there's a few members of the squad who had never even been to Albania before they got called up, like Xhaka for example. Albanian nationalism is bonkers in general though, for example, Mustafi was all over the news and was celebrated country wide when he posted this picture of himself, the hand gesture is an Albanian nationalistic symbol (double headed eagle), despite the fact he's just won a trophy for Germany and his family is from Macedonia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 A victory for all of Albania. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Apparently there's some 12-year old tearing it up for Dortmund's U17s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Apparently there's some 12-year old tearing it up for Dortmund's U17s. http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/354874_1.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Apparently there's some 12-year old tearing it up for Dortmund's U17s. Not born in Germany. Probably not 12 years old. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Like a Byronic hero, he'll spend the rest of his life drowning himself in sadness, not thinking of what it was, but of what it could've been. Those who mock him will never get it, for he witnessed the face of true greatness and fatality let it slip away. Are you really Spanish?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/sep/03/darius-vassell-goat-sacrificed-book-ankaragucu?CMP=share_btn_tw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/sep/03/darius-vassell-goat-sacrificed-book-ankaragucu?CMP=share_btn_tw Love that. Turkey is mental. Would love to hear of Shola's experience in the 2nd tier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Read that this morning class read, his blog from that time is a glorious read, he sounds cannh depressed. A mate sent me a link years ago it was a slightly different account though. Can't see the original but the Guardian sums it up. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/jan/06/footballer-darius-vassell-turkey-blog Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Was always obvious most of the English posts were from Wraith like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Reminds me of when our maestros used to throw lawsuits about when we were incorrectly accused of bidding for anyone. Such buttplugs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 Manchester City: La Liga asks Uefa to investigate club's financial fair play http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41146009 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elric Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 Manchester City: La Liga asks Uefa to investigate club's financial fair play http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41146009 Not that they're bitter or anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 Manchester City: La Liga asks Uefa to investigate club's financial fair play http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41146009 thats fairly pathetic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikky Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 Manchester City: La Liga asks Uefa to investigate club's financial fair play http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41146009 Didn't the Madrid council do a dodgy deal with Real Madrid a few years back RE Buying the training ground then giving it back to them for free?? Barca' s dodgy deals, Clubs paying others to get results etc etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elric Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 Manchester City: La Liga asks Uefa to investigate club's financial fair play http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41146009 Didn't the Madrid council do a dodgy deal with Real Madrid a few years back RE Buying the training ground then giving it back to them for free?? Barca' s dodgy deals, Clubs paying others to get results etc etc Public tapping up of players, etc etc. All of that happened before the inception of FFP though, so it's ok Nowt to do with having your product eroded somewhat by having the spending power of your top couple of clubs matched (if not massively exceeded) by other 'elite' clubs. Clowns Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 What dodgy deals? You mean the youth stuff? We paid very dearly for that. Madrid got a slap on the wrist by the EU for that. At the end of the day, the big issue here is that FIFA are in rather flimsy grounds when it comes to regulating the business side of football. FFP would probably fall like a house of cards if PSG took it to court, very much like it happened with the Bosman ruling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikky Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 VI Re dodgy deals; I meant the Neymar deal from Santos (but throw in all the youth stuff too: adds further dirt ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 We paid dearly for that too. The Spanish IRS has been ruthless on that front. Actually that ruling is what moved the opposition to the board to trigger the vote of no confidence that's happening right now. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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