The 2015-16 World Fitba Thread!

Bleating Commentator: "Liverpool have not registered a shot on target, they simply have not shown up for Steven Gerrards last day".

Its like Gerrard was some rich posh kid living on the fringes of a sink estate.

Anyone lucky enough to get an invitation to his birthday party obviously needs to show up and party hard.


Oddly, the commentator has not even considered the fact that Gerrard, who is present, might just be obliged to, you know, try and get a shot on target himself....that Gerrard might be part of the problem....:dunno:

 

I know the game is basically meaningless but do you think Rodgers will get sacked? I'm not sure if they wanted ridded of him, but if they were considering it today's performance would give them ammunition.

 

Gerrard scores. Now the dialogue will be...."Stevie G Shining Example To Liverpool Layabouts".

Pack your bags and fuck off, slag.

 

Will Pulis be sacked by West Brom....:dunno:

4-0 down at half-time to Arsenal in a "meaningless game".

If they apply that logic to Rodgers they must surely apply it to Pulis, no.......

I think Rodgers has been hamstrung by a variety of issues this season.

The loss of Suarez, then Sturridge, and Flanagan set the tone early.

He righted the boat until the debacle at home to United, in which Gerrard played a starring role.

He got them to the FA Cup Semi Final, a good cup run.

But he made a rod for his own back in the shape and form of Balotelli and some of the other signings.

Now.....Moyes signed Fellaini and it was a disaster.

The next Season, Fellaini was a key player for United.

So....I don't even know if he can be criticized just yet.

Then came the Sterling mutiny and all the horseshit over Gerrard.

 

Yeah I'm not saying he should be fired, just wondering if you think he will be.

With Gerrard, Sterling and surely a few others leaving, Pool's upper management might be thinking of starting fresh with a coaching change as well.

 

Anything is possible in football....but I think Henry and Co are far far cooler heads than the likes of the morons running clubs elsewhere.

The commentary is priceless...."Gerrards team-mates should be hanging their heads in shame".

Gerrard is the Mother Teresa of football. He has them all fooled.

We need Christopher Hitchens of football....a Penn and Teller of football...to ride in and cut through some of the shit.

 

You could always start your own youtube channel. :bears:

 

Nah. Somebody with clout.

I would love it if John Barnes or the like called in and said "Gerrard was a passenger...Liverpool will improve with his departure".

 

If it was somebody with clout they'd already be known for exposing the bullshit. It has to start somewhere and with someone.

 

LOL

You understand how this shit works, right....

Remember that Simpsons episode, the one where Homers hair falls out.....:dunno:

 

Gerrard out, money saved on wages, Sterling out, a fat payday.

Bring in guys like Kuyt, who WANT TO PLAY FOOTBALL.

Take advantage of Gerrard being fucking gone, like Henry was at Arsenal, the players should benefit from being out of the shade of the dead oak.

 

We won a one horse race! Fly the flag, fly the flag!

 

Where the fuck is everyone like.....

 

Here you go Hut:

http://www.theslicedpan.com/nonsens...horrifically-shite-apartment-in-dublin/293958

 

Irish, turns out that hideous Tower in elephant and castle i commented on won the carbuncle award for Britain's ugliest new building the year it was built ::

A few more absolute fucking howlers which might've been worthy winners:

Orion building Birmingham


Opal tower, Leeds


The Cube, Birmingham


Bridgewater place, Leeds:



Any of this heinous shit in Salford, Manchester:






Betham Tower, Birmingham:

 

Good lord

 

I yawned and said "yay" a month ago when I knew we were champions

 

RM sacked Ancelotti. Already speculation about Rafa Benitez taking the job.

 

Isn't the Salford one MediaCityUK?

 

Ah whats with the fucking music like.

"Super Street Fighter Penalty Shootout II"

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Yeah. Peel Holdings should be put on the proscribed terrorist organizations list they're a shower of dastardly bampots. They are to city planning as Joe Calzaghe is to boxing.

 

Today Lisbon is almost, but not quite, back in Portuguese hands at the end of the most hysterically exuberant occupation any city has ever known. Pockets of Celtic supporters are holding out in unlikely corners, noisily defending their own carnival atmosphere against the returning tide of normality, determined to preserve the moment, to make the party go on and on.
They emerge with a sudden flood of Glasgow accents from taxis or cafes, or let their voices carry with an irresistible aggregate of decibels across hotel lounges. Always, even among the refugees who turn up at the British Embassy bereft of everything but the rumpled clothes they stand in, the talk is of that magical hour-and-a-half under the hot sun on Thursday in the breathtaking, tree-fringed amphitheatre of the national stadium.
Clean sweep

At the airport, the impression is of a Dunkirk with happiness. The discomforts of mass evacuation are tolerable when your team have just won the greatest victory yet achieved by a British football club, and completed a clean sweep of the trophies available to them that has never been equalled anywhere in the world.
They even cheered Helenio Herrera and his shattered Inter when the Italians left for Milan yesterday evening. "Inter, Inter, Inter." The chant resounded convincingly through the departure lounge, but no one was misled. In that mood, overflowing with conquerors' magnanimity they might have given Scot Symon a round of applause.
Typically, within a minute the same happily dishevelled groups were singing: "Ee Aye Addio, Herrera's on the Buroo." The suggestion that the most highly paid manager in Europe is likely to be queueing at the Labour Exchange is rather wild but the comment emphasised that even the least analytical fan had seen through the hectic excitement of a unique performance to the essential meaning of the event.
Mundo Desportivo of Lisbon put it another way: "It was inevitable. Sooner or later the Inter of Herrera, the Inter of catenaccio, of negative football, of marginal victories, had to pay for their refusal to play entertaining football." The Portuguese rejoiced over the magnificent style in which Celtic had taken retribution on behalf of the entire game.
A few of us condemned Herrera unequivocally two years ago after Inter had won the European Cup at their own San Siro Stadium by defending with neurotic caution to protect a luckily gained one-goal lead against a Benfica side with only nine fit men. But he continued to receive around £30,000 a year for stifling the flair, imagination, boldness and spontaneity that make football what it is. And he was still held in awe by people who felt that the statistics of his record justified the sterility of his methods.
Now, however, nearly everyone appreciates the dangers of his influence. The twelfth European Cup final showed how shabbily his philosophy compares with the dynamically positive thinking of Jock Stein. Before the match Stein told me:
"Inter will play it defensively. That's their way and it's their business. But we feel we have a duty to play the game our way, and our way is to attack. Win or lose, we want to make the game worth remembering. Just to be involved in an occasion like this is a tremendous honour and we think it puts an obligation on us. We can be as hard and professional as anybody, but I mean it when I say that we don't just want to win this cup. We want to win it playing good football, to make neutrals glad we've done it, glad to remember how we did it."
Vital positions

The effects of such thinking, and of Stein's genius for giving it practical expression, were there for all the football world to see on Thursday. Of course, he has wonderful players, a team without a serious weakness and with tremendous strengths in vital positions. But when one had eulogised the exhilarating speed and the bewildering variety of skills that destroyed Inter – the unshakable assurance of Clark, the murderously swift overlapping of the full-backs, the creative energy of Auld in midfield, the endlessly astonishing virtuosity of Johnstone, the intelligent and ceaseless running of Chalmers – even with all this, ultimately the element that impressed most profoundly was the massive heart of this Celtic side.
Nothing symbolised it more vividly than the incredible display of Gemmell. He was almost on his knees with fatigue before scoring that minute but somehow his courage forced him to go on dredging up the strength to continue with the exhausting runs along the left wing that did more than any other single factor to demoralise Inter.
Gemmell has the same aggressive pride, the same contempt for any thought of defeat, that emanates from Auld. Before the game Auld cut short a discussion about the possible ill-effects of the heat and the firm ground with a blunt declaration that they would lick the Italians in any conditions.
When he had been rescued from the delirious crowd and was walking back to the dressing rooms after Celtic had overcome all the bad breaks to vindicate his confidence Auld – naked to the waist except for an Inter shirt knotted round his neck like a scarf – suddenly stopped in his tracks and shouted to Ronnie Simpson, who was walking ahead:
"Hey, Ronnie Simpson, what are we? What are we, son?" He stood there sweating, showing his white teeth between parched lips flecked with saliva. Then he answered his own question with a belligerent roar. "We're the greatest. That's what we are. The greatest." Simpson came running back and they embraced for a full minute.
Stein's heart

In the dressing room, as the other players unashamedly sang their supporters' songs in the showers and drank champagne from the huge Cup ("Have you had a bevy out of this?"), Auld leaned forward to Sean Fallon, the trainer, and asked with mock seriousness: "Would you say I was the best? Was I your best man?"
"They've all got Stein's heart," said a Glasgow colleague. "There's a bit of the big man in all of them." Certainly the preparation for this final and the winning of it were impregnated with Stein's personality. Whether warning the players against exposing themselves to the sun ("I don't even want you near the windows in your rooms. If there's as much as a freckle on any man's arm he's for home") or joking with reporters beside the hotel swimming pool in Estoril, his was the all-pervading influence.
Despite the extreme tension he must have felt, he never lost the bantering humour that keeps the morale of his expeditions unfailingly high. The impact of the Celtic invasion on the local Catholic churches was a rewarding theme for him. "They're getting some gates since we came. The nine o'clock and ten o'clock Masses were all-ticket. They've had to get extra plates. How do they divide the takings here? Is it fifty-fifty or in favour of the home club?"
Ecstatic praise

It was hard work appearing so relaxed and the effort eventually took its toll on Stein when he made a dive for the dressing rooms a minute before the end of the game, unable to stand any more. When we reached him there, he kept muttering: "What a performance. What a performance."
It was left to Bill Shankly, the Scottish manager of Liverpool (and the only English club manager present), to supply the summing-up quote. "John," Shankly said with the solemnity of a man to whom football is a religion, "you're immortal."
An elderly Portuguese official cornered Stein and delivered ecstatic praise of Celtic's adventurous approach. "This attacking play, this is the real meaning of football. This is the true game." Stein slapped him on the shoulder. "Go on, I could listen to you all night." Then, turning to the rest of us, "Fancy anybody saying that about a Scottish team."
There is good reason to hope that people will say such things about Scottish and English clubs with increasing frequency in the near future. Now that the Continental monopoly of the European Cup has been broken, British football is poised for a period of domination.
Glasgow Rangers can strike the next blow when they meet Bayern Munich in the final of the European Cup for Cup Winners at Nurnberg next Wednesday. Scot Symon has rebuilt his Rangers team with patient thoroughness this season, and their thrilling draw with Celtic at Ibrox three weeks ago confirmed how far they have come. Spurred by their great rivals' achievement, they will not be easily denied.
Continental clubs can expect no respite next season when the powerful challenge from Scotland will be backed by the presence of Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur in the two major competitions. It seems unlikely that anything short of the personal intervention of De Gaulle can prevent us from being in among the European prizes again.

 

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Aye.

 

Oi Hut, i thought maybe you could warn the catholics in glesga about this menace

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/ret...-of-yoga-could-be-an-occasion-of-serious-sin/

 

'a gateway to serious sin' ::

 

No fan of Churchill but you couldn't get this today. Today some fucking baloobas would probably throw a tin of paint at the coffin and queers would dance naked in the street as the cortege went past.

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I legit get asked for directions about ten times a week. people seem to see me across the street and think 'there's a guy who knows where things are' (im choosing to imagine that's what they think anyway)

 

Yesterday I got up and went ooot for a long walk around 5 Am. I headed down Greenford and across the Brent River Valley till I came out in Hanwell. Walked up Ealing Broadway, thanks to Morrissons being fucked I got a coffee and cake for £1.50.

As I turned back on myself and walked in towards Perivale and Greenford Broadway {basically walking in a big circle} this guy pulled in and I was SURE he was going to ask for directions.

Then I said to myself...........how the fuck does anybody need instructions these days ::..........I had been using my google map on my phone to navigate London.

Later that day I fucked off on the tube all the way up to Bounds Green and got a bus down to some guys house to collect some very cheap lead acid batteries from him, £6 a pop, half-price at least.

I will use them to power my underground bolt hole.

Fucking unstoppable I am.