Muhammad Ali: sounds like this is it, guys....

WTF? Look inside the shop. I was there that day.

 

:laughing: :laughing:

No way man! How did you miss him?! ::

 

::

 

RIP

sad that he was only 74 years old, but acted like he was 98 for the past 10 years
few people would make that trade

 

R.I.P. Champ. Truly the greatest.

 

:: Haha! Were you waiting to cross the road?

 

In an odd way, I think Ali would have appreciated a "Rivals" witticism, however cheap.

 

It isn't particularly witty, barely makes sense

 

Float Like A Bad Smell
Hurt Like A Stick
We'Re So Bad
We Make Slice and Irish Sick!

 

:bears:

 

What the fuck is Halal chicken anyways :dunno:

 

Jeez the Sun is unreal

 

It's made with the Prophet's secret blend of herbs and spices.

 

I still don't really "get" UK newspapers. I mean I get that the Daily Mirror is left wing and the Sun is right wing (I only noticed that after Thatcher's death while I was there and the huge difference in coverage.) But the part I don't get is how tabloid news (those two and maybe a few more) is sold at the rate of a regular newspaper in the US. And that is attached to serious sports and business sections.

In the US, tabloid news (The National Enquirer and The Star being the top two) is sold completely separate from any legitimate journalism. It's the kind of shit that unless you're a 50 year old single woman, you wouldn't want anyone seeing you buying. It's sold at supermarket counters and convenient stores. Real newspapers are either delivered to your home (for a fee) or sold in dispensers outside of restaurants and stores.

 

Now that I think about it, I read the Daily Mirror football(soccer) section on line and it's hardly straight ahead journalism. Lots of opinions. There is some Jerry Springer-ish way about the way they fan the flames especially when it comes to the managers. Lots of flare in the stories about someone losing their job, about to lose their job, having a rivalry with another manager.

No complaints here. It does make for interesting reading.

 

Apparently, the British Tabloid Media is worst in Europe apart from, possibly, the SPanish and believe it or not, Ze Germans!

In England, there is no deference or respect to "Head Coaches" like there is in the USA.

 

In the US if you're a sports journalist and you write something derogatory about an athlete or coach and they see you at a press conference or in the locker room they'll sort you out in person. It happens all the time here.

 

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It's always struck me as odd. In soccer the manager doesn't/can't have the impact on a game after it starts but they're under way more scrutiny than coaches in North American sports. A string of poor results and both the media and fans are foaming at the mouth demanding the manager get fired as if that's the best solution 100% of the time. Then afterward even though they often seem to take the full brunt of a club's failures there are teams lining up to sign the guy. :tick:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-Fan-wanted-manager-1989-explains-banner.html

 

If you look at the list of managers names of the 92 clubs in the English league (The Premier League and the three levels below) there are about 50-60 names that are in a continuous team to team cycle. In England, they seem to change managers at odd times. Beginning of the season sometimes. Nigel Adkins was replaced at Reading while they were on a winning streak and had just upset Chelsea. They had a chance to get a guy who they thought would really take them somewhere. You see where Reading are now so that didn't play out for them.

 

Sounds like a religious intuition. You never lose your job, just get transferred.

 

Athletes deserve all the criticism they get: spoilt, overpaid bitches, generally.

 

Ali, Hogan and Liberace in the same picture

 

Come on Rainmaker, don´t forget Cyndi Lauper and the ´other one´...