Football: WORLD CUP 06 and close season/transfer discussion.

Sargie · Post by **Sargie** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:43 pm 0

Does it hurt: No, I am a grown man with kids so while I am a little disappointed, "hurt" is too strong a word.

Victim of Marketing. Err... I live in California. There's no marketing here for the World Cup.

Why don't you go be a pretentious prick on another thread?

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:47 pm 0

Mat T wrote:
Orava wrote:
Kemper_Boyd wrote:
Orava wrote:
Sargie wrote:Hey Orava,

Why don't you fuck off, you miserable cunt?

Sarge
Haha. Does it hurt? You peasant. Victim of marketing. Now go and top yourself, true England will not miss you. Red and white clown.
Your behaviour is hardly a good example of 'true England'.
Call it a reaction to all the fucking hype. Now crawl under your stone to sulk.
Eh? Why are you so aggressive to people discussing football on this thread? If you don't like football, then please don't post on here.

We have all been force-fed football for the last two months or so. It is now the time for that rubbish sport to clear the fuck off my radar and I am celebrating that.

Fucking working class not giving you way if you are driving a German car, with no flags on top, how petty is that. Fuck off nationalism and people thinking they are above their station. Now get back to what what fuck you were doing and go back to your proper place.

Peasants.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:48 pm 0

So far we have on the side of the football thread -
Fuseball
Kemper_Boyd
Sargie
PaulEMoz
Zen-Chan
(oh, and me)

and of the other folks there, you'd struggle to pick five more reasonable people from the forum.

Interesting that.

Geenius · Post by **Geenius** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:48 pm 0

Hargreaves and Terry were my men of the match. Hargreaves was immense, and I just loved watching Terry come and intercept the ball, pass it off, then casually walk/jog back to his central defense position.

Good to see Robinson finally show up. He didn't really do anything wrong for possibly the first game this tounrament. The rest of the defenders were good too, although I had a problem with how much room Ashley Cole was giving whoever was playin right wing at the time.

I've not been jumping on the Lampard out bandwagon, because I thought he was mainly unlucky in previous games, but he went missing from this match a lot. I was surprised to see hime at one point, thinking he'd been subbed.

And lastly, well done Sven for taking 4 strikers, one of whom you clearly didn't have faith in for this tournament, and 2 who were nowhere near match fit.

Now let's see how Steve McClaren does.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:51 pm 0

Hargreaves showed what he was capable of in that game, he absolutely ran his bloody bollocks off for 120 minutes. Personally Lampard never turned up for the tournament, and I don't really think you can say that about anyone else in the squad, everyone else did what was expected of them, except maybe Beckham, and even then he was the reason we scored half our goals.

Oh and...

Ban request: Orava

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:52 pm 0

Orava wrote:Fucking working class not giving you way if you are driving a German car, with no flags on top, how petty is that. Fuck off nationalism and people thinking they are above their station. Now get back to what what fuck you were doing and go back to your proper place.

Peasants.

The irony is that you're invoking class warfare, and you're arguing against (and these are just the people I'm certain around)

- Zen-chan, who's a composer and doing a degree in music
- Kemper_Boyd, probably the most informed technology critic here
- Fuseball, who is a bookseller
- me, currently in the lab writing a PhD thesis

... now, I hope none of the above are offended by this, but I'm pretty sure we're all solidly middle-class. I'm also pretty sure none of us would come out with hateful stuff like:

Fucking working class not giving you way

people thinking they are above their station

go back to your proper place

Peasants

In conclusion: go fuck yourself.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:53 pm 0

It's ok, he'll calm down once he gets to shout at his butler and gardner a bit, has his glass of brandy and cigar and humphed at the newspaper enough times.

Edit : Acro there's a difference between upper class and UPPER class. There are those who do better off, and those who feel they deserve to do better off and therefore are better people.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:54 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:It's ok, he'll calm down once he gets to shout at his butler and gardner a bit, has his glass of brandy and cigar and humphed at the newspaper enough times.

I'm half convinced it has to be a parody, unless he really *is* channeling the ghostly spirit of Norman Tebbit.

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:57 pm 0

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Whatever. I will still be your boss.

See you on Monday.

Fuseball · Post by **Fuseball** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:59 pm 0

Orava wrote:Fucking working class not giving you way if you are driving a German car, with no flags on top, how petty is that. Fuck off nationalism and people thinking they are above their station. Now get back to what what fuck you were doing and go back to your proper place.

Peasants.

Don't you DARE bring class into this. You know nothing. Nothing.

I honestly don't know where to begin. You have some issues which clearly you should be dealing with in private rather than trolling here.

~D4T45H4T~ · Post by **~D4T45H4T~** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:02 pm 0

Settle down lads eh?

Post by **gribbles** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:02 pm 0

Fuseball wrote:I honestly don't know where to begin. You have some issues which clearly you should be dealing with in private rather than trolling here.

Absolutely. Take it elsewhere, Orava, and stop trying to drag this thread down.

I suggest everyone else simply ignores him untill his pills kick bak in.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:09 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:It's ok, he'll calm down once he gets to shout at his butler and gardner a bit, has his glass of brandy and cigar and humphed at the newspaper enough times.

Edit : Acro there's a difference between upper class and UPPER class. There are those who do better off, and those who feel they deserve to do better off and therefore are better people.

Oh, I don't have a problem with people who were born rich (they're jammy, but that's not a moral position, just jealousy

) or who have become rich. I have a problem with the kind of small-minded petty Daily-Mailism which tries to deny people the right to choose how they live their lives.

Anyway, this should be about football, although right now, c'mon Andy Murray!

Rev. Stuart Campbell · Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:11 pm 0

Well, nice to see someone making themselves more unpopular than me. Silly twat.

Unlucky England. There, I said it. Tremendous performances from Hargreaves and Crouch, admirably dogged resistance with 10 men, and more chances than the Portugese who didn't seem to know what to do when they saw the English box, but essentially still the same witless running around we've seen in the first four games. The tournament won't miss them.

Accusing the referee of bias is ludicrous - the Portugese tried conning him with a few dives, and he didn't fall for any of them. England were hardly innocent either - Gerrard and Neville took a couple of disgraceful tumbles, and they DID fool the ref, so fuck right off with whining about bias.

And Ronaldo? Jeez, leave the kid alone. There's no way in a billion years the ref sent Rooney off for the push rather than the bollock-stamp (which I'm still not sure about - looked accidental at first, but in the last slow-mo replay I saw it was a very deliberate-looking action, and the ref was right there, a hell of a lot closer to it than any of us), and Ronaldo did no more than a hundred players have in this tournament. He'd just watched his mate get him plums studded, I think he had a right to be pissed off. And when Rooney shoved him, he could have easily done a theatrical stumble backwards and plunge to the turf. He made absolutely nothing of it, stepped straight back and didn't moan. Rooney got himself sent off, blaming Ronaldo is pathetic. Always someone else's fault...

In the end both teams were pretty shit, there was barely a save made in the whole match, and heroic goalkeeping from Ricardo in the shootout won the game. England have carried plenty luck in WC2006, done their fair share of cheating (forgotten Crouch trying to break the Trinidad & Tobago defender's neck already, have we?), and finally went out the first time they met an even halfway-decent side. Be pleased they didn't make the semi-final to be utterly humiliated against Brazil*.

(And yeah, "Scotland weren't even there!" blah blah yyaaaaawwwwwnnnnnnn. Maybe if we got the free ride you always get thanks to seeding and never had to play anyone tougher than Azerbaijan and Wales in qualifying, we'd survive long enough to bore a few billion people half to death in the finals too.)

There you go, Orava. That might take some of the heat off you - not that you deserve it, you fucking tosser.

* (This sentence subject to editing in the next 120 mins.)

goldfish · Post by **goldfish** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:15 pm 0

Orava wrote:Whatever. I will still be your boss.

Unlikely, with people skills like that.

Sounds as though someone's had too much sun and Pimms (maybe it was the price that got our lord and master so peaky...?).

Twat.

In other news, really glad to see Owen Hargreaves get his penalty and the plaudits, as he's had a lot of criticism recently, but was our man of the match today.

Shame we didn't do enough to win the game today, but let's face it, neither did Portugal. Disappointed more with the performance than the result, but maybe I was naive to hope for more.

Roll on European Championships 2008 then...

Simon