"We've momentum and we can't afford to lose it tbh"- The '13-'14 summer transfer window thread for PL and beyond

Dont know about the last few, not rly 'bigs' theyre just big

Rooney and terry otmfm tho

Matic

Shawx and huth travel with him tbf

Yeah but once you've marked up Benteke, Fellaini and Kompany who does that leave to deal with the others? Pulis for Belgium manager at Brasil 2014 tbh

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/sports/soccer/a-guide-to-attending-a-premier-league-game.html

that article contains the odd factual inaccuracy ime

I love that

Fantastic

Bovril, a hot beef-flavored bouillon masquerading as soup

as good a description of liquid beef as I've seen

Pulis would have bought Edin Dzeko and everyone called Diarra.

Actually his team might have played a lot like City last season but without Silva and Aguero. James Milner is a real big league Pulis player.

ugh rmde at that nyt article, not everyone over here is so clueless I swear

Nonsense, it's great - I love things that make Britain seem a weird, alien land. The epl is getting a hell of a lot of mileage out of pre-epl culture though

The bits about the 80s are really bad. The bit where the dude is earnestly explaining that the food won't be very good and no one will be eating in the stadium is great.

That was the time of the Hillsborough disaster, the Bradford City disaster and the Heysel Stadium disaster, when spectators were sometimes beaten senseless or burned or crushed to death in stadiums

this sounds like spectators burned each other alive.

Götze's out of the final, this is terrible news

^^ yes. It sucks.

Bale with encouraging comments

"Good luck Spurs" ??

Encouraging comments about staying, deems? I thought you wanted him sold?

Not at all! But i wouldnt see his going as a catastrophe given the money necessarily involved, and id question the logic of doublin the money and adding a buyout to his contract given the years left on it.

But rtc's ideal is mine- motivated bale gives another year anything like that, but with sandro dembele in cm, and better cover on the wings. Upfront, ah look, dreamworld situation is adebayor performs but you cant rely on either striker and really at least one serious purchase is needed.

If arsenal and chelsea both spend wisely, the above is bare minimum just to make it as close again tbh

this

The bits about the 80s are really bad.

and this

That was the time of the Hillsborough disaster, the Bradford City disaster and the Heysel Stadium disaster, when spectators were sometimes beaten senseless or burned or crushed to death in stadiums

this sounds like spectators burned each other alive.

― ... (LocalGarda), Wednesday, May 22, 2013 9:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is what I was referring to

we definitely think britain is a weird, alien land btw

West Ham have signed Shaktar full back Razvan Rat

http://www.faber.co.uk/content/faber-to-publish-davidpeace-redordead

"I have written about corruption, I've written about crime, I've written about bad men and I've written about the demons. But now I've had enough of the bad men and the demons. Now I want to write about a good man. And a saint. A Red Saint. Bill Shankly was not just a great football manager. Bill Shankly was one of the greatest men who ever lived. And the supporters of Liverpool Football Club, and the people of Liverpool the city, know that and remember him. But many people outside of football, outside of Liverpool, do not know or do not remember him. And now – more than ever – it's time everybody knew about Bill Shankly. About what he achieved, about what he believed. And how he led his life. Not for himself, for other people."

Is he doing Pulis next?

The Interior Life of Paul Scholes is already better than anything he's done tbf

i don't buy Peace as a thoroughgoing football fan i gotta say

His book on clough made me think "a cunt wrote this" and yknow there's def an echo of that as i read that paragraph above, "a cunt wrote this" i thought, "david peace seems a cunt".

but at least he has written a cunt book

nine cunt books, and you're nearly ten cunt books behind him. time to write nine cunt or otherwise books

i think The Damned Utd is a pretty good book but it shdn't be thought about as non-fiction, and even as fiction Peace's relationship to football feels ambiguous

or just one cunt book that outweighs his nine cunt books, because while I'm perfectly willing to entertain criticism of someone's cunt book, when it comes from somebody who's gifted enough to knock out a cunt book especially a cunt football book then really I'm not willing to entertain criticism unless in the form of a cunt book of your own

dude you don't have to be a carpenter to recognise when a table's all wobbly

this is nothing to do with dmac's ability to recognise, it is to do with the fact that he needs to write a book

I'm actually bored of talented ILXors wanking it away online

I dont need to be able to fly to know that a bird has written a cunt book, but yr passion is v much welcome back. Ps im goin into programming so at best elegant lines of code will be my lot

sorry for seeming cranky folks, my fucken local area has turned into a race war

guess 'wanking it away online' is v harsh considering that ILX is a functioning community and haven of higher online discourse. sorry ILX and its denizens

total lit rockism, sorry

I'M A CUNT ROCKIST

I am legit lolling

GarethBaleGarethBaleGarethBaleandacoupleofunheraldedEredivisiemidfielders

bring on the European Superleague

bring on an EDL XI making the Isthmian Second

bring on the Graeme Souness biopic

brrrriiiiiiiing *it's the door* who could this be? oh look it's a racist in a balaclava and a terrorist! they want to use my bed to have sex in it

my dog has joined in and now I feel stronger than the sun. truly have we purified this Albion

make sexy sex in every orifice, not hatred or murdering

there's your cunt chapter one, proceed

True story i was a legit wunderkind at english even throughout moving schools and teachers and attending like idk 60% of my final year and not studying i purely cunted higher english out of the ballpark, 100% in the entire first paper (creative segment iirc) with the fella marking it in raptures in the margins - i got all my papers rechecked by my teachers cos i was 5 pts off law and languages and the teacher checkin my english was a cunt kicked me out of the higher class cos i joined halfway through curriculum and eh probably smelled bad and looked quite lairy and whatever and he read it and called it a lucky maverick effort and i had to be removed from the silent hall from laughing at him

But i digress