Top marks to The Sun for the headline in the "Hossam Ghaly's transfer to Birmingham cancelled after he refuses to run in training" story:
WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 5 August 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
kenny dalglish on the top 10 predictions... http://tinyurl.com/2t4x5u
King Kenny's Premiership Top Prediction 1. MANCHESTER UNITED 2. LIVERPOOL 3. CHELSEA 4. TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 5. ARSENAL 6. EVERTON 7. WEST HAM 8. PORTSMOUTH 9. BLACKBURN ROVERS 10. NEWCASTLE UNITED
― djmartian, Sunday, 5 August 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
King Kenny's on Krack
― onimo, Sunday, 5 August 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Free Setanta forever on Virgin Media telly, hurrah! Except I'm moving to a non-cabled area in three weeks, boo!
Kenny's gone mad! West Ham in seventh?
― ailsa, Sunday, 5 August 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Saturday: AFCWvFCUM A great day out apart from the strange smell of sewagehttp://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r299/crunchydog_2006/AFCWpenalty.jpg Sunday: Wemberlee http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r299/crunchydog_2006/wemberlee.jpg
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Sunday, 5 August 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I got AFC Wimbledon into the Championship on FM2007, btw.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 5 August 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
What did you think of Wembley?
― Pete W, Monday, 6 August 2007 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Better than I thought it would be. I was one row from the back, so right up at the top, and it's pretty steep there, but you've still got a decent view. In fact the view was great compared to the equivalent seats at Old Trafford (where you're crammed in like sardines and the roof comes down so steeply that you can barely see the far touchline, never mind the rest of the stadium).
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 6 August 2007 11:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't think I've ever been so high up in a ground, or had so much leg room. What about the atmosphere? It was rubbish at the cup final.
― Pete W, Monday, 6 August 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I've got vertigo even looking at that Wembley photo.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 August 2007 11:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Matt, you've left yourself wide open for a Spurs gag there.
― Pete W, Monday, 6 August 2007 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
The atmosphere was alright really. At least it started off boisterously for both halves and then died away after half an hour or so. I suppose that's the difference you get when all the tickets go to supporters instead of corporate sponsors / regional FA officials etc. (and also the effect of several hours drining lager in baking sunshine). You're right about the legroom: normally you feel they've just tried to fit as many seats in the ground as possible, but this was spacious.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 6 August 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
did you have a pie? they're nice but not worth the queue or the price
― blueski, Monday, 6 August 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
My mate had one. It didn't look appetizing at all.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 6 August 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i have a feeling you only get "free" santana on virgin of you've got the [scuse me] XL telly package, which we don't, so to get sultana we'd have to pay an extra £9 a month, although banana are showing a lot of conference blue square premier (retch) matches...
...cheer dickie.
― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:17 (sixteen years ago) link
argh, it's not even that simple, as the cost of our sky sports package would come down if our telly pack got more expensive...
(clearly i am rly just doing this to get to watch the baseball on NASN ;))
― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Ooh explain how the baseball ties in?
― Mark C, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link
In what way was breaking up the TV rights supposed to be better for the Great British Consumer again?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:53 (sixteen years ago) link
stop them consuming hopefully
― Filey Camp, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link
It means you get a legitimate excuse to go to the pub more.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
If you're on XL package with Virgin you get the Setanta Sports package except for NASN (which is baseball heaven) for free. If you're on a smaller package you pay £8? a month and NASN is included. To get NASN if you're XL means you have to shell out the £8 a month as well. (if that makes sense)
Breaking up the TV rights means you can get some live Premiership football for less than a tenner a month on freeview and you don't have to give your money to Uncle Rupert in the process.
― treefell, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
If I see an entire Premiership game live on TV this season I'll be surprised.
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Why pay for Sky when you watch it in Chinese for free? They'd better not have closed that site down in the summer...
― Pete W, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm if you can get it to actually work...
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
It only let me down a couple of times last season. But when it did, it was very frustrating.
― Pete W, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:21 (sixteen years ago) link
were you using PPLive?
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometimes Sopcast and sometimes one another that I can't recall.
― Pete W, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
were they showing the Sky Game cause occassionally they screen different games abroad...
― secondhandnews, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, whut? i don't get NASN with the XL pack??? man, i'm SO p!ssed off with virgin since they dropped sky and sky sports news anyways, maybe i'll ring them up and tell them i'm going to sky unless they are very very nice to me (ie free baseball)...
― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
the site i use seems to have pretty much every game played that night/day, including non-Sky prem, serie a, bundesliga, la liga. the quality is shite and sometimes it'll cut out mid-pass, but that adds to the fun and is still better than martin tyler.
― Pete W, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Why do you want to watch baseball, you nutjobs?
I recorded last night's "Football Years" which was 1980/1981 and I am just going to watch that every week for the duration of the season.
I also watched that New York Cosmos documentary and thought well, what a lot of fuss about nothing.
― PJ Miller, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
So how about that whole Spurs breaking the Big Four thing, then?
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 11 August 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the initial giddy rush of enthusiasm and optimism in every Spurs fan evaporated the moment they saw that team sheet. Forty odd million spent and Paul Stalteri and Anthony Gardner are still managing to make the team. No width at all either.
Plus, I already hate this man:
http://www.expressandstar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/mcshane1.jpg
Sunderland will be absolutely fine in the Premiership by the looks of things.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 August 2007 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link
mcshane wouldn't have looked as good if the ref hadn't seemed determined to allow as many niggly fouls on berbatov as possible.
and, ok, nobody wanted to see gardner or stalteri on the team sheet yesterday (let alone tainio on he right wing, come on BMJ this doesn't work) but to be fair the real problem yesterday was the rank performance from jenas in midfield, i've never seen a spurs player look less interested. does he think he's still at newcastle or something?
i'm glad i predicted blackburn to finish above us, as i'm sure at this stage spurs are gonna finish below fifth. i don't understand the optimism when we haven't signed a single player to solve our problem area, and blew a wad on positions that weren't a priority.
bmj out!
/rant
― darraghmac, Sunday, 12 August 2007 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link
At least Arsenal are a goal down.
Also, Birmingham to pull off a gritty draw against Chelsea. I'm calling it.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 August 2007 12:13 (sixteen years ago) link
jens lehmann ftw
― Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
what a tw@! that is a beautiful thing.
birmingham going for the roller-coaster draw instead, by the looks of things.
― CarsmileSteve, Sunday, 12 August 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Goalies arsing things up = comedy gold (unless it's your team's goalie)
― ailsa, Sunday, 12 August 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Great moment just now: Alan Green says "Reading must be hoping that they'll get a set-piece, and that Kitson, with hsi ability in the air, could possibly nick them all three points" and then Kitson gets sent off three seconds later.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I've played Dave Kitson at Scrabble, FYI.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 12 August 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Did he get within 200 points?
― Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
We played twice, one win apiece. Surprisingly literate for a footballer/ginger
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 12 August 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
That's actually quite refreshing. I must try and catch him in interview. (I don't think he'll be interviewed today, somehow.) Whereabouts did you meet him?
― Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
(as Reading hold United to a stalemate, with Rooney metatarsalled and O'Shea the latest striking sensation at Old Trafford.)
― Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
That was possibly the most one-sided 0-0 I have ever seen. I have absolutely no idea how Man Utd did not win that game (actually, I do, Hahnemann played an absolute blinder). That said, I'm not sure Reading were even remotely interested in attacking for most of it.
If he wants to become a big Man Utd player, Nani will need to get one composure and stop giving the ball away like that.
Also, LOL Paul Kitson.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 August 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Paul Kitson once scored a hat-trick for West Ham at The Valley in a 4-4 draw. Dave Kitson got sent off for Reading today. :p
― Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
the most one-sided 0-0 I have ever seen
You didn't see Liverpool 0-0 Charlton a couple of seasons ago.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, got my mediocre Premiership cloggers mixed up.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 August 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Rooney has broken his foot apparently. England are not going to Euro 2008.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 August 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
call up paul kitson
― Just got offed, Sunday, 12 August 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link