Alex
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Raval's is really nice and a bit different.
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Aye, in fact I would say they've already fallen into that trap (got their debut album). When it works well it's cool though.
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Please tell me you're on the wind-up, man.
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Burgess Meredith?
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Think Gejon had a thing for her and cited similar reasons.
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Heard the Gagarin single on Radio 6 recently. Canny good I thought.
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Love the idea behaving like a complete cunt is ok if there's no racial element to it (or if the racism is ironic).
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Do you not think that highlights a massive problem anyway though? I.e. there's no innovative strategy or national identity. It's pointless trying to emulate Spain, Germany or whoever too closely as by the time that takes effect the game will have moved on in any case. It's always been the way of the FA as long as I can remember i.e. we need to copy the ____ method. I would try and emulate them to the extent that you need to have a large number of coaches qualified to a high level. We don't even do that though, despite the massive amounts of money in the game. We have far less coaches than Holland, Spain and Germany. Not only that but the hours needed to get the badges in this country are less.
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I wasn't being sarky and I hadn't seen your edit. I think it was fairly obvious I was being serious on the matter too. Obviously there are some well run junior clubs and I would certainly try and seek those out if the bairns were interested in playing. I think though, to an extent, anecdotes about the state of grassroots football are informative, but overall it would appear all is not well. The FA themselves were rather damning in their assessment in the recent report about it, which is significant given they were essentially reporting on something which is their own responsibility. I think you may have taken comments as being anti-amateur football in general. I'm anything but, although I do feel the game has consistently failed to move on in this country as we're having the same discussions about coaching and resources that we were when I was a kid. And the national team weren't able to find enough technically proficient players then either. This isn't quite the debate we were just having (which was more about general disillusionment and not really being arsed about getting my kids into the game, which is something I certainly never envisaged). I would put this to you though: if these charter clubs are doing their job and they are numerous (which is what you seemed to be inferring) then why are we still so far behind Germany, Spain et al?
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No, he was right. That was my point.
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And that's why TP loves football The beautiful game at its best.
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That wasn't my reasoning though, although I perhaps didn't make that clear. I was talking about two different (but related) things at the same time. Obviously it's slightly moot given my influence on what they will like, want to do is somewhat limited (given I don't want to be the sort of overbearing parent who tries to make them 'love the Toon' or be the next Alan Shearer). I'm not going to encourage their going to the match before they can make informed choices because of the state of the club / top flight football in general. The reasons for not being particular inclined to have them play football competitively at a young age is because of the poor coaching, facilities, fucking fruit loop parents (usually the mothers) and the cliqueness that seems to go hand in hand with the latter. I picked a couple of examples of sports I feel are better options for several reasons but, again, that'll be up to them.
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Was on about amateur boxing. As was obvious, surely.
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I take in a bit of non-league football now and again and I quite enjoy it. It's what I was brought up on anyway really as I watched 100s of games as a kid.
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Aye, I don't have Sky Sports either.
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That just about nails it like. Someone was asking me if I was going to start going back to SJP when I could take the bairns. I realised I had no intention of indoctrinating them and would probably even prefer it if they didn't want to go. I'm not even arsed about them playing. Even at junior level there's everything from the utter cuntery of a large proportion of the knackers watching their bairns to the complete incompetence of those attempting to coach the sides. I'd rather they boxed, played cricket or whatever. It's been taken away from people like Stevie and given to people like CT. Edit: @@trophyshy
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You need to get yourself to Afghanistan to learn about conceptual art.
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Thought BB was excellent like (despite having expected it not to live up to the hype). Slightly dipped in the final season but it was still gripping. The episode of Family Guy that takes the piss out of people who won't shut up about Breaking Bad and The Wire was well observed however.
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Talking about yourself in the 3rd person again?
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Absolutely spot on and funny to boot. Especially: "Perhaps we're encouraged to see ourselves as embattled pockets of morality because that's how our country sees itself in the world. Rather than, say, a nuclear armed, money-laundering pirate ship, where all the ship's officers have been sent away from their families at a young age and deliberately driven insane through the medium of sodomy." Also, thought this was canny: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02j53t4/funny-valentines-matt-berry-wild-love
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Divvent fret, Hun
