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May as well just follow 9 separate birds around town for 10 minutes each tbh.

Speaking of Worldcupitis, when do we start calling Isegrim "Fritz" and making pointed references to the war?

Nah, it was you watching Joe Cole and starting to make free associations to Maradona by a single action. Get your head sorted, dimwit. 130437[/snapback] Associations of a similarity in appearance at that precise moment, that the BBC reporter made on 5 Live too. Knerbheed. 130440[/snapback] That doesn't mean you're right though. You could both be wrong! 130452[/snapback] As I said in the other thread. Next time Crouch stops a ball without falling over the plonkers will have seen "flashes of Pele"... 130456[/snapback] Aye, you were wrong in the other thread too though, so I wouldn't go repeating it.... That's me, Papa Laz, Shearergol and the bloke off Radio 5 that think there were shades of Maradona about the incident. Up against a dorty Jorman who's just trying to pointscore and a smelly student who's doing the same - neither of them have actually commented on whether they agree or disagree with the observation. No contest tbh. 130474[/snapback] To me it just looked like an attacking midfielder who slipped through three defenders neatly and scored a good goal. Something I see from time to times in football matches I watch. But the name of a true football great wasn't immidiately popping into my head. 130479[/snapback] I'm afraid that has to go down as a failure on your part.

Nah, it was you watching Joe Cole and starting to make free associations to Maradona by a single action. Get your head sorted, dimwit. 130437[/snapback] Associations of a similarity in appearance at that precise moment, that the BBC reporter made on 5 Live too. Knerbheed. 130440[/snapback] That doesn't mean you're right though. You could both be wrong! 130452[/snapback] As I said in the other thread. Next time Crouch stops a ball without falling over the plonkers will have seen "flashes of Pele"... 130456[/snapback] Aye, you were wrong in the other thread too though, so I wouldn't go repeating it.... That's me, Papa Laz, Shearergol and the bloke off Radio 5 that think there were shades of Maradona about the incident. Up against a dorty Jorman who's just trying to pointscore and a smelly student who's doing the same - neither of them have actually commented on whether they agree or disagree with the observation. No contest tbh.

Aye, in the 80s, you earned the title "action movie" if you had a scene where a car drove on two wheels for a few seconds. I agree with what you're saying though. Not much point in these films where everyone goes "The effects are AWESOME" if the rest of the film is shite! See Mission Impossible 2 for a film that's all effects and very little else.

Nah, it was you watching Joe Cole and starting to make free associations to Maradona by a single action. Get your head sorted, dimwit. 130437[/snapback] Associations of a similarity in appearance at that precise moment, that the BBC reporter made on 5 Live too. Knerbheed.

I'm surprised at the rule actually. I would have thought that the "serious injury" would have had to have been incurred after you picked the original squad. If you pick the player knowing he's injured and are gambling on his recovery, then I don't really think you should be given the option to change your mind at a later date. Still it works in England's favour this time, so fair enough.

Anything Else. Woody Allen thing. Slow and not really worth the effort tbh.

It wasn't a disagreement, he (intentionally or otherwise) misunderstood what I said. As for pomposity, you're the doctor in training, so I'll defer to you as the expert on that one.

I'll renew regardless cos I'm a soopadoopafan. Even if it's Coleman. 130386[/snapback] To be fair you're still holding out for a dream management team of Coleman and O'Leary. You'd be engrossed by their joint post-match interviews. 130398[/snapback] O'Leary could whisper his thoughts to Coleman who could report them in his horrible singsong Welsh accent. By the way, if we did get Zaccheroni and he turned out to be crap then surely "Spacceroni!" has to get an airing as a Chronicle headline.

Don't tell me you're as dim as Isegrim??

Decent news because it means that you can see how he is after the six weeks or so and decide whether or not to risk him.

For the insurance to pay out, wouldn't the player have to accept his career was over and not play professionally again? Can't see Dyer being willing to do that when he's onto a nice little earner not playing as things stand.

I'll renew regardless cos I'm a soopadoopafan. Even if it's Coleman.

I'm sure there are discussions like that in the event that you're forced into a position where you're approaching your limit on your budget. Do you think someone had offered Dyer 70k a week like? I don't, but tbh, if they had we should have just got rid rather than tried to beat that wage offer. The Chairman is the one in charge of the purse strings at the end of the day, and if the Manager says to pay a player who rarely plays £80k a week, as much as I like that Shepherd backs his managers with cash, there has to be a time when Shepherd turns round and says "Are you MENTAL??!"

I'm looking forward to this programme tonight actually.

Doesn't sound like it. "Offered" and "handed" are the only things I've seen so far. Let's just hope that a) he isn't poorly advised like Bernard was and he wants to stay himself. Having said that, if the Arsenal story is true and his agent advises him to go, you'd have to say it would be good advice unfortunately. Let's hope he signs the contract anyway - it would have made much more sense for Shepherd to go to the media when the contract was signed by the way. Announcing that you've offered someone a new contract is completely daft and is only going to alert potential suitors that now's the time to make your move. You generally only see that sort of stuff when there is a dispute and the chairman wants to make it clear that it's not the club that's stalling. Still, at least Freddy got to see his name in the paper.

Taken from SSN, only time will tell, it seems 130356[/snapback] SSN could just be speculating following Portly Freddie's statement about having the 'management structure' in place before the last game finishes. I bloody hope something is announced this week, though, as I am certain Roeder is not going to be 'the man' and I want to know who is! 130364[/snapback] Aye Roeder said on R5 at the weekend that he didn't expect Shepherd to appoint him as the new manager. I reckon we are probably getting a new face in as manager with Roeder fitting in to some sort of Directorship/Footballing Overlord role.

Aye.

Was just thinking about this before. You know how miserable it is at the end of a bank holiday weekend when you have to come back to work? Imagine a bank holiday weekend where you discover have to go back to work somewhere you don't like (all of us know this feeling)......except you're on £2.5m a year.....and chances are you won't even have to work as such because you're probably not gonna be playing all that much. Life is sweet for Nicky Butt.

I know mate, and I'm not suggesting I believe the lad who's making the claim. I'd be thorougly unimpressed if it's Coleman. It's bad enough losing matches without having to listen to the manager make excuses in a Welsh accent.

I think it'll be one of the Smoggies or Charlton that have contacted him. Unless Shepherd is about to spring a big surprise. What's he like anyway? Anyone know much about his teams etc?

I didn't see the challenge but it sounded a nasty one. Hope he makes a full recovery. That's what you get when you put an eejit like Kevin Ball in charge of a football team.

Like I said on N-O, I doubt it's us that have spoken to him. To be fair to the lad, Shepherd's probably never heard of him.