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| Name: | pete bowler |
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Fat Buddha has posted 65 links and 559 comments to SportsFilter and 1 thread and 49 comments to the Locker Room.
Feck off to Vile Park is a favourite response to opinions that may be unkind to my chosen team on the various message boards that I frequent. It's the same on every other board, apparently. This is a great article which one or two on here might relate to.
posted on Feb 8, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Belated birthday wishes to football! Sheffield FC, the oldest club in the world celebrated its 150th birthday yesterday. Meanwhile, the muscular Christians responsible for starting many of our clubs also deserve a bit of recognition. Who would have thunk it, from a sport which was popularised as result of attempts to keep scraggy arsed working class males from marmalising one another in pubs ............................to David Beckham.
posted on Oct 25, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
In Praise of 'Soccer' Steven Wells: "... soccer-playing America is massively liberal, loving, caring, socially conscious and nice. While soccer-hating America consists of increasingly isolated gangs of Bush-supporting, bible-bashing, gun-crazed, dungaree wearing, banjo-playing, quasi-fascist chicken-lovers and their twelve fingered, pin-headed, cyclopic, drooling monster children."
posted on Jun 16, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Free Stories! Better late than never, The Barcelona Review is a fairly high faluting literary website which I visit occasionally. I hadn't realised how long it has been since my last visit, or I would found these three football soccer related stories 6 months ago!
posted on Jan 2, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
"...........the sheikh was looking for a gift for his brother"......... just a little trinket; a trinket going by the name of Liverpool FC. The EPL is for sale, and no name is too grand to be bartered like cheap sombrero in a Tijuana market.
posted on Oct 30, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
Arsenal's Eduardo Da Silva injured in outrageous tackle, possibly ending his career. A truly horrific injury, broken pieces of bone were sticking out of his sock as he was stretchered of the field. This is the sort of injury that you never truly recover from (See Alex Smith). I hope the FA bans Martin Taylor for life.
posted to Soccer at 1:12 PM CDT
Jewell in the rough. Former Wigan manager Paul Jewell is crowned the new manager at EPL bottom club Derby. His former assistant and recently-ousted replacement at Wigan, Chris Hutching, is expected to join him in leading the Rams. In other bottom-club manager moves, Birmingham has surprisingly secured Scotland manager Alex McLeish (who'll be earning four times what he did with Scotland). Meanwhile, Birmingham caretaker manager Eric Black has left to join former Blues boss Steve Bruce at Wigan. Whew.
posted to Soccer at 12:26 AM CDT
Wigan only survived by a gnats cock last season; they will soon disappear back into the hinterlands of our soccer consciousness, never to return.
posted at 2:36 PM CDT on November 28
McClaren sacked for big loss After only 18 matches as England's coach, Steve McClaren and assistant coach Terry Venables have lost their positions after their side's failure to qualify for Euro 2008. The Football Association said was a unanimous decision by the board. So who's next? The speculation begins.
posted to Soccer at 11:24 AM CDT
Any man or committee that uses the phrase "root and branch" is unworthy of respect, in my book. Not that I have a book.
posted at 4:28 PM CDT on November 23
Mourinho Departs from Chelsea The celebrated manager Jose Mourinho has left his position at Chelsea with immediate effect. Mourinho joined Chelsea in the summer of 2004 and led them to the Premiership title in each of his first two seasons.
posted to Soccer at 8:01 PM CDT
Steve Bruce for Chelsea!
Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaassssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
posted at 4:53 PM CDT on September 20
I have seen that tackle on both Sky and the BBC many times now and if you watch it, you will see that Taylor was going for the ball and caught Eduardo following through, after that ball had gone. Had it not been for the severity of the injury, I doubt if he would have got a red card. The BBC radio commenators at the time were surprised by the card, the Sky commentators were surprised by the card, the half time analysts
on Sky were surprised by the card. Ex pro's on the BBC afternoon sports show said it was not a malicious tackle and the card was harsh. Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson, who might know a thing or two about tackling, agreed that there was no malice in the tackle. Steve Bruce has said that it may not even have warranted a yellow in different circumstances.
All of which suggests that while it was foul, it was no worse than dozens of other fouls committed in every game, ever played, but it had horrific and unusual results. To demonise Taylor over this is pathetic and unjust; to call for his banning from the sport is, simply, moronic.
Wengers comments smack of a PR exercise to me, rather than a genuine apology. The PFA should be raising hell and Taylor should sue him.
Wengers petulance was a result of his well known and childish inability to lose with dignity. Not they they lost, but you would have thought that they had, the way they reacted.
Let's not forget a heroic performance by the Blue boys and two seriously classy finishes from McFadden.
Point taken on the dubious penalty, however there is a football cliche that decisions even themselves out over a season, maybe they do, maybe they don't, but Wenger and his team are not children, they will benefit and suffer from poor decisions in every game: Arsenal were lucky with their first goal, as the keeper was fouled, so there's some balance, right there. So they weren't robbed.
I am glad for Arsene however that he has finally found a decent optician, even if he does remain very one eyed.
Rodgered, your logic defeats me, are none us to be allowed an opinion about a team we support? Is any good result (it wasn't a victory) gained over a team that loses a player to injury devalued?
Almost every article I have read and just about every commentator I have heard believes the that tackle was not motivated by a desire to mutilate and that the resulting injury was horrific accident.
One of the best things I have read, written by non Blues fan, can be found here.
"and Eduardo and the other 21 men on the field all knew that a careless but inadvertent lunge could spell great harm to anyone of them, and conversely, that they could be the ones to provide the lunge."
Another video nasty, look at it about 8 seconds in.
Has anyone considered that Martin Taylor might be deserving of some sympathy and compassion?
Taylor is getting death threats and apparently some crazed Croat tried to attck him outside the training ground today. The world has gone mad. Decent article on the episode here.
I'll get back to you once I'm done sympathizing with Da Silva and his rehab over the next 2 years
Enough over emotional hyperbole please. Eduardo is fully expected to be playing again by Christmas.
I don't think anyone is playing down the seriousness of the injury, plenty are overstating the likely length of rehabilitation, though.
Do you suppose Arsene saw any of the tackles freely available to view here, or was his perch on the moral high ground too elevated?
And how many compound fractures did those tackles result in?
None, as far as I know, but what's your point?
Corinthians.
Deflated, you don't have to feel sympathy for anyone, if you don't want to.
I just heard on the BBC that they have postponed all of Saturdays premiership games as a mark of respect for Eduardo.