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Fat Buddha
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Name: pete bowler
Homepage URL: http://fatbuddha.blogspot.com/
Location: South Wales U.k
Gender: Half man half biscuit
Member since: May 24, 2002
Last visit: November 13, 2008

Fat Buddha has posted 87 links and 691 comments to SportsFilter and 10 links and 563 comments to the Locker Room.

Sports Bio

Being a Birmingham City fan I have attended far more disasters than triumphs. This all changed on 12-5-02.
After 16 years out of the top flight we qualified for the play offs for the 5th year running. After a pretty lame draw in the home leg of the semi final we won with a last minute goal in the away leg, prompting a major riot by the home fans.
Onto the final and the most emotional day of my life (outside births deaths marriages etc). I can only just bring myself to speak of it and still haven't watched the video; far too emotional. I hated every last minute of the game, even when we were winning. At one point I was convinced I was about to die; palpitations, inability to breathe, inability to speak, overwhelming desire to burst into tears.
Anyway, we won, after extra time and penalties. A young kid called Darren Carter, a lifelong Blues fan who wasn't even in the first team squad at the beginning of the season, smashed home the deciding penalty. The place went crazy, well half of it did. Never again will I experience scenes and emotions like that because it can never happen again. Never again we will be in the position of perennial underachievers who had never won a penalty shoot out. Never again will it mean so much to 35000 diehards who had lived through some very bad and embarrassing times. We are up with the elite now and no tickets will be on sale to the casual or skint supporter. That day, in May, glorious as it was, has changed everything.
Supporting Blues has been character forming and helped me to cope with lifes vicissitudes with equanimity. I am going to miss the bad days.
I also saw Ian Botham score one of the fastest centuries in history at Edgbaston, but that hardly seems to matter.

Recent Links

The comedy club of Newcastle Utd F.C Continues to have us all rolling in the aisles. When he was at Wimbledon, Joe Kinnear, Newcastles caretaker manager used to come across as quite avuncular and jovial, as soon as he turned up at Newcastle though, he looked old, sad, lost and bewildered. Time (a full week) in the job seems to have taken its toll, if this transcript of a press conference is anything to go by. You need to read right until the end for the full belly laugh.

posted on October 03, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result

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 February 08, 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 October 25, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result

More fantasy soccer I appreciate that we already have a perfectly good league and don't need another. However. The Sunday Times reckons its new game is more cerebral than the others, requiring more thought and analysis. The scoring system is more complex and transfers have to be negotiated with other managers. It could be good, it could be crap, who knows. Anyway, I have taken the liberty of setting up a spofi league with room for 15 teams. Feel free to join. The league name is Spofi and the password is Lebowski

posted on July 28, 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 June 16, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result

Recent Comments

Obama is a soccer fan. West Ham invite Obama to watch a game at Upton Park. Apparently, he watched a Hammers game in 2003 while visiting his half-sister in London (article doesn't say if it was live, home, away or on the telly). Obama's older daughter plays on a soccer team. Change we can believe in.

posted by worldcup2002 at 04:25 PM on November 08

Leeds had some bloke called Albert who died lonely and impoverished, but West Ham are generally acknowledged to have been amongst the first of the top clubs to embrace the athleticism and footballing intellect of the black man. I still hate the bastards though.

West Ham, that is, not black men.

Comment icon posted at 07:52 PM on November 08

Spofi EPL pool 08-09 Week 2 update.

posted by gspm at 12:14 PM on August 26

That damn table looks righteous enough to these eyes|

Can we call the season closed now? Before I start my inevitable, inexorable, slide down to 15th place?

Comment icon posted at 09:29 PM on August 26

This is Football's Biggest Player Fine Ever Adrian Mutu can finally count the true cost of his positive drugs test while a Chelsea player after Fifa yesterday ordered him to pay 13.8m in damages to his former club. It is the biggest fine ever handed down against a football player.

posted by tifosinyc at 06:45 PM on August 15

It's alright, they have agreed that he can pay it back at 5 quid a week.

Comment icon posted at 04:18 PM on August 15

Close season is almost over The Community Shield is in 36 hours, the EPL opens in another week. Who made the most of the transfer window? Will the Top 4 do anything but play musical chairs? Scolari has come to Chelsea, kept Lampard and Drogba (so far) and wants Robinho. SAF has not lost Lady Boy and not bought Berbatov. Arsenal bought teen heartthrob Aaron Ramsey and Samir Nasri. Liverpool got Keane, Dossena, Degen and Ngog.

posted by billsaysthis at 01:39 AM on August 11

Drood "Watched it on Setanta. Not entirely worth my time."

Think yourself lucky, old chap, I had the misfortune to be sitting in the stands watching it and at one point I commented that I wished I was sat at home, in the warm, with a cup of tea.

It was my youngests first game and I felt a bit guilty when the goal went in and I witnessed his unrestrained joy, as I fear I have condemned him to a life of unutterable misery. The best part for me was that another young man came with us, also his first game and his old man happens to be a Villa fan; it might seem cruel, but I think we did the right thing.

And thanks for pointing out to these crazy yanks that the close season is over, for the vast majority of football fans the new season is well under way!

Comment icon posted at 08:33 AM on August 11

EPL Fantasy 08-09 Open for business Pssst. Sign up. Pass it on. Don't tell squealy. Games start August 16. League Name : Spofi Code : 84936-22714

posted by garfield at 01:03 PM on July 25

I'm game for a bash a the Guardian league, as I am so crap at this one!

Comment icon posted at 05:23 PM on July 25

Week 23 update for the Spofi EPL fantasy footie. One more week to go.

posted by gspm at 05:59 AM on May 10

OK. I'll concede that Squealy might just have edged this one.

Comment icon posted at 07:28 PM on May 10

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 by Goyoucolts at 01:12 PM on February 26

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.

Comment icon posted at 08:53 AM on February 26

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 by Goyoucolts at 01:12 PM on February 25

Corinthians.

Comment icon posted at 04:36 PM on February 25

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 by Goyoucolts at 01:12 PM on February 25

And how many compound fractures did those tackles result in? None, as far as I know, but what's your point?

Comment icon posted at 04:19 PM on February 25

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 by Goyoucolts at 01:12 PM on February 25

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?

Comment icon posted at 03:45 PM on February 25

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 by Goyoucolts at 01:12 PM on February 25

I don't think anyone is playing down the seriousness of the injury, plenty are overstating the likely length of rehabilitation, though.

Comment icon posted at 03:17 PM on February 25

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 by Goyoucolts at 01:12 PM on February 25

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.

Comment icon posted at 02:12 PM on February 25

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 by Goyoucolts at 01:12 PM on February 25

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.

Comment icon posted at 11:23 AM on February 25

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 by Goyoucolts at 01:12 PM on February 25

"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?

Comment icon posted at 10:21 AM on February 25

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 by Goyoucolts at 01:12 PM on February 25

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.

Comment icon posted at 07:50 AM on February 25