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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: October 05, 2009

Fat Buddha has posted 87 links and 696 comments to SportsFilter and 10 links and 571 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 by Fat Buddha to soccer at 02:58 PM on October 03 - 8 comments

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 by Fat Buddha to soccer at 11:28 AM on February 08 - 6 comments

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 by Fat Buddha to soccer at 05:38 PM on October 25 - 5 comments

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 by Fat Buddha to fantasy at 03:04 PM on July 28 - 15 comments

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 by Fat Buddha to soccer at 05:02 AM on June 16 - 44 comments

Recent Comments

EPL Fantasy 09-10

13 points. Yay.

posted by Fat Buddha at 10:08 AM on October 05

Harlequins rugby coach given three year ban

NON CONTESTED SCRUMS!

posted by Fat Buddha at 04:33 AM on August 19

EPL Fantasy 09-10

I feel confident that once again I will make an astonishing late run into the top twelve.

posted by Fat Buddha at 05:21 PM on August 18

EPL Fantasy League Starting Up Soon

Rumours abound of disharmony in the Villa camp, payers fighting each other at pre season tournaments, players not supporting the team when they haven't been picked, that sort of thing.

It's all rather fantastic, unlike my dismal early season form. Is it too early to say I hate this game?

posted by Fat Buddha at 02:53 PM on August 17

Ashes 2009 Pointscore

I am Bopara.

posted by Fat Buddha at 02:51 PM on August 17

Photos from the American Section at Azteca Stadium

Is there a secret code you need to see the pics?

posted by Fat Buddha at 02:50 PM on August 17

Famous Spanish Matador Knocked Out by Bull

He fought the bull and lost. Did the bull ask for that fight? I think not. My sympathies are with the bull.

posted by Fat Buddha at 02:38 PM on August 17

Ashes 2009 Pointscore - Results After the Second Test

Shane Watson will play in the next test and I will zoom up the league!

posted by Fat Buddha at 07:10 PM on July 26

Ashes 2009 Pointscore Contest

I suppose it's too late now??

posted by Fat Buddha at 06:07 PM on July 14

Ashes 2009 Pointscore Contest

England

Pieterson Flintoff Swann

Australia

Hussey Hughes Watson

posted by Fat Buddha at 06:31 PM on July 07

Steven Wells: a few memories of a unique and acerbic voice

It's a damn shame.

posted by Fat Buddha at 08:36 AM on June 28

Happy Birthday to Us

A big thanks to the original 8.

posted by Fat Buddha at 07:40 PM on February 14

Sacking Day

David James has given Adams a bit of a slagging in the papers today. Of course, David has never made a mistake in his life, so is uniquely qualified to comment on the shortcomings of others.

posted by Fat Buddha at 07:29 PM on February 14

Obama is a soccer fan.

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.

posted by Fat Buddha at 07:52 PM on November 08

Spofi EPL pool 08-09

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?

posted by Fat Buddha at 09:29 PM on August 26