A mixed bag today

[...of J.Temperance]

Rangers 3, Celtic 1. Final Score. AARRGGHH!

I can't stand Rangers fans. I remember when I lived in Glasgow, after a win, one would often see them bounding down St. Vincent's Street and Sauchiehall Street waving the Union Jack and singing 'Land of Hope and Glory'. Damn varmints.

Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2, Kilmarnock 2.

Charlton Athletic 1, Wigan Athletic 0. :(

Portsmouth 0, WBA 2. :( :(

Southend United 1, Huddersfield 1. (Freddie Eastwood again, fab)

Norwich 0, Southampton 1. :(

Preston NE 1, Sheffield United 1.

Bristol City 4, Port Vale 2. :) :)

Bristol Rovers 3, Torquay 2. :( :(

Bad case of losing the plot TOTALLY by Torquay, after being two nil up, they then lose 3-2. Tut Tut.

[Systematic Chaos]

1. The Rangers played the Celtics?

I've heard of interleague play, but intersport? And just how would you combine basketball and baseball?

Oh, you're talking about soccer or one of those crazy anti-Amurican pastimes. :P

Sorry. Couldn't help it. My sleep patterns are all messed up and I'm acting even weirder than normal right now.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. Get to sleep...

:spank:

:P

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3. The Celtics

Are a pretty good basketball team. And unfortunately I'm being dragged to the Rangers vs the Angels at the end of September I think. Bad as I've long supported the SF Giants.

Keep on acting weird, I'm all for it.

[Kicked in the Taco]

4. freddie freddie freddie freddie eastwood!

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5. I'm surprised

That a Premiership team hasn't come knocking for Eastwood.

[Kicked in the Taco]

6. I know

Fortunately, as I understand it, Southend are relatively financially secure for a club at their level, so I guess they're in a position to hang on to him until they get offered a seriously big sum.

To be honest I don't really like football all that much, but I follow the shrimpers (and my local club from Uni, Hibs- won 2-0 today!) out of local pride/excuse to get drunk when they win.

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7. Southend

Have got a nice little operation going. I can't remember if they're moving from Roots Hall OR if they're just redeveloping the ground.

I like a spot of football, but I prefer what one might call the smaller teams. I think there's TOO much hype and stuff with your Chelsea's and Man U's etc.

Well done Hibs then! So, you better go and get drunk now I suppose ;-)

[Kicked in the Taco]

9. Well, if you insist...

:beer:;)

Re: Roots Hall...the Southend United new ground saga has been one of the most interminable issues in the towns local politics for years now. They've been talking for ages about concreting over some farmland just to the north of the town for a new 30,000 seater stadium- although expanding Roots Hall would have been easy if the scumbag former chairman hadn't sold off land right at the back of one of the stands for development (Roots Hall was originally envisioned as having a capacity of 40,000!)

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10. It's

A shame, they should have just redeveloped the ground. It was built in 1909 I believe, you'd think they'd want to keep a little bit of history. I think the capacity since the mid-50s has been about 13,000.

They once got over 30,000 in Roots Hall though. It was 1979, vs Liverpool, Third Round of the FA Cup.

There's too much filthy lucre in football, even in the smaller divisions and another example of money being more important than the game itself would be Southend's former Chairman's selling off that land.

Yeah, you have my permission to go and get hammered...just DON'T let them charge you £4.80 for a pint.

[T_i_B]

40. Could be worse...

Could be Layer Road, the pit of a ground inhabited by Colchester United. And they too are unsuprisingly trying to move out of that awful excuse for a football ground.

As I'm a Sheffield Wednesday supporter, I do at least get to watch my team in one of the best grounds in Britain, all we need now is our football team to start winning!

[Kicked in the Taco]

41. God yeah, Layer Road is awful

Colchester are another team I have considerable affection for, but that ground is truly conference-worthy at best.

[lockdown]

8. excuse to get drunk

Part-timer, any real fan would be appalled at you. :)

[lockdown]

11. You support all of them?

Sounds complicated, what happens when they play each other? :dunce:

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12. Who you talkin' to Willis?

Oh, yeah. Nah, I officially support Inverness, but heck do I have a soft spot for those smaller teams. I ADORE Yeovil for instance, nearly the same kit as Celtic too.

See Newcastle had another not so good game. Crikey, they're just below Middlesborough in the table right now.

[D-Notice]

14. Only played

2 games tho' & one of those was vs Arsenal, so you should expect to lose

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23. Well

Yeah, that's true of course.

[lockdown]

15. Who'd you think?

:)

Ah Inverness, where even the bairns drink whiskey.

Two words on Newcastle, Shepherd out. And Douglas Hall swinging. Ok six words.

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17. The bairns drink whiskey but NOT

Buckfast :)

http://www.buckfast.org.uk/TONIC.HTM

I was given a pint of Buckfast once, in a bar called Nice 'N' Sleazy, BEST bar on the PLANET. Anyhow, the Buckfast did nothing to me at all, it tasted disgusting like a blackcurrant cough mixture type thing.

In case you're wondering why I made a Buckfast reference, although it's made by the Monks down Devon way...98% of Buckfast is sold in the Strathclyde area.

Ah, I think Newcastle should give Souness the chop. I wonder if they're going to buy Michael Owen?

[lockdown]

19. Those monks

know what they're doing, you say it did nothing to you, but I wouldn't be so sure... ;)

Souness... well, he was good in Boys from the Blackstuff. Shit manager though, even without the moustache. If Owen is going anywhere it's back to Liverpool, no chance of him coming here I'm afraid.

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21. Yeah

Those crazy monks :) When I'm nearing 80 years old, which will be 50-plus years from now...I'll probably go completely senile due to that pint of Buckfast...although I could be already brain-damaged :P

Yeah, Souness SHOULD have stuck to acting, guess he lost his Equity card.

Newcastle and Blackburn are off to a really bad start, they had a bad end to last season. Unless they pull their socks up, it could be the Championship. Of course, Newcastle lost the glow when Jackie Milburn retired ;)

[lockdown]

22. Not damaged,

I've a feeling it might have brain-diversified you though. It's ok, there are treatments, watching ITV on Saturday night can help for instance. :P

Relegation, nah. Looking on the bright side, Sunderland have popped back up for a bout of humiliation, so the season won't be a total washout whatever happens.

[...of J.Temperance]

24. Brain-diversified

Like LSD does? Oh okay then ;)

The treatment, such as watching 'The X-Factor'. Jaysus, shoot me with a .460 Magnum (Satin stainless steel finish)!

Aw, it was unfortunate for Sunderland today, they played quite well too.

[lockdown]

25. You've always

got to have the last word haven't you. :D

Glad you took it as a compliment anyway, one smiley was enough. ITV light entertainment, lobotomy telly. As HMHB said "And in the kingdom of the bland, it's 9 O'Clock on ITV"

Oh aye, football... Sunderland tee hee. McCarthy still has a 100% record managing Sunderland in the top flight. Good for him!

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26. It's my

Privilege isn't it? ;-) Although, you could have PM'd me, then we wouldn't have another thread within a thread.

Of course I took it as a compliment!

The TV is getting crapper by the moment, it's the dumbing down of Britain. I only watched 'MoTD' tonight on the box. But since this evening, I've been watching 'A Matter of Life and Death', although I keep pausing it every 15-20 minutes, like I usually do with films. I ADORE Powell/Pressburger stuff. I'd be lost without my films and The History Channel.

McCarthy's a good manager, he did well at the Republic of Ireland, so I think Sunderland have got a good 'un. Which CAN'T now be said for Celtic, Strachan's turning into a disaster, I know O'Neill's a hard act to follow, but heck...

[lockdown]

27. If you say sooo

PMs? Took me long enough to post more than seasonally here, I can't handle all that scary whizzery.. anyway you started this thread so it doesn't matter what happens to it. :P

I secretly hope that Souness isn't being given enough funds because O'Neill is lined up, ha, dream on. Why do you support Caley Thistle anyway, family ties or just like the name? (heh)

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28. Good grief

You only click the first little yellow icon to the right of your number of posts.

I'm possibly the world's least technical person, so what about me and the scary whizzery. I'm STILL surprised that I didn't crash everybody's system by managing to START a thread!

O'Neill at Newcastle would be fab, but yeah, dream on :)

Oh Caley Thistle. Well, in Glasgow I found it was best NOT to go for Celtic or Rangers, so I decided to choose a neutral team and I picked Inverness and it was as simple as that. We got promoted from Division 1 and strangely Partick Thistle, who are another Glasgow team, got demoted, so both Thistles sort of swapped places. I could have picked Partick, but I lived not far from Partick, so I thought it was too close...and St. Mirren weren't an option (that's a very COMPLICATED story)

[lockdown]

29. That's not the

scary whizzery I was on about. :D ;)

Staying clear of the Old Firm clubs makes sense. Weirdly, you used to get Newcastle fans chanting Rangers Celtic Rangers Celtic back and forth at each other in matchday pubs and at the game, all good natured unlike the real thing like. I very rarely go to the match nowadays but that chant is long gone... as are the black & white tartan flat caps! Rangers' visit to St. James Park in a European semi in 68/69 is still the stuff of legend though.

So, just how COMPLICATED is St. Mirren? Like I wouldn't ask.

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30. Well

What IS the scary whizzery then? C'mon, if you don't tell, then I'll go and sit in the corner and sulk and bawl :cry:

Oh NO, black and white tartan caps, how HIDEOUS, thank God they're gone! I steered clear of the Rangers, Celtic thing because it can get a wee bit Sectarian and it's just not very nice.

You rarely go to the match these days...yeah well, you know back in your day when Wor Jackie was playing Inside Left and Walter Winterbottom was the England manager...:hide:

So who won that Rangers/Newcastle game in 68/69?

St. Mirren = COMPLICATED. It involves my ex-B/F, not the Canadian one, but the one prior to him.

Bloody spelling error again involving an ' and an s.

[lockdown]

31. Well, I'd have to

revoke my membership of the People Who Hate People Club for a start, unfortunately it's in the small print. I hate small print.

Back in my day, Wor Jackie would always nick my only jumper for a goalpost, he was a right bastard.

I think Rangers won by about 700 arrests, but I don't have my pre-Fila hooligan almanac handy so I can't be sure.

So, in your judgement the Rangers Celtic thing is a wee bit sectarian? :)

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32. You

Hate people? Oh dear :(

That right bastard Wor Jackie!...I'm glad you recognised my attempt at humour btw. Phew.

Won by 700 arrests, gosh that's MIGHTY impressive. Losing your pre-Fila hooligan almanac, tut tut. See, I always sleep with my copy tucked under my pillow, so I've never had any trouble just digging for those little obscure facts :)

Yeah, Rangers, Celtic can be a BIG wee bit Sectarian. There hasn't been a scrap though really since Gazza pretended to play a flute after scoring a goal for Rangers.

[lockdown]

33. Yes Gazza

is a true diplomat, a sage of his time. Did you know his name is now G8? No, really. :D

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34. Why

G8? Heck, he's REALLY lost it this time!

Oh btw, I don't actually think you're a People Hater, I think you're MORE like this:



:bounce:

[lockdown]

36. Too late,

you've already had the last word.

lol, night. :)

[lockdown]

35. Anyway,

it's past even my bedtime so I'll say goodnight and let you have the last word. If you like. :hi:

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37. ...

:beer: :hi:

[D-Notice]

13. Bit unhappy

Wigan lost - I'm a Blackburn fan, so I want our local teams to do well, but we won, so everything's OK! :P

[lockdown]

16. Bellamy won't be happy,

the team winning when he wasn't playing. Can't be long till toys out of pram time. :D

[D-Notice]

18. He can't really complain:

he's not playing cos he got injured on duty for the Taffs...

Just hope that Hughes & Savage can control him

[lockdown]

20. Oh but he can!

:D

He should be a good player for you to be fair, he is quality, but he's a handful off the pitch for any club or manager. To put it politely. :)

Besides that, I don't like to imagine Robbie Savage's idea of control!

[Mr Creosote]

38. I actually can't believe

how bad Norwich City were yesterday. We're clearly in for a long hard season. I'm not very happy - out at 6am - back at 11pm for THAT.

[lockdown]

39. Song for Norwich

We're Geordies, we're mental
and so is Delia Smith

we're Geordies, we're mental
and so is Delia Smith...

Hope the day had its good points anyway, away games are usually worth the trip even if you do get beat. And when they're really good they're unbeatable. I appreciate Norwich fans wouldn't know about that though.

[sweetheart]

42. aaah...

whatever.