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Post by Slothrop » Mon Oct 06, 2003 12:12 am

Meanwhile, in Scotland, an endangered species bites the dust for bringing the game into disrepute...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 166362.stm

Frankly, I think the panda sounds like a paragon of virtue compared with the animals south of the border. :roll:


"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available" (Benford's Law of Controversy)

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Post by Ace » Mon Oct 06, 2003 12:15 am

Paisley Panda was last season in trouble for gesturing to Queen of the South fans with an inflatable sheep and taunting Falkirk fans about their lack of a stadium.
:lol: I'd swap him for Fred the Red anyday :!:

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Post by ajdias » Mon Oct 06, 2003 12:24 am

olly wrote:The public of course. They're being opressed by not being able to write what they like without the threat of libel. In a crowd of 10,000 you can collectively say what you like.
I don't really know much about this law that seeks to prevent the names of suspects being disclosed in public.. do you think it's unfair? People can't just say wherever they feel like, their freedom ends where other's starts :?

Btw, do you know who's the guy on the left, my avatar? .. And no, we are not related :lol:

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Post by junot » Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:42 am

ajdias wrote:Btw, do you know who's the guy on the left, my avatar? .. And no, we are not related :lol:
Hmm... is it Eusebio by any chance?
Then again, what would I know, being a Bolton fan ;-)

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Post by simon » Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:36 am

Charlton boys march on :!:

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Post by Ace » Mon Oct 06, 2003 9:25 am

junot wrote:Hmm... is it Eusebio by any chance?
Then again, what would I know, being a Bolton fan ;-)

phil

Eusebio it is! You from Bolton junot? Welcome to the footy thread!

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Post by Ace » Mon Oct 06, 2003 9:33 am

ajdias wrote:I don't really know much about this law that seeks to prevent the names of suspects being disclosed in public.. do you think it's unfair? People can't just say wherever they feel like, their freedom ends where other's starts :?
Well I guess its sensible really. Especially if the accused are innocent. But when high profile footballers are behaving in this manner, regardless of whether they're guilty or not (which incidently, I feel they wont be and it probably wont get to court). Its kinda hard to feel sympathy for them.

This whole "I make more money in 1 hour then you make all week" and "Do you know who I am?" attitude, is a bit nauseating! Allegedly one of the accused was throwing £20 notes at the hotel staff and saying "Here, double your wages".

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Post by ajdias » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:50 am

Eusebio da Silva Ferreira one of the greatest football players, he played for Benfica in the sixties (2 times winner of European Champions cup and a few defeats, including one against ManU - 1967 :?:) and for the portuguese national team (in 66 we almost made it to the final..) We was not fully portuguese since he was born in Mozambique..

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Hey Junot, what do you think about "beefy Jardel"? That guy was a god when he played for Porto.. If he gets in shape and puts his mind to it he'll be a nightmare for defenders.. Btw, the first football tactic was invented by Bolton W. 1+1+1+8 :lol:

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Post by junot » Mon Oct 06, 2003 12:24 pm

Hey Junot, what do you think about "beefy Jardel"? That guy was a god when he played for Porto.. If he gets in shape and puts his mind to it he'll be a nightmare for defenders.. Btw, the first football tactic was invented by Bolton W. 1+1+1+8 :lol:[/quote]

Jardel has been on a crash diet and has lost around 11 kilos in 6 weeks. He must have been on one hell of a bender last summer!
He's only played 3 full games so far, two of them for the reserves, but he scored two goals in each game.
We have a young Portuguese lad in the academy team who is scoring lots of goals: Ricardo Vaz Té. He's only 16 years old.
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Post by Slothrop » Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:26 pm

The victim's mum sez:

"He very rarely goes out and I've no idea why he ended up in a situation like this - it's just the way Liverpool is now. He just wants to put it behind him as quickly as possible."

Well, ahm, Mum, I reckon it IS behind him.

"And then I got shot in the errm.... in the ermm... you know, down there"
"Rectum?"
"Yeah, well, it sure as hell didn't do them any good"
"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available" (Benford's Law of Controversy)

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Post by simon » Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:06 pm

Liverpool is turning nasty Another story::::

Gerrard Houlier was looking to sign some new players to help Liverpools title push, so he sent his chief scout to Afganistan to search for some new talent.

Sure enough, the scout finds an outstanding 18 year old striker and immediately signs him on a 3 year deal.

On getting back to England, Gerrard takes one look at him in training and immediately puts him in the starting line up for the big home game against Arsenal.

The new lad is fantastic, he scores a hat trick and creates four more as Liverpool romp it 7-0.

Ecstatic after the game the young lad phones his mum to tell her the good news. "Mum" he says "I've just made my debut and had a great game. The teamloves me, the fans love me and the press loves me. Life is great!"
"Well," says his mum, "I'm glad life is great for you. Shall I tell you what happened to us today?. Your Dad's been murdered in the street, your sister and I were raped and beaten in broad daylight, and your brother's joined a vicious gang of killers".

"Mum, I don't know what to say. I'm so sorry"

"Sorry?", She yells down the phone, "You're f*cking sorry? It's YOUR f*cking fault we moved to Liverpool in the first place!!"

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Post by simon » Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:06 pm

And another

A young talented midfielder played for his home team for three years with out much fuss until one day a premiership scout came along to one of his games. On seeing the natural skills this young player had the scout signed him up immediatly.
The young players manager was expaining the ropes to this inexeperienced lad,
Manager: Now your playing with the big boys son your going to need to live in a appropriatly posh house. I've arranged a three bedroom house with on-suite and a swimming pool.
Young lad: Wow that sounds great, i only had a bedsit in my home town.
Manager: To get around your going to need a flash car, i've arranged a jaguar XKR to be parked ouside your new place.
Young lad: God that sounds amazing, i've been driving a beaten up mini up until now.
On hearing all these life changing offers the young lad grows a little suspicious and has to ask
Young lad: This all sounds too good to be true, whats the catch?
Manager: Well son the truth is were going to pull you off after half time.
Young lad: goodness, we only used to get oranges at my old club!

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Post by Ace » Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:56 pm

I heard a whisper that Rio Ferdinand refused to take a drugs test today. Came from a slighty believable source too. Supposed to be in the news tommorow. Might be !"#¤% guess I'll find out, soon enough!

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Post by Ace » Tue Oct 07, 2003 12:08 am

Now this is quite reliable:
it's not a wind up
it wasn't today
he didn't REFUSE dope test
he ''forgot'' to turn up for it two weeks ago after A_rse game
FA want him banned for two years and have booted him out England squad
United standing by him because they say he didn't refuse test
but FA want to make an example of him
Fergie threatening to pull all United players out if they axe Ferdinand
FA and United's lawyers are still in talks now
there's more to this sadly...a lot more
I'm not fully convinced yet though!


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