This is it....What is ? This !! What's This ? This !! OH !!

Confused ? Don't be....This is the thread where you can hail your favorite team and slate off your rivals.....It's about Football and not that silly game that they have to wear pads to protect themselves.

Pre-season has started and so has the trashed talk !!



First Question of the day -

Do you think Rio Ferdinard is worth £30 million pounds ?


Personally.....I think Man Utd has paid too much and wouldn't it be a shame if he get's injured after the first game. What a waste of money !! On the other hand....I hope he stays fit to play all the England qualifiers for Euro 2004 !!

BTW.....What team do you siupport ?

SPURS !! Always have and always will !!

I only heard about it an hour ago on the late night news ... I'll be crying in my corn flakes when I get up in the morning. Wait till wez logs in - how much money does Old Trafford have lying around?!

Oh, wouldn't it be nice if the end of the 2002-03 season sees Leeds United crowned CHAMPIONS! with ManU a distant 3rd behind Arsenal ... dreams are free, they cost you zilch.

I'm a Hammer. Rio is a good lad, but football is just silly money these days. £30 mill for 1 man - I hope it doesn't go to his head.

Sypher - I'm gutted you're a yiddo. I usually hate Spurs fans, you've seemed quite nice so far so you must be the exception to the rule.

Comes with being Jewish......as it goes my whole family more or less support different teams....My dad supports Chelsea and my brother supports West Ham, whereas my sister supports what her husband supports....Arsenal !! ECK !!

I've been to more Chelsea games with my dad then Spurs games....even been to a few West Ham games....as they are only 20 minutes away from where I live !!

I think I'll let you guess who my team are.

£30 Mil???......Sounds like a lot of money, and probably is to most clubs, but with the commercial wizardry at Man Utd we don't really have a problem with these ammounts.
Is he worth that sum of money??? Certainly if he helps bring back the trophies that are out on loan at the moment.
I hope the pretenders at Highbury are keeping them well polished for us

This is just for you George

only one word comes to mind, that is capable of going into print

thanks

opening markets for the Championship:-

2.35 ... Manchester United
3.00 ... Arsenal
4.00 ... Liverpool
15.0 ... Leeds United
16.0 ... Chelsea
31.0 ... Newcastle United
71.0 ... Tottenham Hotpsur
101. ... Manchester City
141. ... Aston Villa
151. ... Blackburn Rovers
161. ... Fulham
161. ... West Ham United
201. ... Middlesbrough
331. ... Everton
401. ... Sunderland
661. ... Bolton Wanderers
661. ... Charlton Athletic
661. ... Southampton
801. ... Birmingham City
1251 ... West Bromwich Albion

this is for sparky, wez and any other ManU supporters who are looking for tickets to a match with some class

George....I think you must have put up the wrong link.....it's not heading towards a London side !!

Thirty million quid for one player? Blimey Charley! That is more than the combined salary caps for the entire Australian Rugby League!

No wonder the Brits lost their Empire; they couldn't afford it...

Don't suppose any of the teams have a tiger as a mascot do they? just kidding .... sort of.

I'll go Arsenal, probably not a popular choice but it's because of the Fever Pitch book. Honestly, I thought it was about my family with the names changed to protect the innocent and stupid. Even down to the bit where the girlfried faints at a game.

The only team that has a Tiger for it's mascot that I could find was.....Roary The Tiger - HULL CITY !!

Loads of lions in the Premiership but no tigers....

I can't believe Leeds are fourth favs to win the prem

If Leeds finish in the top 4 I'll wear a pink lycra tutu and lap dance in my local pub

PS: No information about the whereabouts of this pub will be posted here

You think that's bad.....Spurs have been quoted at 16-1 to go down !! ECK !!

As for Leeds in the top 4.......they will be until Christmas and then they will sink like they usually do !!

As this thread was set up for a bit of good humoured banter I think this joke will be accepted here


On a tour of England, the Pope took a couple of days off his itinerary to visit the South-West coast near Plymouth on an impromptu sightseeing trip.
His 4X4 Popemobile was driving along the golden sands when there was an
enormous commotion heard just off the headland. They rushed to see what it
was, and upon approaching the scene the Pope noticed just outside the surf,
a hapless man wearing a Leeds Utd football shirt, struggling frantically to free
himself from the jaws of a twenty-foot shark.
At that moment a speedboat containing three men wearing Man Utd shirts
roared into view from around the point. Spontaneously, one of the men took aim
and fired a harpoon into the shark's ribs, immobilising it instantly.

The other two reached out and pulled the Leeds fan from the water and then, using
long clubs, beat the shark to death.
They bundled the bleeding, semi-conscious man into the speedboat along with
the dead shark and then prepared for a hasty retreat, when they heard frantic
shouting from the shore. It was of course the Pope, and he summoned them
to the beach.

Upon them reaching the shore the Pope went into raptures about the rescue and
said, "I give you my blessing for your brave actions. I had heard that there were
some hooligan elements and evil people trying to divide Leeds and
Manchester, but, now I have seen with my own eyes this is not true.
I can see that your society is a truly enlightened example of cultural harmony
and could serve as a model on which other peoples could follow."

He blessed them all and drove off in a cloud of dust.

As he departed, the harpoonist asked the others, "Who was that???!"
"That," one answered, "was his Holiness the Pope. He is in direct contact with
God and has access to all God's wisdom."

"Well," the harpoonist replied, "he knows nothing at all about shark hunting. How's
that bait holding up or do we need to get another one?"

No offence intended to shark lovers

I will pay that one, Sparky!

Got two questions for you, though...
1) Do we get to see pictures of aforementioned cross-dressing? and
2) Are there any 'Saints' teams in the comp?

Cheers from a soccer ignoramus...

In answer to your questions Ozzz

1. As Leeds won't finish in the top 4 pictures will be non-existant.

2. If you mean are there any teams in the prem that have saints as their nickname, then the answer is yes.
Southampton are known as the saints...but as you can see from their chances in the betting and if you research their past exploits...you will find that they don't get much divine assistance

They are on a par with my AFL team, St Kilda, proud holders of the record for most wooden spoons..:)

Syph

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Comes with being Jewish

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Heck Lad. If I caused offence by calling you a yiddo I did not mean it as such. I used to work in a pub full of THFC supporters, and used to live with one (for my sins) and all of them were proud to be called "yiddo". I suppose it is just that part of London.

Anyway I think yau are a major top bloke, and a top bless in the BB chain, so please, please don't take offence.

And goodnight

As I said after last season finished, the premiership title is on loan for one year only. There can be only one team that are going to win the title in 2002/03 and that is MANCHESTER UNITED .
As for Rio Ferdinand, £30 million is a lot of money for one player, but so far, in pre-season, he has looked rather impressive.

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I can't believe Leeds are fourth favs to win the prem

If Leeds finish in the top 4 I'll wear a pink lycra tutu and lap dance in my local pub




Well Sparks, the season's upon us and I know you boy scout types like to be prepared, so here's a link which you might find useful.

Making your own tutu from a kit.

You never know, perhaps some kindly soul could pass on some advice on the choreography side of things later in the season if or when required!!!

Psst, I'm actually hopeful that my Spurs lads will finish above them too!!!

well hush my puppies, guess who cruised home 3-0
The Mighty Whites

click here if you're a Liverpool supporter

Oh dear good Lord....................the tykes ain't top after 1 game are they??????

Make the most of it G! (Seriously though, I have a good deal of affection for el Tel!, as I do for KK as well...........it's just a pity they are both managing 2 of the most abysmal, awful, boring! , no-hopers in the Premiership!) yuk yuk yuk!

What time do you get the matches in Oz?........I've just finished watching 'The Premiership' on ITV, and you seem to have posted at exactly the same time as above programme finished?

Tel'll do a good job for ya this season..........even with the loss of Rio (where'd he go again? ). All of his teams are based on a solid defensive foundation. Unlike Kevin's, whose teams are exciting in attack, but PP in defence!.

Are ManU 4th?..................I'll settle for that at the end of the season.......as long as we can get through those troublesome qualifying games for the European Cup at the start of the season. I feel a rollercoaster ride coming on!!!!!

Surely, Utd need another defender don't they? At least we've got all our injuries out of the way at the start eh?

Here's to another 9 months of sheer bloody torture!

wez

mate, the Leeds v Man City game was on live at midnight .. I was still awake when Barmby scored on his debut, then woke up at 2 or 3 and went to bed - had to race to livescore.com when I got up to get all the results

ah, the season is still young

Who........in thier right mind would stay up until midnight to watch Leeds Utd play?

I guess I know the answer!!!!!!!!!!

At least you get the matches live.............unlike us poor saps in the UK! (Thanx Uncle Rupert!!!!!!!) Barmby.............vastly underrated! lucky to have him. 3rd goal by Keano was a classic.............if only he could learn to do a double somersault, instead of that crappy cartwheel!

wibble
wez

It's a pity we didn't get el Tel back at Spurs, he can still talk a cracking game of football!!