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yawnsie

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  1. How about this, to the tune of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab:" They tried to make him sign for Bolton - he said, no, no, no!! Well, I like it.
  2. Reading their forum (albiet on Babelfish), they seem pretty cocky about it. They're also wondering if we'll play our ex-Liverpool star Matteo. http://www.redbullsalzburg-board.com/board...?showtopic=8070 (Go to www.altavista.com and click on Babel Fish for a translation)
  3. The full groups: http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UEFACup/n...sId=448958.html Hopefully, West Ham will get Parma and Spuds will get Leverkusen.
  4. We're in Group 3 of the draw. The unseeded teams that we could play are Hearts, Nancy (France), Sulte Waregem (Belgium), FC Salzburg (Austria), and Randers (Denmark). At least we won't have to travel too far! Paul beat me to it!
  5. Wasn't Alan Fettis the one who played a few games upfront for Hull and scored for them?
  6. Let's see... The Velvet Underground & Nico - Self-titled The Beatles - Sargeant Peppers' Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues Singers Marvin Gaye - What's Going On The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? Pink Floyd - Dark Side Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters Black Sabbath - Self-titled Radiohead - The Bends 11... not bad.
  7. So the message there would be that match-fixers can't be allowed into the Champions League, but they're alright to play in the UEFA Cup? Hopefully it won't happen though - as Phillip said, they're appealing on a technicality and the Italian FA/UEFA will surely give Empoli the go-ahead to play in Europe.
  8. Note how that site has Mido as part of our squad list.
  9. Yeah, where's that from tchocky? I haven't been able to find anything on the net.
  10. Arse! I've been sat here in work for the past hour, hoping to liven up my day by seeing Juve dumped down a few divisions.
  11. Phillip's right; there's no way that Coventry would have offered him anywhere near £10k a week, and MH will have known that when he offered the contract. To make that sort of money, Jeffers will have to perform. And if there's one thing Franny Jeffers loves, it's money, so Sparky might well have found the right way to motivate him.
  12. Well yeah, that could work too...
  13. As much as I hate the little nancy-boy, I can't help but feeling that the Ronaldo-bashing is going to get over the top. I feel sorry for his family now, and anyone close to him who'll have to suffer the consequences of his cheating. I've always thought that FIFA missed a trick in the last World Cup when Rivaldo did the dying swan against Turkey. If they had balls they'd have banned him for the rest of the competition; it needs drastic action like that to make players rethink their actions. You couldn't fine someone like Rivaldo enough to hurt him, so you need to hurt him in another way. Taking away his chance to play in the biggest tournament in the world would have done that. My thoughts on simulation are this: the first time a player does it in a season, he gets banned for say, two games. If he offends again in the same season, he gets a five-match ban. If he does it again, he misses ten games, and so on. Players like Ronaldo will be forced to clean up their act if they don't want to spend most of their career on the sideline, and managers will have a real reason to clamp down on cheating in their ranks: would you want a player to risk diving to win a pen if it meant he'd be unable to play for the next two months?
  14. How can Blatter have the cheek to criticise England for being negative when Portugal are still in the competition? When we were down to ten men and for the taking, they didn't even have a striker on the pitch until the last few minutes of normal time! I could take being knocked out if it happened in a different way for once, but it's the same every time.
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    Argentina

    Strength in debt? Well, they have done pretty well since the Argentine banks crashed...
  16. Because I need something to waste a bit of time in work today: 1. Brito 2. Lucildo 3. Khizanishvilio 4. Inhosa 6. Ryildo 7. Emertaldo 8. Savaginhosa 9. Shefkildo 12. Morten Gico 14. Stevildo 15. Kermiloghandro 19. Gallaghisco 21. Dominisco 29. Bentlaldo 33. Griano Manager: Mildo
  17. yawnsie

    Stupid Chant

    Do you mean the Inspiral Carpets tune? "This is how it feels to be Burnley, this is how it feels to be sad, this is how it feels when your sister's shagging your dad."
  18. There's plenty of evidence that says he didn't do it - like the confession from that Sankey fella for one. What happened to Michael Shields could happen to pretty much any football fan: any one of us here could follow Rovers away in the UEFA next season and be caught up in something like that.
  19. Bugger, I knew we had a Swedish Rovers fan on this board, but I couldn't for the life of me remember who it was! Sorry Lathund. I hope I didn't get anything about your team too wrong!
  20. World Cup Group B Sweden vs Trinidad and Tobago Saturday 10th June Westfalenstadion, Dortmund On the 10th of June, most peoples’ attention will be on England’s opening World Cup match against Paraguay. Beer will be flowing, Three Lions and World in Motion will be blaring from every pub and car in the country, and tosspots nationwide will be painting their faces and donning their retro Italia 90 shirts. Amid all the carnage and indignity that will surely follow another hesitant England performance, our other Group B opponents, Trinidad and Tobago and Sweden, will begin their own campaigns. T&T (as they shall be hence force known, to save me from repetitive strain injuries), were the last team to qualify for the finals, after winning a playoff against Bahrain. Having made it to their first finals, the Caribbean side will provide the BBC and ITV with somebody to patronise. Expect to hear such absolutely positively non-cliched remarks as ‘They’re tactically naive,’ ‘They play with smiles on their faces,’ and maybe even a ‘They’ve brought the carnival with them to Germany.’ We’re in Malibu advert territory here. Looking at the squad, T&T fit the minnow category. For such an exotic-sounding nation, their line-up will have a very familiar look to it, as most of their players are currently starring in the English and Scottish leagues. Their most high-profile players are probably Rangers centre-back Marvin Andrews, and our old friend, Dwight ‘Work-Rate’ Yorke, who was last seen in club football gleefully lifting an Australian championship trophy that looked uncannily like a toilet seat. Port Vale’s scouser Chris Burchall, T&T’s first white player in sixty years, is a winger for his club but will line up in central midfield for his country. (I use the term lightly. Well, we robbed Owen Hargreaves from Canada, didn’t we?) T&T tend to line up in a 4-5-1 formation, with Yorke either dropping into midfield or linking up behind the lone striker, who is likely to be either Coventry’s fantastically-named Stern John or Southampton youngster Kenwyne Jones. The weak leak in their side has been said to be Wrexham’s lanky defender Dennis Lawrence. The 6’6 man will be a danger from set pieces – he headed the goal that beat Bahrain last November – but a season of midtable League 2 action is not the best preparation for a World Cup. T&T’s recent form has been patchy: although they won 3-2 against club team Austria Vienna, they suffered a 2-1 reverse against phoneless wonder John Toshack’s Wales. Craig Bellamy didn’t play and Robbie Savage is believed to have been lying down in a darkened room with his eyes shut and his fingers in his ears until the match was over. Since then, the Soca Warriors have lost 3-1 to Slovenia and 3-0 to the Czech Republic. Sweden are much more well-known. They reached the final in 1958, and finished third in USA 94; our old friend, Martin ‘Work-Rate’ Dahlin was their star at that tournament. They’re also famous as the nation of ‘seven million skiers and hammer throwers who spend half their lives in darkness’ that cuddly columnist Jeff Powell believes England sold our ‘birth-right’ down the fjord to when we appointed famous Monty Burns lookalike Sven. We also haven’t beaten the buggers since 1968. Despite their high hopes and pedigree, all has not been well in the Swedish camp of late. They were booed off after a disappointing 0-0 draw against Scandinavia’s whipping-boys, Finland (to get some idea of Finland’s standing in the football world, Shefki Kuqi is one of their star players), and drew with both Saudi Arabia and Jordan. They also got thumped 3-0 by Ireland in Steve Staunton’s first game in charge; Steven Reid, Rovers’ very-own David Blaine-Bobby Charlton hybrid, pulled the strings in midfield. There are those who believe that Sweden’s star players are out of form and, in some cases, becoming too old for the top level. A 1-1 draw with Chile on Saturday has done little to convince those critics otherwise. Sweden generally play an attacking 4-4-2 system. Their midfield in particular has a lot more flair than past Swedish sides. Anderlecht’s Christian Wilhelmsson is a creative winger who can play on both flanks, and Football Manager players will be aware of Rennes’ Kim Kalstrom. Upfront, Henrik Larsson showed his class in the Champions League final, and is expected to link up with Ibrahimovic, who is a handful (think Peter Crouch but much better at shooting, heading and standing up) but has not impressed for Juventus this season, despite all the (alleged) help he’s had from Serie A referees. Sweden’s biggest worry for this game, and the entire tournament, is the prospect of losing two of their key players to injury: defender Teddy Lucic and jeans model Freddie Ljunberg. There’s also a question mark over the right-back spot, and coach Lars Lagerback has expressed concern at how many chances his team allowed opponents during their qualifying round. So how will this game shape up? Bigger teams traditionally try to feel their way into tournaments, and Sweden may see T&T as an easy start to their World Cup. On paper, you’d expect them to get it, but T&T will be flush with the pride of representing their country for the first time at the finals, and many of the Falkirk and St. Johnstone players who made up their side will hope to catch the attention of scouts from bigger clubs. (For further reference see: Gerard Houllier, the entire Senegal squad from 2002) Sweden’s recent inability to beat the likes of Jordan and Saudi Arabia suggests that the Nordic side are not in the best form. T&T might be able to frustrate them, but it’s hard to see where their goals will come from: it’s unlikely that Yorkie will bother making the arduous trip from midfield to the Swedish box too often. If T&T could nick a goal early on, adrenalin and national pride may carry them to a draw or even a shock win, but Sweden will probably be too strong for them. I’m going for an unimpressive 2-0 win to the hammer-throwers. TRINDAD & TOBAGO Population:1,305,000 (Trinidad & Tobago are the smallest ever nation, population-wise, to qualify for the finals.) World Cup Record: Have never qualified before 2006 Most caps: Angus Eve – 118 caps between 1994 and present day. Top goalscorer: Stern John – 64 goals in 90 appearances. Betting: 2000/1 to win the tournament (some bookies, like William Hill, won’t even give a price on this!) T&T are 2/5 to finish bottom of the group, and 1/50 not to qualify for the 2nd round. SWEDEN Population: 9,041,000 World Cup Record: Quarter finalists in 1934; Fourth in 1938; Third in 1950; Runners-up in 1958; Third Place in 1994. Most caps: Tomas Ravelli – 143 caps between 1981 and 1997. Top goalscorer: Sven Rydell – 49 goals in 43 appearances (!) in the 1920s and 30s. Betting: 50/1 to win the tournament. (Could be worth an each-way punt at that price) Sweden are 17/1 to finish bottom of the group and 2/5 to qualify for the 2nd round. These two sides have met just once before, in November 1983. Sweden won 5-0.
  21. I was made up to see the penalty saved - Gerrard went down in the box like Diouf against Rovers. Imagine how Ian Wright-Wright-Wright will react if some evil Johnny Foreigner does the same to Our Brave Lads in the World Cup. Muppet.
  22. Indeed he did. Trindad v Sweden it is!
  23. No worries. I'll take Mexico vs Iran. DONE.
  24. I'll give one a go too. I wouldn't mind an obscure one, because I might learn something.
  25. Who wrote that match report Colin posted, Shilton's bookie? Isn't it great how he refers to a match-winning hattrick in one sentence of the entire article.
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