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That's why I liked it. 
you really are a madman.
muchlove
bigjeff
a crazy weekend of football, or perhaps not, - but proving what a great game it is with some interesting results to make the title chase and 4th spot down to the wire! Who could ask for more?
Crazy indeed. I'm grateful for that fact that we survive for another season in the EPL and can only hope for a less stressful and dire campaign.
Sorry for Burnley whose season got somewhat railroaded by losing their manager at a key time, although being totally dependant on home form is never going to be enough in this division.
It is Chelsea's to lose and this year I don't think they will, but who can say? As for Spurs, against all my better instincts as an East Londoner I think they deserve 4th spot and a chance to get in amongst the big boys, if only for the fact that I personally like Redknapp and always have. Met him socially at the dogs with Frank L a couple of times and I'm pleased to see him doing well.
That said, if your season relies on us getting a result against City for you then the dream will come unstuck. Having done us both times this year it will be ironic that we should be the team to do you a favour. Rest assured. We won't!
If you want it you need to do it at Eastlands. It's in your hands.............
Yes indeed Mike, grateful for survival - and what a cracking goal by the HOTY for the winner! 
We'll have to agree to disagree about the twitchy, saggy-faced one, though. 
Today it's all about Barca - can they overturn the very surprising two goal deficit from the first leg? I hope and think that they can.
Visca el Barca!
What a match! Probably offside Pique' gets in but too little and too late. What a defensive stand by Inter, and a man down! A dandy comes next. Inter v. Bayern who are appealing Ribery's suspension.
Rick
love Barca as a team (I think) but admit to wanting to see the underdog beat them last night, - partly so as to prove that Jose is the man to Abramavich (?sp) who got his decision massively wrong.
And Barca lost night dues to managerial inexperience against a very very good manager. That and the ref was a bafoon, that has gone on all tournament!
Have to say that I fear Chelsea will win the title, - I would prefer Utd due to their long term support of English youth coming through the ranks, - would prefer to see Giggs, Neville and Scholes lift the trophy before low life JT....
i'm so happy to see messi failing...
Tripod wrote:i'm so happy to see messi failing...
Tripod, Do you say that because Messi plays his football in Europe ?
no, because he ended with my dream of watching my team winning the world cup.
and i don't care if he's from argentina.
Estudiantes De La Plata lost the match with Barcelona. That day, Messi made the 2-1. I hate him since then...
Aha! The truth comes out. An expatriate from Argentina with a grudge.
What do you think of their chances in the upcoming W.C. Icon? I just checked and there is a 25% odds of them meeting in the round of 8. Then, of course, there are Germany and Brasil...
Rick
i can't hate him less. it's impossible...he ended with my biggest dream.
rickB, Argentina will be eliminated before the end of the championship.
It was great to see Craig Bellamy as one of the first to congratulate Harry, - also great to see the smile on Harry's face as the bucket of water went over his head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2VCyWLh2og
There was a feature article yesterday about US fans and the coming World Cup. Ticket sales have been heavy here, more than twice as many as any other country. Now that the cost of travel and the dangers of Johannesburg ( high murder rates and unsafe to walk the streets at night) have surfaced, heavy cancellations have been the result. Tickets locally are being sold to South Africans at far less than face value to try and fill the stands( 30%). This has diluted the secondary resale market and speculators have taken a bath. Local hotels have engaged in price gouging with rates soaring to five or eight times normal. Welcome to South Africa....
Rick
Yes, that sums it up. Dirt roads and 3rd world features. What were they thinking? I loved that view of the stadium sitting in the middle of nowhere.
The US team has still got 5 spots to fill for the full roster. Untimely injuries have us scratching for talent. We should make it through the first round but not likely much further. 
Rick
RickB wrote:Yes, that sums it up. Dirt roads and 3rd world features. What were they thinking? I loved that view of the stadium sitting in the middle of nowhere.
The US team has still got 5 spots to fill for the full roster. Untimely injuries have us scratching for talent. We should make it through the first round but not likely much further.
RickHahahahahahahaha!!!! So Rick, where's the US team staying ?
The team camp is near the stadium in Johannesburg. Probably at the end of that dirt road Brack. 
Rick
Yes, that sums it up. Dirt roads and 3rd world features. What were they thinking? I loved that view of the stadium sitting in the middle of nowhere.
Rick
Rick I don't want to misinterpret what you have put there so do correct me if I have but I can't help but feel disappointed to read your posts on the subject of the World Cup being in South Africa and say that they appear to illustrate a wider view generally held by America in that for a Country to be acceptable to travel to it has to fit with American ideals and sensibilities.
The African continent and South Africa is the perfect Country to host the World Cup in that rewards their very considerable and rapidly rising input into football and will help develop and showcase what a superb Country South Africa is.
I guess you guys won't be going to Brasil either then?
Ian
Ian, my point was taken from an article in the local sports paper written by a very knowledgeable football authority. The stadiums look beautiful, but the infrastructure is unfinished. The piece stated that local residents in Johannesburg advised it is unsafe to stray away from one's hotel at night. I have traveled in my business to third world countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia. I have been furnished with weapons and personal armed bodyguards in South America by clients in Ecuador, Columbia and Panama and in Senegal and Ivory Coast in Africa, so I speak from personal experience. I have witnessed violence, death and dangerous situations there that the average European has no idea of. Southern Africa is a wonderful place, I'm sure, but is still mostly undeveloped and risky for the casual traveler. I would have no qualms to travel to Brasil, but it is well known that crime is rampant there as well in some areas. Forewarned is forearmed. The appearance of affluence in these places is an open invitation to robbery and assault. That is my personal world view, not some unfounded arrogant assumption.
Rick
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