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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: peter on October 17, 2007, 06:12:34 PM
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England 1 Russia 2 again we wont be at a European campaign.
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So long as you tried your best Peter that is all anyone can ask.
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England 1 Russia 2 again we wont be at a European campaign.
Bear with me, Peter. What have England gone and lost now?
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England 1 Russia 2 again we wont be at a European campaign.
Bear with me, Peter. What have England gone and lost now?
Maybe the will to live.
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See Scotland followed our lead and lost as well'
I can see the Home championship being brought back as it will be the only way one of the home nations will win something
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Ah, but Scotland losing was a calculated tactic, Peter. It's still in our hands alone (unlike England, who require other teams to help them out), and had our boys had to play Italy only needing a draw to go through, it would have been a guaranteed disaster. Playing to win is the only way to approach this final game - the notion that anything less might do would work against us. See? So we didn't turn up against Georgia - and it worked a treat. I was a little worried when we almost got a penalty, but thankfully the ref was blind.
It is my fervent wish that both of our proud nations qualify for the final stages. If only so that we might get the opportunity to stuff the ghosts of Seaman, Gascoigne and Geller once and for all.
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Ah, but Scotland losing was a calculated tactic, Peter. It's still in our hands alone (unlike England, who require other teams to help them out), and had our boys had to play Italy only needing a draw to go through, it would have been a guaranteed disaster. Playing to win is the only way to approach this final game - the notion that anything less might do would work against us. See? So we didn't turn up against Georgia - and it worked a treat. I was a little worried when we almost got a penalty, but thankfully the ref was blind.
It is my fervent wish that both of our proud nations qualify for the final stages. If only so that we might get the opportunity to stuff the ghosts of Seaman, Gascoigne and Geller once and for all.
Dreaming I am always dreaming.
I think you have been having to much of the hard stuff.
If any one of the home nations make I will be very surprised.
Ps who the hell is Geller.
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Uri.
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Uri.
What has he to due with England football squad.
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Dreaming I am always dreaming.
I think you have been having to much of the hard stuff.
If any one of the home nations make I will be very surprised.
Ps who the hell is Geller.
Isn't she Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
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Uri.
What has he to due with England football squad.
It is well documented, Peter. England were on the ropes, despite Shearer's opening goal against the run of play. Scotland were showing no mercy. The pressure bore fruit - PENALTY! Captain Courageous, Gary McAllister stepped up to the spot. The strike was uncharacteristically poor, and Seaman pulls off the save. Seconds later, the ball reaches Gazza at the other end of the pitch for one of the most ridiculously spectacular goals ever witnessed at Wembley, and it's all over.
Slow motion video evidence reveals that a split second before McAllister's foot connected for the penalty kick, the ball moved off its spot, rolling a fraction to the right. Enough to affect the crispness of the strike. Later, an unrepentant Uri Geller was to admit on national daytime television that at that exact moment, he was a passenger in a helicopter paid for by the News Of The World, hovering above Wembley Stadium, clutching George Cohen's 1966 World Cup Final cap, and using his psychic telekinetic powers to move the ball.
Sadly, the laws of the game do not legislate against mutant interference. We wuz robbed!
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Uri.
What has he to due with England football squad.
It is well documented, Peter. England were on the ropes, despite Shearer's opening goal against the run of play. Scotland were showing no mercy. The pressure bore fruit - PENALTY! Captain Courageous, Gary McAllister stepped up to the spot. The strike was uncharacteristically poor, and Seaman pulls off the save. Seconds later, the ball reaches Gazza at the other end of the pitch for one of the most ridiculously spectacular goals ever witnessed at Wembley, and it's all over.
Slow motion video evidence reveals that a split second before McAllister's foot connected for the penalty kick, the ball moved off its spot, rolling a fraction to the right. Enough to affect the crispness of the strike. Later, an unrepentant Uri Geller was to admit on national daytime television that at that exact moment, he was a passenger in a helicopter paid for by the News Of The World, hovering above Wembley Stadium, clutching George Cohen's 1966 World Cup Final cap, and using his psychic telekinetic powers to move the ball.
Sadly, the laws of the game do not legislate against mutant interference. We wuz robbed!
[s-t-r-e-t-c-h] - [yawn] - Wotwozthat, Tarquin? Did you say something? ;D ;D ;D
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Indeed I did, Vult. And had you stayed awake, you would have realised I was relaying a tale of fascinating conspiracy and subterfuge...not just balls. :P
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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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What a weekend England and Scotland defeated at football also England rugby squad as well as F1 Hamilton.
It nearly makes you weep.
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Scotland just have to beat Italy, Peter. England's footballers will sneak into the finals through the back door, as per. England's rugby team massively over-achieved and went far beyond even their own expectations just to get to the final. And Lewis Hamilton is set to become the first UK sports billionaire, and may yet be crowned world champion in his rookie year depending on the outcome of appeals.
Who exactly are you weeping for? ???
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I weep for poor footballers like Ashley Cole who told his heart-breaking story in a masterly autobiography. Apparently, he wanted ?70,000 per week to stay with Arsenal and they only offered him ?65,000. The news was broken to him by his agent as he was driving his Merc. "I nearly crashed the car", wailed Ash "They were willing to let me go over a measly five grand!"
A measly five grand. Or quarter of a million pounds a year.
I weep for poor footballers like Ashley Cole. I really do.
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Me, too. He was looking for the equivalent of three years' pension per WEEK! That's obscene.
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There's an argument that football is a multi-million pound industry and that footballers have every right to earn the money they do. To a certain extent, I agree with this. It's the ATTITUDE of some of them---like Cole---who treat an offer of ?65,000 a week with contempt. I've often heard these obscene amounts of money being justified by the fact that football is a "short career". It's almost as though footballers are incapable of doing any kind of work after the age of 32. I've simply never understood this argument.
By all means, take the money but, for God's sake, be grateful.
Roger Kettle, reporting for Grumpy Old Men.
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I weep for poor footballers like Ashley Cole who told his heart-breaking story in a masterly autobiography. Apparently, he wanted ?70,000 per week to stay with Arsenal and they only offered him ?65,000. The news was broken to him by his agent as he was driving his Merc. "I nearly crashed the car", wailed Ash "They were willing to let me go over a measly five grand!"
A measly five grand. Or quarter of a million pounds a year.
I weep for poor footballers like Ashley Cole. I really do.
Fairs faire He only wanted parity to other under paid workers.
If Lampard can ask for 150 grand per week Ashley would be a really underpaid super star.
If the under paid prime minister can get a guaranteed inflation pension plus directorships or after dinner speaker.
Who are we to moan about our pensions
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Trust me, Peter. I'm NOT moaning about my pension. I'm very grateful to get it. When I was in paid employment it took me about eight years to earn what Cole was looking for on a weekly basis. I could have afforded to buy the kids shoes AND socks with that kind of money.
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Trust me, Peter. I'm NOT moaning about my pension. I'm very grateful to get it. When I was in paid employment it took me about eight years to earn what Cole was looking for on a weekly basis. I could have afforded to buy the kids shoes AND socks with that kind of money.
Was you shopping at Harrods for them there shoes.
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If I'd had ?70,000 a week, Yes!
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I find sipping Krug eases my non-productive cough.
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I find sipping Krug eases my non-productive cough.
Is Krug a Klingon drink.