Lets Talk Football

Football, no contest. I just wish I was good enough to play at a level beyond kicking lumps out of people in midfield (though it ain't served Roy Keane too badly).

I like my boxing too, sat up til 3ish watching Hatten-Tszyu. Cracking fight.

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Hmm, im not too much into sport nowadays, but you can never beat a round of hacky sack

Football's too commercialised for me plus football hooligans and extortionate ticket prices, i don't see what the fuss is all about.

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Who won?

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Sorry nebbs, but Hatton won - poor old Tszyu quit on his stool before the 12th round. He was very gracious in defeat though, seems like a nice guy.

Ahh, screw going to games - might as well let the tribalists pay for the spectacle and we can just sit back and watch on the box . (altho i have enjoyed going to the odd game - and getting unrepentently fired up when it's international time ).

Best thing about watching is we can learn just how bad we are at playing the game in real life .

Hey, i'm one of the ones you kick lumps out of! . My speciality is to dally on the ball for ridiculous lengths of time and baffle everyone, including myself. Very very occasionally i pull out some piece of left-footed flukery that actually achieves something - and then i savour it for years .

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hmmmmm you're David Ginola?

10% of the talent and health levels, but i still do 90% more running for the team

Well,

American Football doesn't start for another few months, so there is nothing to talk about right now as far as that is concerned. I am glad, though, as that would mean it would be fall, and I would have missed summer. Can't have that....

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Ahhh but do you also have 10% of the lustrous locks?

Weirdly he's the only footballer my mum likes - Ian Dowie's nowhere near.

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

Yay Malmo. The only place in Sweden i've been too. (at least i think that's where i was. Got given too many drinks by drunk snowboarding Swede-landers to be completely sure. Why they were snowboarding on the boat i don't know - told you they were drunk )

yeah, it's pretty much the same on the footie front - summer's for playing - winter's for watching. Now... if i could just give up smoking again...

There is all the transfer gossip though, and other scraps of soap-opera shenanigans. My team's top-notch transfer-guru just got stolen by Chelsea the other day. Very annoying. I blame Peristroika. (if you haven't heard about the Chelski revolution that won't make any sense at all )

I've got the length, but again, i'm in worse condition (i don't have any of his modelling contracts either, dammit)

I'm considering not renewing my season ticket for Glentoran next year - knives are all very well for cutting steak, but not so hot in the crowd at the Linfield games....

If there's one thing to hate about sport, and footie, it's that ****. Stupid stupid fecking tribalism.

I've been to footie matches in England & Scotland for 15odd years and can comfortably say that the nastiest sets of fans belong in Belfast.

Ho-hum.

Do it, do it, you can do it again

american football? go vikings.

Hey, remember last year when I predicted Kansas City would go to the Superbowl? Er... I was wrong.

What are your thoughts on the Lillywhites' quest to buy every promising young midfielder in England?

Incidentally, do you ever arrange to meet friends at a certain place, then just never turn up?

They'd be waiting for Golgot.....


Sorry

Erm, yeah, we want all of them (although Chelsea can have Shaun Wright Phillips - he comes from a dodgy family ).

I think the management plan is to build a team whose average age is 6 - and then to buy no one else for the next 30 years .

Still, yeah, god knows, give us a few more false dawns and we might actually have a midfield for the first time in decades

Andy Reid's looking like a good buy, of the older-young'uns we've bought. I'm a bit worried they might play him out of position tho, considering Zeigler's doing well, and now Routledge is in. We'll see. And then there's Lennon too. It is looking kind of promising at the mo

I think they got this new Finnish midfielder Tainio in too coz Jol wants some more bite in midfield - so now all we need is a rock-solid classic centre forward and we'd be looking pretty sweet (Kanoute's cool - his control is quality - but we need a tall man who can head the ball)

Nah, i just right 'Godot was there' on walls everywhere i go

That reminds me of a radio phone show about Scottish football:

"Anti Niemi should play in goal for Scotland!"

"But he's Finnish."

"He's no finished, he's only 28!"