Qatar vs Russia should be interesting. Barca v Atletico also. Can't see Bayern or Real not getting to the semis though, Dortmund seem to be suffering from either injury or Bayern taking half their squad. David Moyes' LOL United could probably do without the distraction. Although the small prospect of them pulling a Chelski and winning the thing, whilst Liverpool take 4th spot is kind of appealing in a schadenfreude kind of way.
Do you think match-fixing has infiltrated the game? At this level?
I wonder if Wenger has pondered this. Now cancelled the press conference amid dark mutterings of 'puzzling' and 'need to think deeply' etc etc.
To fix a rout needs a ring of dudes involved, and given salaries would cost a whole heap of money. Less than the amount available from a betting coup? I can't call it, but does Arsenal contain enough snides in the first team to make it happen?
That's the crux.
Watched it live, first MLS game I've seen in ages. Reasonable standard of football on offer. I've been to worse in the UK. No surprise about Defoe, it was a good move for him and he's still tricky. Great debut. Toast of the town?
1.6m unique viewers on Saturday's TFC home opener, making it the highest rated MLS game ever.
apparently it is, in fact, a bloody big deal.
jermaine has 3 in 2 games already and Michael Bradley looks like a diesel train in the midfield; canadian-centric mix of grit, skill and effort is going over like gangbusters.
They are cunts. Saw a Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 45 in a Brum Oxfam for £20. That song was a top 10 hit, there must be thousands of that single floating around, What The Actual Shitting Fuck, the thing that really pisses me off isn't just that they're trying to make a ridiculous inflated profit out of touch with the real value, but that they're grasping for profit from something that was donated to them for free for fuck's sake, anything they get for it is 100% profit you money grubbing cunts, and Oxfam is meant to be a place poor people can buy shit they wouldn't be able to afford new/at all (like clothes), instead the shops have become as mercenary and crass as high street chuggers. Cunts.
I've pretty much given up on charity shops for records, shit just got too dire time ago. My local Oxfam is the only one I ever bother with at all these days. It all depends on who their 'record guy' i guess. For the princely sum of 90p I found some sleeveless £60 British Psych lp in there the other day and a bunch of interesting instructional records, the sort that would've gone for £30 on eBay a decade back 'cause it's got breaks'.
Anyone else want to celebrate the pension budget bombshell of last week?
Massively good news. Life changing event for myself, opening up a whole new world of possibility in a few years time.
Game changing shit.
::happy day::
Can you break it down, in layman's terms please?
From next year, anyone retoring can take their entire pension pot in cah, and do what the fuck they want with it.
Until then, retires have has to buy some grim financial product that paid peanuts, and was basically a gamble on you winning (by lasting longer than average) or losing (pegging it soon after retiring).
And now, Duder, you can buy that Lhambo or go on a coke n hookers binge, or stuff it under a mattress, or still buy that shit financial product. But the choice is yours.
This is where I get all grumpy and say that while you do that I'll be paying for it, but when I reach retirement (which they will have moved to 85 or something) there won't be any money left. Only I hope I won't be here. I hope I'll be somewhere hot, explaining phrasal verbs to young senoritas, writing my "memoirs", and living on a bottle of rum a day and something spicy served in a wrap cooked by a fat bloke from an island off the coast of Thailand who knows how to make dirt taste like the best dish you've ever eaten, and probably supports Liverpool even though when you press him for details he thinks Robbie Fowler still plays for them. So yeah, you can have your Lamborghini, and I'll have my Tom Kha Gai. Fuckers.
But you won't be paying for me, I'm paying for me. It's my fucking money goddammit!
And given the fact that my parents have nothing to leave me, it's a bloody good job I've stacked that cash away for 30 years and will now get it back, plus the investment gains, minus a ridiculous amount of tax. And further, given that I'm homeless, it will pay off my drum and leave a decent wedge left to blow on whatever years are left in the company of dwarf twins, albino amputees, et al.
And further further, since I've been a good boy and grafted all my goddamn life, I fucking deserve it goddamn yessir and you'd best believe it.
Skel, you really do deserve it. I knew there had been some announcement about pensions and Lamborghinis, but as my mum hadn't been flashing a yellow key-fob in my face I thought maybe it was something sarky as usually financial news for my parents & grandparents generation is negative.
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Real/Dortmund
Barca/Atletico
LOL
::wink::
6-0.
Still, though: Oofsville, London. RED CARD TO ONE OF YOU LIGHT SKINNED BLACK BLOKES.
My GOD Liverpool's defense was terrible today. Glad our offense is better than our defense is bad!
:oh_snap:
Judging by the the games this season, I suppose not.
What the shitting fuck.
But, yeah, fuck Chelsea. Hope Liverpool win it now.
I think we'll finish third. At this point I don't see Chelsea or City's league form sufficiently dipping enough for us to pass them.
Do you think match-fixing has infiltrated the game? At this level?
Massively good news. Life changing event for myself, opening up a whole new world of possibility in a few years time.
Game changing shit.
::happy day::
I wonder if Wenger has pondered this. Now cancelled the press conference amid dark mutterings of 'puzzling' and 'need to think deeply' etc etc.
To fix a rout needs a ring of dudes involved, and given salaries would cost a whole heap of money. Less than the amount available from a betting coup? I can't call it, but does Arsenal contain enough snides in the first team to make it happen?
That's the crux.
You are considering only the carrot approach.
The alternative is the stick. Football man, dem Hap-ri-caan family not living in some fortress. 25-8 bodyguard.
"Do you want to see your mum's head on a stick?"
Violence in the third world no stranger. Ask Adebayor. And cheap. 10-for-1.
Just needs mafioso-types to make the call. Vincent Tan at Cardiff. Faxing Sinatra at City. Pillars of dey community.
Roman and dem squeaky clean doe, fox rules.
That definitely wasn't Arsenal's first team... no Bludklot, Wilshire, Ramsey, Ozil. And the ref dealt with our first choice LB
1.6m unique viewers on Saturday's TFC home opener, making it the highest rated MLS game ever.
apparently it is, in fact, a bloody big deal.
jermaine has 3 in 2 games already and Michael Bradley looks like a diesel train in the midfield; canadian-centric mix of grit, skill and effort is going over like gangbusters.
Can you break it down, in layman's terms please?
:face_melt:
Fucking cunts.
and now a word from our sponsor...
3 x random rap 12"s at 50p-a-pop is the last thing I got from an Oxfam. I stay away now on principal (harrumph, and much wattle-shaking).
From next year, anyone retoring can take their entire pension pot in cah, and do what the fuck they want with it.
Until then, retires have has to buy some grim financial product that paid peanuts, and was basically a gamble on you winning (by lasting longer than average) or losing (pegging it soon after retiring).
And now, Duder, you can buy that Lhambo or go on a coke n hookers binge, or stuff it under a mattress, or still buy that shit financial product. But the choice is yours.
Miserable, money grubbing bastards
:cheese:
And given the fact that my parents have nothing to leave me, it's a bloody good job I've stacked that cash away for 30 years and will now get it back, plus the investment gains, minus a ridiculous amount of tax. And further, given that I'm homeless, it will pay off my drum and leave a decent wedge left to blow on whatever years are left in the company of dwarf twins, albino amputees, et al.
And further further, since I've been a good boy and grafted all my goddamn life, I fucking deserve it goddamn yessir and you'd best believe it.
Private pensions not state pensions - ahhh, so.
Mandem know man has got his piggy bank locked away in a Ponzi scheme, Eddie Murphy and dem riding pork bellies for man.
Skel going to do "...and the rest, I wasted." ;)