Never made any impact for us at all and now, aged just 31, is off to play in Japan.
A very, very strange career.
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Never made any impact for us at all and now, aged just 31, is off to play in Japan.
A very, very strange career.
Good Morning Sir C.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Do you know where I can find a list of EU operational risk airlines?
I have a boring task to also check the EU blacklist :yawn:
Hmm, I'm afraid I don't, f.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Have you tried google? This has worked for me in the past.
I have a very boring task today also. I can't face starting it.
His club career really us at odds with his international career overall really. Loved over here (not by Bayern fans but they don't count).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
31 goals in 82 games for a player who rarely played the 90 minutes is a good record imo. Mostly match winning efforts as well I would say
I have a Pat Vegas type question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Bloke who has recently started in my office has such an annoying loud guffaw of a laugh I am thinking of looking for another job just to get away from him. Not seriously, as I don't want another job at this point, but he just makes me think about it. Asking him not to laugh is probably not on either as it seems rather intolerant. Have you ever been in this situation?
:nod: A left foot like a traction engine and further such cliches. Personally I used to love watching him, but there was always the suspicion of, how shall I put it, a lack of enthusiasm for movement around the pitch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
And packing it all in at 31. Bizarre.
I expect many of us would have been happy to pack it all in at 31 for enough of the spondulickses. Does Japan count as packing it all in though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Well he's retired from international football (I suspect he wasn't getting a game) but isn't Japan a place you go to at 35 for a final year on big bucks?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
:nod: I can't really find anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I found the EU blacklist it's quite funny what sort of airlines come out of Africa.
In Congo there is a airline called Canadian Airways :hehe:
Been playing regularly since he was 17 at the highest level. Seems a thing with that generation - Lahm is quitting entirely at the age of 33 (having quit internationals at 30). Per quit the national team at 29. Schweini is only 32 and going to America having quit Die Mannschaft last year. Neuer retired from all football during the second half of the game at the Emirates but changed his mind before anyone noticedQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
There used to be plenty of Russian and Ukrainians on there. Perhaps they've sorted themselves out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Think we'll see it more and more with the money they're now earning. You see it in the NFL as well, with players walking away around the age of 30.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I suppose the drugs took a terrible toll on their bodies, la. Perhaps that's why googly-eyes has retired.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Fellow just liked kicking a ball really hard and scoring goals. Can't blame him. Who wants to run around?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
and a character to boot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
not like the incredibly beige Walcott and Ramsey...
:hehe: very capable footballers but personalities they are not. Imagine a day at the races with Theo and Aaron :-/Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Theo strikes me as the sort of person who becomes unfathomably excited by the prospect of a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
That's not so bad in itself, of course; they learn bugger all at school nowadays, in any case. No, the thing is, two of his little brothers have insisted on accompanying him, so I shall really be for it when their mother finds out.
And it's no good explaining truthfully that it's not my fault (I did take the precaution of getting the young criminals to swear faithfully that they wouldn't finger me for having fronted the score). Kids *love* Poldi.
Dumme Männer, you see. Dummer Fußball. Boys will be boys and a' that :-|
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Originally Posted by Sir C
The legendary "Mumbo Jumbo Airways". These tinpot little African countries just rent the aircraft and change the livery to make it look like they own them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Yep - almost stranger to see people going on into their late 30s/early 40s. I can understand that not wanting to stop playing but keeping up the training slog day after day must be incredibly hard if you are set for lifeQuote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
If you had packed them off to a decent boarding school as I advised you to some years ago, you wouldn't be faced with these difficulties. They would be leearning the important lessons in life, such as surviving cold showers, merciless brutality on the rugby pitch, and being sexually molested by predatory *****philes with mind-numbing halitosis.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Think on, r. I don't dole out my wisdom for fun.
I always presumed that, but, on the other hand, what else would they do; they love playing football and playing, even training, with other professionals is surely the only way they can guarantee a decent game, adequate competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
The wife has got her own life, so have the kids; your other mates are all working stiffs etc. and so on..
One day after he retires, a friend should organise him a big weekend in a hotel suite with 5 grams of gack and two Ukrainian hookers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
The realisation that he has wasted 15 years of his life might be terminal :-(
There are a surprising number of players who don't love football at all. Some actively dislike it. They just happen to be good at it and it pays well. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Quite right. It won't be happening twice. The first one appears to have successfully escaped the what was coming to him (always mummy's boys, that sort. Would certainly blub). The following ones are certainly for the high jump though. Their ganny's former business partner is a big man in Harrow ..Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Oh, I couldn't recommend the other place. No, no, that wouldn't do at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
You don't want them to turn out pansies, do you? (NTTAWWI)
Of course, but having made their names in football it's the only environment in which they enjoy real status. Up west at the opera or the theatre, Wenger would be just another mug-punter or know-nothing-****. However, at Swindon Town Seconds v Supermarine Reserves, or even at El Clasico, He is royalty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Practically unavoidable, I'm sorry to say. Eurotrash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Yes, Harrow would be a very bad choice. Problem with Eton is that Little Master WES assures me they are 'scum'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Plus, you want a boarding school a little more out in the country, red. Put some steel in them, so to speak.
That would never get past the censors as they won't have heard of it, whatever it was :-\Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Training slog? Surely we've all seen the pictures and clips of Arsenal players gently jogging for a few seconds at the training sessions between the actual day's work of having a laugh with each other. Perhaps this is where our club is going wrong? :watson:Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
And yet somehow this sort of brutality is considered a priviledge in our society. Not sure why that is. Presumably because one's father has paid for all this to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I very much regret to report, a, that some recent contact with my old school and some of my old teachers confirms to me that this model actually died during the middle of the 80s. :-( No more corporal punishment, for a start. No fagging. The crumbling Victorian pile entirely lacking in any form of measurable heating is now like a 5 star hotel, with deep carpets and plasma screens everywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
They'll be churning out pansies, you mark my words.
Yes, it's called breeding. You can't beat good breeding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I agree. Especially as keeping fit, jogging, gyming, healthy eating and what-have-you are popular lifestyle choices nowadays anyway, for those with the time and money and even for those without. And not just for professional sportsfolk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Whatever you may think of it, they are coming for you too. Does HR 1313 mean anything to you? It ought to #SiegHealth!
So what you're saying is that blokes of around our age were the last to experience the 19th century system of beating, bullying, ritual humiliation and torture, designed to turn out sadistic monsters to run the empire and which Hitler took as the model for the Hitler Youth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
WES minor doesn't know how lucky he is.
We were indeed, which is why everything went down the shítter when the next generation of wimps came to power :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
If David Cameron had been locked into a cabin trunk and thrown down some stairs for blubbing for his mummy when he was 9, this country would be ina far better state.
There's bloody girls in your sixth form! Half my daughter's mates go there. Bad business. :shakehead:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Girls are a mere detail. Apparently no one gets a good hiding any more, from teachers or other pupils! It's fúcking ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
We're churning out generations of faggots who don't know how to take a punch and get back up.
:nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
It's all about pastoral care nowadays, Ash. Master WES has a housemaster, assistant housemaster, matron and multiple tutors to support him as he transitions into a fine, educated young man. Transgressions result in lines and extra work around the school, no bullying, no abuse, no emotional assaults and certainly no buggery.
And the world is a better place for it, oh yes.