Dortmund really are trying their hardest to relegated, lost again last night

[PSRB]

[Luis Anaconda]

Although typically Wolfsburg failed to take advantage of Bayern dropping points on Tuesday.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

to catch the ''post world cup Bayern''

:-)

[redgunamo]

have got them down at last. Sad.

We went through a similar stage ourselves; difference is that Wenger and our new stadium were always there to give us all hope.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Nicosia Gooner]

six.

So what is it? Has Klopp gone from a great manager to below average manager? I cannot recall anything similar in European football.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

France now PSG (This year's wobble due to FFP will only be 1 year)
Germany Bayern
Portugal Benfica/Porto
Italy Juventus
Spain Getafe

Really is all done and dusted for the next 10 years in all those places

The blood money influx over here, as much as we dislike it morally, has produced the best league in the world for competition if not quality

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[redgunamo]

Our league has always been that way though; I read an interesting point the other day that suggested that this is why we do not have a Derby d'Italia or an El Clasico equivalent.

[Luis Anaconda]

very little chance of them sacking him and he won't resign (unless he needs a knee operation of course). Just seems to be that nothing is running for them at the moment. It is actually tight at the bottom and will only take a few wins to get them clear of relegation. Getting a draw at Bayer Leverkusen probably wasn't a bad result but last night was a disaster. Mind you Augsburg are in the Champions League places now - did you see who was in goal for them - THE WALL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNqXWMngbpE

[Luis Anaconda]

[Ben.]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We chatted while my colleagues were... engaged, as it were.

Lovely girl with unfortunate teeth. She told me they'd had Kobe Bryant in the week before.

She gave me her non-work mobile number so that we could stay in touch and she could show v and I around town when we returned.

I'm like every girl's harmless old uncle now :-(

[Nicosia Gooner]

playing football? I guess he must be in his mid to late 30s so for a goalkeeper its possible

[Ben.]

just realised that sounds a bit gay, makes you feel old was the point I was actually trying to make :nod:

[Luis Anaconda]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Luis Anaconda]

Espaynol, Torino and Juve among them

[Luis Anaconda]

So this place is Dusseldorf - got an address?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

It is unfathomable to imaging that scenario in the UK.

Wonder when them being too good to go down is going to kick in.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

shooting from their heads at the door.

I was very, very drunk.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

'How much, love?'

'Bloody expensive!'

[Classic Jorge]

[Ben.]

If Dortmund keep this up it will literally be the worst bet ever.
They actually have all their players back as well now, apart from Gundogan, who has been replaced by whoever ate him.

[Classic Jorge]

Odd in this country we have no railings yet the players feel they can do that.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03188/cage_3188476a.jpg

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

Something's not adding up here.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

but am scarred by my experiences of the indigenous tribes.

[Berni]

Sorry, I seem to have some sort of a mania this morning.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[redgunamo]

Even the Working Class.

[Luis Anaconda]

They need to f**k Immobile out of the window though and just go with Aubemayang up front. I mean look at the subs they bought on ffs

Neven Subotic

Shinji Kagawa

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

I think they really miss their three Poles as well - obviously not going to get one back but the other two would make a difference

[Berni]

who - y'know - actually work?

[Classic Jorge]

Unless some minnow like us or man united can break the Chelcity duopoly.

I'm starting to think many things about the American model is preferable. I just don't see us cheering on Sixth Form football with any great enthusiasm any time soon.

[Berni]

And drink, obviously.

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

As they say themselves, 'Put a beggar on a horse and he'll ride to the devil.' Whatever that means.

[Classic Jorge]

Seriously though, shop floor representation on the company board is an excellent idea

[Luis Anaconda]

cue a half-hour diatribe on a cheating coach in college football. It's wrong j - it's wrong

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I would not want to have to kill you, on a Thursday.

[Classic Jorge]

It's only a matter of time before someone checks you with the "my mum's dead" move

[Ben.]

You're right though, the Piszcek, Blaszkowski link up is really effective for them, like Neville and Beckham or Baines and Pienaar.
Immobile has been poor, bit like many of them the only game he looked good was the one against us :-(
Mkhitarian has been disappointing and they seem to have got the Man United Kagawa rather than the Dortmund one.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Your working type wears dungarees and your manager type is fat, smokes cigars and drives a big Merc. So it's easy to tell who you're dealing with.

wd Germans.

[Classic Jorge]

Joe Paterno, wasn't it?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It was b who brought it up.

[Luis Anaconda]

They have the Liverpool Sahin as well. English clubs f**ked them up - well them and Bayern

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Not that long ago either.

:-(

[Berni]

opposite of what unionisation in the UK was like. German shopfloor representation is just that - an acknowledgement that the shopfloor has a stake in the healthy future of the company. What it is not is an adversarial arrangement based around left-wing 'boss/worker' rhetoric.

Also, the Germans weren't stupid enough to nationalise their key industries, instead keeping them in private ownership, which also had the effect of not having them hampered by pain in the arse shareholders wanting their divvies and restricting spending on R&D.

[redgunamo]

Sometimes even the Arsenal are involved.

[Classic Jorge]

Sorry SW, you have my sympathies

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

I'm very sorry for your loss.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

We should keep this going

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Not your fault, just the way life rolls I'm afraid.

[Ben.]

which is unfortunate, although it's good for Klopp to practice with no holding midfielders before he takes over from Arsene.

[Monty91]

Is she still warm?

[redgunamo]

[the splendor of antigone]

their employees are disgraceful. Resentment should be a mainstay in the working place imo.

[Berni]

Strictly speaking, we're all post flood, aren't we?

[Classic Jorge]

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view2/1536466/michael-jackson-moonwalk-o.gif

[Luis Anaconda]

young hopefuls round campus in order to entice them to go there and play ball. Escort being the operative word. Apparently this is cheating - can't see the problem myself

[Berni]

Also, your German industrial manager has a gift for dressing expensively, but badly unmatched by any other group in Europe barring the Swiss imo.

I'm sure it must be possible to buy a decent suit in Germany, but God alone knows where.

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsF/6144.gif

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

This development needs to be stamped out immediately.

[Berni]

I'll go and read Seumas Milne's latest lunacy in The Guardian. That should get me back on the right track.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/04/labour- move-left-lose-election-ed-miliband-corporate-business (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/04/labour-move-left-lose-election-ed-miliband-corporate-business)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It will just make you despair for humanity that such idiots are allowed to share our precious oxygen.

[redgunamo]

Their way of life is built on the principle, What's in it for us. We, on the other hand, our first thought is, What's in it for me.

[Classic Jorge]

The fundamental problem is that they have a duller version of the Chuckle Brothers in charge

[Berni]

He also likes to downplay Stalin's crimes and will tell anyone who'll listen that Castro's a great lad and never said boo to a goose.

He is - not to put too fine a point on it - a raving Communist. An actual won.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

http://www.leninimports.com/nuremberg_party_rallies_gallery_main_2.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

job, mortgage, etc.

That said, I'd love Labour to lurch left. It would be very funny.

[redgunamo]

but your grandchildren will rule the world and win you your fourth World Cup, what would any of us.

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

The same bloke who's denied the economy of all Boots' tax telling people what's good and bad for the country. :hehe:

[Twat Cuddles]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I know that we have closed the loony bins in favour of care in the community, but such a maniac must constitute a danger to himself and the public?

[the splendor of antigone]

edifice is composed, which is to denounce them all as proto-Fascist.
The large majority of these elements which we today associate with Fascism where taken from the workers: This idea of a large number of people marching together and strict bodily discipline etc. They took that from social democracy, from the left. Same with the idea of solidarity.

edit: Oh, I see. That sort of solidarity etc. leads to horrific things :thumbup:

[Classic Jorge]

We've gone a bit Radio 4 here, I fear

[Berni]

[Berni]

the walls of his padded cell. Therapy, if you will.

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

Our background and success is in Piracy and Privateering.

The Krauts, on the other hand, understand that their success comes from working together and each man understanding his place. Again, that's why we are democratic by nature and they are not.

[Berni]

national character is indicative in itself of its diversity. The fact that individuals within our society are quite capable of comfortably holding aspects of both points of view is also a healthy thing.

We are a strange bunch of anti-authoritarian, law-abiding, individualistic non-conformists.

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

Trouble is, we've slightly airbrushed from our history the fact that our empire was basically founded by pirates. Indeed, our navy during its most successful periods still ran on piratical principles ("For England, for home, and for the prize!").

Basically, I don't think we give our pirates enough credit.

[Berni]

figures than almost any other country in the West.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]