One other thing on our side tonight. We have no pressure at all imo

[Pat Vegas]

We are already 'out'

Though I am not sure if I will watch it I could do with an early night.

[Rich]

[Berni]

worry about. :thumbup:

I will be fairly pissed off if we pick up injuries in this hopeless cause tonight.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

She cooks a mean lasagna so I have something to live up to

Of course if it all goes tits up I will never tell her I tried and failed

[Monty91]

[Berni]

[Ben.]

and you will almost certainly fall asleep anyway, Clive.

[Monty91]

Monaco as a team, beyond the statistics you have read suggesting they are defensively strong.

The main reason I'm retaining hope is that I have a suspicion that Monaco are actually a bit ****.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

Great one minute awful the next.

Has fatherhood addled your brains? :-)

[Monty91]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

Crickey you be moaning about the players and shouting 'Wenger Out' when we lose tonight.

Get a grip man, we won't do the Treble I tell you, maybe just the Double

[redgunamo]

we *really* want to win the European Cup :shrug:

[Ben.]

if there is one thing that the modern pundit lacks it's casual racism.
It would certainly give Phil Neville and Danny Murphy an edge they desperately seem to need.

[Berni]

Unless by 'we' you mean 'Wenger'? Personally, I've grown to hate the f**king thing.

[Pat Vegas]

Just a coincidence but she came back saying she can't leave me alone for 2 weeks without me nearly dying.

[Berni]

Ron's wasn't all that casual, to be fair. Dropping the N-bomb is pretty full-on. I think the Nevilles need to ease themselves in by suggesting that foreigners dive and that certain black players don't offer the same workrate as their white colleagues.

[Pokster]

[Classic Jorge]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

I feel a takeaway coming on

[Pat Vegas]

[Monty91]

I guess it's coz you don't actually care, which is fair enough.

[Ben.]

to call him old school would be an understatement.
Last time I saw him P Neville was still furiously backtracking over his comments about "two-footing" players who pass in a different direction to which they are facing.

[Ben.]

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4318/65/320/3.1.jpg

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Berni]

My dad is about the same age as BFR and, while he is far from politically correct, I can honestly say that I have never heard the word 'n*gger' escape his lips. It simply wouldn't occur to him to use the word because it would have been socially unacceptable - or at least extremely jarring - in pretty much all social contexts since he left Ireland in the mid-60s. Clearly one must assume that is not the case in the circles in which BFR moved.

[Classic Jorge]

[The Tony]

[Berni]

I'm talking about middle class people, most of whom simply wouldn't dream of saying n*gger - even if they are leetle bit racist.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

Civil servants and Bank managers are a dying breed

[Classic Jorge]

And, whilst Im sure they are more aware of social conventions, there are plenty of racialists on all parts of the spectrum.

Mind you, you might have a point, that UKIP lady said she "didn't like negroes, there's something about their faces".

[Berni]

You'd never get a comment like that out of an educated middle class person.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

They say 'lavatory' rather than 'toilet' and 'napkin' rather than 'serviette'.

Everyone else is common.

[Berni]

She probably has a collection of ceramic animals on her mantelpiece, ffs! And gives her house some sort of twee name like 'The Willows'.

Common.

[Classic Jorge]

[Ben.]

pretty much all of what I said was tongue in cheek, the only part I'd really stand by is preferring him over Phil Neville.
I'd echo your sentiments as far as the word and it's connotations go, I assume in his case it is a word that was (wrongly) bandied about regularly in football and he is probably too stupid to know better.