I take it everyone is in full Schadenfreude mode about rVp being sold to Fenerbache against his will

[Classic Jorge]

"I'm sorry, Robin but the little boys inside us have made up their minds"

:wave:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

I think his "little boy" will like that. :watson:

[IUFG]

He can f**k right off, imo

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

knocks us out of the CL in the semis next season :-(

[Classic Jorge]

He currently seems to be discussing how much they're willing to pay him to f**k off quietly.

[IUFG]

as if we'll get to the semis

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Given that I expected him to be at the forefront of his plans given his prominence in the manager's international set up.

More to this than perhaps we know?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

He's at that sort of age.

[Rich]

Even if one of Kos/Per gets injured we have Gabriel to step in. Hopefully he's got his head around the basics of the English language now - or certainly the football element of it.

Would you start with HB or MD at right back?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I bear no ill will towards the bloke all the same. I always thought he was a really beautiful footballer.

His departure was regrettable of course but such on occasion is modern football.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Rich]

from Arsene to offload him for 25million.

Not quite as good as 15m for Vermaelen, but not bad.

[Rich]

Trafford, you'll see the light.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I have refused to renew my season tickets in protest.

[Rich]

few seasons?

You strike me as a gentleman that would prefer to watch the game from the comfort of his sitting room where it is warm, dry and crucially; has wine.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I cannot financially suppot an organisation which has chosen to employ a communist rapist and plunderer.

[Rich]

explain your standpoint to Arsene and Ivan?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

He will be gone in 3-4 years if you really felt that strongly (which to put my cards on the table here I don’t actually believe you have done).

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They simply lack principles, sadly.

[Ashberto]

I don't think he would have done an awful lot of raping and plundering at that age.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Some of the courage displayed by the people of Prague in 1968 was humbling. http://brianjnoggle.com/bsgfx/prague.jpg

I can do my bit to respect their memory.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

raped and plundered the countries of eastern Europe for 50 years, INCLUDING HIS OWN COUNTRY, is what disgusts me.

[Rich]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Rich]

that they were German. The German's may well have oppressed your relatives in WWI and WWII. Yet you would still hungrily gobble away from their hand, wouldn't you?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Keep your vile insinuations to yourself, old boy.

[Rich]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Welcome to Arsenal Petr.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Go on, just admit it.

[Classic Jorge]

Perhaps it was Prussia in those days

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Also, I don't care about buying the services of communists, but I won't sell myself to them.

Communists are welcome to be my bitches, but I shan't be theirs, you see.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I saw the evil of communism first hand and close up, red in tooth and claw.

[Classic Jorge]

In the Russian context, White had three main connotations:

Political contra-distinction to the Reds, whose revolutionary Red Army supported the Bolshevik government;
Historical reference to absolute monarchy, specifically united under Russia’s first Tsar, Ivan III (1462–1505), styled “Albus Rex” (“White King”); and
Some White Army soldiers wore the white uniforms of Imperial Russia.

So I imagine Sir C was well pro-Arshavin.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You appear to be stuck on the fence, as such.

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

Just to keep his tanks off your lawn.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

of his back.

George, Boris and Lord Wee Willie of Hague should govern as a sort of tripartite dictatorship. Then we'd see some results.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Salaries at clubs before and after his time in the free west, bonuses and perks associated with the international side. Quite sure at some point in recent history Mr Abramovich has been funding them to a point.

Sir C appears to dislike Petr Cech on the basis of his willingness to accept a salary from Abramovich. None of us know his own personal political persuasion.

[Ashberto]

As well as a pirate adventurer, plundering the pockets of the Russian people as he prised their collectively-owned assets away from them and into his very privately-owned hands.

Flexible chap. Knew which way the wind was blowing, and which side of his blini was buttered, and so on.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

All socialists plunder The People, a. That's what socialism means.

[Classic Jorge]

It's like when my great nan got senile and suspected everything was a plot by The Jews.

We knew she wasnt racist, she was just mental but we loved her so we tolerated and humoured her.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I am simply delighted that we have a genuine top class nets minder, one who I would not swap for any other keeper in the land other than the keeper who has ousted him from his last club.

The personalities etc. of our first team employees is not something I overly concern myself with. They’re not my mates.

[Ashberto]

Notorious anti-semites, the Irish. I imagine they suspect the English of being Jewish. I blame the Pope.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Notorious?

[Classic Jorge]

Mind you, she'd lived most of her adult life in stoke newington and had many, many jewish friends.

I promise this wasnt some sort of Big Ron-esque disclaimer.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You wouldn't care if we signed Hitler?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

An odd signing I am sure you would agree.

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

“Because she never let them in”

Well that's what your man in Ulysses said anyway.

[Ashberto]

Some of my best friends are Irish.

In fact, all of them were when I was four.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

It was Bloomsday the week before last. c**ts every one of them.

Just my luck that the place I went for a sandwich that day was round the corner from Davy Byrnes pub.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Luis Anaconda]

http://www.scifi-movies.com/images/contenu/data/0000878/image3.jpg

[Berni]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Now there's a cliche.

Nice holiday I assume, and significant birthday event on saturday?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Hundreds of them out on the street in their costumes, glass of wine in hand, an audiobook of the story being played on speakers.

[redgunamo]

No wonder it took him ten years to return from Troy.

Greek, you see.

[Ashberto]

amongst excellent folk.

Just the actual birthday on thursday to go and the fortnight of pampering will be over. Of course, she deserves it though. :-)

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I sent my best wishes and confirmed that the purchase of alcoholic beverage in lieu of appearance will occur early next season.

[Berni]

Speaking personally, I was happy just to read the book. :shrug:

[Ashberto]

Do you know yet which game you'll be over for?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Will liaise with KA etc and let you know.

I seem to recall your Liverpool game conundrum sorted itself out quite nicely.

[Ashberto]

Time for this, I think: https://thesunshineroom.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bull**** -rodeo.jpg (https://thesunshineroom.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bull****-rodeo.jpg)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]