This day in 2004, we signed Jose Antonio Reyes. And Alvaro came to visit.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Jake]

Didn't have a f**king clue who he was.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Especially when Alvaro arrived to tell us how great he was.

Then he did this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocpJ9Sfcbg

[redgunamo]

And that our new Spanish superstar number 9 wouldn't even get a look in :-|

[Classic Jorge]

And alvaro, just a bit less.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

well have been even better.

Alvaro is honestly one of the best human beings I have ever met. He is just... good. You know. Just Good.

[Jake]

Why did he have to be a bloody gypo :cry:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

come home.

The daft gyppo *******.

He's still only 32 and playing for Sevilla :-(

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

He is a human being and a citizen of the world, and not obsessed with the hatred intrinsic to your racism.

[Classic Jorge]

I really should just shout at them loudly in english until they get the point that I am a superior englishman.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Or are you, perhaps, generalising?

[IUFG]

[Classic Jorge]

Lovely people, very warm, very kind

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

It can happen.

[IUFG]

re-live the pain Jose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM747L9Wf8M

:cry:

[Classic Jorge]

For the last couple of years I've even managed to tell jokes, of sorts, which is very pleasurable indeed.

Less so for Paco, Vicente and the like, I imagine.

[The Tony]

His finest moment was rolling back onto the pitch to help wind down the clock when we were 1 nil up in the bernebeu

Pure class!!

[Classic Jorge]

Strange to think he ended up playing for them and scoring a league winning goal.

He never did that with us :cry:

[redgunamo]

before opening your mouth compared to after is stark.

I look "African", of course and also tend to dress in such a manner, according to my silly wife, that moves tramps on the street to offer loose change coupled with sincere advice not to spend it all on drink.

However, according to this same foolish wife, my speech is that of exactly the sort of shout-at-foreigners-to-make-them-understand Englishman mentioned earlier. And whatsmore, an extremely carefully raised and expensively-educated sneery, condescending, arrogant one. You know, the speech they have learned over the centuries to despise, yet have made Herr Berlitz etc. billionaires trying to master.

[Classic Jorge]

I'm clearly not one of them, though I do get mistaken for your northern spanish or on occasion a portugeezer, but they tend to be very accepting of anybody there no matter what.

Mind you, I've seen few people who would be described as a "negrito" there so what do I know, eh?

The old Yorkshire adage "Ah tek people as ah find em" is a decent maxim to go about being a world citizen with.

[redgunamo]

After all, there's a reason the English and Englishness travels so much and so well, yet, and at the same time, is so disparaged.

[Classic Jorge]

One of the lovely things about jaunts abroad is that nobody ever assumes I'm english. My OH gets german, scandi or dutch and I get people yammering on to me in castillian.

[Luis Anaconda]

[redgunamo]

they're saying about you.

It can give you pause.

[Classic Jorge]

Good for the old ego stroking if nothing else.

[Ashberto]

Gareh and Phil were certainly having a competition to see who could kick the wee lad the furthest up in the air, but they were surely only following orders.

Is it wrong of me to hope that that rednosed govan ******* dies a slow and painful death?

[Bergkamp's Brain]

The w*nk stained mother f*cker

[Luis Anaconda]

were committed by Edu and Cole on Ronaldo. How innocent we were, eh

Though I must say, Gary Neville wrote a column for the Times, saying how uneasy he was with the tactics employed in that game. Needless to say it was last column he wrote for the Times until he retired

[Ashberto]

I've never got to use the phrase 'moral equivalence' before. I may soon accuse you of whataboutery.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I watched that in the 12 Pins. What a depressing day.

[ITSUPFORGRABSNOW]

For when that evil old ******* crokes

[Ashberto]

Did you see the last Endeavour, btw?

[Ashberto]

about how he 'influenced' things.

sw to say this is all nonsense in 5...4...3...

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Especially more involving Police Constablewoman Truelove :phwoar:

[Ashberto]

And yes, PC Truelove has an outstanding mind. :nod:

There was a doffed cap to Terry Pratchett when Thursday said he was taught coppering by Sergeant Vimes of Cable Street. I know you don't like Pratch but LA would have appreciated that one. In fact the last Sherlock did it too when Watson was considering what to call the case and suggested Monstrous Regiment. I realise this is of no interest to you but I wanted to mention it anyway.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]