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This day in 2004, we signed Jose Antonio Reyes. And Alvaro came to visit.
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Christ. I remember that day. I celebrated by swinging by blazer around my head wildly.
Didn't have a f**king clue who he was.
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I'd never heard of him either, but it was all terribly exciting.
Especially when Alvaro arrived to tell us how great he was.
Then he did this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocpJ9Sfcbg
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Who could have known then that Spain would go on to enjoy a golden age of football.
And that our new Spanish superstar number 9 wouldn't even get a look in :-|
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I still miss Jose
He couldve been a contender
And alvaro, just a bit less.
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He was an absolutely cracking player; if Henry's ego had been a little more in check he might
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.
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A truly residing memory for me.
Why did he have to be a bloody gypo :cry:
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I was on holiday in Seville a couple of years later when the papers were full of him pleading to
come home.
The daft gyppo *******.
He's still only 32 and playing for Sevilla :-(
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Spaniards, see, and specifically Andalusians. Salt of the earth imo
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He would reject such nonsense out of hand, for, as I say, he is a Good person.
He is a human being and a citizen of the world, and not obsessed with the hatred intrinsic to your racism.
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Yes, it's massively racist of me to find Andalusians utterly charming
I really should just shout at them loudly in english until they get the point that I am a superior englishman.
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You know every Andalusian, do you?
Or are you, perhaps, generalising?
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I blame Gary f**king Neville for that
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I can speak only as I find
Lovely people, very warm, very kind
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Phil, surely. And I'm not usually one to want to blame anybody else when gary could be blamed
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Could that be because you don't speak their language very well?
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either. or both. I'm not fussed.
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Not very well, I can get by though
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.
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was at his debut vs Chelsea at home in the cup
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!!
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I forgot about that
Strange to think he ended up playing for them and scoring a league winning goal.
He never did that with us :cry:
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I'm sure. However, in my experience, the treatment and consideration you get
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.
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Yes, see, that's what I like about them.
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.
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No, how *you* carry *yourself* is far more important.
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.
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Oh it's definitely not an english thing in my case
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.
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It's very sweet that you believe that, j
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Same here, but it's what they say about you when they *think* you don't understand what
they're saying about you.
It can give you pause.
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They're sweet people, LA
Good for the old ego stroking if nothing else.
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srlxfgsn, I think.
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?
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Mike "Man of the match" Riley
The w*nk stained mother f*cker
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And yet people so easily overlook the worst two fouls of the game - Horseface stamping on Cole aside
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
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Are you implying some sort of moral equivalence here?
I've never got to use the phrase 'moral equivalence' before. I may soon accuse you of whataboutery.
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No but I am happy to have helped
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They were provoked, mate.
I watched that in the 12 Pins. What a depressing day.
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Nope, not at all, I have some good champagne on hold .
For when that evil old ******* crokes
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I watched it in Lisbon. Where even the eggs taste of fish.
Did you see the last Endeavour, btw?
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I wonder if .... a year after he dies stories will start to emerge
about how he 'influenced' things.
sw to say this is all nonsense in 5...4...3...
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I did, thank you. I hope they make more.
Especially more involving Police Constablewoman Truelove :phwoar:
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A proper bank blag! It was like The Sweeney
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.
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I appreciate the heads up, a.
