FOOTBALL!

[AdamW]

It wasn't boring from where I was sitting, mate

Here's a little something I prepared earlier to calm myself down...

http://www.adamwalton.co.uk/prelude.mp3

P.S. - I don't think the above is particularly good, by any stretch of the imagination... but I'm learning every day, and the joy of [slight] achievement is intoxicating.

P.P.S. - Liverpool FC don't realise that I have been their lucky home mascot so far... got to the Olympiakos, Leverkeusen and Juventus home games all of which we won. I haven't got a ticket for Tuesday night. This is a terrible oversight. Without my being there, we will - obviously - lose. If anyone wants to donate their ticket in order to avert this imminent catastrophy, it will be gratefully received.

Or I'll carry on posting badly-played Classical guitar pieces until someone donates me a season ticket.

You have been warned
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[bravecaptain]

i thought the match was far from boring. i dunno, maybe barnsley play the kind of football that renders all other teams unwatchable?

mx

[Kris]

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[darrensix]

I think the real issue here is not whether the game was boring, but the fact that Chelsea’s fans and most British pundits and commentators have just accepted the fact that Abramovich is destroying the English game. It goes unquestioned that a dubious Russian billionaire bailed out Chelsea at the point of a disastrous bankruptcy. I’m so sick of BBC commentators and pundits talking about the wonderful team that Napoleonic Jose Mourinho has built. What utter crap. A blind monkey could pick a winning team from a squad worth half a billion pounds. Chelsea’s success is not born of training, hard work or commitment, but of money that is probably stained with the blood of many a Russian worker and of a squad of mercenary hirelings.

So, I want Liverpool to beat them in El Champs. Although I must confess this is a little like wanting Blair to win the election – the alternative is unimaginable.

I am of course a bitter Spurs fan...

[Tommy BOO]

Well said.
But what is a bitter Spurs fan doing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia?
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[bravecaptain]

tellytommi wrote>>Liverpool had 1.<<

off the top of my head i can think of baros' header that the keeper saved so brilliantly and riise's attempt that was saved in the first half. cisse shot just wide and i hit the bar several times.

mx

[darrensix]

There are sadely few bitter Spurs fans in Addis. Lots of Liverpool fans, though. You see all the young boys wearing bootlegged shirts.

I work here for the Department For International Development www.dfid.gov.uk

[Tommy BOO]

Hahah tellytommi...
Well, maybe it was one for Chelsea then and two for Liverpool... or two for both... or something. I think that's what the 'official' statistics at the end of the game said. Perhaps. Oh well. The game was still a bit boring though.

So what's the best Liverpool game that you've seen then ? (the most entertaining/exciting one) The UEFA cup final against Alavés was pretty good, I just wish they had beaten some other club (that I don't like) because Alavés were pretty cool too.
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[darrensix]

Addis is an amazing city, despite the notable lack of Barnsley fans. People think of Ethiopia from the TV news in 1985, but the reality is different. Make no mistake, this is one of the poorest countries in the world, but here in Addis there are bars, restaurants, museums, hotels - in fact all the things you'd expect from a large city. Ethiopians (well, the men) are football mad, generally supporting the big international clubs - Man U, Real, Liverpool, Arsenal and more recently Chelsea.

It's difficult to describe really. Addis is a sprawling mass of buildings ranging from a plastic sheet over a couple of bits of wood, to the Sheraton Hotel which is a bit posh (I see Brad pit there last Sunday).

Rumour has that Dido and Colin Firth are at the British Embassy for an Oxfam reception tonight, just to add to the craziness of this place. I doubt I'll bother to attend.

I do have some photos. How do I post them?

[Tommy BOO]

darrensix said: "I do have some photos. How do I post them?"
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Go to www.imageshack.us
Click "browse" and find the picture on your computer.
Then click "host it!" and wait until the next page with the links comes up.
Scroll down and copy "direct link to image" and paste it here.
Put the link between [img] tags, for example:

[img]http://img122.echo.cx/img122/7497/copythelinkhere.jpg[/img]

I must run now, the Finnish football season kicks off in 1 hour and 20 minutes!
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[katieken]

Very edgy after the game last night, bit of an anti-climax after the hype, but I was frozen with fear throughout the match. And in response to all these whinges about Chelsea's money buying the trophies, I say stuff it. The players that make the real difference are the ones that didn't really cost much. Admittedly if Chelsea hadn't sorted themselves when they did, I doubt they would have kept Terry, Gallas, Lampard etc but they were on the fringes of becoming a good force prior to the Russian billions. And I still stand by saying I think Chelsea would have won the title this year if Ranieri had not been sacked. Might have been a bit closer points wise, but Bates did get Chelsea up there, even if they were under achievers(especially in the UEFA cup) for ages. We'll never know what would have happened if Abramovich hadn't of taken us over. Maybe Portsmouth would have been in our place now, and us in theirs. Oh well, couldn't give a toss as I have been waiting for this for years and I shall be shantied on Saturday, even though I'm on the wagon.
Oh, and Liverpool will knock us out, that I'm 75% sure of. Bugger.