FOOTBALL!

[jeff in chicago]

Thanks to F-H and TTLC on the Plymouth angles...don't let the PNE guy try to muscle in ...too late. The kit is on the way.

Question...just had a hilarious conversation with a friend from the UK and learned a new term: Chav or Chaver

Being that this is the Brave Captain forum and not the christina aguilara site I thought, perhaps< I could get everyones take on this term.

WHAT IS A CHAV?

Innit?

[Hew]

www.youknowsit.co.uk
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chav
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Martin O'Neill's Claret And Blue Army

[Forbes Hyphen]

[John Mc]

Forbes, forget the cricket, buy him a tennis racket. If he can hit it over the net then he'll be in the British top 100 hundred instantly and if he can do any of that fancy over arm serving stuff then the press will be lauding him as the saviour of the sport in this country within weeks. He can then retire rich at the age of 9 and get on with the rest of his life.

[Jeff in chicago]

I get confused just trying to understand someone going to WATCH a match (a 20-20 or the county...what?)

Stumps...funny word.

VERY cool, however, that one can play on the field between halves. Can do that here.

Cricket...15 minutes of excitement JAM PACKED into six hours. Just like baseball

[PrincessPunkRock]

[Forbes Hyphen]

[John Mc]

If someone had told me this time last year that Liverpool would be European Champions and we'd sign Peter Crouch to bolster our attack in preference to Michael Owen I'd have laughed loud and long. But now it has happened and anything is possible in the wide world of football, who knows what madness the next 12 months have in store.

Hew - did you see anything during his time at Villa to suggest that Crouch is worth 7 million?

[Hew]

i was a bit upset when we sold him. I thought he was beginning to look like a very good player the last year he was with us. He has got a lot of skill and was a good finisher. I remember when he scored the winner for us at middlesbrough 2 years ago. That was ace. I think he'll do well for liverpool and make o'leary look like a twat for selling him.
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[Hew]

alright as i said above i think crouch is very good.
heres what graham taylor has to say:

"People say Liverpool will just play the long ball now. Well, when does a long pass become a long ball, I mean what are people talking about? Niall Quinn is a first-class example for Peter to follow. You can see the progression of his career and what he became, how he used his height and Peter could go the same way."

yes graham, when does a long pass become a long ball? You are a wanker. And the comparison to Quinn. What a tosser i apologize on behalf of Aston Villa that this man was once england manager. He almost sent us down a couple of years ago. He should fuck off and stop thinking he knows what is going on in football today. He spent two million on Mark Kinsella the prick and we wonder why villa have no money. When Taylor bought Crouch for us he had visions on Ian Ormandroyd and destroyed the poor lads confidence by thinking he was Niall Quinn. "Knock it long to Peter and he'll head it down for Platty to score" Oh fuck wait a minute platt ain't here anymore and i just signed mark kinsella. Graham Taylor is a twat. sorry but that bastard nearly destroyed my team.
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[John Mc]

I dont' mind Graham Taylor, I've got a mate who's a Watford fan and he worships him although i think he was a bit pissed off when he retired after from the game and then came back to manage Villa. His record as England manager wasn't as bad as everyone makes out, he had the best start of any England manager ever.

I've just finished a book called 'The Beautiful Game' which has the rather pretentious subtitle of 'searching for the soul of football', but inspite of that its a brilliant book. it tries to reconcile how football overall can be richer than at any time in its history and yet half the clubs in the league have been in serious financial trouble over the past few years. i didn't realise how bad things were in the lower leagues, so many clubs get shafted by their owners. The recurring theme was outside investors coming into the club, appearing to be selflessly investing in the club but in fact recording all the money was going in as loans which they got paid back. At the same time they'd be paying themselves large salaries and doing crap things like 'buying' the grounds from the club and making the club pay rent to them for it. they'd then prompting fuck off at the first available opportunity they could while making a profit.

a couple of people who come out of the book well are Adam Crozier at the FA who apparently tried to stand up to the big clubs but was ultimately powerless and Gary and Phil's Dad Neville Neville who worked hard to save Bury. Also Graham Taylor was England manager at the time and he spoke out against the Premier League, one of the reasons for its creation was supposed to be to benefit the England team but he came out and said that this wasn't true and it was just a means to help the big clubs get more rich. Which has turned out to be true of course.

[Dave w.]

do any of the reds on here want a ticket to the champions league game against kaunas at anfield next week? i've got a spare. it's in the lower centenary, row 8. face value. £10.

if not i'll return it, but i thought that as the game has sold out somebody might be glad of it, possibly.

[F-H]

[discoRdance]

how difficult is it to get tickets for Premiership games these days? I know it varies depending on the opponents, and I'm sure I haven't a hope in hell of getting into Anfield for the Man Utd game, but I'm hoping to go to some other game in the next few months (maybe the West Ham one)

[John Mc]