Good morning.
A man’s got a heart, hasn’t he?
Joking apart — hasn’t he?
And though I’d be the first one to say that I wasn’t a saint
I’m finding it hard to be really as black as they paint…
If you’re worried about the health of your heart then one pointedly obvious precaution is not to play football with and then swap shirts with Faroe Islands goalkeeper Poul Thomas Dam.
This player – it has been alleged on Twitter this morning – has only swapped shirts with two players in his career. Fabrice Muamba and Piermario Morosini.
Mr Muamba has been busy thanking his made up friend for the miracle of life. Just for one second try to embrace the mind numbing arrogance of such a wild assertion that God declines to prevent a tsunami that slaughters several hundred thousand; yet pops down from on high to save one random footballer.
The Bolton player claims to have seen two Scotty Parkers as he collapsed at White Hart Lane. That’s nothing. By the end of the Norwich and QPR games I was seeing all sorts of near fantastic, blurry and multicoloured visions before I collapsed. And the day after each game I was praying for divine intervention or at the very least a restorative cup of char.
Talking of people who are aren’t really there, our tight lipped supremo hasn’t ventured into the limelight for several days now. One can only presume he’s wandering his mock tudor Sandbanks lawns having morphed into a hybrid of one time Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf and George III.
“Chelsea, for sure they’ve won all the medals. They haven’t got my FA Cup winning medal ‘cos I give that to Sandra, they won’t be ‘aving that one, ooh no. The run in? I don’t know, the chairman’s dealing wiv all that. I don’t know what people are complaining about. You didn’t hear Mooro complaining that the World Cup was too heavy when he was lifting it up, did you? You can’t talk to most of ’em these days. Your average Croatian thinks pie & liquor is brass house. People say to me …you’re a fantastic manager…”
*walks into ornamental pond of coy carp*
Chomical Arry. We salute you.
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Surely if everyone was rich no-one would be rich..
If you do believe in God it exists. If you dont believe in God it doesnt exist.
Its a bit like penalties.
or IT exists or IT doesnt exist no matter what you believe.
What have computers got to do with it Melcyid? Show some respect!!
If everyone was rich no one would work in McDonalds and there would be no one to organize the poo in the sewers.
Any way god is a god of love and I love to hate the goons
Amen brother
I worked with an old guy once, who said he’d worked down the sewers after the war. No one wanted to do it, so the pay was fantastic £5 a week; mind you I don’t know what he smelt like then.
According to Pienaar ‘God is Great’
the reverse of that tee said ‘Harry Out’
Modric doesnt own a tee with any slogans on.
Good move. What would be the point ?
I would debate to Pienaar that ‘God is not great’
I must say, I find some sense in Nik-the-Greek’s ITK; but maybe its because its saying what I want to hear or at least agree with and that type of speculation can be compelling.
Clearly the CL is a make or break for us this year and we look like we’ve fucked it. I can see us winning three and still needing the fourth and blowing it on the last day of the season, or qualifying only for the Chavs to win and eliminate us: fates’s last cruel joke on this terms efforts.
I think Harry’s got to go, if not to the England job then to the outside of the front gate. The simple act of not affirming his position at the club has created a breakdown in trust that has infected the entire club and fan base. For this he cannot stay, its entirely untenable.
The sad fact is that with some 20/20 hind-sight, we can see what he’s done and how the wheels have come off. He’s built a team of seasoned pro’s who are getting the last out of their legs. The rationale is to show the up and coming young players how it should be done; tho’ even that doesn’t really seem to be working with our best prospects all out on loan.
Instead we have relied too heavily on old legs and that’s where our fatigue has come in along with a refusal to rotate properly. HR’s complaints of a thin squad are almost entirely of his own making. We ship out solid pros who were in the squad to provide cover and depth and ship in more players wanting one last sunny day in the December of their careers.
But why is anybody suprised? HR’s done this before and remains out of touch with younger players even those with talent oozing out of them. Our problems are in two directions, one is not qualifying for the CL which will rob us (and I don’t doubt the ITK on this) of players such as Hazard and Leandro and the chance at a decent manager, but the other problem is that our current first team is dominated by players who are either over the hill or over the road come this summer.
We need a Goalkeeper, Friedel has done well but he and Cuddles are getting threadbare. We need at least one ‘A’ list Centre Half (we should have spent the dosh and got Cahill or that German who looked tidy). We will need to replace Modric and Bale in all liklihood and maybe Sandro and Walker who could both be ‘loose’. Up front we need to either secure Adebayour or replace him, ditch and replace Saha and (imo) Defoe.
That’s between 5 & 7 new players in key position: a big ask of any new manager. OK some of those players leaving will create a war chest, but we also need to be able to have 11 players on the field who know each others first names by the end of July.
Someone upthread called this biblical in terms of the size of the disaster and they are right!
So what the hell do we do: hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Harry must go either way, we need to spend to get a manager who can takeover the ship IF we qualify for CL (which I seriously doubt; this team will never shine again) or someone who can rebuild it with a long term view.
One thing I will say is that I don’t really put this down to Daniel Levy, who I see very much as someone in the pit wailing with the rest of us…… if he used social media he’d have worn out the ‘w’ ‘t’ & ‘f’ keys, same as the rest of us!
Anyway here we are again in the endless game of snakes and ladders that is our lot in being spuds!
un fortunately this is more than likely what is staring us in the face,so for some solace while the the blue racist pikeys are celebrating the moment I thought I would spare a moment to reflect on the plight of their captain who is pwobably sitting alone in his four cornered room thinking about his predicament that he finds himself in.
In a moment of an act of supreme selfish thuggery he convinced himself he could get away with pulling a player towards himself and kneeing him in the back.gutted to find after the deed was done a foreign ref at close quarters gleefully waving what resembled a gooner season ticket holder at him but no it was an actual red card.
In that one moment of realisation he knew that at the pinnacle of his career he pwobably would never get to another Champs league final again.heres to those thoughts rolling around his head in the coming weeks .he did it himself it was his decision to do the dirty deed.
#prayforthehoundsofhelltobeunleashed :-D :freu :freu :freu :freu :freu :freu :daumen: :winke: givethedognopeace
Your superb analysis has reduced me to tears. The shear inevitability of it all.
Definitely a lot of changes to be made for next season, but there’s plenty of quality in our squad. Even if (when) we miss out on CL, we’re not likely to let our best go all at once. Modders will be gone. But if we sell him (which will be for a healthy amount), it’s going to take one enormous offer to tempt Levy to sell both in onw window. If we DO sell both of them, Sandro and Walker can forget about getting out of WHL until next season. We also have Lennon, VdV (he can still be great if played in a non-dysfunctional team), Parker, Caulker, BAE, Kaboul, Thuddlestone. All class players, and plenty for a new manager to build around (together with the £80m for Ratboy and Welsh Ronaldo).
It’s obviously a huge task for the incoming man, but I choose to see it as exciting rather than daunting. Next season can’t come soon enough, if you ask me. Let me rephrase that… This season can’t end soon enough, if you ask me.
*both meaning Modders and the oy Bale. Should have made that a bit more clear.
Los,are you serious about Benny, nice guy and a little bit quirky, but next to useless as a defender if we’re ever to improve. I think Modric will go, probably to Utd for a huge sum, but unless a silly offer is forthcoming, I cannot see Bale leaving next season. Huddlestone will have to work his way back to full fitness as this problem isn’t new, it’s hampered him for a couple of seasons, so it’ll be negligent to assume he’ll be fully fit come August. Why not let VDV take the reins for the remainer of the season, as he appears to be the ‘tactical’ genius, and perhaps he’ll drop himself then
I definitely rate Benny-Sue, and think he’d walk straight into most PL teams. Yes, many of his qualities are attacking ones, but fullbacks need that side to their game in this day and age. The only LB’s in the country I rate at his level are Kolarov, Enrique and Cashley – and although they’re different sorts, in sum I don’t think there’s much between the four of them (except maybe Kolarov’s left foot).
I’d give VdV a chance. Of course, at this point I’d give a chance to the homeless man who sits near my local tube stop wearing a tinfoil hat, arguing loudly with his left index finger and occasionally trying to chew on his shoe.
Ah,so you’d give to yet another bloke with West Ham connections-shame on you!
grood read, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
I have a small fish called Petra. She could beat Harry in an arm wrestle.
I have a small cock called Pedro. He too could outwrestle Arry. But he wouldn’t engage in anything so demeaning. He prefers to run after chickens.