cosmicway

Spurs were a nightmare to watch (for the sixty minutes they were eleven).

A Chelsea fan, an Arsenal fan and a Manchester United fan were all in Saudi Arabia drinking a smuggled crate of booze. All of a sudden Saudi police rushed in and arrested them. For their punishment the Saudi Arabia Sheik decided that the punishment should be 20 lashes with a whip. As they were preparing for their punishment, the Sheik suddenly said: "It is my first wife's birthday today, and she has asked me to allow each of you one wish before your whipping." The Arsenal fan was first in line (he had consumed the least), so he thought about it for a while and then said: "Please tie a pillow to my back." This was done, but the pillow only lasted 10 lashes before the whip went through it. The Arsenal fan had to be carried away bleeding and crying when the punishment was done. The Manchester United fan was next up (he almost finished a half-keg), and after watching the scene, said: "Choice! Please fix two pillows on my back." But even two pillows could only take 15 lashes before the whip went through again. The Chelsea fan was the last one up (he had finished off the keg), but before he could say anything, the Sheikh turned to him and said: "You are from a most beautiful part of England, your city has some of the best and most loyal football fans in the world. For this, you may have two wishes!" "Cheers mate, your Most Royal and Merciful highness", the Chelsea fan replied. "In recognition of your kindness, my first wish is that you give me not 20, but 100 lashes." "Not only are you an honorable, handsome and powerful man, you are also very brave." The Sheik said with an admiring look on his face. "If 100 lashes is what you desire, then so be it. And your second wish? What is it to be?" the Sheik asked. "Tie that Manchester United fan to my back..."

Name your star player in Saul's position then.

Platini then.

So Saul is an attacking mildfielder, like Mazzola-Francescoli-Becks of old. It's a different style to that of Ngolo, Jorginho we have now. But what exactly is the caliber of this player ? If it is anything like the three names I mention then of course he is a super signing.

Saul is an attacking midfielder and they were expecting him to become the star of the decade in Atleti. But he suffered from an illness and for a long time he was out of action. This is the story I heard. True ?

Last season it was a trick match and the bookies were robbed. The scene was set thus: We win at Villa, we finish fourth no matter what Leicester do against the Spurs. So we go to Leicester and say "listen folks we are going to win and we also have Terry stationed over there - so it's over but let us propose an alternative solution - what about we both lose ?". Leicester scratched their heads and the gentlemen's agreement was reached.

We have many such in Greece but also the communist party ! Last week they were staging a rally and we could n't sleep. The reds have a peculiar monotonous rhythm when they shout their slogans. Goes like: Bergamo - was - the Parmenion manoeuvres referring to the annual military manoeuvre Parmenion obviously.

In my college days the Afghani girls and the Persian girls were the most beautiful among coeds. The beauty queen was an Indian girl however, who went on to marry the son of a minister of the Wilson government. Those folks all wanted western democracy and were against the Shah. Khomeinism was unknown and so was talibanism. There was a lot of anti-Israeli feeling among Arab students but Khomeinism and jihad were unknown things. There was a strange character who was a fanatical islamist -the others told me- but that was an exception. Yet somehow fanatical Islam dominated in the end. Somewhere there is a hidden connection between antisemitism and jihad, so jihad wins. The same happened with Nasser in the fifties. Eisenhower was going to finance the Aswan dam project but pulled out soon as Nasser declared war on Israel. Nasser went on to occupy the Suez canal and the Americans stopped Eden who was trying to retake it. But what the Americans wanted was to prevent the escalation, they did not renew their support for Nasser. The (blind) antisemitism made the muslims pro-soviet in the fifties-sixties, it makes them pro-jihad now.

Anyway Liverpool need to eat a lot of soup before they can beat Chelsea as it was proven. If it was Aston Villa under similar circumstances they would have beaten us 4-1.

Now that slow motion is available, it seems James stops the ball with his knee then the ball finds his left arm. But what was the ball's trajectory after hitting the knee and before finding the arm ? In, out or sideways ? It's crucial and we can't see from those replays and it's not at all clear it was going in. At the very least it was clearly not deliberate and therefore punishable with red card.

They scored a goal like Czech republic v. Scotland.

West Brom was different. We went down 2-1, had to play attack when we had to play defense ! We were lost at sea. Also WBA enjoyed a spell of good form those days.

I don't agree with the sending off of the last player in penalty situations. True, next time this happens it will be to our advantage but if you think about it logically it's not fair. Suppose James handled (which he did n't). You give the penalty, the player stays in. Suppose he made a professional foul. A rugby tackle, embraces the opponent. But this is a yellow card offense, why different logic ? Only if the defender makes a vicious foul should be a possible red.

Should have been 3-0 at hafl time. Lukaku made two bad mistakes and Mount is not yet the player of last season.

James never handled. This was equivalent to a win.

Pool and United are out - next year. Bran dipped the Chelsea ball into ice.

Lukaku is a giant. You need a centurion mk2 tank to bring him down. He is going to score many. Leno saved Arsenal from extermination.

In the old days of football you could n't fail to admire cfc sexy football. We also had Raquel Welch as mascot. Also Leeds, Keegan's pool and Cloughie's Forest. Some other teams were horrible to watch. I used to live two blocks from Highbury and never went in - unimaginable bore. Today's football is not sexy, in England, in Italy, eveerywhere. The defenses eat people.

Werner reminds me of Francis Lee. Same body type. I remember Francis Lee scoring in a Greece - England international but those of you who remember him better how good was he really ?

Trevor had a touch of kaiser.

Aeschini, aeschini kai tin polin kataischinei

The sh**ty gooners will relegate.

Red should be excommunicated imho because it's communist.

All the keepers were wearing black in the old days of football.