cosmicway

Is it fake ?

RIP

Two Romanians robbed my house one day, twelve years ago. I was asleep and I did n't wake up - family was in England. There was also construction job next door so in my sleep I heard noises that I though were coming from the construction workers. Then I found everything was broken and all the gold jewels gone. Months later I liste on tv "gang of jewel thieves caught". I go to the police and say to them "listen there are many resemblences check if it was those those who did ours too". The cops said we will notify central HQ and indeed it was so. Then the cops told me you are lucky to be alive, they were carrying crowbars while doing those jobs and if you had woken up during the robbery they were going to kill you. But the Romanian thief who was the leader was not really sentenced. Some 2-3 years I think and after a couple of months they expelled him to Romania. But I put all that aside. Romania is a historic nation and a long time ally of Greece. I cannot bring myself to hate the people of Romania.

Then you are decided, not undecided. It's the same story always. My grand dad who was a construction worker fought for the American army in WWI and my grandma -long gone now- related to us how the American press vilified the immigrants (some of whom are rotten apples - no doubt).

I don't really know, are there so many criminals now ? Many years ago I walked from Muswell Hill in London to Hammersmith on feet in the middle of the night. For some reason I had no money at all - I forgot to take from the bank and there were no ATM's those days. I did not meet anybody in the streets. Not a soul. When I passed through Fleet street a copper approached me and took my transistor radio out of my pocket, to check if indeed it was a transistor radio ! I don't do that nowadays, but there are stories. A man wanted to take his wife to maternity hospital in the centre of Athens, walked downstairs to ready the car and two Afghanis slaughtered him - the victim's family were pro-immigrant left wingers as well, as was publicised later. There have also been revenge killings by right wingers against innocent Pakistani street vendors. On the whole some of those stories must be true but I suspect a big part of it is propaganda from monopoly companies / other protected professions who want to keep prices up in the face of competition.

That's a WWI story. The Ottoman Turks committed genocide against the Armenians, but in modern Turkish history they prefer to talk of massive slaughters. It was the Germans who partially instigated it, because they were afraid they might lose the Dardanelle straits to the Entente forces. But later Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish state, punished severely some of the perpetrators, so today Turkey is not justified not to offer apology - whether they call it genocide or slaughter.

What's the big idea you don't like defensive football ? When Everton was playing Panathinaikos at Goodison and the greens parked the bus you (*) were saying "the god of Greece helps our boys". The Puskas lads and all the rest of it. Remember ? You were not saying "this is boring". (*) who happen to be Greek

1.65 is the price for Liverpool.

He shoots with his shinguard.

It's Real's.

final result 2-0

If we play against Real in Lisbon then Mourinho will be ours Ancelloti will be against us !

Bayern tries to attack in Spain ...

Ronaldo is an idiot.

For us Greeks what can be more beautiful ? England and the Russian allies as presidents. Don't forget that the first match in Europe after liberation in 1945 took place at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and Dynamo Moscow in a packed stadium (the result was 3-3).

I hate teams who use refereeing tactics and the nutty Lazziali.

City can lose to Everton-Palace But L'pool have to lose to CFC and Palace. Pie in the sky.

In football the result matters. I have been fascinated by Sweden national team in the past and I have seen Brazil performances that sucked. More often than not the opposite happens of course between those two, but it's a question of players and squad. How the nation approaches football -strong tactics or individualism- does n't matter. Argentina under Diegito went down 4-0 to Germany in SA. Where was their Latin flair ?

No one guarantees a win against Cowdenbeath.

Let them win 12-0. Practically we are in the CL final and there is no reason why we can't beat RM or BM in Lisbon.

It's not logical to exhibit pessimism but the injury list is worrying. The return match will not be like the one against PSG. More like the CFC - Barcelona 1-0 of 2012 and should be approached that way, imo. Barcelona of 2012 were of course much better than Atletico today.

Hazard, Eto'o, Cech and now Terry. The list is just getting bigger and bigger !

What happened to Czech ? Arm injuries to players and goalkeepers are extremely rare. Such bad luck ?

Excellent result but they are no pushovers at the bridge.

We had two fair chances, despite possession belonging to them. They never came near to scoring, only a little with that shot Terry blocked with his back.