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F.O.B.

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  1. You can always predict some of the games that get listed on these sort of lists- the Buenos Aires one inevitably makes it but essentially they go through a list of countries with decent football leagues and pick out a derby- I'm sure quite a few Italians would argue that the Rome derby isn't the biggest in Italy. PSG- Marseille makes the list but they are further apart than Barca-Real. Do the people that compile these lists visit every country in the world, find out their biggest derby and go watch it, if not how can they say these are the biggest derbies in the world?

     

    I've been to the big Malawian derby- MTL v. Bullets and it got a bit tasty- it wasn't a pig's head being thrown on to the pitch it was huge bits of masonary and this is at a standard of football not to disimilar with NW counties but more than 10,000 people turned up- (a BIG crowd for Bohs v. Shamrock apparently). Does Malawian football ever get a mention in these sort of lists- nah, what about Egyptian or Algerian or Nigerian or basically any country in Africa- nah. I'm not saying any deserve to be on the list but they are far more deserving than some mickey mouse game between two teams playing a sport which is that nations 3rd choice domestically where a big crowd is 10,000- heck Hartlepool v. Darlo (a game which is a bit tasty) gets more fans than that in recent memory and that only ever gets mentioned as a 'rivalistic derby' by those who know football.

     

    Lineker did a BBC programme a few years back about derbies. The Egypt one was iirc where they flew the Ref in from another country an hour before kick off and out straight after. The losing team (which was the home) went to the others ground and burnt it down that night.

  2. Let's wait and see before declaring that this is a good move shall we?

     

    Boundary Park is like a graveyard for strikers sometimes regardless of their previous history.

     

    If he scores loads of goals, it will be a good move. If he doesn't it will not be a good move.

     

    I hope it ends up being a good move.

     

    :wink:

     

    Personally I don't think this is a good signing. When was he last on form? Probably when he was at Notts County.

  3. I can scan the doc tomorrow night, I need to go round to a relative to do this sadly.

     

    The leafet is as follows.

     

    Black/white/green piece of A4, folded in half, printed on on all 'four' sides, if you know what I mean. It urges you to put it up in your window as a show of your support for F.R.A.G.

     

    Front sheet tells of contact info, back sheet says 'Boundary Park? Not in my Boundary!' (Lame and incorrect I know)

     

    Inside it warns of the following issues - Noise, Litter, Crime, Parking, Traffic Congestion, Environmental Degeneration, Missue of Gifted Land, Higher Insurance Premiums, Drastic Devaluation of Property! (they put an exclamation mark after that one for some reason), Lack of Council Consultation and Pollution.

     

    Some other blurb and cliche too.

     

    Is this a list of things which will improve if the ground is built? If they travel a couple of miles towards Ashton that COMS really has :censored: up that area hasn't it? I mean, massive Asda, Yuppy flats, old industrial eyesore wasteland regenerated. Absoultely ruined Beswick hasn't it?

  4. Decade/style/song

     

    1. 70's / Europop / 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'

    2. 70's / Hard rock / 'Back In Black'

    3. 90's / Europop / 'Barbie Girl'

    4. 80's / Rock / 'Heat Of The Moment'

    5. 00's / Europop / 'All Rise'

    6. 90's / Britpop / 'Song 2' Blur

    7. 80's / Europop / 'When Will I Be Famous?'

    8. 90's / Rock / 'Everything's Zen'

    9. 90's / Modern Rock / 'Short Skirt / Long Jacket'

    10. 90's / Britpop / 'Guiding Star'

    11. 70's / Dance / 'Le Freak'

    12. 70's / Pop / 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree'

    13. 70's / New Wave / 'Whip It'

    14. 90's / Modern rock / 'Novocaine for the Soul'

    15. 90's / Europop / 'When The Lights Go Out'

    16. 70's / Rock / 'All Right Now'

    17. 90's / Rock / 'Hemorrhage (In My Hands)'

    18. 80's / Thrash Rock / Scumdogs of the Universe

    19. 90's / Modern Rock / 'Celebrity Skin'

    20. 80's / Rock / 'Need You Tonight'

    21. 90's / R&B / 'Don't Walk Away'

    22. 70's / Rock / 'Rock & Roll All Night'

    23. 90's / Rock / 'Freak On A Leash'

    24. 90's / Alt Rock / 'I Alone'

    25. 60's / Rock / '7 and 7 is'

    26. 00's / Indie Pop / 'Kids'

    27. 90's / Alt Rock / 'Supermassive Black Hole'

    28. 00's / Funk-Rock / 'She Wants To Move'

    29. 90's / R&B / 'Too Close'

    30. 80's / Hip-hop / 'Slam'

    31. 80's / Europop / 'Live Is Life' opus

    32. 70's / Country Rock / 'Crazy Love'

    33. 90's / Britpop / 'Common People'

    34. 80's / Rock / 'Round And Round'

    35. 70's / Rock / 'Tom Sawyer'

    36. 80's / Soul-jazz / 'Smooth Operator'

    37. 80's / Rock / 'Wind Him Up'

    38. 90's / Soul / 'If I Ever Fall In Love'

    39. 90's / Soul / 'Freak Me'

    40. 90's / Dance / 'Rhythm Is A Dancer'

    41. 70's / Rock / 'Come Sail Away'

    42. 00's / Europop / 'All The Things She Said' Tatu

    43. 60's / Pop / 'Gloria'

    44. 90's / Hard Rock / 'Stinkfist'

    45. 70's / Pop / 'Rosanna'

    46. 80's / Pop / 'China In Your Hand'

    47. 70's / Glam rock / 'Get It On (Bang A Gong)'

    48. 80's / Europop /'Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me'

    49. 90's / Modern Rock / 'Push th' Little Daisies'

    50. 80's / Pop / 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go'

    51. 90's / Britpop / '500 (Shake Baby Shake)'

    52. 70's / Punk / 'I Love Living In The City'

    53. 80's / Metal / 'Animal (**** Like A Beast)'

    54. 90's / Synth pop / 'Blue Monday' (cover)

    55. 70's / Metal / 'Cause There's Another'

    56. 70's / Disco / 'Get Off'

     

  5. What you say is true. There are obviously still plenty of clever students and good universities, but the target of 50% is madness. Not only is it a money making racket for a variety of enterprises, as well as academia, it's what's known as social parking: keeping as many youngsters away from the jobs market as possible for three years because adequate jobs aren't there for them. It's no coincidence that the return of mass unemployment in the 1980s coincided with the expansion of higher education. The corresponding expansion of local government is in part due to the need to soak up an excess of university graduates. Having been told that their part of an educated elite, the McJob and the call centre just won't meet the expectations of many of them.

     

    This is a society in more trouble than it realises.

     

    Now here is a point I do agree with.

  6. Well said LL. They have been sensible, only just building the 3rd stand as they now beleive they require it after stabalizing themselves as a championship club. (hopefully that means no more rent a stand for us next time we play them :grin: )

     

    Bad news I think. The Gene Kelly Stand will remain for Visitors.

  7. So the (not outlandish) amounts of money they spent on loanees to suppliment their kids and journeymen in their promotion season would no doubt have been better on building a new stand, to show ambition? Would they have got promoted earlier if they had spent less on players but more on the ground? You reduce yourself into an absurdity. All this about the psychic energy waves given off by the perception of ambition are only as strong as any other fanatics' beliefs, they seem to come true if people belive them.

     

    Supposing, people BELIEVED that the plan was actually for a relatively modest stadium which COULD and WOULD be extended easily at need, with the help of extra income flows and without the pointless burden of spending millions extra before there was the need, would it be a sensible plan? Because that might just be what's happening, only miserable twats like you are determined to force people to see past the common sense that we would use if it was our own money and search for treachery and disaster round every corner.

     

    :applause1:

  8. You had to ruin it for me didn't ya...lol......Yes...but pants tonight....dribbling in your own box...tut....and I don't mean incontinent either...lol

     

    Awww....Wembley....and yes I think Neil Webb is playing tonight too.......boooooooooooooooo......lol

     

    Gregan and Walker in defence however?????????/

     

    Is it Wembley or Reading?

  9. As I said, Adebayor and Rooney just won't be able to compete.

     

    How is building a ground that's smaller than the one we had in the first place 'moving forward?' Moving sideways, yes. Forward no.

     

    Although we will be 3 miles closer, in reality it doesn't make a difference. If someone is going to support or watch either of those 3 miles is nothing......especially if you live in Brighton.

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