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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
Are you kidding ? Sickening opportunism of the kind we've come to expect from Johnson, who in his youth at E played the Wall Game and Ruggah, and for whom "soccer" was an abomination reserved for the plebs. Naked opportunism hath no finer embodiment than our current PM, who obviously views the current round-ball furore as a welcome distraction from the Tory sleaze-fest, and a golden opportunity to curry favour with his new mates in the Red Wall. It's as if the puppetmaster of No 10 had never departed...
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Thick and fast now....! Ha, again. Take THAT!Originally posted by DracoM View Post
OH I'm sorry, FSG, speak up, we can't hear you....Comment
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League 2 will be enough for now!Originally posted by antongould View Post
Meanwhile Owls 1 Blackburn 0 - not down yet but jst a matter of time!Comment
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Football is a major sport at Eton, FWIW. Not sure if he played it, obviously.Originally posted by Maclintick View Post Are you kidding ? Sickening opportunism of the kind we've come to expect from Johnson, who in his youth at E played the Wall Game and Ruggah, and for whom "soccer" was an abomination reserved for the plebs. Naked opportunism hath no finer embodiment than our current PM, who obviously views the current round-ball furore as a welcome distraction from the Tory sleaze-fest, and a golden opportunity to curry favour with his new mates in the Red Wall. It's as if the puppetmaster of No 10 had never departed...I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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At least the Blonde Slug didn’t pretend to be a passionate, life-long supporter of the Arsenal United or Tottenham Hammers, like some of his predecessors.Originally posted by Maclintick View Post Are you kidding ? Sickening opportunism of the kind we've come to expect from Johnson, who in his youth at E played the Wall Game and Ruggah, and for whom "soccer" was an abomination reserved for the plebs. Naked opportunism hath no finer embodiment than our current PM, who obviously views the current round-ball furore as a welcome distraction from the Tory sleaze-fest, and a golden opportunity to curry favour with his new mates in the Red Wall. It's as if the puppetmaster of No 10 had never departed..."I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
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Well, well, well, maybe there is justice after all!
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Perhaps I should have written: (and, I've no doubt, sincereOriginally posted by Maclintick View Post Are you kidding ? Sickening opportunism of the kind we've come to expect from Johnson, who in his youth at E played the Wall Game and Ruggah, and for whom "soccer" was an abomination reserved for the plebs. Naked opportunism hath no finer embodiment than our current PM, who obviously views the current round-ball furore as a welcome distraction from the Tory sleaze-fest, and a golden opportunity to curry favour with his new mates in the Red Wall. It's as if the puppetmaster of No 10 had never departed...
) I have been known to include a smidgeon of irony in the occasional message.
Anyway, I'm surprised and delighted to have been proved wrong, at least as far as the English, and possibly the Spanish. clubs are concerned.Comment
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I suppose we should be grateful for this scintilla of "levelling-down" at that establishment since Bozza's day....Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
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Perhaps J P Morgan would like to help create a Wall Game Super League?Comment
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It was a major sport at Eton at that time too.Originally posted by Maclintick View PostI suppose we should be grateful for this scintilla of "levelling-down" at that establishment since Bozza's day....
Being such a large school, they are able to run several major sports, and soccer has been one of those for a long time.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Amen to that -- though it's interesting to speculate how any legislation threatened by Johnson in relation to the now-defunct ESL would have been formulated. I'm no expert, but I can't envisage even this shabby Parliament of law-breakers passing a statute forbidding commercial contracts freely entered into by legally-constituted companies -- which is what these clubs are, of course. Goes against the Tories free-marketism & would be difficult to frame. Any legal eagles here care to comment ?Originally posted by LMcD View PostComment
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The government and other institutions are very keen to be seen to be addressing an issue while hoping that their subsequent failure to actually do anything - even if that were possible - can subsequently be quietly announced late on a Friday afternoon, preferably as a kind of afterthought at the end of a communication relating to another subject.Originally posted by Maclintick View PostComment
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And so the soul-searching begins.
Do I go back? Of course, OGS & the players are innocent in all this.
Do I forget everything that’s happened? Like hell I will!
Will my club ever again be able to remove the foul stench attaching to the fact they were ring-leaders in all this? Will fans ever forgive Manchester United FC?
Talk about the club being unpopular with most fans before this – they’re absolutely gonna love us now!
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