Football

You'd mean you'd rather eat roast swan with your colleagues whilst reminiscing about 'toast racking' at school, than enjoying football thread related 'banter' with @jonny and some undesirables?

For shame.

Not prefer but find myself obliged to do so.

We didn't do too much toast racking at school. Might have made the place a little warmer. Being a singularly unattractive child, I didn't even have the staff to warm me up on a chill winter's night.

Yeah that was the same Utd fan who reffed our FA Cup Semi at Wembley last season

.....against Utd

can't see this early mike but my thirst does not lack ambition

If you wondered where those Chelsea fans on the Paris Metro got their inspiration, there's a very eye-opening Storyville documentary about Beitar Jerusalem on iplayer now, whose fans openly and proudly sing about how they're the most racist team in the country and protested vociferously when the club signed two Chechen Muslim players as a result of Arcadi Gaydamak's shady as fuck dealings with the Chechen president.

Great example of what can be massively shit about football.

Gaydamak, a billionaire arms dealer arrested multiple times, is coming across better than most others.

Bolasie out for the season

Men that don't flush their hard earned down the toilet watching a bunch of overpaid Jessie's running around and diving:
Everyone else

Goers:
You saw the list

Saying that I'm half tempted to get a group of middle aged men together for the West Brom v derby FA Cup 3rd round tie

in

Not really a biggie is it, not even the same county, now Stoke v Wolves....

Tempting .....

Speaking of Wolves, what's Andy Gray up to these days?

Smashing and yentzing

I'm driving up for that if you want a lift...

Nice one Tim. Let's see how many takers we get. Might need a mini bus

Uh-oh sounds like we have the next candidate for the sack...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38214382

the deadly backing from the board. bye bye Slaven

That is a brilliant documentary and to be commended to everyone, whether or not they follow football. It shows that the issue is deeper than football suppport. Indeed,, football has, to a considerable extent worked to combat that particular issue.

In Israel, many people whi supported Beitar have now moved on to a new side set up as a reaction to the racism. These include the otherwise unpraisworthy Netinyhau. The money launderer was laudable in his attempts to change the racism within Beitar. Sadly he failed. How they remain in UEFA is unfathomable.

To say that they inspired the idiots on the Paris Metro is nmore than a stretch. Those people almost certainly were unaware of Beitar and not at all likely to be influenced by them. Beitar racists were only anti Muslim. The Paris Metro idiots appear to have been anti black and may have been anti semitic as well.

Finally, if you think that racism, anti semitism and homophobia in football is confined to Chelsea and that opposition to them should be focused on Chelsea, then you are in for a very big disappointment.

Uh-oh sounds like we have the next candidate for the sack...

bbc.co.uk/sport/football/3821­4382

A few weeks ago, Conte was due. He seems to have survived somehow but tie will tell.

It was the 'backing of the board' I was referring to.
Conte has stumbled across a lucky formation much like Rodgers did. But time will tell

Conte has stumbled across a lucky formation much like Rodgers did.

Bitey up front, Slippy G upright?

That's too much of a fucking stretch.
One guy has won Serie A three years in a row whilst the other one has won fuck all.

Conte has stumbled across a lucky formation much like Rodgers did. But time will tell
#QFP

You on the painkillers, Mike?

Ahh yeah, how could we ever forget: "You are Chelsea an Chelsea is style"

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