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Of course, light blue, double cuff, removable collar stiffeners, optional tie.
Removed in all but the left-hand side of the blue shirt it would seem.
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Following on from the brillance of Mickey owens punditry skills, thre is an article in the Guardian about how great Neville is.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/nov/27/gary-neville-punditry-sky-bbc
If you can be bothered to read it. Never heard him myself
#boycottskyToo be fair, Neville is an absolute quality pundit. Maybe he and his brother can form a formidable commentary pairing one day.
Does anyone thinks it makes his England coaching career hard to justify though? I'd hate to be trained by someone on a Monday who slated me on the Saturday.
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talking about the spurs west ham racist issue as we were, there was an interesting call to radio 5 that caused me to prick up my ears on thurs night after the spurs game in italy
a caller said ( unproven and only heresay admittedly ) that there were a lot of west ham / leeds and chelsea fans in rome that night joining up with the lazio fans to assist in attacking the spurs fans
i'm forever blowing bubbles rang out of the lazio ultras section during the gameseems like spurs fans are getting grief everywhere they go
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talking about the spurs west ham racist issue as we were, there was an interesting call to radio 5 that caused me to prick up my ears on thurs night after the spurs game in italy
a caller said ( unproven and only heresay admittedly ) that there were a lot of west ham / leeds and chelsea fans in rome that night joining up with the lazio fans to assist in attacking the spurs fans
i'm forever blowing bubbles rang out of the lazio ultras section during the gameseems like spurs fans are getting grief everywhere they go
Right so Leeds, Chelsea and WHAM fans, are gonna fly off to Rome on the off chance they get to kick/stab a few Spurs fans, when they can do it any time they like for the cost of a train ticket to Bucks.
You are Emlyn Hughes and ICM£5.
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Right so Leeds, Chelsea and WHAM fans, are gonna fly off to Rome on the off chance they get to kick/stab a few Spurs fans, when they can do it any time they like for the cost of a train ticket to Bucks.
You are Emlyn Hughes and ICM£5.
read my disclaimer
said in the same voice as alan partridge said " eat my cheese " when meeting head of bbc light entertainment over dinner
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Lazio = DiCamio = West Ham
Singing Bubbles does not make someone a Marshman.
What Ronnie said about Emlyn Hughes.
The antisemitic chants against Spurs are disgusting. Behaioum tweeted very sensibly on the subject yesterday. Gold spoke eloquently as well.
If the spurs supporters would stop using the y-word, considerable progress would be made. Most decent Jewish people I know support Chelsea, Arsenal, West Ham, ManU or Leeds. Most spurs fans I know are not Jewish.
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Cliveo was this the piece you tweeted about earlier?
Booooo! “F*** off Benítez!” How they screamed and shouted, summoning the fans’ inalienable right to vent their fury. You pay your money, you shout what you want (in the case of some West Ham United scumbags, failing to draw the line at mocking a stabbing victim and the Holocaust).
At Stamford Bridge, Rafael Benítez learnt the brutal way what so many Chelsea supporters think of him, and football’s usual reaction is to conclude that “the fans are entitled to their opinion”.
We are brought up to believe that thousands of Chelsea fans cannot be wrong about their own club, especially not at those prices.
But what if their opinion is self-defeating, misguided, bullying and stupid? What if it is cowardice to pick on Benítez when it is Roman Abramovich who should be bearing the brunt?
Forty thousand fans can be wrong.
They poured their frustrations down on the head of Benítez on Sunday, drowning out his introduction as interim manager with jeers, and still no one has satisfactorily explained why the loathing is so intense.
Many years ago he made a catty remark about “plastic flags” that are sometimes given out at Stamford Bridge (the “stupid” part of the quote seems to have been inserted later).
And, er, that’s it. As Liverpool manager, in the midst of a fierce rivalry with Chelsea, he also said he could never imagine himself working for Chelsea, yet added that “Chelsea is a big club with fantastic players; every manager wants to coach such a big team”. As inflammatory as an April shower.
He did not launch an underhand raid to disrupt John Terry, tell the Chelsea fans to “shush” or slide on his knees across Stamford Bridge.
He did not poke anyone in the eye, call Abramovich a blight on the game or say he would knock Chelsea off their f****** perch.
At Liverpool, he accused Didier Drogba of diving — who hasn’t? — and, in some eyes, he looks like a fat Spanish waiter.
Any more? Oh yes. “The fans are extremely upset about what he said about [Frank] Lampard and [Ashley] Cole,” David Johnstone, spokesman for the CFC UK Fanzine insisted yesterday, desperately trying to whip up fresh controversy after Benítez had implied that neither player would be given new contracts.
This fuss about nothing conveniently ignores that Benítez has been in the job a matter of days, has no input in contracts and is unlikely ever to do so. He was simply relaying what he had been told by the hierarchy, ie, the owner. But why let the facts get in the way of a lynch mob?
Benítez’s “crime” was to answer a phone call offering him a way out of lonely days sitting at home. He could have turned it down for a quiet life, but he wants to work and rebuild a reputation. If he succeeds, so do Chelsea.
His desperation to return to work was not going to change the fate of Roberto Di Matteo. The Italian was out in any case. Harsh, but Benítez is hardly some mug off the streets, or Avram Grant.
Benítez did not shoot Bambi. The man with Di Matteo’s blood on his hands, the man who slayed the darling of Stamford Bridge (whose team, incidentally, had leaked 21 goals in the past ten games), is Abramovich.
It is the owner who incessantly meddles and has a flawed obsession with getting a return on his £50 million for Fernando Torres despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Had Chelsea fans shown the courage of their convictions, they would have held up banners saying, “Roman, you don’t know what you’re doing”.
They would have stood up in the Matthew Harding Stand and shouted: “It’s not your club, it’s ours.” But to upset Abramovich is to risk that he stops throwing around potloads of money or, worse still, goes back to Grant.
So they thought they would boo Benítez, hope Abramovich picked up the message, but did not take it to heart. In other words, bullying and cowardice rolled into one.
Benítez gets it in the neck, apparently with little hope of respite.
Fans groups say they expect the vitriol to continue. It is as though many Chelsea fans are willing him to fail, in which case we can add the charge of stupidity. Finishing outside the top four, without a trophy, may get rid of Benítez — but it is hardly the way to lure Pep Guardiola.
Passion over reason is not a new phenomenon for football fans, but this seemed a particularly ugly, self-defeating expression.
Perhaps the booing convinced some that they do have a say at a club where they have rolled, happily, with the owner’s whims for almost a decade.
Maybe Chelsea fans were determined to disprove the view tweeted by Danny Baker, the broadcaster, on Sunday: “Chelsea fans. You HAVE no voice. That is the price you paid to be what you are now. You are season tickets. Programme sales. Product. Face it.”
Generally, those of us who like to believe, rather idealistically, that clubs belong to supporters not oligarchs think it is a good thing when fans come together as one for the wellbeing of their club. But not in the way it happened on Sunday when thousands screamed at Benítez before he had taken his seat. This was vindictive, and for what reason or purpose? Where does all that venom flow from here?
It sloshes around Stamford Bridge, making life harder for Benítez and his squad, and if Chelsea fail the place descends into even more rancour.
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Following on from the brillance of Mickey owens punditry skills, thre is an article in the Guardian about how great Neville is.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/nov/27/gary-neville-punditry-sky-bbc
If you can be bothered to read it. Never heard him myself
#boycottsky