Football

More helmets than Barry Sheene

more pricks than a dartboard
sorry Im not on this thread

yeah but she could get her arse and her bangers in the one shot - twisted spine - that's a talent

Chesterfield is the home of the crooked spire.

More helmets than Barry Sheene

Yep. Including my mates
She's in a bit of a state now though by all accounts

She has this:

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibromyalgia[/ame]

Which can't be pleasant.

more pricks than a dartboard
sorry Im not on this thread

yeah but she could get her arse and her bangers in the one shot - twisted spine - that's a talent

I'm afraid all new members here have to go through the process:

Team?
Dad's/Mum's Team?
Place of birth?

It's called Zuffling when you do it on a curtain:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zuffle

I don't do shitball mate, I only popped in to add my tuppence to Jo Guest

etc.

I can hear Pisti sharpening his typing nails now.

I don't do shitball mate, I only popped in to add my tuppence to Jo Guest

etc.

I think she licked them for cash.

Pisti knows my views on soccer

Well that saves a couple of pages of repeated invective to direct attention away from our mighty leader's plasticity.

Joey Barton excels himself here, scouse/pseudo-frog crossover accent.

Surely Arsenal will be his next club.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/26/joey-barton-french-accent_n_2192081.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

God I hate this argument as it underlines a complete lack of understanding of the US pro sports structure. Apples and onions comparing the US to the European sporting structure.

And for the record the amount of financial fiddling, contract restructuring, deferred payments, etc. means that the salary cap is almost meaningless.

There is no inherent fairness, what the leagues are driving towards is parity. Parity and fairness are two different things.

Go on, explain it to me then.

I know the structure is entirely different, but that doesn't mean certain elements couldn't apply to euro-sports.

Parity/Fairness, meh, semantics, my point still applies.

Simple - if you are the absolute worst team in the NFL and go 0-15 you are still in the NFL the following season. That is the largest most significant difference in the way it drives organisational behaviour.

You are not relegated. You still get your cut of the TV revenue. You get the top pick in the NFL draft and choose a player that you had no hand in developing. You only buy: you do not develop players, you have no youth system, no reserve team.

You sign them for a huge signing bonus (which doesn't count against the salary cap) and pay them largely in performance related bonuses (that also that mostly fall outside of the salary cap structure). Half way through the contract you can renegotiate the deal to change the large final year salaries (that are there to defend against unwanted trades and to drive up the potential numbers for the draftee) to free up huge chunks of your salary spend so you can do the same thing all over again to some other sucker.

The implementation of the salary cap in the NFL, NBA and MLB is a joke - there are so many exceptions that the bulk of the money made by the players don't hit the salary cap much.

And parity is not the same as fairness. Parity ensures that the games are competitive and that the league as a whole is entertaining. Parity does not ensure that is fair for all teams. It's not semantics, it is a business strategy by the league (which own all the teams anyway and is another fundamental difference that you are overlooking).

Joey Barton excels himself here, scouse/pseudo-frog crossover accent.

Surely Arsenal will be his next club.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/26/joey-barton-french-accent_n_2192081.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

My in-laws live in France. Their accents have changed.
When I lived in the states, my accent changed.

Accents change,slightly/ a lot, so that you can be understood. You've been to Leeds. Surely you've talked slower and louder before?

Joey Barton excels himself here, scouse/pseudo-frog crossover accent.

Surely Arsenal will be his next club.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/26/joey-barton-french-accent_n_2192081.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

I tried to copy a wonderful tweet by a Roy Chubby Brown twitter account (not the official one) but failed.

What do you call Joey Barton in a suit?

A fing c .........Don't let the suit fool you.

My in-laws live in France. Their accents have changed.
When I lived in the states, my accent changed.

Accents change,slightly/ a lot, so that you can be understood. You've been to Leeds. Surely you've talked slower and louder before?

I used to have a Swindon Pam Ayres accent

Used to?

Alrioght my loverrrr

Pisti has yentzed Damo with an odd accent?

Blimey is that allowed in teh rulez?

Its just before the Christmas party. I imagine sexual tensions are running high.

Pisti from the IT dept is putting some groundwork in...

I just saw the vid of Benitez getting booed. Is that it? I was expecting something shocking. You just proved him right....no passion.