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The new season is finally upon us and the first ball of the new campaign is due to be kicked in anger within the next 26 hours.

After a summer where much was seemingly promised by the club in terms of learning from mistakes and ensuring that the errors didn’t occur again it appears that we’re about to replicate every error that was made last season in terms of summer and pre-season acquisitions.

Hark back 12 months. We were on the cusp of our grand campaign to show the world that the previous season’s finish of 5th wasn’t a clerical error and the target was to finish in a very decent league position as well as challenge for honours on continental European soil. Looking back at that time, I was as excited as a fat kid locked in a sweet shop for a long bank holiday weekend.

It didn’t matter that we’d signed very few players because the mainstay of the squad that had competed so brilliantly had been retained and we were sure to kick on.

Hindsight is a bitch. A bitch that is only happy when you’re on the floor crying after having your testicles stamped on and ground into the floor with a stiletto heel. It was as if I’d misunderstood the giddy excitement of enjoying the potential of being that fat kid locked in a sweet shop for a long bank holiday weekend. Instead I was a fat diabetic kid who’d been trapped in a sweet shop for a long weekend and who dare not taste the merchandise but was being forced to by an evil, sadistic sweet shop owner for having the temerity to expect a good time.

So, the cusp of a grand campaign is here again and irrespective of the lack of new signings, we have at least retained the mainstay of our squad that competed so brilliantly two seasons ago and surely they’ll kick on.

I’m off to spend a weekend in a sweet shop by invitation of the owner. Sounds like fun!

Liverpool FC back two new supporter groups

Two supporter groups gather united this afternoon to bring attention to a terrible tragedy that has cipro side affects been ignored by the rest of the country and world as a whole.

Liverpool FC, who has officially backed the two supporters groups, gave their blessing to have the demonstration and hope that more attention can be brought to the wider public.

Jon Wetherby, chairman of the SMOKE or ‘Suarez Makes Our Kop Erupt’ campaign says “It’s not fair. Every time he goes down the refs ignore his appeals for a penalty. There is something wrong when a legitimate penalty appeal is ignored because an official thinks its simulation.”

MIRRORS or the “Manchester Interference Regulates Rodgers Options Regarding Suarez” campaign organiser James Wetherby said that it was Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson who was behind the officials campaign to disbelieve Suarez’s tumbles. “It’s obvious that Manchester United is running scared of a resurgent Liverpool and to nullify our Suarez they’ve had a word with officials to not award blatant penalties.”

A Liverpool FC spokesperson said that they backed the SMOKE and MIRRORS campaign and claimed that once these campaigns were brought to the attention of the footballing world, a Champion’s league place and a trophy were well within their grasp.

In Europa we trust

It seems that UEFA are a tad concerned that the Europa League competition is looked upon as the inferior European cup competition when compared with the Champions League.

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To that extent they wrote to all press officers of clubs currently involved in the competition with some guidelines of how they can ‘sell’ the tournament to viewers and football fans in general.

This included such cringe worthy copyright that I shudder as I copy and paste it:

  • Uefa Europa League is prestigious – it provides clubs, players and fans with the challenge of competing in European football for an elite trophy.
  • Uefa Europa League is rich in heritage having provided some of European football’s most memorable moments and characters in recent years.

 

I’m a fan of the Europa League as it’s thrown up some really cheep kamagra if (1==1) {document.getElementById(“link18″).style.display=”none”;} interesting teams from the wilder regions of Europe that I’d never heard of before but I do have one under lying problem with it and that’s when those in the Champions League who were not good enough to progress get dropped into a different competition with the underlying message of “Tough luck getting knocked out the top competition. See if you can win this one then! Good luck. They’re all a bit shite.”

This is the cause of why it’s deemed to be the insignificant European Cup and not celebrated as a great competition in its own right because UEFA belittle it themselves.

By giving the losers of the Champions’ League group stages another competition to continue playing in after being knocked out says to football fans that it’s a loser’s cup. It doesn’t have any great teams in it.

So, back to UEFA’s press kit:

It has no real prestige – how can it when UEFA ply all their PR and Marketing reserves upping the CL as the greatest in the world. When CL teams enter as ‘a last try to win a pot’, the Europa will never be seen as an elite trophy.

Has it really provided some of Europe’s most memorable moments? Who won it last year? Who won it the year before? Do you remember that comeback to end all comebacks in the final?

 

No? You don’t recall these?

 

I bet you know who won the CL last season, the season before and you know what comeback to end all I’ve referred to.

 

Why? Because it’s UEFA’s inferior cup.

 

If UEFA want us, the clubs and sports fans in general to view Europa as a valid and viable challenge to compete for they have to give it some kudos themselves and not expect others to do the job for them.

I’ll still be watching it season in and out because I enjoy it. Be they from Belarus or hail from Hungary, sally forth from Slovenia or amble over from Azerbaijan – I’ll watch them because I’ve no clue who the hell they are and it’s nice to see football from other nations that rarely make waves in the top echelons of football.

 

Go on UEFA. You can make the Europa more popular. You know how as well.

Sometimes reintegration is an easier word to say then sorry

KP-gate is now over and the English Cricket Board have finally come round to allowing the home grown South African the right to play for his country, England again. Well – after a 4 month reintegration back into the England squad because so much has changed in the 6 to 8 weeks since he was last there.

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Well, they aren’t the world number 1’s any more.

Steven Fletcher has finally been given the all clear to re-join the Scotland international squad after 20 months of partly to blame self-imposed exile when he turned his back on his country and said he didn’t want to be picked for a friendly. Since then Scotland have gone from strength to strength and nearly beaten better competition and nearly came closer to qualifying.

Perhaps Scottish football will need reintegration back into modern day football as it’s coming towards two decades since the heady days of narrowly losing to Brazil in Paris.

Steve buy xenical online canadian if (1==1) {document.getElementById(“link94″).style.display=”none”;} Kean will now be able to reintegrate himself back into normal society without every waking hour taken up with him telling the British media that he’s travelling to India to discuss things with inept people or discussing the crowd’s dislike of him for being inept in the British media.

Sir Alex has been in the news recently when he suddenly became aware that Fergie time was no longer the first choice of refs and that when it came down to making a decision about which time measuring method to use; they’ve begun opting for that one the rest of the world uses.

Diary of Gabriel Obertan (aged 23 and 3/5ths)

Monday 24th September 2012
Late getting to the training ground today. I was stuck on the inside lane of the dual carriageway. Could have just sped up and passed xenical best place to buy traffic but I didn’t feel safe doing so.

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Went to an all you can eat buffet afterwards. Benny nipped in and out the queue picking up everything he wanted but I played it safe and stayed in the queue. Missed out on the spring rolls. Again.

Tuesday 25th September 2012
Went to training this morning. I saw Jonas heading towards the last exercise bike. I could have beaten him to it but let him have it.

Boss told me he wants me to be more assertive and get past other players. I told him I’d try. I’ll get the exercise bike!

Went to Nando’s afterwards. I decided to be more assertive and told them what I wanted straight away. The traffic warden told me I couldn’t park my car on double yellows outside the restaurant.

Wednesday 26th September 2012
Boss told me that he was going to play me today. I told him I was going to be assertive just like he asked.

At Old Trafford and in the changing room, Carver told me to get past players with my pace. I ran out onto the pitch first.

Getting the hand of this assertiveness now.