We I don't need to have a special day for that.
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I found this interesting
A book on that season with the full cooperation of all of the protagonists would be fascinating
[URL="https://twitter.com/migueldelaney/status/1220648929370439680?s=21"]https://twitter.com/migueldelaney/status/1220648929370439680[/URL]
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- Mar 2008
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
This is a radio companion piece that probably has already been mentioned in the thread - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p081bndw
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Some day soon Miguel Delaney is going to be attending a match at Old Trafford, and he is going to have a massive hard shit, and then he's going to emerge, faint from the loo, and tweet that it is further evidence that standards are slipping and ten years ago man utd would have sent Nobby stiles down to gnaw on the door for him, and Denis law with a bottle of dulcolax and a rubber glove. Before going on to say that it is further evidence that man utd need to appointt Pochettino.
We're long overdue a player hitting a fan, people have forgotten the lesson of this incident. Think of what a clear the air moment it would be if you had a large black footballer, pulverizing a middle aged monkey chanter. People need to be reminded that they're not in a computer game, and that this isn't a sophisticated turing test, and that they are dealing with actual real people, with actual real feelings, and massive fists of fury attached to the body of an elite super athlete.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostSome day soon Miguel Delaney is going to be attending a match at Old Trafford, and he is going to have a massive hard shit, and then he's going to emerge, faint from the loo, and tweet that it is further evidence that standards are slipping and ten years ago man utd would have sent Nobby stiles down to gnaw on the door for him, and Denis law with a bottle of dulcolax and a rubber glove. Before going on to say that it is further evidence that man utd need to appointt Pochettino.
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I ran that one past a friend of his, and he thought it was pretty funny. If you follow his output, you start to notice repeating patterns.Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 26-01-2020, 13:45.
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TAB's visions are highly personal to TAB
And that is something that we should all be very thankful for
This is a recent example of Delaney's take on Manchester United
https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/status/1220361988670476288
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
We're long overdue a player hitting a fan, people have forgotten the lesson of this incident. Think of what a clear the air moment it would be if you had a large black footballer, pulverizing a middle aged monkey chanter. People need to be reminded that they're not in a computer game, and that this isn't a sophisticated turing test, and that they are dealing with actual real people, with actual real feelings, and massive fists of fury attached to the body of an elite super athlete.
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Have YOU kicked a racist today? Good work if so.Last edited by Toby Gymshorts; 25-01-2022, 13:10.
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1995 was a minging year for English football. Match fixing allegations, transfer bungs, a rise in nationalist hooliganism. People are often tempted to include Eric Cantona smacking Matthew Simmons in this hall of shame rather than seeing the incident for what it really is: the single greatest moment in English football history.
I used to think that Eric's leap of righteousness was a great moment of anti-racist direct action. Which it was. But it was also much more than that. Someone recently described Simmons as his step-dad and it was only then that I clicked. Simmons was a loudmouth, badly-dressed, racist piece of shit, but he was also a sort of negative everyman. A totem. A representation of every dickhead boss, evil teacher, hectoring police officer. Every bouncer, bailiff and bully. Every sad little wanker who has hidden behind orthodoxy to make you feel shit and made your life miserable. And Eric leapt over that orthodoxy and planted his Nikes square in its chest. It was magnificent. He is magnificent.
English football of course strung him up. "Typical Frenchman." They sneered as they ate their beige food, wearing their beige underpants, in their house filled with beige walls, carpets and lace doilies. Eric, and by association Manchester United, were punished for highlighting the central hypocrisy of British society, fighting racism and injustice will always be treated more harshly than perpetrating racism and injustice. An Empire state of mind.
But fuck them. Old Testament, fire and brimstone Eric died on the 25th January 1995. New Testament Eric emerged nine months later and carried us to the double double. It was the Hollywood ending the story deserved.
Cheers, Eric x
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This fact always perplexed me given the ubiquity of the surname in Wales
Thomas was a popular name throughout medieval Europe. In Britain the name was rare prior to the Norman Conquest (11th century CE), but by the 13th and 14th centuries it had become common.
I genuinely do not know.
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