[John_D]

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:18 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

Last season was the first time ever i actually kept it going for the whole season. Probably helped that we had a private league with about 10 or 12 people from work in it, made it more fun.

Yeah, we've had one in the pub the last few years with a £35 bottle of rum riding on it. That tends to focus the mind! The amount of trash talking is frankly unbelievable

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:39 pm  

John_D wrote:

Yeah, we've had one in the pub the last few years with a £35 bottle of rum riding on it. That tends to focus the mind! The amount of trash talking is frankly unbelievable

Nice, a prize is a great idea, ours couldn't be booze though... the organiser is a bit too... mormon.. for booze

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:17 pm  

John_D wrote:

Yeah, we've had one in the pub the last few years with a £35 bottle of rum riding on it. That tends to focus the mind! The amount of trash talking is frankly unbelievable

Quality or quantity?

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:18 pm  

The epitome of delusions of grandeur: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... Messi.html

The epitome of delusions of grandeur: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... Messi.html

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:22 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote: The epitome of delusions of grandeur: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... Messi.html He does fancy himself a bit does Hazard. Tbf though he does say 'Messi is the world’s best player and it's a bit of an exaggeration to say I can be that good'

getdownmonkeyman wrote: The epitome of delusions of grandeur: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... Messi.html He does fancy himself a bit does Hazard. Tbf though he does say 'Messi is the world’s best player and it's a bit of an exaggeration to say I can be that good'

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:47 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

He does fancy himself a bit does Hazard. Tbf though he does say 'Messi is the world’s best player and it's a bit of an exaggeration to say I can be that good'

It is the paragraph afterwards that tickled me.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Jul 22, 2012 4:49 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote: The epitome of delusions of grandeur: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... Messi.html The epitome of an simple reader being told what to think by a headline writer.

getdownmonkeyman wrote: The epitome of delusions of grandeur: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... Messi.html The epitome of an simple reader being told what to think by a headline writer.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Jul 22, 2012 5:02 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

It is the paragraph afterwards that tickled me.

Just leave him to it, you can pi.ss your boobies off watching him fail

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:52 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

Just leave him to it, you can pi.ss your boobies off watching him fail

Can't see him failing myself. I said when Citeh signed David Silva that I felt Silva would be the best player in the league within two years. IMO, he's arguably the best attacking player in the league, if he scored more he'd be the undoubted top player. IMO, Hazard is very similar, he could easily be the best player in the league within a couple of seasons, he has just about every single attribute you could want in a player. He's a special player.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:34 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

Can't see him failing myself. I said when Citeh signed David Silva that I felt Silva would be the best player in the league within two years. IMO, he's arguably the best attacking player in the league, if he scored more he'd be the undoubted top player. IMO, Hazard is very similar, he could easily be the best player in the league within a couple of seasons, he has just about every single attribute you could want in a player. He's a special player.

Well, my statement was more an 'if' not 'when' to be honest. I don't recall seeing him play bar the game against England at Wembley so i can't judge him yet.