OldFart

Surely Europe would have been better adopting our system then? :? We only had a period between April and June when players couldnt move. Maybe. Perhaps they should all drive on the left as well and use sterling. ------------ I can speak for one other country and one alone: Spain. The Spanish have a terrible paranoia about what they call the adulteration of the league competition - there's quite a history of fiddling and corruption. An example of this paranoia is that on the last day of the season all matches involving promotion, relegation or European places must kick off at exactly the same time. And if the first half lasts 56 minutes for whatever reason, tough. They change ends and start the second half at the appointed time. Just 4 minutes of half time. Tomorrow and Sunday are "Day" 22 of the 1st Division. Let's say the Barcelona v Betis match is postponed. The clubs are then requested to find a date for the match to be played AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Because if not... Well God knows how some third party will take advantage of the situation, but they're taking no chances. There are 20 teams in the league. Barcelona are playing at home to Betis this weekend ("Day" 22), you KNOW that they played them away on Day 3. And whoever they played on Day 4 they'll be playing on Day 23. Etc. It may just be an obsession with tidiness but it's explained as avoiding adulteration. A time there was when no internal transfers were allowed whatsoever during the season. Clubs could only sign players from other countries. What ordinary people think and what officialdom thinks are very often two very different things, but they're all accustomed to THEIR way of doing it. Change may be for the better or may be for the worse but it's change, and there are always those who welcome change for change's sake and others who hate anything that deviates from what they're used to. To an English fan brought up on transfers being allowed at any time before the middle of March the transfer window seems restricting. To a Spanish fan brought up with the idea of only one window and that in the close season, the idea of TWO windows seems either a tremendous new freedom or libertarianism gone mad. Now I know nothing about how things used to be in France, Luxembourg, Sweden or Poland, but there could well be almost as many attitudes towards the current system as there are nations. There are even people who are against the whole concept of a unified calendar for international matches. I can't swear to it but I think the system was one imposed by UEFA, or the representives of the the different leagues most likely voted for it. One thing I'm not going to vote for in this poll is that it isn't justified because I don't see that as relevant. If UEFA was/is totalitarian so be it - it's their ball and they can take it away if they feel someone isn't playing to their rules. And if the idea of 2 windows was something democratically voted on, then yes you can opt out. You can opt out of a unified European currency too if you want. But to then try and insist that the rest of Europe changes to pounds sterling because they are out of step and we get confused with the funny old Euros every time we go to a country in the Euro zone would be somewhat arrogant in my opinion. ---------- Oh, and I almost forgot. I don't like these two transfer windows because I hate change and at my age and after so many years of the good old English system, I still haven't completely got used to the idea of two windows. Thirty years ago or perhaps even before Bill Gates came along we'd probably have called them periods, but no doubt Tampax have decreed a much nicer word be used. I still think it's a pity we can't go and sign a new striker in October. God, I feel bloody tired after typing all that.

Fine, but if we unilaterally go against UEFA we don't play in European competition.

Yes. Sorry, I might be a bit dense but I can't get my head round that bit about justification. All members of UEFA must operate a transfer window, so do you mean "there is no justification for UEFA having one?"

But the thread is called "How many this month?" :nod: People who live in Amsterdam... whaddya do with them?

Mathematicians! Whaddya do with them?

Great report, great read and much appreciated.

Don't know if my memory's playing tricks but I remember God as more of a central defender personally.

My old mum used to tell them we were all Mormons. Inevitably she came nearly unstuck one day when some real Mormons showed up. Just in time she noticed the little badges and changed her spiel to "Muslims".

They were. 45-50 years ago.

deluded

Well I voted for our main local rivals! From about 1967 onwards probably the biggest club in the whole Midlands Coventry! :oops:

"deluded" surely

I see we seem to have found a scapegoat for our defeat. On hang on, we won.

Yeah, true... :oops: :wink: EDIT: Nothing really, just felt I had to go back and edit some of my posts in case I'd said anything i might regret. but apparently not. Waste of time then really wasn't it?

The. Match. Wigan Athletic v Aston Villa. Soccer. Round ball. Goal with nets and that. EDIT: Nothing really, just felt I had to go back and edit some of my posts in case I'd said anything I might regret. But apparently not. Waste of time then really wasn't it?

Enjoy the match Beth? EDIT: Nothing really, just felt I had to go back and edit some of my posts in case I'd said anything I might regret. But apparently not. Waste of time then really wasn't it?

Somewhere on the ratings and reactions thread there's a certain poster who gave nearly everyone 7, 7.5 or 8 and hardly had a good word to say for any of them!

Mods, may we continue to vote on the poll?

Thats what happens when youve got nothing to bitch about!! haha we've got a great chairman, quality manager, the team is doing reasonably well...i think its raise a glass time to randy, aston martin, the general and the team! Exactly! Eloquently put sir!

All valid points, but the obvious one you missed Richard was that he was a word removed. Could not stand that man. I take my hat off to him for getting us into 6th but the way he spoke about my club in the media still leaves an awful taste in the mouth. MON makes mistakes, is nowhere near perfect and makes baffling decisions but he is a vast improvement over that waste of space. The fact that he was a useless word removed is a given I thought :winkold: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn:

Up Uranus!

Are there any Right Backs on Mars?

I don't know. Ask Tom.

Got one of popey doing same, Mike?

What was that you were saying about free speech on another thread, Risso?