chrissmith921

The misses will say I'm not, or I am, depending on her mood with me at the time.

I dont sit there thinking up plans of how to be romantic, etc, I think its more the things I do for her to make her life easier which should be looked kindly upon, rather than spending a fortune on some shit plants that will die within 3 days.

But if it gets me a blowie, I'm all for it

Hats off to the witty burglars who stole my entire CD collection with the exception of "There is Nothing Left to Lose" by the Foo Fighters. I hope that when sentencing, the judge takes into account their splendid sense of humour.

Can I just say that this is not funny. This is an actual true story and happened to ME personally in June 2003.

What? They left the Foo's CD behind??

**** hilarious!

There is only one English professional football team whose name contains none of the letters in the word "mackerel".

Swindon Town

its not hard to get travel insurance

A team from Europe has never won the tourney outside of Europe.

Worth remembering.

While this is true, I feel it is largely irrelevant given that we're in the relative unknown of Africa.

UEFA representatives didn't do exceptionally well in 2002 either (Korea & Japan being about as unknown in the context of international football venues).

Turkey and Germany in the last 4?

england will crumble as usual and i think its because the media pressure gets to them. if they went in with the attitude we will try our best to win it instead of saying we can win the world cup expectations wouldnt be as high.

brazil for me, i think the heat will play a massive factor and brazil play well when it isnt in europe

It'll be winter in SA

although the temperature will still be upper 20's.

I still believe England will.

However - African nation?

Emile.

He's a big **** woman.

I **** hate apache.

I think a lot of it is johnson's fault.

Which part? We simply haven't the players.

The focus in English rugby is on size more than it is on talent. To have a 6'5 winger is seen as the norm now rather than a freakish outcome. That boy at Bath - Banahan(??) - he's not even that quick, why is he out on the wing?

Saturday lunch time, though she wanted it Sunday but I refused because I didn't want to miss the Villa kick off :oops:

Has since caused all manner of arguments

Good point, scenario 1) The guy is up for a bit of action, missus says no. Its a shame but life goes on.

scenario 2) Missus wants some action, guy aint in the mood, WWIII breaks out, he doesn't love her any more. He thinks she's ugly. And its all his fault.

its only because its the only weapon they can use against you in the relationship power struggle.

once she loses that, she has no room for bargaining anything....

Fuckinell Stevo. I heard that one at primary school in the 1960s!

What I'm worried about is not the age of his joke, but what a 30 something year old was doing hanging around primary schools?

us welsh eat vegemite and use it to lubricate our sheep.

I'm excited about the end of the season and our quest for fourth place. Dare I say I'm cautiously optimistic. One of the best seasons as a Villa fan yet without doubt. Maybe Gregory's where we were challenging for the title til Christmas might surpass it, but I was younger then and more excitable.

As I was born in 83, 95/96 remains the best season I can remember for the Villa - 4th, Coca Cola Cup winners and FA Cup semi finalists...

....and hello DrTadalafilusVsCialisX.

A quick google search suggests he is a member of many forums So expect some really good contributions from this one

GlastonSpur?

Qualify for Europe. Preference obviously CL but we have to be in Europe.

To me, Stevo985's post sums up exactly why we're not seen as a giant club anymore.

The Carling Cup to them is what the peace cup was to us - insignificant. Shows the gulf of expectation between the two clubs.

It seems to be drilled in from an early stage though, I dont think theres anything Johnson and co can do about it - which is kinda my point.

You'd spot the odd good player who would do things off-the-cuff when we played these schools but the majority were making calls off the back of 3rd/4th phase ball and eventually they'd run out of ideas. You can almost see the exact parallel with the national side now.

We had our set plays of course, everyone did, but the difference was (I believe...) we were encouraged to drop them should the opportunity arise, where-as the RFU schools would stick to them rigidly - perhaps that mentality has crept through at the top level now and you've got players who, while technically are very very good, are weak when it comes to broken play and having to make key decisions at key times... as you say, such as altering a game plan in accordance to the conditions.

Vidic should have gone - would it have changed the result? Who knows.

However, he didn't, and the problem was we ended up sitting back on a 1-0. Until Carew came on we didnt have a striker who would hold the ball up for us whatsoever.

I thought Gabby lead the line brilliantly yesterday so that's a little unfair Chris - he ran the channels, held the ball up and won us the penalty!

Yes, he held it up when we got it to him, trouble was his partner - Heskey didnt hold it up, get us the chance to build.....

Again, just my opinion, Gabby was excellent, when we fed him. Heskey however...

Vidic should have gone - would it have changed the result? Who knows.

However, he didn't, and the problem was we ended up sitting back on a 1-0. Until Carew came on we didnt have a striker who would hold the ball up for us whatsoever.

I'd say that was the problem, too much of the ball being held up, and not enough heading towards goal.

The ball didn't get held up though - it was cleared, and back towards us before we even had chance to set.

Milner was ineffective in the 2nd half as we were struggling to hold onto the ball up front - Gabby drifted out left too much meaning we were starved of the ball and our back 4 were constantly under pressure.

Thats my opinion anyway

Vidic should have gone - would it have changed the result? Who knows.

However, he didn't, and the problem was we ended up sitting back on a 1-0. Until Carew came on we didnt have a striker who would hold the ball up for us whatsoever.

Englands problem is under pressure they resort to how they're taught at a young age - set piece rugby...

We used to play against the RFU Schools all the time (Milfield etc) and they were all taught the same thing - set play after set play after set play - never encouraged to think for themselves.

Therefore, when struggling, they resort to robotic rugby rather than gambling on chances that sometimes pay off, and sometimes dont... But I see no difference in losing by 10 points than losing by 2 - so better to go for it than not...

putting it to a high shelf just makes teenage lads try to get them more.

porn mags are restricted to 18+ and i'd guess most blokes on here had hold of them by the time they were 14?

Can someone explain in simple terms, why the **** we are paying well over £1.10 a litre for fuel even though oil has dropped like ****.

Ginger ****.