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I have said that in my lifetime, I am going to try and visit every continent, perhaps with the exception of the South Pole, as I would not have a clue how to get there, or any reason to.
Regarding Africa, I will probably get to Egypt one day. Sharm El Sheikh and all that looks ok, but I would have to see the Pyramids. (How criminal would it be to go all that way and NOT see them?) We looked at Tunisia for this year, but friends who went said it was shoite and the food was awful, etc. I know people who have had a luxury stay in Morrocco as well, but it was a case of staying at the hotel by the pool. (albeit 5 star luxury) So, really it could have been anywhere in the world.
But as for the rest of Africa? No thanks. I think of Africa, and I think of Apartheid. Nelson Mandela. White Racist Afrikaans. Zulu. Born Free (yes, big f*ck off lions-no thanks). Bob Geldof. Flies on undernourished kids in refugee camps. Lenny Henry ( overweight, un-funny comedian, preaching about famine….FFS! Him and his obese wife probably eat in a week enough to feed several African families for months!)…..yes, it’s all very ‘positive’. Not.
It’s all a FIFA ploy. Can’t put my finger on the reason, but I find it truly laughable that they are sending the World’s best nations and players, to a country that is more known for rugby and cricket. I mean, where is S.A. in the country rankings? My genuine feeling is that the host country should be at least one of the top 20 countries. A football mad country, where the passion will be electric. I just feel that this World Cup could be a real damp squib, in much the way USA ’94 was. Already there are big worries about accomodation and transport, and you really do have to worry that somebody will die during the tournament, in a bungled robbery, or something.
And if we don’t get the 2018 tournament, it’s a disgrace. I believe Brazil are in for it (again), despite having terrible stadiums and infrastructure. An infrastructure that includes no real sewage disposal, apart from the kind of sewage outlets into the sea that they used to have in Blackpool. By all accounts, the Copacabana Beach is far from the beauty it once was.
There is no better place to hold the World Cup than this country, with it’s magnificent stadiums, infrastructure, and the fact that we organised a superb Euro ’96 tournament.On the pitch, I really think we have a big chance. But what a shame if there are only a couple of thousand fans there to see it?
cant go wrong with egypt,first time last year,goin again this year,sharm ace,goin to hurghada this year,hot as fook,plenty beer,plenty fish,plenty food,what more could you want!!!
We shouldn’t be starting Scotland anymore. If we can get a few more goals we will win. Martinez will take us far.
Scotland played well against sjoke and we crumbled once he went off![/quote]
agreed,but games are running out and we need to start gettin goals,how much longer can we stick with js to get em? holding the ball up and being unlucky with shots isnt good enough now is it?can see this being biggest crowd of the season so far,you have got people who have their tickets from original fixture plus there must be a lot more who have bought them for this one,like you said,lets get behind the boys,this would be a massive 3 points id we could get them.
i personally dont think we can afford to keep gambling on js to get us big goals,or any for that matter,games are running out and we need to start winning these games,especially when chances are few and far beetween and you need to take em.i dont think we have any choice than to have rodders back up top,charly on the right and moses on the left,pace on both flanks could work a treat.i know moses is untested but so what,why buy him if we arnt gonna throw him in,he`s quick and tricky so get him in.moreno on the bench as back up in case it all goes pear shaped.discuss.
i know he isnt one of ours anymore but he was a fantastic player for us and speaking to everton fans at work they reckon if ashley cole doesnt make it to the world cup then bainsey could get a chance,i would agree totally,better than bridge,likes to get forward like cole,hope he doesnt like to take naked photos of himself in hotel rooms though and send it to random women,forgot to delete them my ass!!! :lol:
I very much doubt he would send pictures to women !![/quote]
what are you trying to say about young mr cole the??? ;) :?read this one . .agree totally with them all – jordi fits in well though…
Players worse than the talismatic (ha) spaniard…1. Jeff Peron, the hallmark feeble player against which all feeble players must be measured. He had gallic flair and fell over a bit and even though he was married there were rumours he kept a male lover. Well he was French
2. Chris ‘Bambi’ Duffy. A big bouffant headed tart of a man signed from Crewe, just seemed to run backwards and forwards doing little in particular apart from his massive head and hair bobbling away as we moved
3. Stuart Whittaker. It’s pleasant to give your neighbours gifts, so we got sent one from Bolton on loan, they were taking the yellow water presumably
4. Brian McLaughlin. Smaller than my mum, his official club profile stated his height as being 5ft 2in tall. Not good in the air. Not big enough to get on the Big Dipper at Blackpool let alone be a professional footballer
5. Lee Rogerson – signed from East Lancashire giants Clitheroe, I really don’t know why, not so much feeble as non-existent. Very tall with a long face, like a stretched out Dave Thompson. whale.
6. Ged Brannan, Caymen Islands International Ged came with a glowing reputation and a glowing tan. He still had the tan by the time he’d left
7. Terry Cooke – a God at Manchester City, barely noticed a Latics although he did bang in a free kick at Chesterfield
8. Julius Aghahowa. It could have been oh so different for old no neck if he had planted that header home with only the crossbar to beat at home to Liverpool
9. Keith Gillespie, 2nd time around of course, like George Best without the talent, or at least without all the talent but with all the negatives associated with Best. Said playing for Wigan in the third tier scared him with a promise that he would get his act together. Disappeared up his own Kaiber shortly afterwards
10. Alan ‘The crab’ McLoughlin. Although maybe that’s harsh on a crab as it least a crab would move in a sideways manner. Also know as the invisible man, Kevin & John Bond have a lot to answer for
11. Michael Love, some gangly idiot of a skinny winger signed from Nuneaton or somewhere, only positive was when he went down the wing everyone would shout ‘Go on lovey’
12. Stuart Storer – actually did well for a bit but then went whale, another gift from B**ton and a small part of him still remains in football as Gary Neville models his pencil ‘tache on old Stuie’s
13. Winston White, he looked like an aids ridden Errol Brown
14. Danny Vaughan. Anyone remember this pocket dynamo? Nearly as small as Bri McLaughlin. Look good in pre season but just got trampled on once the proper games started. I swear an opposing midfielder from Mansfield or Lincoln or some other whale just picked him up and threw him over Woodhouse Stadium, never to be seen again
15. David Fairclough. So called Supersub, not at the age of 70 which he looked by the time he arrived at Latics
16. Stephen Appleton. Probably the worst right back in the world. The Ali Daei of Platt Waz (or probably Skem) simply was never a footballer in the memory of man
17. David Abekola. “We want Ade back” sang the bury fans in the Packhorse pub and it looked like matters might turn violent over ther nature of this subject. Don’t know as he was utterly elephant useless
18. Emerson Thome. Probably the only football club in the world who can sign a Brazilian who can’t play football. Well along with that Alves at Boro.
19. Eric Nixon, it would be unfair not to include a ‘keeper in there somewhere. Eric spents years at Tranmere and was touted (probably by Tranmere fans) as a future England keeper. He was absolutely clueless and even let Greg Strong get one over on him
20.And finally LEIGH JENKINSON…the man with the most feeble stepover in football. It was great when the crowd used to shriek in delight as he did his trick and then either the defender clobbered him or he scuffed his cross into the Springy Car Park
i remember jenkinson doin his infamous stepover at burnley away once,he fell over his self! that guy was garbage,and we`ve had some.
couldnt agree more,really lookin forward to this,not sure why cos its a 6 pointer really,like you said,crackin atmosphere and free flags too!!!
can anyone tell me the point of gomez? sideways,back,rubbish.bob on ssn now sayin he`s pleased with a point,we showed lots of character,and he`s actually smilin while sayin this!!! wtf is he on,we needed to win this,and we could easily have lost near the end.2 up front against noblot surely,cos this aint working!! :(
Just seen this on a Bowton site.
Wigan Athletic have today revealed plans to resign from the Premier League, after pressure from media outlets and opposition fans.The decision is believed to be prompted by Tuesday night’s poor result against League 2’s Notts County, as well as the small attendance. Officials have also cited the poor playing surface at the DW Stadium, being located near to a previously successful rugby league club, and the employment of Titus Bramble.The Lancashire club has been targeted by members of the press for criticism over the perceived lack of support in the town, culminating in two sub-6,000 attendances in a cup competition not taken seriously since the last millennium.
‘It simply isn’t good enough,’ said Max Haildon, chief sports writer for the Daily Mail. ‘Premier League clubs should always fill their grounds, no matter who they are playing and what the economic conditions are in the area. Add that to the fact that they failed to beat a team three divisions lower than them, and the thought of resigning is the least they should do. I mean, all the properly big clubs like Liverpool and Manchester United only ever lose to teams from their league, results like the one last night falsify the idea of a ‘Premier’ League.’
Chairman Dave Whelan released this statement: ‘I realise now how foolish I was to think that by having a better team than 72 other League clubs that Wigan would be accepted by the Premier League. Having millions of fans in the Far East and Scandinavia, along with mountains of unmanageable debt are much more important. We have considered this long into the night, and have decided to tender our resignation from the Premier League, and rejoin League Two where we clearly belong.’
Daily Mirror columnist Fran Bollymore welcomed the move, claiming it was a victory ‘for everyone who has supported a big team while they were winning things’.
Also happy was Leeds United director Steve Darvey: ‘This move by Wigan can only be good for British football. Who really wants to see clubs finish in surprising positions? Not me. I’d much rather see all the previously successful teams all playing each other every season, no matter how bad their teams might be.
‘Unfortunately it’s Wigan’s own fault for being founded 40 years after the rest of us, if they had serious plans about staying in the Premiership then they would have been elected into the Football League in the early 20th Century, leaving it to the late 70s is bad management. We can’t just sit around waiting for them to create some history and win trophies. They should have done that when we did, back in the 1960s and 70s. Never mind that they weren’t even a League club then.’
Leeds were one of five clubs reportedly readying applications for Wigan’s Premier League place. Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday and Norwich City are also preparing dossiers, allegedly based on the fact that, to quote from a leaked page from the Newcastle report, ‘we have more fans that them’.
Premier League officials are supposedly ready to ignore actual quality on the pitch in favour of large attendances, and one source we spoke to revealed that they hope more teams follow Wigan’s lead.
‘It is true that we’re hoping we don’t have to make a decision between the five applications we have received,’ said the source, who we can name only as ‘John’.
‘We have been in touch with officials from Blackburn and Bolton, enquiring whether they would be willing to follow Wigan down into the lower leagues. At the end of the day, we don’t really care that they’ve consistently gained enough points to get to and stay in the Premier League. As we all know, it’s attendances and performance in the distant past that matters.’
In unrelated news, some Championship clubs and lower Premier League clubs are preparing to dissolve their football teams, in favour of attracting more people through the turnstiles to pacify the Premier League officials. Bez Toxey, Chief Exectutive of Wolverhampton Wanderers, admitted that just playing football simply wasn’t good enough.
‘We have found that people are more interested in other things, especially our female fans,’ said Toxey this afternoon. ‘As females make up 51% of the world population, we’re considering other methods to get people down to Molineux on a Saturday afternoon. The biggest television audiences have been for Britain’s Got Talent, the Superbowl and Michael Jackson’s funeral. Therefore, we’re going to combine the three and begin a tournament to find the person in Britain who can bury Nenad Milijas the best while wearing excessive body armour.’
Other clubs are rapidly following Toxey’s and Wolves’ lead; Middlesbrough have already removed their football team and have replaced them with the Scottish Head Tennis team while Ipswich Town are considering an excursion into Amateur Dramatics, with a performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest already in production.
Sorry if its elsewhere.
could of swore i read this about a week ago on here.
if you look at the games teams around us have coming up we have got quite a few `winnable` at home,sjoke,bolton,compared to wolves for example whose next three are chelsea,man u and spurs.we really need to take advantage of this,but will we and are we capable?
Now we have had a successful transfer window and signed some serious talent as well as keeping hold of our own, isn’t it time to wipe the slate clean?
Jason Scotland may have missed a few, but hopefully with Moses on the left, Charles on the right and a possible partner with him up front, things may just turn around.
We have now had the last throw of the dice in the transfer window, so now our future is down to what weve got and us supporting the team.
The next home game, lets chant every players name and do our bit in ensuring we stay up. If Jason Scotland is short of confidence, lets drive the fear out of him and make him feel wanted.
Come On Wigan!!!!!!and so say all of us,here here,etc etc.
didnt think we had a chance in hell of signing moses but fair play to whelan and bobby for selling the club to him,must have seen summat he liked,also probably got more chance of games here than any were else he was linked with,dont know nowt about moreno but looks good on you tube(not hard!),he`s another striker and he`s young,well done wigan,we have been busy compared to other clubs to.cant make sunderland game but roll on sjoke at home and lets hope for a few more on than saturday please. :D
