Off Topic Bill Nicholson Arms

The Cars were massive in the U.S.
A big influence on many bands from different genres.

 

Anyway, if you get your missus pregnant this week your paternity leave should fall during the Euros, go for it peeps.

 

Somebody’s laying the foundations...

 

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Must be hard times:


Barcelona have been fined only 300 euros (£265) by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for their approach to Antoine Griezmann while he was at La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid.

 

Shall we have a whip round?

 

If this is true, it's a feckin' embarrassment! No wonder no one wants to deal with him and transfers always end up failing. This is beyond insulting.

 

The fee was Euro 20m as far as I recall so the article is wrong. And transfers don't 'always end up failing' do they?
It is not in the least 'embarrassing'.

 

Considering Dinamo's then-president has gone to jail for tax evasion and bribery, with Modric's transfer to us being one of the deals he was charged over, Levy making them pay for the shirts was absolutely the right call - otherwise he could have potentially been an accessory

 

Exactly right. In almost every well run organisation it would be rightly banned for anyone to throw in goods and services not mentioned in the contract documentation because that is bribery. But somehow behaving properly is an embarrassment to @Spudulike . I am always suspicious of a Spurs 'fan' who has the word 'Spud' in his user name though.

 

The Fail are spinning the story to suit their usual bullshit agenda, in my opinion.
https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/daniel-levy-spurs-luka-modric-16964035

Mamic seems to appreciate it and praises Levy. Given that he's on the run, I'm not sure how to take that.

 

It's called irony mate. Lighten up.

 

I would if you ever posted anything mildly supportive of the club.....

 

I'm sorry if I made you cry.

 

Why is it embarrassing?
They are not a charity...they are a business...that just made €20m from the sale of a player...so why were they asking for 5 free tottenham shirts?

And without wishing to be pedantic...how have we signed 4 players this summer if our "transfers always fail" ?

Honestly do not get what the problem is.

 

I recall Kyle Walker saying that if the players exchanged shirt with the opposition after a match Levy stops the cost of a shirt from their salary so at least he is consistent.

 

If you give away equipment supplied by your employers without asking you could find yourself in trouble with the law so Levy is being his usual gentle self. More to the point is Kyle Walker earning thousands and thousands of pounds a week pointing out that he had to pay a few quid for a shirt. **** off Walker and he did, perhaps he gets free shirts at City and that swung the deal. Plus a small increase in his already enormous wage.
So for me Levy is behaving in a fairly normal manner while Walker is a greedy little ****.

 

I love athletics but I don't watch it because I don't believe the results. There must be others who think like me surely? When the top event (allegedly, I prefer the 4x400) is so tainted, how can we take it seriously? The World Athletics Championships 100m was just won by a guy that missed three drugs tests in the past year. For me three missed tests should be equivalent to a positive test with the maximum penalty allowable imposed. So what if it isn't fair, the competition should not just be clean, but it should be 'seen to be clean'. Yes I know the US authorities withdrew the charge because of 'filing irregularities', which is a bit convenient.

Let's not forget that in the last race of golden boy Bolt, he was beaten by a twice-banned "athlete" Gatlin, incidentally the same guy that came second in this most recent race, running 9.8 secs at the age of 37 which is, er, impressive (if achieved naturally).

I remember listening to a women's middle distance race on the radio back during the London Olympics. One of the commentators who was a coach (wish I could remember his name), said that the doping authorities hadn't really got to grips with women's middle distance and a lot of the competitors in the race I was hearing are probably cheats. You didn't hear anything like that on the TV, so it was a bit shocking considering how the London games were supposed to be the cleanest to date (ha ha). Subsequently of course half that field have been banned, and medals filtered down, so I think one of the GB girls recently ended up with a bronze. But that's not the point, she didn't receive it in the stadium at the time so has been robbed of that forever.

Don't get me started on the court of arbitration in sport, which should probably be renamed the court for reducing bans.