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I used to live in Petrzalka ! Well, not exactly - but a town exactly like it, Zilina (the team that played Chelsea last season). Both Petrzalka and Zilina are soulless massive housing estates, Petrzalka with 150,000 people in identikit panelaky (Soviet bloc era apartments - I guess they have bloc parties every weekend). Petrzalka were a middling second division team until the Czechoslovak break-up and never really got much of a fanbase til Slovan's fall from prominence a couple of years ago.

― darren (darren), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Get Strachan's coat while you're at it

It's the one on the shaky peg.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Right next to Graeme Souness's

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Why did Slovan flop?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Wasn't there a match rigging/cheating thing that resulted in a couple of the bigger teams being relegated as punishment?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

Because Hajduk Split?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Signing Paul Telfer as a solution for anything seems a bit odd. Still, if you get desperate, I'd imagine Steve Wigley's available.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Strachan isn't the new John Barnes, he's more like a cross between Barnes and Lou Macari

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

JtN is literally ON FIRE.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

The Artmedia coach was literally over the moon last night. Strachan was literally sick as a parrot.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link

sometimes i wonder if i'll ever get to use 'cinema pongolle'

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link

When Celtic's new left back takes a throw-in is that a Camara Shy?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

fidgetal camara

...

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Strachan Supports Celtic Defender's Denial Of Bucks Fizz Obsession

― "My Camara Never Lies" (blueski), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link

"Mo Camara Never Lies" shurely?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link

... he never fucking tackles either

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link

i am sure mo he will develop into a picture of the perfect leftback. or be sold to lens

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

knew i'd find a good one eventually!

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

He needs developing certainly

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Very good, JtN. It made me laugh, but it came out as a wheezing coughlet.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Oops, you made that joke! (xpost)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm trying not to be negative about him

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe they should tri podding him on the wing.

(I have a cold, sorry).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

v good

will lens cap camara's wages i wonder?

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

flash in the pan eh?

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

He's had too much exposure already, his ego is liable to blow up and zoom out of control (a bit like his passing)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Is this a wind-up Camara thread?

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link

he is certainly getting a critical panning

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Look at the splash screen on the Celtic site

http://www.celticfc.net/default.asp

and that's him BEFORE losing 5-0!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I am waiting for the little LFC Frenchman to come back from injury and play a stinker so I can finally use my long-awaited SINAMA PURGATORIO.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

When Camara's on the pitch apparently the fans sing 'Crash Bang Whallop!'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I've given up trying to think of one involving 'aperture'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Camara didn't do much training. He had an extended break around the sights of Europe. Ayia Napa, Turin...

< / tumbleweeds>

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

It *was* pretty hilarious, though. But the Huns have given us their share of comic cuts European nights also.

Have Rangers ever had a worse defeat in Europe than this one tho? Not in my memory they haven't.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe the Eintracht Frankfurt team that got gubbed 9-3 in the famous "Hampden Final" got through to the final by beating the Huns 12-2 on aggregate in the semis (6-1, 6-1, like a one-sided ladies tennis match). Not sure how accurate my source is, though. And it was a wee while ago. And EF did get to the final.

Must be some other real embarrassments, though.

― frankiemachine, Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I've just googled that and it was 6-1, 6-3.

― frankiemachine, Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

It was Scotland wot got gubbed 9-3 off of England, Eintracht lost 7-3

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Of course. Too much beer last night.

― frankiemachine, Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

They lost 6-0 to Real Madrid in the early 60s, no shame there though...
More recently they lost 4-0 and 4-1 to Juventus in '95 or '96.

More people have heard of Juventus than Artmedia Bratislava, I should think.
This really is the worst Celtic result in living memory. The new players looked shite and the old playes didn't have a pair of legs between them. Add this to wee Gogs' tactical ineptitude and 5-0 probably flattered us.

Sack the wee bastard now.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Who do the fans want? Moyes?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

They can want all they like, they won't get him

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I think at the moment Not Strachan will do for me. He's taken us to the lowest point in our European history, and it only took him one competitive game to do so. It should cost him his job, which he should never have had in the first place.
We beat Barcelona only 16 months ago! Bayern Munich celebrated scrapping for a draw at Celtic Park! Look at us now, losing 5-0 to a team that lost 2-0 to the Kazakhstan champions only a fortnight ago!

Moyes wouldn't take it, especially when he has a chance of playing in Europe *after* the football season starts.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Last night, in 't pub, Hiddink was mentioned as the man they should have gone for, he's no longer available tho I think? Co Adriaanse's name came up, but no-one could pronounce it.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Paul Bracewell scored his first Everton goal against Inter in the 84-85 ECWC, Paul Bracewell fact fans. Another Paul Bracewell fact tomorrow.

We'll be waiting.

Cozen, your 'camarabaderie' was terrific! - and so were so many others' tremendous gags.

― the blissfox, Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Hiddink has taken the Australia job.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

What kind of debt is Celtic carrying? Someone told me yesterday that this was disastrous 'cause of all the money they would lose from not going to the next rounds in the CL.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Another one that shows the huge gulf between being an 'astute tactician' and actually a decent manager.

Perfect previous example - Terry Venables' career in England

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Celtic have reduced debt from around £32M to around £17M in the last three or four years.
A good European run usually adds £6-£10M to overall turnover.

Fingers crossed Nakamura turns out to be the money spinning deal they hoped for (assuming he doesn't find a way out of singing, that is).

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I just read the news about the Celtic match. I thought it was a joke.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I am going to have to stand up and say I like Gordon Strachan a lot. I'm sure it's just a blip.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

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Oh, and while we're at it - if you are offside you are offside. End of.

It was funny, in the BBC video archive, to hear David Coleman say during Italy-West Germany in 1970 "offside there, but not interfering with play". It's always been there, that qualification to the rule, it's just expressed differently now (the whole "phase of play" thing was an attempt to clarify, I think). Quite a "modern" amount of injury time in that match too, which was also no surprise to Coleman.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

are there any of the london supporters at all tho who wd rather win the champions' league than the premiership? i'm a born & bred liverpool supporter and i would kill for a(nother) premiership title.

― danny invincible (michael w.), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

dude, we've never won the Premiership

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

jesus that hurt

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

This may sound harsh, but I really, really hope you don't win the league again until 2016 at the earliest.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

hmm, we must go for a ~~fight~~ pint soon ;)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

porkpie, refering to "the premiership" as a seperate identity to "the league" means you have been badly brainwashed in the worst possible way.

― danny invincible (michael w.), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry, didn't notice the capital P ;)

and no, I haven't been brainwashed

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost:
B-b-but it's you that used the word Premiership. You could have just said "I would kill for another league title" and then this whole nasty business need never have happened.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

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