Whelan Shut Your Mouth!

I'm lifting this directly from The Fiver Letters Section, because I don't think I could have written it any better.

"Re: Wigan chairman Dave Whelan worrying about Chelsea's domination destroying the Premiership. Is he in any way related to the Dave Whelan whose Wigan rugby league side steamrollered its way back and forth across the M62 from the late 80s to mid 90s, winning seven consecutive league titles and eight consecutive Challenge Cups?" - Ben Ineson.

An excellent point, which I just wanted to share.

While I'm at it please also read ..... THE BEAUTIFUL GAME? - David Conn

Lovely Rita?

It's got to suck pretty bad, you've had your world turned upside down by Hurricane Kurina, Katrona, oh whatever Ms Bush said, and you find solace in Houston.... For about a week or so....

They interviewed a guy being evacuated for the second time in less than a month, and it's not often you see complete dispair, a complete unwillingness to go on any longer, but this poor guy had that look.

Does anyone know where the Bush residence is by the way? Silver-lining and all that.

Village

Poor old Johnny Woodgate, 17 months out of the game, and finally he makes his Real Madrid debut, into a pressure cauldron where the team where already getting a lot of flack after some recent bad results, and things didn't quite go as planned.

25 minutes in he proves his reactions and fitness are back up to scratch, by changing direction quickly enough to get a glancing header on a Bilbao strike, unfortunately this only put it the otherside of the goal that the keeper was going. 1 nil.

Then just before half-time he reminded us of his no (brainer) nonscene style of defending, as he straddle a forward at about waist hight with both legs, earning yellow card number one. And to cap a joyous night, he obstructed another Bilbao striker, preventing a possible counter-attack, and the ref had no option but to bring out another yellow card, then a red.

Luckily for Village, Real still managed to come away with a 3 - 1, and if there are any positives, at least his reason for an early bath was official rather than physical.

From what I've seen the experience of being out for so long has helped a former prized moron develop into a more rounded adult, in the same way John Terry seems to have turned things around for the better, and I do believe fully fit, and match ready these two former likely lads could be the mainstay of an England defence for many years to come, as Sol and Rio disappear up their own arses )<>(

Lame Ass Blog Man

That would be me, it's been more than a month since my last entry, and in that time Silvia has now got her own blog, and it's about 100 times better than this one, I'll sort out linking it somehow, but from what I can tell from most of my other links, I'm not too 'down', with the technical side of this thing.

Peaky has also done a nice little thing too, but any excuse for him to spout off is always good in his book. There you can also see lovely photos of his bambini.

So what happened, aside from reaching new levels of laziness, I had a holiday to Croatia, details of which are cover on Silvia's blog, including links to photos. But basically it was a lovely break, very relaxing and I'm very thankful to Silvia's dad for paying for pretty much everything, an absolute star!

This weekend just gone a few of the old crowd got together for Nic Hemley's 30th, which was really good and included a little gathering back at my 'free house'! I've attached a couple of photos taken with my camera phone, but they've not come out too well.
















Ian loses control of his tongue.















Chris breaks up a fight between Silvia & Ferg















Nic & his potential Mother-in-Law, in strangulation horror!


Aside from that not much else has been going on, the football continues, and after some poor results we've finally won a game again, so hopefully that'll be a turning point for our season.

I've put my studies on hold for Italian, I'm going to start a course in January at level 2, so I'll definately have to brush up on what I do know first, and I'm going to hold out on my ICM studies until I can potentially convince my company to pay for it, because I'm worth it!

Anyway, that's about it, I'll probably check in again at some stage, but in the meantime check out some decent blogs, through links to the right --------->