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K’Phobe
Email sent to Ambarish to forward to you with code number and instructions.

Be cool if it works 🙂

sounds like Eddie’s got an ankle issue, which could complicate matters as we’ve got 3 matches over the next 9 days…as for Jesus’s return date MA offered up this rather nonsensical comment, “He’s not very close but he’s not far at all”…WTF, why even say anything if that’s all you can muster…maybe Jorginho or Xhaka will finally get their shot up top LOL

Tony—btw I did respond to your “stitches” post on the previous thread…Cheers

Hi Tony
I read John Belushi’s biog a long time ago. He was terrific in the Blues Brothers but it was that John Landis film Animal House where he really stood out. The book recounts that canteen scene where Belushi’s is loading his plate. All spontaneous and ad libbed. That film drew some deep lines between people’s attitudes to US Society. Very funny.

I don’t know what I ever expected from Jim when he came along but he was a pale imitation of his (older?) brother at least in comedy terms. Was he out acted by a dog in a detective caper in the 80s?I think his best role was a serious one alongside James Woods in Salvador, a very moving film by Oliver Stone I think (before he himself became shit).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0

TRVL
That brought a smile…
Check this. Maybe Arteta is the new Father Dougal… Poor old Father Ted. One of the best sitcoms ever produced.

that’s some good shit KP, I’ll definitely be going down the Father Ted rabbit hole—I’ve always been a big proponent of that sort of Faulty Towers/Bob Newhart preying on the stupidity of others brand of humour…it’s incredibly difficult to properly incoperate “stupid” into a comedic narrative without getting too slapsticky, which is why I applaud the efforts of those who created older series like Taxi and Cheers, or even more recent ones like Parks & Rec and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia…in my formative years, I gravitated much more towards the comedic stylings of Abbott & Costello than the Three Stooges, which likely explains my particular comedic leanings…Cheers

it’s funny that Belushi came up in conversation again, as I grew up at a time when both he and several other of his fellow SNL players consumed a significant portion of the North American comedic landscape…although I appreciate his societal significance, from a counter-culture/drug friendlier capacity, I wasn’t a massive fan…of course, I respected how committed he was to his craft, like Steve Martin in “The Jerk” or SCTV’s Martin Short, but if I was looking to tickle my physical humour funny-bone I would lean more towards the likes of Chris Farley or John Candy…that said, it’s certainly not an apples to oranges debate

K’Phobe
Back in the late 70s I believe Jim’s biog was banned for glorifying drug culture as if the 60s and Woodstock had never happened. In Jim’s day the obituary column was a must read to see who had checked out of Hotel California but never really left in spirit anyway.

Animal House was the first of the Lampoon series where undoubtedly the best by a country mile was Porky’s:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084522/ About 2 months ago I watched it with junior who was howling with laughter from start to finish. It was juniors coming-of-age movie where the humour broke any barriers when talking about the movie later.

Father Ted, Allo Allo Fawlty Towers (making a comeback I read) Dad’s Army and many others all stood tall as the elite of comedy, but nothing and I mean nothing came close to Only Fools & Horses. I have every episode and special and watch again with junior.

For the uninitiated: https:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_sm6y4UKqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FyvnkYgKVI

Never stops being funny.

I agree John was by far the funniest. Jim was always living in John’s shadow long after he died.

TRVL
Thanks for your candor I was happy playing with the solution from time to time. I’m beginning to think we’ve been doppelganged, as UFC is my go to Sunday afternoon watching prelims and main card is my weekly ritual.

In terms of fighting styles I’ve always favoured Krav Maga and looked into it when I was in Tel Aviv 30 years ago on business.

I’d decided that that was the sport I would take up when I had the time to take a year out and go to Brazil or Israel for a year to study the sport with intensity each day. Sadly, when it came to deciding I was in the right place/time to take a year out, I ended up in SE Asia and opted for kick boxing and riding Harleys to just doing gym work at my house where I have a pro set up with 160kg kick bag. I was too old for the fighting side at 49 but I’d get a young Thai local champ to come to our gym and train us all.

I still had a clean 6-Pack at 60 and a 4 pack at 65 when I stopped heavy training in favour of 20kg 15 meter ropes to try to get rid of my current 1-pack where I’ve gone soft. Have to say I hate the feeling.

My workouts were measured in tonnes where I averaged 18 tonnes on a back day, 8 tonnes on an arm day 10 tons on a chest and tricep day. Leg days were monstrous. My gym is 100 sq meters not bragging but shows to my seriousness in training to keep my health issues at bay. It mostly worked but I had too have 3 stents in the last 10 years. My heart team here were always happy with my diet and training.

I get the academic and sport side because you have to be quick thinking with timing for on your feet, and then a mind like a chess player on speed with the grappling. Volkanoski and Khabib are 2 gifted, highly intelligent men that proves the point: brains and brawn are a perfect match when in harmony.

I didn’t like Rhonda and the like much, but really like the women warriors who really take the sport seriously and not looking to be film stars.

Also, loved Bob Newhart and still remember parts of the pilot/plane piece. He had such a great voice.

Hope you’re able to continue at least with the training part long into your 60s. For me at 66 I knew my body had taken enough with weights and I didn’t want to mess with my rortator cuffs. Ropes are beastly, too

Sorry, Ambarish I try to keep away from our chattiness on game days.

I’m sticking to my 4+:0 demolition of Bournemouth.

TRVL
We’d put this guy on the TV in the gym then from the start, we’d work through the 45 in 2 sessions doing between 3 and 4 combo moves for 90 second durations and up to 3 minutes at our fittest. By our I mean, Junior, my wife and myself. The session would last about 90 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNXP3XnS60s

Your fitness will be far ahead of our best levels: it has to be for MMA.

K’phobe I hope Ambarish has sent you the code payment numbers.

City making hard work of an improving Newcastle despite no wins in 3 games. They’re just not taking their chances where they had 3 very good missed chances today.

The result shouldn’t register with our lads who hopefully will net a few, especially with Xhaka finally on the bench where his recent stats would match his bench status.

City still look below their normal par I’m happy to report. KDB being subbed after a 2nd poor outing looking tired and lost at times. Is this a Haarland effect? Hope so!

Looking for a big win today at the Emirates. Hope you’re there to see it Marc.

Signs of some rotation today. Well I never…

Talk about get caught with your pants down. A well worked KO by Bournemouth and then put up the low block.

These matches league leaders shouldn’t lose.

Does Arteta finally have a plan B?

K’phobe did you get the app downloaded and get the code from Ambarish or go the IP TV route?

Time to show our title credentials 👀

ESR is not involved enough. Hardly gets passed to. Is it because the team is now unfamiliar with him or a coaching arsehole strategy?
Or there is so much fear of the Manager players read his dislikes and play accordingly.
At this rate, ESR will be on the bench ( as part of strategy)

We have much better players, one to one. Hopefully there will be a reaction now in 2nd half

Vieira is taking Xhaka advanced attacking position.
ESR is still an outcast

2-0 off corner. The big boys of Bournemouth got in first. Partey lost his man

Partey got one back. Off ESR who read it well and headed accurately into space.
Been ranting about ESR, but know my jewels, even if the pearls are thrown into a pigs trough

Loverboy Xhaka is sent in with a peck on the cheek from the manager.
Anyway Vieira was atrocious. Surprise that he was nit moved out in place if Nelson who is doing good. ESR was removed as soon as he started asserting and demanding the ball after he helped turn the game around. Folks still talk of howvESR saved Arteta arse 2 years back. Guess this is too painful a reminder to the alpha male Arteta who does not want this to be reminded.

Credentials ☑️

Nelson gets the winning goal 50 seconds after extended time.

Nigel Winterburn going nuts on Arsenal. Com

And noone allowed to see it on TV here – a fucking disgrace.

Tony—as a young boy I was a massive boxing fan, as it was a golden age for the middlewieght division, with the likes of Hagler, Hitman Hearns, Sugar Ray and Duran, (the heavyweight division had endured a considerable downturn with the end of the Ali era giving rise to the anticlimatic rise of Holmes) so I was always intrigued about the possibility of pursuing an amateur boxing gig…unfortunately there were few viable local options in this regards, minus a local native community center, which was rather gritty…my parents were deeply concerned about my “vile” pursuits and the fact that this was the only gig in town didn’t help matters…of course, this never stopped me, in fact, it might have encouraged me even more

one rather fateful Saturday afternoon, a man by the name of Jean-Yves Theriault made an appearance at the club…he just so happened to be the reigning world kickboxing champion and was offering up fully headgeared sparring sessions for anyone willing to allow him to use his feet…of course, he wasn’t going full bore, but he beat me senseless and left my face a bit of a bloody mess, as I had braces at the time…I was hooked immediately…my pursuits were never more than an “underground” side hustle, but I trained vigorously for a good half decade…so years later, when a buddy of mine, who was a former Olympic wrestler, opened a mixed martial arts gym, I jumped at the opportunity

sadly, for myself, it was little more than a glorified grappling venue, as most invloved were his former wrestling mates…I had some experience with that sport during my high school years, but nowhere near what was required, considering the competition at hand…as such, I would usually get a couple good licks in, both hands and feet, then they would invariably tuck their respective heads, take my hips, then punish me on the ground…I always wished there was considerably more stand-up involved, no matter, it was always a great workout and certainly helped me in my other sporting endeavours…in the end though, some blood-related health concerns, due to previously unknown genetic protien deficiency in my blood, put the kibosh on things, as a couple clots appeared in my lower extremities, which ultimately travelled to my lungs…since that time I’ve been on thinners, so I’ve tried to curtail those activities which require an excessive amount of bodily contact…I’m sure we will chat more about this in the future…Cheers

BTW WHAT A FUCKING FINISH!!! so happy for Nelson, as he’s toiled with little to show for it under the present regime…funny, in that, if it weren’t for all the injuries, I very much doubt he would have ever seen the pitch today

Spuds lost. And the Bluebirds beat the shit (bristol city)

Meanwhile
Poster are ejaculation non stop on Le Porridge
Everything inanimate for 2 columns now

My take away on today’s game and some observance on players. The comeback has the earmarks of a title contender, when you win games like this you strike the fear of god into the opposition. In addition you could see on the pitch there is a real chemistry among the players and it gives of the vibe this is the team everyone wants to be in. Should make it easier to attract talent as well as making it easier at contracts renewal time.
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Now this has NOTHING to do with the not so generational one, this is all on the individuals that are on the pitch and forming a real positive atmosphere and by now they also must feel the title is theirs to loose.
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On the other hand I have a gripe with Viera, looks to me like that signing was a total waste of money for me he has not had any impact. Martinelli is giant egotistical prick and needs to be more of a team player instead off going for glory. Excellent to see the injured players coming back AND contributing.
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Read that Caicedo, showed what a total waister he is, for signing a new contract with BHA and handing all the power to the club now. Bye, Bye and enjoy looking at the club that could have given you trophies. This was an amazing and record breaking u-turn by his agent for making up with the club, fucking despicable. What is it with this generation of young players who have mastered the art of brain farts and has mush between their ears and a total void of thinking ability where common sense should be residing.

Killroy—agree with your “earmarks” assessment, although I would be a tad more enthusiastic if it were against a different opponent…there’s no doubt that some of City’s title winning seasons were achieved on the backs of these sort of last minute heroics

as for Vieira, I stand by my earlier claims that we paid well above the number for this relatively unpolished player…that said, I feel like the Vieira I saw in Portugal looks vastly different than the one we’ve witnessed thus far…he seems too robotic with his movement and lacking in confidence with the ball at his feet, which has been an all too familiar refrain when it comes to younger players under MA’s tutelage, at least early on…I feel like MA’s tendency to micromanage can have a stifling effect on some players until they get enough playing time under their respective belts…I would still rather see him than Xhaka playing in more advanced spaces, as I think he can both create opportunities for others and score from distance if he’s able to shed some of that bench rust

as a final note, I thought it was fucking hilarious that MA suggested that Nelson could play a considerable role in the run-up, especially considering that he hasn’t really been on his managerial radar for the better part of 3+ years, minus a very brief run of games…I’ve always believed that a manager should never publicly milk an emotionally-charged narrative based solely on recency bias…as the best coach I’ve ever had the privilege of playing for always used to say “act like you’ve been there before”

regardless, great win today, as that gives us the full 9 points in a week I believed when couldn’t afford anything less than 7

we NOT when couldn’t afford…

Well put RVL
REAL accurate stuff

Great posts guys: junior and I were drunk on the win. Real Roy of the Rovers shit right there!!!!

I thought I was going to have to take the L this morning after such a disastrous prediction of us dispatching Bournemouth with a high number of goals (4+). In the end I got the goal tally right just not all of the goals being ours.

I promise I will do better. ):

OMG what a game!!! Junior and I were kicking and heading every ball over the 97 minutes.

That is what football is all about. For the neutral.

For us Gooners with and without ailments not so much until the fat lady sang her most beautiful three high shrill peeps to signal the war was over and Bournemouth had been left dead and blooded by a single goal from the most unlikeliest of sources: Reis Nelson.

I would call that Reis Nelson having an immortal ESR moment to save Arteta’s rancid arse and even more bizarre selection/sub management.

Why not Jorginho instead of Vieira? He’s hardly in the red zone and makes us tick. 60 minutes and then put ESR on.
Why not Reis when Trossard went off?
Why put Xhaka on period? He just got in the way.

Well we nearly got fooled again by a simple gung ho overload our left and overrun us to the back of the net at their highest tempo. Bravo, a brilliant one-off tactic for this season.

That was such a pulsating game that will see a large drop in Ultra Exlax colon cleanser sales for this week. Still, good news for plumbers I guess. 🙂

So, now Reis is our planned saviour – always was – just kept top secret – in fact so top secret that Reis and the backline crew were simply clueless. I mean put a goal scorer on after Xhaka says it all, right?

Arteta’s hail Mary came up trumps and no one looked more shocked than…….. come on think about it ………… of course, Arteta, the generational one when really it was junior furiously scratching Pumpkin’s belly in injury time. Facts are facts and it’s a good job Pumpkin is Ball-less because Pumpkin’s purring was the loudest I’ve heard with a grin ear to ear. Poor thing only having memories.

I’m assuming after the first 10 seconds Don Un put the largest butt plug in to stop his are gushing blood. He never did answer my question if it happened on the regular, such as every 30 days?

Yes I can be glib about our win now because the 3 points are in the bag with a far better performance than City proffered before our game.

Let this sink in, if Xhaka had started we would have lost that game. They would have still scored their 9-second blitzkrieg goal.

It looks like we will have to win the league in spite of Arteta the Clueless.

We have a Band of Brothers squad building with each and every player, and TRUSTING each other as if their lives depend on it.

That is the credentials of a Title winning team in the making who believe they can win together.

I am one happy Gooner this morning.

TRVL
Really interesting life in sport you’ve had thanks for sharing. Talk more in quieter times. 🙂

Hi KP/Tony,

Sorry for the delay, I would be happy to send the code Tony have sent if you could send me an email at bloggingwithmb@gmail.com.

Reason being, it’s unethical to use the email address passed on as part of posting comments without permission. If you send me one, that would turn out to be a email communication and I will do it.

Alternatively, you can DM me on Twitter if you don’t want that.

https://twitter.com/LondonIsRedCom

What a match it was, I was watching with some friends in the sports section and I don’t know how many of us threw our drinks away out of celebration.

It’s morning, and I’m still buzzing. We are IN for the title, guys. You guys have seen it all, but it will ve my first trophy since I started following football and became a gooner.

Think about me and my joy. My girl don’t know anything about football except that Nelson is a god.

Ambarish
No problem and I like that your moral compass keeps true.

K’phobe can use the IPTV route for about US10 a month, which is better than the one requiring a code. The code is a paid for legit for the app. It cost me £10 but I can use the code here so no problem. I was just trying to help as it’s frustrating not seeing the games live in your own country with the best league.

I hear you Ambarish but I guess we can help pointing out why we nearly lost a game we should have won comfortably.

I’m at that dare to hope stage. In the past we’ve had managers who led the win to the title and cup doubles. This time we still have a myopic rookie. Be honest Ambarish, would you have put Xhaka on chasing a goal instead of a zippy forward?

Magnify yesterday’s win emotions’ by a factor of 100 and you’re still not close to the feeling of winning the league. I have no problems with the players and rarely cast aspersions on an off day at the office. Most of the time this happens is preceded by Arteta mismanagement: round pegs in square holes.

City and United are the only clubs who can spoil our PL title win with in reason numerically. We simply can’t and shouldn’t make hard work of mid and low table clubs.

I see the EL cup as a secondary competition where everything has to be put into keeping winning PL games for the trophy.

Ambarish, we have the players where bringing back Bolagun right now would be a master piece with 3 strikers out injured or just simple common sense, you choose. 🙂

I’m on board the title train with the squad, just very concerned about Arteta nearly 4 years in.

5 points is a slender lead my friend, but it’s a lead. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Tony

Agree with the performance, I hate such thrilling ones because it can go either way. Give me a boring game where we win 1-0.

I know it’s the hope that kills you, but just 12 more to go. Fingers crossed.

Ambarish
You would have loved the George Graham days of 1:0 to the Arsenal.

TRVL
Good cards this weekend with the UFC prelims and main card. Loved that Grasso trained to get inside the spinning kick grabbing Shevchenko’s back getting both hooks in so quickly.

A while ago this year I watched a French special forces officer who just took apart (dismantled) his opponent in the first round. Pretty sure it was either a prelim or first fight on the main card as this guy’s new, possibly from Dana’s contenders. Not Benoit but similar weight. Senior moment here as I said to myself I must remember this guy.

Anyway, some quality bouts.

A Manure and Bin Dippers draw would be ok as well as a Manure loss.

Hi Tony

Let’s dare to dream… Wins for forest and the bin dippers. I think the Anfield game is a complete lottery and could come down to an error.

Hi Ambarish
I’ll email you later. Thanks and to you again Tony for your generosity. Being the in the UK (the 6th largest economy in the world) and not being able to watch your own football league is antediluvian to say the least. Sold out Saturday afternoon games should be monetised – you’d think the money grubbing cunts running the PL could have solved this by now.

Kroenke

I think the “ban” on not showing Saturday 3pm kickoff’s is more about protecting the lower leagues than making more money for the PL.

With that in mind you can download some apps on a Firestick that will give you access to BEIN Sports who show pretty much all the matches.

Marc—Fubo Sports on the Firestick shows all the PL matches regardless of regional circumstances…they also show Ligue 1, Serie A and a collection of matches from the Eredivisie, the Belgium first division and the Brazilian Serie A…well worth the investment

Tony—any card with the MMA GOAT on it is worthy of watching…Bones Jones is a force of nature who should never be trifled with, regardless of any extended layoff…he’s on my Mount Rushmore of fighters, which likewise includes Bas Rutten, Wanderlei Silva and Fedor…special consideration goes to Kimbo Slice, not for what he did in the ring, but for his heroics in the underground, backyard you tube realm, as only he and maybe Brock Lesnar brought more “new” eyes to the octagon