Tbf they did remind me recently about the 2006 FA cup final. The final equaliser was sick (and hoopie was probably sick) but forgot how good a finish his first goal was. Plus assist for their opening goal. Decent player.

It is going to be AIDS. The club have handled it terribly, when I am at my PC tomorrow I will expand on this but it is going to suck balls.

I was several beers down when I was in Cardiff and have never seen the game replayed. I will never forgive Scaloni for not sending the ball to the corner flag when whichever **** went down with cramp/injured/whatever though.

bad nutrition from a young age leading to obesity/unhealthy eating habits is a big problem but completely irrelevant to the subject.

Apparently McClaren has been sacked at Derby.

Eh?

Sounds like Paul Clement has got the job.

Please take Clough back

Hardly surprising given that they managed to miss out on the playoffs after sitting top of the league with 15 games to go.

Sean Dyche second favourite to replace him, hope he's not tempted.

I think it is surprising actually. Before he came in they were a bang average, mid-table Championship side and he brought them to 3rd and they were top of the league for a good while this year. Yeah, it fell apart, but sacking him seems a bit harsh all things considered.

Second time in two seasons they've bottled it and you could argue he's taken them backwards this season after spending a lot of money.

25 years ago. How time flies

25 years ago, madness.

Brag: I remember getting a blowjob off one of the fittest girls in school whilst watching Costa Rica beat Scotland.

25 years ago I was with diapers on Pretoria.

I didn't know blow jobs that aren't good existed.

Sadly, it's when a girl doesn't understand that there can be too much tooth involved.

Yes, the joys of a girl who wears braces on her teeth.....

I have always placed them on a sliding scale that starts at good and goes upwards.

Yup.

If you can't tell the girl to ease up with the teeth or whatever you aren't liking then lol you I guess (It can't be that hard )

easiest "that's what she said" ever

Since the deal for the stadium was done, the club has released the square root of **** all information, bar the odd glossy brochure and a couple of statements about sight lines.

The club sent out a survey about whether people were in favour. The choices were "no", "yes, it'll be ace", "yes, if I see some more information" and a variety of other "yes" choices. How insulted would you feel if you received that? There was so little information available that it was loaded for everyone to say "yes, but...", which the club said was a "yes" and declared everyone in favour.

Ultimately we are moving to an athletics stadium. I can't recall too many clubs that did that and liked it. Espanyol? No, moved out. Bayern? Same. Juventus? Same. Roma? Moving out.

You can basically fit the Boleyn ground inside the Olympic Stadium twice. I don't see how that makes a good stadium. We are keeping what was meant to be the temporary part of the stadium (the outer bit) and bodging some seats in over the supposedly permanent seats at the bottom.

The board have succeeded in having people talk about transport links (there is no way that the owners of Westfield are going to let 40,000 plus football fans shortcut through that shopping centre, making the journey from station to stadium far longer than advertised). You may be able to get marginally better food/drink, assuming you are some disgusting fat **** that really can't go two hours without eating an overpriced rat burger.

If you like either having cheap tickets to watch subbuteo or paying the same price for a worse view than you have currently, it'll be right up your street. Brave, Brave Sir Robin (Wales, the local mayor) will have lots of free tickets to give away to the local "community" (they all support whoever is fashionable and doing this has already caused punch-ups at the current stadium when we played Manchester City). Away fans will be allowed to take the piss.

Are we going to get a materially more competitive football team at the end of it? It is debatable. I would be surprised if you ever saw us finish above sixth for any extended period of time.

In summary, it is classic West Ham and classic Sullivan/Gold/Brady. A bodge job done on the cheap. A turd that has been rolled in glitter. The ground is too big for us.

The younger generation might like it, kids etc. They might get used to it over time. To me it'll never be a football stadium.

I don't like The Emirates, but at least Arsenal put their hand in their pocket and built the ground how they wanted it. Spurs were going to do the same, even at Stratford.

As the song goes, same old West Ham, taking the piss.

london club with a new state of the art 60k capacity stadium - pretty much nailed on for a takeover.

corrupt as **** that a stadium built with 100's millions of pounds of public money is gifted to a commercial enterprise.

It might not be entirely the same because they werent Olympic size stadiums, but they've removed the running track from some of the German grounds. Weserstadion in Bremen, Zentralstadion in Leipzig and Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn in Stuttgart.

I havent been but they look like real football grounds now. Didnt the Manchester City stadium turn out alright too?

edit: Weserstadium lowered the field, in Stuttgart they tore down a stand, Zentralstadion was completely rebuild. Not really the same at all tbf.

You can blame Jowell et al for that. They built themselves a white elephant - from the government's perspective, the deal that they got was the least worst one for the taxpayer given the situation that they had put themselves in. I don't think it is particularly corrupt, just god awful that we went down the same time-honoured route of building a massive stadium for a one-off event with no idea what to do with it afterwards.

"We'll hold athletics meetings!". Right, that's one day a year.
"We'll hold pop concerts!". For sure, because you aren't competing with Wembley, The Emirates and everywhere else.
"We'll have cricket!". Because Lords and the Oval aren't far better and more suitable venues for this.

Manchester City was purpose-built to convert to a football stadium. We haven't removed the running track, we've just put some seats over bits of it and some grass over the rest of it (which is for decoration rather than playing football on).