tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post5581632717271849156..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Let's Hear it for NorwayBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-80903619402205647612009-05-07T21:00:00.000+00:002009-05-07T21:00:00.000+00:00Well as a total neutral at the game (and two days ...Well as a total neutral at the game (and two days at the test match yipee!) I think the ref was either stupid or bent. <br /><br />yep we all have bad days at the office but our mistakes are random and dont work themselves into a pattern.<br /><br />yes I know you cant fix a football match but you can bring undue influence on it. And ive got the same feeling I have for the 2007 final Liverpool V Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04362169593902131947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-48838481590864146582009-05-07T19:50:00.000+00:002009-05-07T19:50:00.000+00:00There is one beautiful thing about Chelsea - the w...There is one beautiful thing about Chelsea - the way Drogba seems desperate to impress Hiddink. If that was the fuel for his tantrum then that too was a beautiful thing.simbnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00811721880591573545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-32818541736947559702009-05-07T15:31:00.000+00:002009-05-07T15:31:00.000+00:00Back in the year of our lord 1965, when I was in m...Back in the year of our lord 1965, when I was in mid misspent youth, the bar of the Kensington palace hotel was one of the favoured watering holes, it was the haunt of numerous characters, misc alcoholic luvvies, over nighting El Al aircrew ( the stewardesses were....) and one T Venables & various attached acolytes. This at a time when the Chelsea support were animals of the lowest order, maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-26879315118105095762009-05-07T11:51:00.000+00:002009-05-07T11:51:00.000+00:00One of my transplanted London friends noted that "...One of my transplanted London friends noted that "Chelsea showed why they are wankers" in this game. He is no fan (I do believe he likes Arsenal, though none of these teams mean anything to me).<br /><br />What does it all mean? Well, no more than the baseball fever we are getting into here now means to you. Ah, sports!Susan B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-11608973561598898812009-05-07T11:41:00.000+00:002009-05-07T11:41:00.000+00:00Is this Thought Experiments, Bryan? I ask merely ...Is this Thought Experiments, Bryan? I ask merely for information.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-10873346145355638312009-05-07T09:31:00.000+00:002009-05-07T09:31:00.000+00:00what is this 'football' you speak of???what is this 'football' you speak of???willhttp://www.ruminantics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-55476014558152092782009-05-07T09:16:00.000+00:002009-05-07T09:16:00.000+00:00Too cruel, Bryan. Catalonian self-regard will be...Too cruel, Bryan. Catalonian self-regard will be further boosted by this injustice (the lauded Lionel Messi was a poor man's Peter Beagrie on last night's showing). Compared to how the Catalans would have reacted in those circumstances, Drogba was measured and temperate. It wasn't a conspiracy, but UEFA should hang their heads in shame over that refereeing performance.Spongebobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-66673752499431906682009-05-07T08:39:00.000+00:002009-05-07T08:39:00.000+00:00Oh you're hard, Appleyard. Hard and cruel.
But I ...Oh you're hard, Appleyard. Hard and cruel.<br /><br />But I suppose Sepp Blatter - a figure of such probity and honour - and Michel Platini - a noted Anglophile - will be pleased that their boy Ovrebo did the job. It must have been hard too, what with three blatant penalties.<br /><br />However, after a week of Barca moaning about Chelsea refusing to play the game Barca wanted them to play, I Recusanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11446741817585462393noreply@blogger.com