Stan

Think it was around this time last year I, and many others, went batshit crazy about this footage. 

We're all TEAM IGUANA.

1 hour ago, LFCMadLad said:

I’m pretty sure ‘every’ City fan doesn’t think that. Silva wouldn’t get into any side in the world whereas KDB would. 

He has age on his side, he can play in multiple positions and he’s basically absolute quality in every game. Everything goes through him. 

1 hour ago, Cicero said:

Well that's not true given Silva is the most crucial element in City's possession play. 

to be fair, in their away game against us, everything was through De Bruyne. Whether it was getting the ball from Ederson from the back, linking up with Fernandinho or Delph or Walker, supporting Jesus, Sterling or Sane - everything went through him. Not saying Silva wasn't involved in any way, but De Bruyne seemed the more important player. 

De Bruyne was the pivot and the influence for that game and that victory. The goal was just the very tasty icing on top of the cake.

sad to hear that, Spike. Hopefully you can look back on the good times you had with him and have those as your main memories as opposed to him not being here with you any more  

Started watching The Punisher. 

Big fan. Nice storyline, plot. Something to watch while having to wait for next episodes of Peaky Blinders each week.

new contract for Silva

1 minute ago, Tsubasa said:

The halo wouldn't have done shit in that accident, unfortunately. 

Just now, nudge said:

They did simulations on Bianchi's crash with different variations of cockpit protection (including halo), and the verdict was that the impact was so strong none would have saved his life, not even a completely closed cockpit.

fair enough, wasn't aware of that.

What are the halo's made out of? How resilient, sturdy, resistant to impact are they?

8 hours ago, nudge said:

I don't even  get the safety reasoning behind it, I think the only fatality that the halo would have prevented in recent years is Henry Surtees' death, but seriously, that was just so incredibly bad luck, you can't ever prevent it completely in motorsports. Even then, strengthening wheel tethers sounds like a much better solution than putting on a halo which brings its own security issues, as Rando and Tsubs mentioned already. It doesn't protect (or only up to 17%, according to FIA itself) from smaller flying debris either, so the incidents like Massa still could have happened, or could have been made even worse by deflecting the debris.

Weird solution, all in all.

Jules Bianchi? 

2 hours ago, Blue said:

Anyone have any friends living abroad? My best mate in Canada has expressed interest in coming to visit me here in Peru but I'm not sure he's entirely convinced. I'm trying to invite him here. I think his main worry is travelling alone as well as the financial aspect.

Tsubasa  

Why do you always mention Chile? They don't always have to come in to conversation! They're not your barometer. 

What clubs do Tapia, Aquino and Trauco play for now? In order to become world class you have to be at one of the best clubs in the world. Is that seriously going to happen to them within 4 or 4 and a half years? 

Considering world class is players like Hazard, Neymar, Mbappe, Dybala, Aguero, de Bruyne, Icardi etc those Peru players have to do some serious good shit in the next few years to get near the levels of those players. Just because they may be the best Peruvians, doesn't make them some of the best in the world, now or in 2022.

that halo thing needs to be fucked off immediately. ugly as fuck that.

On 26/11/2017 at 2:24 PM, Blue said:

That's exactly where I've been asked to go. How is it?

quite nice. went there for 5 days/nights and got shingles on the last day so the less said about that bit the better!

There's a new town and old town part to Marrakech and we did both. We stayed in an all-inclusive hotel so there wasn't much reason to go out every night. The one night we did was on a Saturday and it doesn't get properly going til about midnight. 

The old part of the town is great though - so much history to it and it's very busy, lots of hustle and bustle. The riads are amazing and you should definitely find time to go in one and experience it. It's basically like an open-plan, fancy decor, courtyard-esque kind of places. They're beautiful. People are generally quite friendly and hospitable. 

We weren't too far from some local villages up in some mountains, too. Took a drive down there and that was quite different - when we got there, we go on a walking guided tour up to the top of the mountains and as you go up, there's lots of locals with their stalls and market trading places. Quite nice to see the traditional side of the area. There's places where you can have lunch or some drinks where the tables/chairs are based in a local stream (obviously very shallow) - it's water from natural springs so it's all pure and clean and certainly nothing I've ever done before! At this mountainous place were many small shops where they produce and sell their own argan oil as well, which is one thing Morocco is known for. 

3 minutes ago, Smiley Culture said:

No day off for this royal wedding then? The Queen might as well kill her off now. 

bet the Queen dies around the time of the wedding so that it's called off.

9 minutes ago, Blue said:

Anyone ever been to Morrocco? I've been invited to a u21 tournament as a scout and the company will pay everything. It's gathered my interest.

Been to Marrakech. Where are you going? 

24 minutes ago, Blue said:

Think by day it's shown how we really need to stick to natural refereeing decisions. So far I've been spot on about VAR. just adds to the controversy, not remove it.

Not always spot on considering its rectified some decisions that the referee missed. 

For example the handball by Robbie Cornthwaite today was not originally given but what was missed by referee was seen by VAR. The correct outcome and decision was ultimately made. You can't just let teams be on the end of wrong refereeing decisions when there are things in place to correct it. 

It got taken away because some images uploaded were quite large in size and there's no way to put a limit on them. And it was pushing the server size to its limits. 

Any further issues can be sent to @Rab. If you send me nudes of your girlfriends/wives, I will post his address on here so you can send him hate mail. 

1 minute ago, Danny said:

i will shit in your mouth

In all seriousness, thanks for the tips haha

30 minutes ago, Anton said:

I don't watch the game. And the purple pricks win 3-1 away to Cahill's Melbourne Shitty. Heard the red card massively helped us as did Keogh coming off early (he's terrible). 

Kenny Lowe lives on

Thought the red card was harsh. Was a penalty but red was too much. Malik has only gone to block the shot and momentum carried him in to Italiano. 

Having said that, Italiano looks like quite a handy youngster for you. 

anyone got any recommendations for Cotswolds then?

weekend starts in a couple of hours for me when I go to the Cotswolds with the family. Anyone ever been? Need a pub lunch on the Sunday afternoon so any recommendations welcome. 

Cunt.

words of wisdom from the one and only Neville Southall

that steak and chips actually sounds amazing.

Mentioned it in the match thread yesterday and it's been confirmed today. 

Very sad news :(. 

Apparently the players were told of this at half time and it inspired their comeback. 

11 minutes ago, Anton said:

Did you watch it all? Adelaide's equaliser was a cracker. Thoughts on the red card?

Yeah. Great goal from them. Always thought Sydney would run out winners though. 

I think that was fair. Can understand the heat of the moment in wanting the ball back but no need to put your hands on the ball boy.