I've a theory about this, camera angles and close ups.

During the death of British football, TV coverage was all about close ups from pitch-side cameras.
Compare with Dutch, Italian and Spanish coverage - a panoramic view from high up showing the development of the game.

My thesis is that we produce young players to age 10-11 with all the speed, stamina and touch of the best European nations.
These kids then fail to develop the kind of spatial awareness that you'd have seen at Ajax and Barcelona, and is now becoming part of the Spanish and German game.

And I blame Thatcher (or Murdoch)

I had a friend who thought Brazil were shit and that England just needed more belief (that Brazil were shit).

The problem with the English team is that we cannot learn from our mistakes and that includes our desire to scapegoat players/managers.

We are closer to interstellar travel than we are to English players developing spatial awareness.

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Church-going mother fed children pizza... then stabbed them to death







Making dumb comments like that, and having a bunch of idiots agree with that, says it all for me though.

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These people who reckon you can tell someone is evil just by looking at them (even though it's always after the fact) do my head in. Have we not actually progressed from phrenology and criminals being drawn as shifty and bestial-looking?

Don't be silly. It's the Daily Mail. They haven't progressed from possession by demons.

These are Daily Mail readers, they're the kind of people who think facts cause brain cancer because their heads hurt when they are exposed to them - I really don't think they've advanced much in any sense.

More amazement by the Mail that anyone who goes to church can possibly be anything other than saintly and perfect. I honestly don't see how her religion relates to the crime in this case for any other reason. After all, when a brown person commits a crime, they don't bother mentioning if they go to church/mosque/temple/anything regularly.
Except for the obvious.

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Not the messageboard, but a letter in the print Mail the other day.

To paraphrase, it was:
"Why aren't there more paperboys like back in the good old days? Nowadays no-one delivers my paper, so I have to drive the half a mile [a 5-7 minute walk or a 2-3 minute cycle] to my papershop every morning. Every family in my village must do this so thats 400*0.04 gallons of fuel wasted (at 25mpg for a cold engine on a short trip) every day. This waste of almost 6000 gallons of fuel per year seems ridiculous when the gov't is trying to cut down on CO2 emissions."

Essentially, I think he wanted publicly funded paperboys to deliver his paper, so he didn't have to drive. Apparently, the idea of walking or cycling down to the shop hadn't crossed his mind. I love how the Mailite nanny-state moaning stops when they want something completely unnecessary and unimportant doing. Health and safety keeping manual workers alive? Pah, nonsense. What, me, walk half a mile? That's outrageous, you're worse than Stalin!

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And I love how he must stick in "the good old days".

There are still paperboys and papergirls out there, but they apparently don't exist, so it's the ones from the good old days he wants? Not the ones from the 80's, or the 90's? When was the good old days then? The days when paperboys had to get up at four in the morning because their duties were expected to include running numerous errands for people as well before heading off to school?

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I had a paper round back in the good old days (TM). It was total shit.

When I was a paperboy I quite liked the DM, it was light. God, when I did it down that posh road where they all had the Telegraph and the FT.....that's probably why I was so short as a child!

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A firend and I once covered for a third paper boy who was on holiday, doing his round between us. We went round the posh street and managed to deliver all the wrong papers to the wrong houses somehow. We ended up knocking on the doors at about 8am on a Saturday morning asking to have them back. It wasn't well received.

We mostly delivered the Sun and Daily Star. Can't remember much else although there were bigger papers on the weekends. We were more interested in the porn mags on the top shelf which we would peruse when the newsagent went out the back. He used to sell some form of illegal porn out of the boot of his car. No idea what it was but it was an open secret. While this was going on all the paperboys would wear their eyes out on Razzle and try to store the memories for a suitable moment.

Ahhh, those were the days. Back before political correctness forced us all to wank thinking about Gordon Brown.

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Soppy anti-British, pro-crime, anti-education, pro-immigration, anti-family nonentity

You're sick!

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Who can honestly put their hand on their heart and deny that they've thought about it at least once?

Gordo could do a better job than the cunts you have in now.

Damn democracy ...........

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