Billie Jean King was there too. Or it might have been IBB. I didn't get a chance to ask her anything in Latin about vintage British TV sitcoms, so it's hard to tell
So he's a liar as well as a cheat. Nice combo. https://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk...ll-news/im-clearly-not-diving-crystal-1487252
True but we can cope with their hybrid nonsense,I think! I was dressed as 'Ratty' from 'Toad of Toad Hall'. Sounds like a Kirsty MacColl song to me. Zaha was last seen on the Goals on Sunday sofa,remonstrating with the soft furnishings and claiming a penalty!
It was funny when he tripped over the sofa, fell on the floor and appealed with wide eyes and arms up to the producer.
Managed to catch the second half and a chunk of the first half of Spurs v Man U after our game and a strange sort of deja vu hit me: Watching Spurs was like watching Watford, except, of course, Spurs have (mostly) better players: Spurs spent most of the time passing the ball about in front of the Man U defence and failing to penetrate it. By and large they spurned opportunities to make fast breaks. It was not quite so clear-cut as Watford but it was my general impression.
So much stuff about Deeney. He is the best finisher currently at the Club by a country mile. I agree that's not difficult. Any attacking system our coach employs should be to work openings for him, the difficulty being that he is too heavy and slow to create them for himself. That certainly involves him not playing the lone front-man.
Not sure why Mapps has defended Zaha. Look at Zaha's other comments, claiming that Karnezis was trying to get him sent off. I'd like to see how he would react to studs in the stomach. He's such a dislikeable piece of ****. https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...him-and-reveals-adrian-mariappa-a3820406.html I'm quite glad it should have been a penalty. It serves him right with all the cheating he had done earlier. The referee must have had it in his mind that it was another piece of cheating. You reap what you sow.
Wasn't it Palace who couldn't score in their first seven games and who are one of the clubs below us in the table?
Like I said, I wonder how Zaha would have reacted the other way around. Studs in the stomach is painful, no matter how tough you are. He has every right to emphasise his pain.
He faked his hand being injured. The holding the stomach was for extra simulation effect. He miraculously got better when he saw Zaha wasn't given a card.
Just read Matt Rowson's report on bhappy. Reminded me about the 1881's foil display. Why go to all that effort for something not Watford related, with a flag, like it or not, that has been co-opted by some very dubious groups, and anyway 2 days before St George's day? Very odd.
I thought it was an odd foil display. I thought it was for the Queen's birthday. It could certainly be construed as something negative, but I'm sure it was done with the best of intentions, either celebrating the Queen, an early St. George's Day show of support or maybe even a Good Luck England World Cup message!!
As part of the GK Union I'm with Karnezis. Infuriates me when people leave a foot in when it's very clear they're not getting the ball. I've got a wonky nose, chipped teeth and been knocked out twice because of it.
But why do anything for St George's Day? The Remembrance day display was IIRC for the 100th anniversary of WW1 starting, so at least significant. That was the only other non Watford FC related display, I think. Anyway, I'm not the only one. Matt Rowson's blog sums it up for me: The team come out to a display orchestrated by the 1881, a St George’s Cross flanked by yellow and black. As an aside, I’m all for the reclaiming of the cross from the far right, all for the inherent accompanying diversity message that patriotism, being proud of your country doesn’t necessarily mean hating everyone else. But… I can’t help feel slightly uncomfortable. The 1881 are entitled to hold whatever opinions and make whatever statements they see fit, but the only sentiment that can be assumed of or imposed upon the wider support is that of championing the team? An impressive display, a message I’ve not got a problem with in itself, full marks as ever for doing stuff, but this felt wrong to me. You see, without any accompanying narrative, there is no evidence that this was about reclaiming the flag from the right, or diversity, or whatever. My initial reaction, lefty snowflake that I am, was that the display may have been orchestrated by someone who may have EDL tendencies. Certainly not something I would want to get behind without further explanation of the 'message'.
Agree with you. I held it up and had no idea what I was holding. Don't think you can force a message on people unless it's supporting the team and nothing else.
I think this is quite interesting. Does the 1881 have an obligation to make its pre-match message public so people can choose whether to opt in or out? If it's anything non-WFC support related I suggest the answer is yes. And, by the way, I am going to a St George's day lunchtime p155 up tomorrow, so have no problem with the image of the flag used yesterday, but I'd have been mightily upset if, for example, I'd unwittingly held up a piece of (non bio-degradable) plastic that helped make up an image of, say, Jeremy Corbyn's face.
Not everybody associated with the St George’s flag are mindless racist thugs. I’m very proud of being English
Good for you. I am no more proud of the place of my birth which I had no control over than my sex, eye colour or sexual orientation. I am not proud particularly to be a straight blue eyed man, even though straight blue eyed men have made some remarkable achievements.
Just so I understand this....youre having a go at patriotism? You realise people can be proud to be where they are from without any other agenda right?
Reassured to see I wasn't the only one to be a little puzzled by this. I'd heard it was going to be a St. George's flag and had decided that I wasn't going to hold up my bit of plastic because I won't participate in nationalist-type displays that inevitably come across as the wrong sort of pride. It wasn't particularly inclusive given there will have been a number of non-English fans in the crowd. In the event I was the right side of the gangway because my bit of plastic was yellow, so I did contribute to the checkerboard effect, which if the whole Rookery were doing the same, would imo have been better. So I didn't like the display, I didn't like the waste of single use plastic or the thousands of wasted envelopes. Apart from that everything was just fine! Great atmosphere throughout the match with plenty of noise with people around the ground regularly joining in. I did wonder why the drummer and his cheerleader mate weren't on their new platform though. A positive knock-on effect of all the noise was that I hardly heard Mr. aggressive misery-spreading 'everyone's a fackin cant' at all! It didn't drown out Mr. 'shout out unfunny comments loudly at least three times to make sure everyone hears me' so we'll have to ramp up the volume next time. Or slap him A draw was a fair result btw and Zaha is a cheat (nothing new in that judgement).
