pitbull infernoWhen in a hole stop digging if this is a good example of people you admire.
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his uniquely defined style of drip painting.
During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy.
Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related car accident.

Expat.

Don't get all excited now!

You think that because I pointed out that the majority of footballers aren't to be found lazing away what precious little free time they get in art galleries and theatres, that I'm somehow belittling them.

You also appear to be saying that because footballers aren't spending their time in art galleries that they are in some way disadvantaged. What a terribly middle class point of view.

Wrong on both counts.

I think you may have lived in France too long. Appreciate your fact-finding on Lampard, though. The internet is a wonderful thing, eh?

pitbull infernoWhen in a hole stop digging if this is a good example of people you admire.

To everyone else. Hope you're enjoying your popcorn. Normal service will resume shortly as I'm getting bored.

sjh

Expat you are a very clever man,maybe too clever bordering on insane,maybe going a bit doolally in youre old age Some of youre comments are head shaking material sometimes

tearsonmyscarf

And pearly kings and queens and chirpy chimney sweeps

ftkv

hate the place and everything it takes from us

Gentlemen,
Having lived in Birmingham since the 1960’s I have always noticed one thing about the Brummies, that there is only one place they hate more than London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Glasgow and other British Cities and that is Birmingham.
What does nearly everyone ask me when they know I come from Devon, ‘What are you doing in this sh*t hole’ and they cant seem to leave soon enough to what they think are greener pastures.
I am very fond of Brum and will soon be coming back to live there, pity about the weather. I also love going to London, fantastic place.
There are very few Birmingham people that I know who have any pride in their great city.

god blimey,
ive had a couple of days off,and EXPAT has swallowed an encyclopedia.whats with all this london bull****.
all i read about the place is gun,knife crimes,muggins.etc.
what do the yanks call it,londiskan.terrorist capital of the world.
give me good old brum,any day of the week.we have our problems,but nowhere near that bad.

most of ours are with our football teams.

EXPAT,
are you moving back for good.?? must be mad.

as for the intelligence of our players,i think most of them have got their brains between their legs.

jcv
How are you?
Yes: I only came for the weather and the swimming pool and I’m now getting too old to appreciate them. Also in the early days it was cheaper to live and that is no longer the case. Miss the British way of life, its only when you are away you value it.

Just for the record Birmingham is 20th out of 24 for the worse crime figures for English Cities,
Greater London has less murders per capita than Birmingham and the other stats are similar.
By the way crime is higher in France than England! Don’t believe all you read as the English are very critical of themselves.

Of all Brits I find that the Brummie is the

I must have deleted this: Of all Brits I find that the Brummie is themost disparaging of his City, which I have never been able to understand.

EXPAT,
im fine mate.
dont forget you will have to buy some waders and a good brolly,when you come home.
forget the sunshine,you wont see it anymore.
as for this country,it has gone.
we will soon be third world rated.
and we won the war.

jcv, hello mate,

Talking about wars the next one that we need to win is staying up

jcv

what do the yanks call it,londiskan.terrorist capital of the world.

HI MUZ 1,
ive had a rest,and have come back to find we are discussing capital cities etc.
arsenal are two down.hope we dont get the backlash.

Arsenal 2 down, not sure about this if they lose will they be more determined to get a result Saturday or are they totally lacking in confidence and there for the taking?

EXPAT,
gang culture,thats the reason.america has more intergrated different nations,than anyone else id guess.
and with us opening our doors to all and sundry we will follow their trend.
and im not being racist in this.but its factual.
even in our old cultures,seamen etc allways had punch ups when visiting other areas in our docklands.
football hooliganism,also grew in this culture,when fans were able to travel away.
even in our own cities there has allways been rivalry between different areas.
what do they call it nowadays,post code rivalry.

sorry for the history lesson.for those that are wondering what has happened to this site today.

rool on the weekend,weve had to much time off.

Thats the worry, if Arsenal lose will we feel the backlash, bearing in mind they have not lost 3 consecutive home games in well over 30 years.

muz

Records are there to be broken

WIND,
mate,arsenal are in crisis.and you can see why.but where does that leave us.
ive just noticed plenty of empty seats in the top tear at their ground.wonder how many arsenal will say were there.??any guesses,i say a full house.

expat007 you name one footballer lol.Footballers on the whole are morons,you could throw a set of keys on the pitch and go shiny,shiny and that would amaze them.Rugby Union players come from educated backgrounds and even Rugby League players are taking courses for their future.The Leeds legend Jamie Peacock has just passed a masters degree in sports adminstration because of life after Rugby League.You see these muppet footballers dont need life after football they could all retire before they were 30 if they wanted.
You might know a footballer form the 70s or a couple of judges here and there but i know a few footballers and know a lot of people who are in their company a lot and they know how to do one thing well and thats show off their money.Most of them can just about spell their name!!

keithj,

I was waiting for that reply, so do you think we will win on Saturday?

MUZ,
our mate keithj still thinks we will finish fourth.
so hes going for an away win.

and dont forget that programme when rio ferdinand used to take the piss.He got a load of 2/3 year old kids to paint some **** paintings and passed them off to David James who is "supposed" to know his art and David was trying to explain the thoughts and emotions that the artist must have gone through to paint them Like is said MORONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

muz

I always think they will win, if my predictions had come true we would be closer to man u than city are

SJH,
cmon mate,be fair.gasgoine, has a drink deploma.

jcv,

Mate, we are breaking plenty of records this season, unfortunately they are for all the wrong reasons.

jcv

Thats true. I'm sure he mastered it - 1st glass

keithj #24424,

Fair play to you mate.

Anyone know how our lads have got on in the next gen series at Ajax? AVTV have not bothered to do any commentary which is a bit piss poor.

Got it, they won 2-1.

Well done lads, in the quarter final

keithj,

Villa won 2-1, throught to quarter finals

should have read through, expat will be castigating me for my spelling mistakes

on our drink culture,
rugby players would probably drink any football players under the table.
but i never heard any complaints about paul mcgrath or merson when they played for us.
as long as it doesnt affect them on the pitch who cares.

jcv although they do drink of course Rugby has come along way.The players are supreme athletes now and ive no doubt would blow footballers away,not just in strength or power but stamina and speed tests too.When would you see a rugby player lying at the bottom of a ruck rolling round signalling for help to come on because his nail has broken? lol
Football is a horrible,horrible business (see i said business not sport) and the sooner it falls apart the better for me.I hope it happens in my lifetime but doubt it theyve got their customers wrapped around their finger!!

3-1 bayern

SJH,
all sportsmen are super fit nowadays,including footballers.
it all comes down to wether our players are good enough.can you say that giggs,lampard,terry etc are not fit.id beg to differ.

JCV. SJH - does expat have a tooth ache we seem to have hit a nerve today

JCV

spent many a night in four oaks with Merson, McGrath, Spink, Houghton et al!

BLADE,
mate expat is coming back home.perhaps thats upset him.
id love to have been there with you,in that company,bet you have a tale or two to tell.
have had the occasional drink with shaw.
boy do those players love their drink.but its the same as us.so we do still have something in common.

After watching the last 15 minutes of the Bayern match I can see what Lamberts trying to achieve

ooops thats a bottle of sauvignon blanc gone nice though "casillero del diablo"

our top sides are certainly falling behind the foreign sides.
what does that say about the prem.
is it still the best league in the world.or is it all just hype.i think the latter.
we are falling farther behind.just look at our f/a league cup results.far more shocks than ever before.as we well know.

JCV

you are correct, we are falling behind but the lower leagues are catching up - to many imports time for change and Jerusalem!

BLADE,
are the lower leagues catching up.or are the prem sides getting worse.man utd are walking the league with their worse side for years.
if ether sky start concentrating on the spanish or german leagues instead of the prem.god help our football.

Perhaps we should have a contest for expast new name when he comes home. I will start with:-

"Borm again Brummmah"

tearsonmyscarf,
ive had a few days off, and come on to extended posts from expat.which one of you started him off.
i fear an arsenal backlash this week.

spelling by dezion init

BLADE,
how about the mad professor.

EXPERT 007,
yes that will do.

TEARS,
yes you did.your fault.

Expert

please NO do not panda "eats shoots and leaves" to him

how about PAPA DOYLE,the french connection

is the the old bugger?

https://twitter.com/expat007

It might be

Thonon les Bains, France

god help us tomorrow,when expat comes back on.

JCV, Tears

One has consumed too much wine and needs to retire with nanny - I bid you adieu!

goodnight lads,
we will get expats responce tomorrow.
think i will go out for the day.

After last nights result plus Blackburn on Saturday, if we can go 1 - 0 up against Arsenal the crowd will turn on em.

Plus they have played 3 games in 7 days.
Some may see it different.
Best time to play em if you ask me.

daveyboy i would bet the fastest winger in world rugby is quicker than the quickest football winger and fitter and i would bet that rugby back rows have more stamina than say the hardest working midfielders for instance. i would put the house on it.

Fastest rugby player might be a bit cheating tbh it's Carlin Isles who was a former American sprinter/athlete. He runs the 100m in 10.13s.

Footballers are as follows:
1: Theo Walcott 100m 10.3s

2: Cristiano Ronaldo 100m 10.63s

3: Gabriel Agbonlahor 100m 10.98

Gabby in 3rd, shame he doesn't take the ball with him !

Bryan Habana S. Africa 10.2s
Tonderei Chavhanga S. Africa 10.27s
all quicker Next lol

jonnah/sjh

Adam Gemili footballer/athlete 10.11 give me your house

sjh

just looked again and Gemili's PB was 10.05 so I think that deserves your car as well

keithj

I didn't make the bet.
What I found out on the back of all the football v rugby talk..

Rugby is for girls !

muz1

I'm getting carried away with all the hype, I'm expecting Benteke to score 5 and Wenger to be sacked immediately afterwards !!

And then Wenger to become our manager immediately after that !

jonnah,

I would be very pleased if Benteke got 5, as long as Arsenal dont get 6

SJH + Jonah i have been scouring google and APPARANTLEY the fastest 3 players in football are:

1. Theo Walcott

2. Jonathan Biabiany (parma)

3. Joffre Guerron (beijing)

Ronaldo is alledgedley only 14th

The fastest rugby player I found is a chap called Carlin Isle

For those interested:
THEO WALCOTT is the Premier League’s answer to sprint superstar Usain Bolt.
Manchester United fan Bolt hit a top speed of 24.04mph as he won two golds at the World Championships in Berlin.
Arsenal’s Walcott clocked 22.72mph and Sol Campbell took a shock second place in the top-flight race with a 22.50mph top speed.
The top speeds have been calculated by Castrol using data captured over two seasons.
Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres would be in a photo finish for third with their joint top speed of 22.27mph.
Football’s fliers hit incredible speeds and Walcott’s bursts mean he would run 9.9secs for 100m — if he could sustain his top speed of 10.1m per second.
Double Olympic champ Bolt ran 9.58secs to break the 100m world record in Berlin.
Campbell’s top speed could see him run 10.1secs for 100m — just a tenth of a second slower than Brit Dwain Chambers ran at the World Championships.
Bolt admits his preparations ahead of his 19.19secs 200m record had been blighted by United’s loss to Burnley.
But he said: “They will bounce back and there’ll be no worries.”

good morning,
DAVEBOY,mate i only used that piece about rugby players drinking,in answer to a post that indicated that rugby players were more proffessional than footballers.
i was pointing out that that isnt so.

who said anything about fastest over 100m though? Rugby Union athletes are far superior to footballers,they trained at the footballers complex the other week and had to take their own equipment because the footballers training gear wasnt up to scratch!

EXPAT,
mate,a few of us were discussing wether you will change your name,when you come home.or are you going to stick with this one.
i suggested papa doyle,the french connection.

jcv
Good morning,
Had a good laugh at the postings.
Cant reply to them all, but here’s one for you when you believed that all footballers have the brains between their legs.
That only goes to prove the point I was trying to make and that is that footballers are no different to most men, including me when I was younger

jcv

mate,a few of us were discussing wether you will change your name,when you come home.or are you going to stick with this one. i suggested papa doyle,the french connection.

EXPAT,
nice one

well im off out now.roll on the weekend.

Sorry to be off topic - this is about the Villa

Benteke may well be moving on during the summer, but at what price?

We have heard £15m+, but that is on the basis of the old TV money - the new TV money would mean £60m just for Villa

What price the Beast now?

sjhi

I would bet the fastest winger in world rugby is quicker than the quickest football winger

exprat you would know that quickness cant just be measured in 100m straight sprints.Theres turns of direction,sprinting from a standing start,sprinting out of a jog etc and although i am proud to be a Brummie it is still a ****hole,im a fierce patriotic English man but hate the royal family,are you gonna pull me up on that too? And even though im not classed as living in Brum it is still a Birmingham postcode.Now good day Sir and go and get pissed,youve been a right know it all snob the past couple of days and need to chill a bit!!

sjh

Rugby Union athletes are far superior to footballers,they trained at the footballers complex the other week and had to take their own equipment because the footballers training gear wasnt up to scratch!

St Georges park training facilities in Burton.The state of the art training ground didnt have weights heavy enough!!! lol And i coach a local under 14 rugby union side myself and have trips to Mosely,Burton,Tamworth,Solihull Bees etc regularly so know about the rugby set up.This has gone too far now just admit that Union players are better athletes and the game is far superior to football from top to bottom!

Arsenal away brings back some of the best memories I have following Villa away, and the sweetest defeat I had ever or will ever witness. May 1981 last game of the season at Highbury really needing a win and seeing Pele paraded around the ground before the match wearing an Arsenal scarf. Having little hope that 'Boro would do us any favours against Ipswich hoping but not expecting, losing the game hearing that 'Boro had indeed beat Ipswich and we were champions!!!!!! Stopping the coach on the way home in an unsuspecting village in Buckinghamshire a coach load of exstatic Villa fans running across a village cricket pitch (whilst a game was in progress) into the village pub - whose takings must have been a daily high - back on the coach home for 10ish got changed went to a local nightspot till God knows when woke up in a field my velvet jacket soaked in the early morning dew, home, changed showered into Brum to see the victory parade in the City centre - memories aye? sadly I suspect never to be repeated - at least not in my lifetime - still we live in hope!!!!

sjh

you would know that quickness cant just be measured in 100m straight sprints.Theres turns of direction,sprinting from a standing start,sprinting out of a jog etc and although i am proud to be a Brummie it is still a ****hole,im a fierce patriotic English man but hate the royal family,are you gonna pull me up on that too? And even though im not classed as living in Brum it is still a Birmingham postcode.Now good day Sir and go and get pissed,youve been a right know it all snob the past couple of days and need to chill a bit!!

WITH REGARD TO THE POSTINGS AS TO THE MERITS OF RUGBY UNION AND ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

The number of adults in England playing rugby union at least once a week has declined from 230,000 at the start of the funding period, in 2009, to 177,900 at the latest calculation.

Sport England reports those playing regular football fell from 2,144,700 in 2007 to 2,090,000 by last year.

There are 265,000,000 male and female players in addition to 5 million referees and officials make a grand total of 270 million people – or 4% of the world’s population – who are actively involved in the game of football.

International Rugby Board states that the number of World Registered players is 4,671,024

The number of those playing Rugby Union (4,671,024) compared with those playing the beautiful game of Association Football (265,000,000) in the world as a percentage is insignificant or in footballers terms, fu*kall.
There appears to be more referees and officials (5,000,000) for football than all those that play and officiate Rugby Union.
Make of this what you like.