rach 1 Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Exciting game last night hey Mr Wiggles - that first half you really showed us up. Thought it was going to boil over as well a few times. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 The highlight for Newcastle fans was seeing us getting away with genuine fouls, probably thanks to Heinze and Ronaldo falling to the ground and clutching their head on every possible occasion beforehand. Sven Gordon saw that match and then put Jenas but not Scott Parker in his squad. The man must be blind. With no goals so far and only two chance-makers who are both crocked, it's looking like a long season for the Toon. Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Good game to watch that was hoping Newcastle would take advantage of their domination in the first half. Generally I think Heinze is a good player, but he sure was playing it up yesterday and Ronaldo as you said. Ronaldo often gets fouled and doesn't get the decision because of his acting around, though apart from yesterday he does seem to have cut it down from before. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted August 30, 2005 Author Share Posted August 30, 2005 I see Lil Mick met up with Liverpool and Newcastle yesterday - looks like its one of those two now..... decision imminent? He wasn't even on the friggin' bench for the last Madrid game! Link to post Share on other sites
ShinyDiscoBall 2 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Quote: Owen indicated he would be prepared to take a small cut to a wage of around £80,000 a week in order to smooth his passage back to the club. Poor guy. He must be gutted. Having to sacrifice so much. I suppose he'll have to cut down on a few basics. Hope he manages. Those guys need to come back down to earth. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Knowing I was worth 90000 a week for sitting on the bench during football games, and was only offered a miserly 80000 I would hold firm and stand by my principals. Link to post Share on other sites
giggsy 0 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 And the, er, winner is http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/4196760.stm (hint: begins with "N") Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Congrats Mr Wiggles Team! Might be able to scrape some goals together now Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 It will be interesting to see how he fits in up there, it may well turn out to be brilliant for Newcastle. What do you think Wiggles-san, season looking a bit more promising now? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 1, 2005 Author Share Posted September 1, 2005 I had a feeling he'd end up at Newcastle. Rafa never seemed that interested. And of course Owen, although coming from Spain physically, is not Spanish. Link to post Share on other sites
giggsy 0 Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Well I hope Newcastle beat Arsenal and Chelsea now. Incredible I read that Newcastle have not scored at home for 6 months (obviously some off season included in there, but still....!) Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 Goal-line technology coming in time for the World Cup perhaps? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/4206450.stm What you think footie-heads? Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 Surely it will be a good thing if they can eliminate some of the very dodgy decisions of late. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 We're going to win the league! Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 2, 2005 Author Share Posted September 2, 2005 I reckon you'll have a good chance of winning the "Championship" league next year. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 3, 2005 Author Share Posted September 3, 2005 It seems Wigan tried to sign Owen. They're not telling what they offered for him but one incentive was apparently a lifetime supply of pies. ----- Barclays Premiership new-boys Wigan did try to persuade England striker Michael Owen to join them, according to chairman Dave Whelan. The Latics chief confirmed they were interested in the 25-year-old and how he'd received a telephone call from the former Liverpool striker informing him of his decision to join Newcastle from Real Madrid for a fee believed to be around £17million. Whelan told the club's official website: "Our move was not a publicity stunt. I was even prepared to put a clause in that would allow him to move at Christmas. Michael rang to say thanks for trying to sign him." He added: "He joined Newcastle but we did everything in our power to try to bring him to the JJB. "Ringing up was a wonderful gesture. He made time to speak to me once he made it clear he was going to Tyneside." Link to post Share on other sites
giggsy 0 Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 It'll be interesting to see how the new "goal-line technology" works. If it's good it might have been able to tell us if that Spurs goal actually went over the line or not last season (remember that close one?) Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 4, 2005 Author Share Posted September 4, 2005 I regret staying in and staying up to watch the Wales vs England game last night. Rubbish. Anyone else waste their time? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 I think England missed that striker from Liverpool who wasn't available. You know, the one who scored all those goals. What's his name again? Oh yeah, Peter Crouch! Link to post Share on other sites
fattyboo 0 Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 England were very average as usual. And we (that is, Wales) nearly scored a few times as well. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 5, 2005 Author Share Posted September 5, 2005 You are right fattyboo. England won though. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 England specialise in being average, that's what they do best. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Quote: It seems Wigan tried to sign Owen. They're not telling what they offered for him but one incentive was apparently a lifetime supply of pies. Ha. Haha. Hey, they tried. No need to mock. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 We're not mocking pie-eater. Mr Wiggles seems pleased enough anyway. Mr Owen has promised them goals. Goals will help. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 7, 2005 Author Share Posted September 7, 2005 Someone asking about nutmeg a while back. Just been sent this: "Where does the word nutmeg come from?" In previous Knowledges, we've examined several possible answers, including that nutmeg is 1940s cockney rhyming slang for leg. However, in his superb book Football Talk - The Language And Folklore Of The World's Greatest Game, Peter Seddon points out a far more likely etymology for nutmeg: that it comes from duplicitous practice in the nutmeg trade. As he points out, the verb nutmegged is listed by the Oxford English Dictionary as "arising in the 1870s which in Victorian slang came to mean 'to be tricked or deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look foolish'." The word arose because of a sharp practice used in nutmeg exports between America and England. "Nutmegs were such a valuable commodity that unscrupulous exporters were wont to pull a fast one by mixing a helping of wooden replicas into the sacks being shipped to England," writes Seddon. "Being nutmegged soon came to imply stupidity on the part of the duped victim and cleverness on the part of the trickster." Considering that so much of football's language dates from its formative years, that seems a better explanation for the word nutmeg than any we're heard before or since. It certainly sounds more convincing than Jimmy Hill's claim that nutmeg was coined during the 1940s to describe the skill of placing the ball between an opponent's legs before retrieving it the other side. Or indeed the suggestion made in Alex Leith's book, Over the Moon, Brian: The Language of Football, that nuts - a term commonly used for nutmeg in the north of England - "refers to the testicles of the player through whose legs the ball has been passed and nutmeg is just a development from this." Link to post Share on other sites
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