Juventino

A well deserved win for Ajax it was.

34 years old but really doesn't play like it. When we were on the end of his many goals in European meetings I used to curse the prick, but that desire to continually push himself is admirable.

What a win that was. After the early disallowed goal I thought it would be one of those nights, but the performance was by far the best we've had this season.

31 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

To be fair to Tone the rest of that sentence went 'thats the way I've always looked at The Arsenal', so not a statement of fact but rather how he feels...fair enough

I still can’t accept it 

3 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

The comments bring a tear to my eye: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47461886

Oh, that's awful. Such a great player :(.

I mean, I can't confirm it, but I am guessing so with comments like this:

13 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

What the hell is Buffon doing playing for Paris?

I've been wondering myself all season.

On another note, it is a shame to see Tony Adams is on the drink again.

A Metallica tour of Australia is set to be announced, so that will be another one to get to.

In concert I really like Dust In The Wind, that's probably my favourite. KOHD is great up until 1991, then they give me some reggae and it is not as good, but overall I still like it.

20 hours ago, AtariLegend said:

They had Buffon, Davids, Del Piro, Neved, Trezeguet, Thuram. Juventus team was almost as much of a video game team than that Madrid side of the time, except Juve could defend. Great team. I remember a point where they were playing best football in Europe of all the top teams, then within a year their was the match fixing scandal.

AC Milan were great at the time and Inter had a decent squad, but I still don't understand why Juve officals really felt they needed to cheat to win when you had a squad like that. Several of them were good enough to help Italy win the World Cup right after.

It was never as simple as match fixing. In fact, it didn’t take place and that was deemed so in the original trial.

The nuts and bolts is that Juventus were found guilty of speaking to the referee designator (so as to gain favour in which referee is selected for which match). That was worthy of an ‘article 1’ violation, which should lead to a fine, or points deduction at most. ‘Article 6’ violations, match fixing, was not part of the verdict.

Ok then, the issue is it was decided that there could be fixing if they are talking to referees. Nothing was ever found.

The next part is, the designator said speaking to clubs was encouraged as to open dialogue. He spoke with officials from many, if not all, clubs.

So Inter get awarded the 2006 title as Milan who finished second was also implicated. They claim it is justice. But a few years later phone calls from Inter officials doing the same thing Juve and others did were made public. Nothing came of it legally as the statute of limitations had passed. Inter gets away with a title, et al, Juventus are relegated and other clubs get deductions.

Not all phone calls between clubs and referee designator were used as evidence in the original trial. Something which should have taken months/years was rushed through in weeks ahead of the season. And running the trial was a former Inter board member.

4 hours ago, lukepowell1988 said:

where is this one from? Was a sick goal 

Le Tournoi...a friendly tournament played a year before which also included Italy and England.

I picked up a ticket for Elton John the other day, for his Australian leg of the tour in December.

Streaming I don't like because you can get a dodgy connection from time to time, you can't record matches (I like to record games on tv, when I'm bored I go through and watch goals, etc) and there are just fewer hassles when watching on tv.

In Australia we don't need as many channels as that to see the main leagues, but you need Foxtel (our Sky) to watch Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, and various other leagues. We get one Premier League match a week on free tv, but the rest of the coverage is on Optus (a phone company which started a streaming service). Optus also have the Champions League, Europa League, international matches. I'm lucky as my phone plan is with Optus so I don't have to pay any extra for that service, otherwise it's another cost.

Optus is a new player on the market, they also had the World Cup but their coverage was awful and didn't work half the time. It ended up reverting to free tv.

A few years ago you could watch all of the above on Foxtel, and free tv.

6 minutes ago, lukepowell1988 said:

Proper TV station but only 1 of the 2 channels are in HD and its £4 dearer a month 

Ah right. As I said, better than streaming, but it is one of those things where if you're not that into something then having to buy an extra channel to watch only that is probably not worth it.
 

I miss the days when coverage wasn't as splintered as now.

52 minutes ago, lukepowell1988 said:

Italian football was alright back then .. I can't really see it making a comeback to the days it was that big but I think that is down to ITV no longer having coverage you need Eleven Sports now days I can't get into this streaming shit 

That Eleven coverage has ended (well, is ending in a few weeks) and it is going to be on Premier Sports. I don't live in the UK so don't know for sure, but I think that's a proper TV station. Which is far better to watch anything than having to stream.

It won't be that high...I've heard 7/7.5m a year which is about 250,000 a week.

Coming To America

On 2/5/2019 at 2:43 AM, lukepowell1988 said:

Is this that fairly recently released one with the games in built?

 

Sony did a PsOne version that flopped pretty hard.

I was at the shops over Christmas and had the PS Classic in my hand, but then saw the NES Classic and went for that instead. Can't say I regret it, although I may pick up the PS another time.

Jaws

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Appetite For Destruction

Best - Welcome To The Jungle; Worst - Anything Goes

Lies

Best - Patience; Worst - You're Crazy

UYI I

Best - Coma; Worst - You Ain't The First

UYI I

Best - You Could Be Mine; Worst - My World

"TSI?"

Best - Black Leather; Worst - Look At Your Game, Girl

Chinese Democracy

Best - There Was a Time; Worst - If The World

19 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

For me I place the 1985-93 era on a pedestal so that even the most insignificant persona from that era holds a loftier position than the most significant of personnel that joined the band post-1993.    

The classic era is like the football team who won the domestic league and Champions League. Historic time for the club. Then you have the NuGuns era, which is akin to being stuck in the second division. They pushed for promotion once or twice, but only in 2016 did they make it back to the top flight! Even then, the team is not as good as their earlier heyday but it does have its moments.

And it's only natural to remember those who were around in the golden times more than those from when you were in purgatory.

Sweet, I still play the original so I'm looking forward to this.

51 minutes ago, wasted said:

Caddyshack 2 is fun too.

have you seen Fletch, Animal House, Blues Brothers? 

Is that the one where the number slug balancer of alltime says Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn? 

What good movies are there like Noctural Animals and You Were Never Really There? 

No to Fletch and Animal House, haven't seen Blues Brothers for a long time.

Caddyshack. What a laugh...I don't know how I hadn't seen it before.

7 hours ago, wasted said:

In the WC?

Well it certainly wasn't the European Championship!