Those of you who wanted

[wiw]

I wish people could differentiate between a long ball and a long pass. Long balls are hoofed in the general direction of a target man (Skrtel's at OT was neither, it was a clearance). On MOTD2 last night, Dixon referred to Dirk's pass to Riera and Pepe's pass also to Riera as "long balls".

I suppose Glenn Hoddle was a long-ball merchant, as is Xabi Alonso.

Really? ****sake

Dirk's pass to Rieras was genuinely one of the best passes I've ever seen in the flesh. It arrowed straight into his path and right onto his toe, it was inch perfect. Considering how high and how far it travelled, and considering he's a striker/forward, that's one hell of a ****ing pass

[Kenneth]

He decided the long ball with 2 big men was a way of playing against a LFC team in top form at anfield. Hardly representitive of his general approach. Silly childish thread.

[Vermilion]

(By the way, keep meaning to ask any of our Spanish speaking members, how do you get Pepe from Jose Manuel?)

his nick name is pepe , thats all, his real name is jose

For some reason i thought his dad was called 'Pepe', and that was why he had the nick name. How did i come up with that then ? must of imagined it.

[Mark79]

That is a Universe away from what you seem to think we do, do you honestly think we mindlessly launch it onto Torres' head???
Maybe you haven't seen us carve apart Madrid, Man U and Villa in the last week or so with decent, fast attacking football.

Haven't got a clue how you came to any of that because you certainly didnt read it in my post.

Where did I say that we haven't been playing good attacking football or that we play the ball mindlessly?

All I said was that we have scored a few from long balls (or long passes, whatever you want to call them) in recent games.

[red g]

For some reason i thought his dad was called 'Pepe', and that was why he had the nick name. How did i come up with that then ? must of imagined it.

dad is called miguel

[rezaeos]

Martin O'Neil as our manager bow your heads in shame and go and join the buffons who wanted us to sign Darren Bent instead of Torres.

It was like watching the old Wimbledon play, I'm sure at some point in the 2nd half I saw Wally Downes launch one towards the head of John Fashanu.

O'Neil has always been a long ball merchant and as for playing a RB in Luke Young at LB and picking Nigel Reo-I've always been **** but thought I was the bollocks Coker at RB while you have a LB in Nicky Shorey that you've spent circa 8 mill on warming the bench is clearly all the signs of a manager capable of running our club.

The only shame is that I can't see them getting anything at OT and that Arsenal will finish in the top 4

Someone actually wanted us to sign Darren Bent instead of Torres? As for Villa at Old Toilet, M.O.N. will employ his Wimbledon tactics and Heskey will score a brace. S.A.F. will get real mad as the suspended lunatic, Rooney, streaks across the field and collides with Rio during a Villa counter attack. The ball ends up in the back of the net and is counted as an own goal.

[Clapper]

I was hoping for something a bit more exotic.

My wife is from Mexico and in Mexico like all spanish talking countries I think, a person called Jose has the nickname Pepe.
According to my wife it is because in the bible, when you read about Jesus father, he is sometimes referred to as PP Josef, and the spanish version of Josef is Jose. The PP she can't remember what stands for, but according to her, that is why a Jose is called Pepe.
Whether she is making me look like a fool, I don't know, but she looked quite serious when she told me.
At least it is a common nickname among all Jose's.

[Carras_Shin_Pads]

Someone actually wanted us to sign Darren Bent instead of Torres? As for Villa at Old Toilet, M.O.N. will employ his Wimbledon tactics and Heskey will score a brace. S.A.F. will get real mad as the suspended lunatic, Rooney, streaks across the field and collides with Rio during a Villa counter attack. The ball ends up in the back of the net and is counted as an own goal.

I was thinking that, who?

[Shaggy]

Plenty of people on various forums wanted us to sign Bent instead of Torres. Plenty. I remember a few of them too. I wouldn't want to embarrass anyone.

[Warren]

Fredo wanted us to sign Bent

[MrsB]

By the way, keep meaning to ask any of our Spanish speaking members, how do you get Pepe from Jose Manuel?

There are several theories, but the most likely seems that it comes from the abbreviation P.P. that was used in old documents for Pater Putatibus ("Foster Father/Assumed Father"). Pater Putatibus is one of the titles of Saint Joseph (José in Spanish) and if you say P.P. in Spanish it's Pepe.

[Clapper]

There are several theories, but the most likely seems that it comes from the abbreviation P.P. that was used in old documents for Pater Putatibus ("Foster Father/Assumed Father"). Pater Putatibus is one of the titles of Saint Joseph (José in Spanish) and if you say P.P. in Spanish it's Pepe.

So my wife was not joking with me.

[MrsB]

So my wife was not joking with me.

No, not this time anyway.

[wiw]

Hmm I remember 1 person wanting Bent on here. Was that it?

[Clapper]

No, not this time anyway.