Fingers crossed that Suarez has his best game ever tomorrow and with the world watching wins the game on his own. Why not? He's in good form, why can't he produce his best in this massive game? We need a Barnes'esq performance, all the flicks, nutmegs, dribbles and shots to come off. Please make it happen.
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I am daydreaming about that, can't help it. Suarez one man destruction. It would be the best feeling ever.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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I had a dream that he'll score 6.Are we winning?Comment
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Well that's ****ing gone and jinxed it.Originally posted by Nigey View Post
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Oscar WildeComment
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Oh
Are we winning?Comment
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Rooney handball and RVP raised studs tackle. Rodgers to publicly humiliate them via the press. Glazers to declare bankruptcy. Fergie retires.Was muß, das muß.Comment
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I hope they outplay us for 90 minutes and Suarez nicks the winner in Fergie time. That would make their heads explodeComment
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I hope Suarez scores a hat-trick and celebrates the feat by jumping on Evra and rubbing his hand in his face."Its not about the long ball or the short ball, its about the right ball." Bob PaisleyComment
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Moose.Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. Oscar WildeComment
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Well yeah, obviously I wasn't saying the idea of twenty-two people kicking a ball around is the essence of the problem. So call it Football (with a capital F) if you like - the network of relationships that have turned a game into a multi-billion pound business.Originally posted by Nigey View Post
Even then, blaming consumerism is ridiculous. It's a common notion these days to blame the culture around something but the culture of anything is mainly the product of the underlying power relations, it's shaped by the processes and institutions, ultimately the economic ones.
It's the same wherever you look. People say "it's the banking culture that's wrong" but that allows politicians, bankers and regulators off the hook for their unethical and sometimes illegal actions (or inaction). It's the same in the corrupt relationships between press and politicians (and police). It's the same when people talk about welfare and long-term unemployment. It's a way of avoiding doing anything about the fundamental causes.
In the same way, blaming consumerism lets those responsible off the hook - the clubs and the football authorities who have gone for the money from television and exploited the position it's given them. A good example is the way it's taken years of overcharging for them to come up with even a response to the complaints of away fans about match tickets.
It's easy to blame an '-ism' but abstract concepts are rarely more than descriptions of society, not social forces..
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
May the Lord bless this post.Comment
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I know it's a long shot, but did anyone hear the ridiculous exposure he got on the Supersport coverage of the South Africa vs New Zealand test match? I was amused by it, but it just goes to show how much the media have vilified him if ex-cricketers are having a pop at him.Comment
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Apparently that is Suarez
My kebab comes with chilli sauceComment
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Let he who is without sin: Suarez v RvP should be about football, not character
11 Jan 2013 19:07
The Uruguayan's contribution against Mansfield has been analysed to death, but it doesn't detract from his genius
Last year Old Trafford gave the bird to Luis Suarez for not sticking his hand out when he walked past Patrice Evra.
Tomorrow he’ll get it again because he stuck one out at Mansfield as he went past the keeper.
Actually, scrub that. No matter what Suarez does with a hand tomorrow, even if he donates it to Sir Alex Ferguson as an insurance against losing one to gout, he’d still get dog’s abuse.
Just like he does at every ground. Because English football has decided he’s a Joey Barton-scale scumbag, and won’t rest until he plies his trade elsewhere.
I’m not going to waste your time delving into this week’s post-Mansfield hysteria because it’s been taken apart commendably by other Mirror Sport writers.
But I have to highlight my favourite piece of moral high-ground snatching, from a veteran columnist on the Independent who, not content with writing that Suarez had gone on to Mansfield’s pitch with “diabolical intent,” claimed that the Uruguayan devil’s behaviour contrasted lamentably with that of the God-like Lionel Messi’s.
In doing so he effortlessly air-brushed the fact that in 2007, Messi punched the ball into the Espanyol net, then raced off to celebrate wildly as defenders besieged the officials.
The writer also questioned whether Suarez, despite producing some “extraordinary” football this season, was worthy of receiving the domestic version of the Balon d’Or that Saint Lionel of the Ramblas picked up this week.
It’s not a novel sentiment. Prior to Mansfield a debate was raging as to whether Suarez was morally fit to be named Footballer Of The Year. What breath-taking English hypocrisy this is.
Every honest football observer outside Swansea (where you could make a decent case for Michu) knows that only Robin van Persie has consistently displayed the level of skill and commitment that Suarez has this season. Those two are the Premier League’s top scorers, and arguably its only players who would make a World XI squad based on their work since August. Yet one of them, Suarez, is deemed by many as unfit for accolades. Why?
His race row with Patrice Evra happened last season and he’s shown no signs of re-offending since, so surely it can’t be that. He handled a ball which resulted in a goal, but then so did Peter Crouch recently and rabid anti-cheat preacher Tony Pulis congratulated him, so it can’t be that.
He’s been booked for diving, but then so has the latest Great British Hope Gareth Bale, not once but three times, and going down like a sack-of-faeces after being brushed by a gust of wind never stopped Jurgen Klinsmann, David Ginola and Cristiano Ronaldo winning Footballer of the Year. So it can’t be that.
Presumably it’s just the accepted wisdom that Suarez isn’t a very nice character, so it’s best to rule him out on “role model” grounds.
In which case how did Eric Cantona (kung-fu fan-kicker), Jack Charlton (Black Book score-settler), Roy Keane (self-confessed kneecapper), George Best (alcoholic womaniser), Pat Jennings (gambling addict), Wayne Rooney (prostitute-user) and Kevin Keegan (criminal perm-wearer) ever win the award?
When it comes to deciding a season’s finest footballer we should leave loaded moral judgements to the Mary Whitehouse brigade and go with the one who has consistently drawn gasps of admiration from the paying public.
The only two candidates are leading their respective lines at Old Trafford tomorrow.
May the best genius win.If we are all only happy when we are really winning in the end, when your race finishes, what life would that be?Comment
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