Ashes to Ashes!!

We stuffed the Aussies in the cricket!!!
They couldn't even bear to turn up and see their team stuffed!!

England retain the Ashes

I guess the property prices in Dubai won't be going back up!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/8228244/Britain-forms-plan-for-Gulf-evacuation-in-event-of-war-with-Iran.html

Leading up to Xmas was a bit of a nightmare.

1. Tuesday the Water didn’t work in the house. All because we have a filter outside and it had frozen. Called plumber out. Now bypassed by a switch.
2. Wednesday the power sockets didn’t work in the house. I explained to my wife that it had to be something tripping it. This meant an electrician coming around to take plugged applications out and then adding one by one so as not to overload.
3. Thursday the waste pipe outside was blocked. All stuff came back up the toilet and out onto the floor. Called Drainage guy and he quickly found that paper had got stuck, so he released it.
4. Xmas Day, my 10 year old daughter wanted to help and lay some things out on the table for snacks. She thought that the melted candle was was water and threw it down the sink. I had to dismantle the waste pipe and clean it all and take the solidified wax out of the pipes. Now ok.
5. Washing Machine still leaking water for some washes and not others. A washing machine man will be called out.

We had a guest this weekend. An American lad of 22 years old. Looking forward to his first UK Xmas and TV. Except the TV was absolute rubbish with ‘slit your throat’ serials TV programmes.

It was no wonder he drank a lot and ate a lot.

He even converted my 13 year old son to a Star Wars fan by watching 4 films with him. I couldn’t understand why my son had rope around him though!!

My wife cooked excellent Xmas lunch, which we are still finishing off.

Boxing Day we had a meal at The Outback, which was also good.

Presents I received:

Samsung Galaxy Tab

Smellies

Woolly Hat

Perfume

Small bottles of whisky

For my Birthday I received:

Big bar of Cadbury's Whole nut (lovely)

2 tickets for Al Murray ( Pub Landlord)

CD of Shakira

It ain't right !!

7am on the underground in Amsterdam, with 2 guys kissing and cuddling.
Both were ugly and had big noses!

Not sure of the significance of that, but it ain't right !!!

UK football is in disarry

The UK game is in a mess and it's partly because the F.A. has no control on the clubs and doesn't seem to want to.

Players

We have seen first the foreign players come into the game. This has been good. but now too much. Looking at Arsenal on Monday, there was only one English player starting with a second coming on as substitute.
So here Arsenal, Arsene Wenger and the FA are at fault.
You can't blame the players for this!
In fact the UK game has had a long relationship with Dutch players, who always seem to promote loyalty, going back to Ipswich days with Frank Thijssen and  Arnold Muhren.
Tevez is a nightmare. Not only does he think he is God and can do waht he wants, but his owner (Pimp) the Iranian chappie sells him to the highest bidder and so far has wanted him to move every 2 years so that he gets a new cut of the money as well.

Managers

Then we have the import of foreign Managers.They cause as much chaos as the players these days. Look at Sven Goran Erriksen who changes teams with the wind, then we have Ancellotti at Chelsea who is now looking to leave. Martin Jol. Not only this, look at Spurs and their disasters with Foreign Managers.
Mancini in Man City I have respect for. He is loyal and he is against the pampering of the high earners like Tevez.

Owners

Now we have a different ball game in the UK. The Foreign owners.
They are now acting as if they have the knowledge of the game and how to run a football club, without knowing the game, as in the case of the Yanks.
Also, they are beginning to name who is playing and who is and who they are buying.

Agents


The agents need their clients to be unstable, this way they can move them on and get further commission!

F.A.

So back to the organization run by half wits. We need a complete change of management here and get football managers and ex-footballers in the committee in order to run the F.A. This will provide an all round depth of knowledge of the game and an understanding of the roots and where it's all going!

Blackburn's new hopes!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/blackburn-rovers/8200889/Blackburn-owners-sacked-Sam-Allardyce-in-search-of-good-football-and-to-be-fourth-or-fifth-in-the-league.html

Blackburn are looking to be in top 4-5 or higher with a manager.
They and 19 others !!

But they have named interests with Martin Jol, Diego Maradona and Sven Goran Erikson ( really not a mercenary, he just likes money).
So really this is an Oxymoron

London Dungeon and Rain Forest Cafe

My daughter has treated the family to a lovely day out.
First to London Dungeon in a stretch limousine.

Then over to the Rain Forest. As the limousine pulled up at both places people were taking photos of us we got out, thinking we were famous!!!

Thanks alot to my daughter

Newcastle new Manager

Alan Pardew gets a 5.1/2 year contract !!

Bear in mind in the past 3 years Newcastle has had 6 Managers.

so my thoughts are:
1. Contracts mean nothing at Newcastle
2. Pardew isn't a good Manager

I think 5.1/2 years will be a short lived thing, although he might get a half decent pay off

Xmas Party

Last night was our Xmas party at the office.
It was very loud and very costly.
Drink alone came to EUR700 for 28 people.

Happy days for the Mexican restaurant though.

Just very tired today !!!

Uk vs Holland in the Champions League

I reckon there was a bit of Bon-Ami last night between Spurs vs Twente.
the score was 3-3.
Each time Spurs scored then Twente scored a few minutes after.
Now Twente haven't done well this season with Twente starting at bottom of the Champions league and they haven't been doing well in the Dutch domestic league.
All of a sudden they score 4 goals against Spurs ! (one being a back pass and the goalie missed it)

So I reckon as compensation for both countries not getting the 2018 World Cup Spurs helped Twente. After the match the 2 managers seemed very friendly!!

Xfactor is rigged !!

Let me just put in a few facts here.
1. Mary sang far better than Cherl Lloyd tonight.
2. Cherl has been having constant Psyctiatric help
3. Cherl has been getting stage fright injections
4. Black eyed peas leader is a friend of Cheryl Cole and he backed her 2 acts Cherl and Rebecca
5. Cheryl Cole is being taken to USA version called American Idol
6. Simon Cowell is a big friend of Cheryl so for him to vote against her was impossible
7. Surely Cheryl Cole's act can't win 3 years on the go with her going to the USA.

I see Cherl will fall down quickly as she is a nervous wreck.
Apparently according to the press her family are somewhat Dubious and are likely to upset people.

So we have Simon's group who are very good.
Rebecca they say is absolute class and said from day one she has a recording voice.
Matt is good and is favourite, so it means he wont win!!!

So this leads everything to the telephone voting bringing Simon Cowell millions each show.
All in all the singers don't count and nor do the public apart from their money for phone calls.

World Cup Fiasco

England were favourites with betting showing 1-2 on odds, to get the World Cup because of our grounds and infrastructure.
Beckham, Cameron and Future King was in town to make sure we met the right people and got votes!

Out of 22 votes we got 2 and one of those was our own one!!!

Something just not right as I said yesterday.

Clubs and Newspapers are calling for an enquiry into bribes etc.

FIFA is answerable to no one and that's where the problem is. They deny everything and can get away with it. We have known for many years how corrupt it is. I don't think Panaroma programme from the BBC highlighted anything the other night, as it was a done deal months ago , as Russia has likely bribed all votes from lower world countries, with either the promise of cash, arms, food etc.

It now makes sense why Putin wasn't involved and why no one from Russia seemed bothered - they didn't have to be !!!

Russia win the World cup!!!

They didn't show much interest and Putin stayed away and yet they won the bid!!!
My guess is the bastards paid the caribbean and africans etc loads of dosh!!!!

World cup 2018 bid

We should win based on the criteria that we meet and more.

2 Stadiums to have at least 50,000 fans.
++Russia seems they will be late building new stadiums, plus 12 hours travel by train between some stadiums
++Spain and Portugal can do this but Spain not long ago held a World Cup plus as I said yesterday, how can they when they should be asking for handouts from the EU.
++Netherlands and Belgium. Yes it would be nice for their first, but Belgium is broke and I am not sure if they have a stadium that holds 50,000.
++UK has Wembley (95,000), Emirates (53,000), Old Trafford(75,000) and more.

If we don't win, then it's a bloody fix again with Blatter, Platini (English hater), Beckenbauer et al

What is going on?

After a bad night I took the day off.
Cables being released by a Wikileaks and all kinds of recriminations going on.
What I found odd is why private conversations are being minuted!
Will UK get the !2018 World Cup. We should do, we have the best stadiums and we have the infrastructure, plus we have David Beckham, David Cameron and Prince William talking to the voters.
Putin is stuck firmly in Russia and Spain/Portugal have a huge credit crunch so how will they be able to afford it,
Belgium is bust anbd will expect the Netherlands to pay for most of it OR the British tax payer by asking for more EU money- Bastards!!!!