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The "Where should I put this?" Thread;; Strange stories from the crazy world of football.
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Topic Started: 25 Sep 2012, 05:56 PM (238,230 Views)
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jim62
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24 Jul 2015, 08:21 PM
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up on the roof!!
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- 24 Jul 2015, 07:29 PM
Breaking News: Moderators of online football forum to seek removal of Mackay-Stevens from CelticTV
Reports have surfaced that moderators of popular online Celtic messageboard Kerrydale Street are to petition CelticTV for the removal of Gary Mackay-Stevens from all promotional, and, where possible, live content.
Exactly why the 24 year old Celtic winger has attracted the ire of the aging group of authority figures is unclear, though our reporter has managed to locate and attend a venue where the misanthropic group were attending a social gathering.
The clique were said to have favoured the October bar on the top floor of Glasgow's prestigious Prince's Square as it offered them "the opportunity to look down on others", while enjoying a meal and refreshments.
Our source describes overhearing heated discussion on the subject of Mackay-Stevens, with the comments such as "too happy by far", "glee club", "needs brought down a notch" and "lets burst the wee carrots bubble", emanating from the table that would later remain tip-free.
There was a point during the meal when an overseas-based moderator appeared on a video call, it was unclear whether he was slurring his words or if the connection was poor, however his appraisal of Mackay-Stevens was in a similar vein, with the decipherable "sick of looking at Garys smug face on the Cellic website" drawing a number of "ayes" from the eremitic audience.
Later in the evening, as beverages were consumed, one of the group produced an iPhone from his pocket at described how he was going to "tell that **** Kenny McKay to make sure the wee ******* gets told where to go", to raucous approval of his now worse-for-wear companions. "Get him and his glakit coupin tae **** aff ma streams, man", was the response of another, who's daily airs and graces had now been ravaged by alcohol.
A terse statement is expected from the group in the following days.
Neither Mackay-Stevens or his agent could be contacted for comment. What happened to my invite to this meal
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popeyed
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24 Jul 2015, 08:30 PM
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Climbing walls while sittin' in a chair.
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- 24 Jul 2015, 08:21 PM
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- 24 Jul 2015, 07:29 PM
Breaking News: Moderators of online football forum to seek removal of Mackay-Stevens from CelticTV
Reports have surfaced that moderators of popular online Celtic messageboard Kerrydale Street are to petition CelticTV for the removal of Gary Mackay-Stevens from all promotional, and, where possible, live content.
Exactly why the 24 year old Celtic winger has attracted the ire of the aging group of authority figures is unclear, though our reporter has managed to locate and attend a venue where the misanthropic group were attending a social gathering.
The clique were said to have favoured the October bar on the top floor of Glasgow's prestigious Prince's Square as it offered them "the opportunity to look down on others", while enjoying a meal and refreshments.
Our source describes overhearing heated discussion on the subject of Mackay-Stevens, with the comments such as "too happy by far", "glee club", "needs brought down a notch" and "lets burst the wee carrots bubble", emanating from the table that would later remain tip-free.
There was a point during the meal when an overseas-based moderator appeared on a video call, it was unclear whether he was slurring his words or if the connection was poor, however his appraisal of Mackay-Stevens was in a similar vein, with the decipherable "sick of looking at Garys smug face on the Cellic website" drawing a number of "ayes" from the eremitic audience.
Later in the evening, as beverages were consumed, one of the group produced an iPhone from his pocket at described how he was going to "tell that **** Kenny McKay to make sure the wee ******* gets told where to go", to raucous approval of his now worse-for-wear companions. "Get him and his glakit coupin tae **** aff ma streams, man", was the response of another, who's daily airs and graces had now been ravaged by alcohol.
A terse statement is expected from the group in the following days.
Neither Mackay-Stevens or his agent could be contacted for comment.
What happened to my invite to this meal Idyllwild deleted it.
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ciaranbelfast
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24 Jul 2015, 10:27 PM
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Haha Chavez finally getting what he deserves!
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Bolivia's football chief ordered jailed ahead of trial Carlos Chavez is to be sent to one of Latin America's most violent prisons to prevent him fleeing ahead of graft trial.
Carlos Chavez is to be held in one of Latin America's most violent prisons ahead of his trial.
A Bolivian judge has ordered the president of the country's football federation to be held in one of Latin America's most violent prisons to prevent him from fleeing ahead of a trial over corruption charges, according to local media reports.
Carlos Chavez, who is also the treasurer of the South American Football Confederation, CONMEBOL, denies the charges.
Chavez was arrested on Friday over allegations that he diverted funds from a charity match.
The family of a fan, Kevin Beltran, who was killed by fireworks at an international match in the Bolivian city of Oruro in 2013, told Bolivian state news agency ABI they never received any money from a charity fund set up for him.
Ahead of his transfer scheduled for Wednesday to the Palmasola high-security prison in Santa Cruz, Chavez was being held by authorities in Sucre alongside Alberto Lozada, the secretary-general of the Bolivian Soccer Federation.
Lozada will be placed under house arrest.
Guards secure only the perimeter of the sprawling, maximum-security jail at Palmasola, while murderers and drug traffickers run its units, charging inmates for all aspects of their existence.l
Chavez intends to appeal the judge's decision to imprison him ahead of trial.
"I am to be held in Palmasola for preventive detention. This decision will be appealed by the 72-hour deadline. But this embarrassment (referring to his arrest) and trickery will be revealed as what I said a month and a half back; this is obviously a coup," the Reuters news agency in Sucre reported him as saying.
Ramiro Guerrero, the Bolivian attorney general, has said more than 40 people had testified so far in the course of the investigation, which began on June 1.
"This is a proceeding that makes no attack on the Bolivian soccer federation as a whole, which has the mission, according to its statutes, to promote the practice of soccer. Neither the public ministry nor the judicial ministry is intervening in matters directly relating to soccer," said Bolivian prosecutor Ivan Montellano.
The charges make no reference to the bribery scandal affecting FIFA, soccer's international governing body.
However, Guerrero has not ruled out broadening the investigation.
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24 Jul 2015, 10:40 PM
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- popeyed
- 24 Jul 2015, 08:30 PM
- jim62
- 24 Jul 2015, 08:21 PM
- Tictical_Genius
- 24 Jul 2015, 07:29 PM
Breaking News: Moderators of online football forum to seek removal of Mackay-Stevens from CelticTV
Reports have surfaced that moderators of popular online Celtic messageboard Kerrydale Street are to petition CelticTV for the removal of Gary Mackay-Stevens from all promotional, and, where possible, live content.
Exactly why the 24 year old Celtic winger has attracted the ire of the aging group of authority figures is unclear, though our reporter has managed to locate and attend a venue where the misanthropic group were attending a social gathering.
The clique were said to have favoured the October bar on the top floor of Glasgow's prestigious Prince's Square as it offered them "the opportunity to look down on others", while enjoying a meal and refreshments.
Our source describes overhearing heated discussion on the subject of Mackay-Stevens, with the comments such as "too happy by far", "glee club", "needs brought down a notch" and "lets burst the wee carrots bubble", emanating from the table that would later remain tip-free.
There was a point during the meal when an overseas-based moderator appeared on a video call, it was unclear whether he was slurring his words or if the connection was poor, however his appraisal of Mackay-Stevens was in a similar vein, with the decipherable "sick of looking at Garys smug face on the Cellic website" drawing a number of "ayes" from the eremitic audience.
Later in the evening, as beverages were consumed, one of the group produced an iPhone from his pocket at described how he was going to "tell that **** Kenny McKay to make sure the wee ******* gets told where to go", to raucous approval of his now worse-for-wear companions. "Get him and his glakit coupin tae **** aff ma streams, man", was the response of another, who's daily airs and graces had now been ravaged by alcohol.
A terse statement is expected from the group in the following days.
Neither Mackay-Stevens or his agent could be contacted for comment.
What happened to my invite to this meal
Idyllwild deleted it.
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Spirit of H4L
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24 Jul 2015, 10:48 PM
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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- Bobby Peru
- 24 Jul 2015, 07:52 PM
- Tictical_Genius
- 24 Jul 2015, 07:29 PM
Breaking News: Moderators of online football forum to seek removal of Mackay-Stevens from CelticTV
Reports have surfaced that moderators of popular online Celtic messageboard Kerrydale Street are to petition CelticTV for the removal of Gary Mackay-Stevens from all promotional, and, where possible, live content.
Exactly why the 24 year old Celtic winger has attracted the ire of the aging group of authority figures is unclear, though our reporter has managed to locate and attend a venue where the misanthropic group were attending a social gathering.
The clique were said to have favoured the October bar on the top floor of Glasgow's prestigious Prince's Square as it offered them "the opportunity to look down on others", while enjoying a meal and refreshments.
Our source describes overhearing heated discussion on the subject of Mackay-Stevens, with the comments such as "too happy by far", "glee club", "needs brought down a notch" and "lets burst the wee carrots bubble", emanating from the table that would later remain tip-free.
There was a point during the meal when an overseas-based moderator appeared on a video call, it was unclear whether he was slurring his words or if the connection was poor, however his appraisal of Mackay-Stevens was in a similar vein, with the decipherable "sick of looking at Garys smug face on the Cellic website" drawing a number of "ayes" from the eremitic audience.
Later in the evening, as beverages were consumed, one of the group produced an iPhone from his pocket at described how he was going to "tell that **** Kenny McKay to make sure the wee ******* gets told where to go", to raucous approval of his now worse-for-wear companions. "Get him and his glakit coupin tae **** aff ma streams, man", was the response of another, who's daily airs and graces had now been ravaged by alcohol.
A terse statement is expected from the group in the following days.
Neither Mackay-Stevens or his agent could be contacted for comment.
It's Mackay-Steven. Somebody just got owned.
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dtic
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24 Jul 2015, 11:05 PM
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- 24 Jul 2015, 11:15 AM
There were also fears that a dissident group had split to form their own forum called “The Celtic Way” in reaction to a comment by another moderator, Jim62.
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Carnanreagh
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24 Jul 2015, 11:35 PM
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- ciaranbelfast
- 24 Jul 2015, 10:27 PM
Haha Chavez finally getting what he deserves! - Quote:
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Bolivia's football chief ordered jailed ahead of trial Carlos Chavez is to be sent to one of Latin America's most violent prisons to prevent him fleeing ahead of graft trial.
Carlos Chavez is to be held in one of Latin America's most violent prisons ahead of his trial.
A Bolivian judge has ordered the president of the country's football federation to be held in one of Latin America's most violent prisons to prevent him from fleeing ahead of a trial over corruption charges, according to local media reports.
Carlos Chavez, who is also the treasurer of the South American Football Confederation, CONMEBOL, denies the charges.
Chavez was arrested on Friday over allegations that he diverted funds from a charity match.
The family of a fan, Kevin Beltran, who was killed by fireworks at an international match in the Bolivian city of Oruro in 2013, told Bolivian state news agency ABI they never received any money from a charity fund set up for him.
Ahead of his transfer scheduled for Wednesday to the Palmasola high-security prison in Santa Cruz, Chavez was being held by authorities in Sucre alongside Alberto Lozada, the secretary-general of the Bolivian Soccer Federation.
Lozada will be placed under house arrest.
Guards secure only the perimeter of the sprawling, maximum-security jail at Palmasola, while murderers and drug traffickers run its units, charging inmates for all aspects of their existence.l
Chavez intends to appeal the judge's decision to imprison him ahead of trial.
"I am to be held in Palmasola for preventive detention. This decision will be appealed by the 72-hour deadline. But this embarrassment (referring to his arrest) and trickery will be revealed as what I said a month and a half back; this is obviously a coup," the Reuters news agency in Sucre reported him as saying.
Ramiro Guerrero, the Bolivian attorney general, has said more than 40 people had testified so far in the course of the investigation, which began on June 1.
"This is a proceeding that makes no attack on the Bolivian soccer federation as a whole, which has the mission, according to its statutes, to promote the practice of soccer. Neither the public ministry nor the judicial ministry is intervening in matters directly relating to soccer," said Bolivian prosecutor Ivan Montellano.
The charges make no reference to the bribery scandal affecting FIFA, soccer's international governing body.
However, Guerrero has not ruled out broadening the investigation.
That'll test his composure.
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uddyBHOY1
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25 Jul 2015, 12:13 AM
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Hingin About The Tunes Thread
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According to the Celtic Wiki, the King of Kings signed for the Hoops 18 years ago today (cant believe the years ). Still the King,
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25 Jul 2015, 12:30 AM
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I'll play anywhere, as long as I get a game!
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On the note of the sevco thread, can see why it was closed, but amidst the nonsense there was often some valuable posts and information... And from my personal PoV it was all in one place which was easy to catch up on after not being on for a few days.
Secondly, removing the thread won't stop the insane posts from the mental posters... They'll just be appearing in multiple places now, which might be more of a pain to police. At least the shampooe was all in one easy to find place.
It's a mistake to delete it I reckon, a bit too far on the policing...
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25 Jul 2015, 12:49 AM
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According to the Celtic Wiki, the King of Kings signed for the Hoops 18 years ago today (cant believe the years  ). Still the King, I was 5 when he signed, haha effing hell. My old man was shattered when he worked out he's been away longer a good bit longer than he was here
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Tictical_Genius
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25 Jul 2015, 12:52 AM
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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Breaking News: Moderators of online football forum to seek removal of Mackay-Stevens from CelticTV
Reports have surfaced that moderators of popular online Celtic messageboard Kerrydale Street are to petition CelticTV for the removal of Gary Mackay-Stevens from all promotional, and, where possible, live content.
Exactly why the 24 year old Celtic winger has attracted the ire of the aging group of authority figures is unclear, though our reporter has managed to locate and attend a venue where the misanthropic group were attending a social gathering.
The clique were said to have favoured the October bar on the top floor of Glasgow's prestigious Prince's Square as it offered them "the opportunity to look down on others", while enjoying a meal and refreshments.
Our source describes overhearing heated discussion on the subject of Mackay-Stevens, with the comments such as "too happy by far", "glee club", "needs brought down a notch" and "lets burst the wee carrots bubble", emanating from the table that would later remain tip-free.
There was a point during the meal when an overseas-based moderator appeared on a video call, it was unclear whether he was slurring his words or if the connection was poor, however his appraisal of Mackay-Stevens was in a similar vein, with the decipherable "sick of looking at Garys smug face on the Cellic website" drawing a number of "ayes" from the eremitic audience.
Later in the evening, as beverages were consumed, one of the group produced an iPhone from his pocket at described how he was going to "tell that **** Kenny McKay to make sure the wee ******* gets told where to go", to raucous approval of his now worse-for-wear companions. "Get him and his glakit coupin tae **** aff ma streams, man", was the response of another, who's daily airs and graces had now been ravaged by alcohol.
A terse statement is expected from the group in the following days.
Neither Mackay-Stevens or his agent could be contacted for comment.
It's Mackay-Steven.
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25 Jul 2015, 01:04 AM
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- 25 Jul 2015, 12:13 AM
According to the Celtic Wiki, the King of Kings signed for the Hoops 18 years ago today (cant believe the years  ). Still the King, So I was 10 when he signed.
I was unbelievaly lucky
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25 Jul 2015, 08:58 AM
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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Anybody help this guy?
Some nice pictures of some of the strips in the link.
Meet the man collecting football shirts from all 209 FIFA countries
Joe Johnston has spent five years seeking out football shirts from each of the 209 FIFA member countries. With just eight shirts left to find, he tells The Scotsman about a global quest involving the Pope, a Mormon missionary and a five-figure sum of money. By Patrick McPartlin
Six federations, 209 countries, five years, one man. It sounds like the tagline to the latest blockbuster film, but it’s very much day-to-day life for Joe Johnston.
The University of Aberdeen library worker is coming to the end of a quest to collect a football shirt from each of the 209 FIFA member countries; a global hobby that started in the Granite City’s charity shops.
Spoiler: click to toggle “Around the time of the 2010 World Cup, one of my mates was going around all the charity shops in Aberdeen, buying all the second-hand shirts he could find,” explains Joe. “Pretty soon he’d got quite a lot, some interesting and exotic ones like Bayer Leverkusen, Roma and the like - and vintage Barcelona and Inter Milan shirts. “I was passing an Oxfam shop and decided I wanted a piece of the action, so I popped in and five minutes later I was the proud owner of a Scotland shirt and a Slovenia shirt.” Already in possession of an Argentina shirt - “I’ve always liked them ever since I got into football at the 1994 World Cup” - Joe realised that with three international football jerseys, he had inadvertently started a collection. “The only logical thing to do with a collection is try and complete it - so here I am, five years later, with 300 football jerseys clogging up my bedroom.” Looking back at his decision to embark on the quest, Joe admits he wrestled with the logic at the time. “I reasoned with myself. ‘Don’t be so stupid. It’s probably impossible,” he says. It’s mad to think that I’ve got a Pope’s football shirt. I hope he hasn’t been looking for it But it was a thought that kept niggling at the back of Joe’s mind, eventually leading to a bit of research. “I found myself on the internet checking out the international world rankings. It turned out that a total of 208 nations were members of FIFA. “‘That’s loads’, I thought. I don’t have a very big wardrobe. But I began trawling eBay and buying more shirts, and then more and more - the theoretical goal of 208 national shirts solidifying in my mind as a personal challenge.” Then in May 2012, South Sudan were confirmed as the 209th member of FIFA, giving Joe another shirt to source. Fast-forward to July 2015, and Joe is just eight shirts away from completing his collection. But although Joe has received help from across the world - “I’ve had a lot of help from guys in Canada, Germany, England, Mexico” - the task hasn’t been without its pitfalls. During 2014, a six-month dry spell occurred, with Joe hitting a brick wall. “I didn’t manage to tick off any new countries, no one was replying to my messages and I started to think that maybe it wasn’t possible. “But then I managed to crack another two countries in a week, and suddenly I felt like it was back on again.” Another problem has been the abundance of ‘fake’ shirts. When I ask Joe about his worst experience, he points to his attempts to source one particular shirt. “It was my fourth attempt at getting a Mali shirt and I discovered that it was yet another fake. Fake shirts are the worst thing about the quest - there are loads out there. “For me, they don’t count. If they did, then I could just buy a yellow Adidas shirt and write Mauritainia on it in pen and say I was done - and where’s the fun in that?” Thankfully, Joe - who reckons he’s spent ‘a five-figure sum’ on his hobby - has had numerous positive experiences on his quest. But what’s his most prized shirt, I ask? “I’ve got a Montserrat shirt, brought back from a World Cup qualifier for me by one of the players that I’m quite proud of - they’re incredibly rare. “But the ultimate honour probably goes to my Azerbaijan Under-17 shirt. I saw it for sale on eBay, really cheap, signed by a load of players and with a message written on it in German, along with a date and a place name. “I did a lot of Googling and research, and realised that it was actually a shirt that had been presented to Pope Benedict XVI at some obscure Italian tournament. “No one else had realised, not even the seller, who had probably just picked it up at a charity shop in Rome when they cleared out Benedict XVI’s possessions and put it up for sale without thinking about it. “I got it pretty cheap in the end. It’s mad to think that I’ve got a Pope’s football shirt. I hope he hasn’t been looking for it.” The quest has grown from being a one-man operation to involving individuals and organisations from across the world. “A film-maker in Tanzania sent me a match-worn shirt that he happened to have; a Mormon missionary in Madagascar is trying to help me out at the moment and I also bought a fake Malawi shirt from the David James bankruptcy auction,” he reels off. [In November 2014, bankrupt former Liverpool goalkeeper David James held a ‘car boot sale’ in order to sell some of his possession, including a number of football shirts - including the counterfeit Malawi jersey] “David is well-known for his big heart and his generosity - “I knew [the shirt] was a fake - but it isn’t just any fake Malawi shirt. The fact he had a Malawi shirt at all - fake or not - is presumably related to the work he does with the David James Foundation, a Malawi-based charity that he organised to educate farmers.” I ask Joe to explain the process behind searching for the shirts, especially the more outlandish kits. “There are a lot of collectors out there looking for the really hard-to-find shirts,” he explains. “I’ve messaged a whole lot of footballers on Facebook, I’ve emailed numerous football associations, football officials, sport shops, embassies - I’ve even found random blogs from people living in out-of-the-way places and I’ll message them to check if official replica shirts are available.” Not all of the footballers have replied, but Joe did manage to have a chat with St Mirren cult hero - and former Montserrat international - Junior Mendes. “I managed to get Junior’s number via the University of Aberdeen press officer after discovering he was playing for Nairn in the Highland League. It was kind of surreal, but he was a really nice guy,” Joe recalls. So with just eight shirts remaining - Syria, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritania, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Sudan and Congo, country of current Hibs striker Dominique Malonga - what happens once all 209 shirts have been obtained? “I’d like to have an exhibition somewhere so people can come and see them for themselves. So many people have shown interest in the collection, I think it’s the sort of thing people would like to see. “It’s a sort-of statement about how football unites the world - it transcends language, culture, religion. “One thought I had was that the shirts would be a great gimmick for a sports bar. It could be called ‘The 209’ and the gimmick is that there’s a shirt from every FIFA member country. My business acumen isn’t great but maybe I could lease them to a bar somewhere. “I’d also like to adapt the blog into a book - maybe rewrite some of the posts, get better photos done. I think it’s the sort of thing that would be a good stocking-filler for guys at Christmas. So if there are any publishers out there reading this who think it’s a good idea...” Joe’s quest is all the more impressive when you consider that six-month period when his efforts stalled, and that it’s so far spanned two World Cups and one European Championship tournament. But there’s a more human aspect to it, a sort-of unbridled joy that comes with each new shirt that Joe receives. “It’s always a good feeling when something incredible rare arrives in the post and I open the parcel. It’s like Christmas every day,” he smiles. • Joe is on Twitter at @globalobsession and runs a blog charting his efforts at theglobalobsession.com.You can contact him through either if you are able to help him source those last remaining shirts http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/meet-the-man-collecting-football-shirts-from-all-209-fifa-countries-1-3840394
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26 Jul 2015, 03:54 PM
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Moved to Parenthood thread
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26 Jul 2015, 04:07 PM
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Put it out on the parenting thread in General - the little nippers are coming thick and fast these days, surely someone will have a use for it ...
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26 Jul 2015, 05:37 PM
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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A football match was delayed at Oldham Athletic on Saturday after unwanted visitors swarmed around the goalposts. A queen bee had attached herself to one of the posts, causing the penalty area to become hive of activity. The referee suspended the start of the friendly with Blackburn Rovers until some beekeepers arrived. The club tweeted: "The Bee team has just left the pitch", while Blackburn's twitter feed read: "Un-BEE-lievable scenes here." A club spokesman said: "We are very grateful to the local bee society who arranged for a beekeeper to come along and clear the bees." Rovers won the game 2-0.
Buzzing
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26 Jul 2015, 06:15 PM
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Since the Sevco thread came to an untimely demise, I have mostly been studying philosophy.
Marx, I am convinced, would have admired the blog since it gave voice to the Proletariate. It exemplified the dualism that any healthy community should aspire to where the ideology informs the praxis and the praxis, in turn, informs the ideology. It was of course the enemy of pseudo-intellectualism, constantly exposing the deep seated insecurity of the neo-middle classes in their pursuit of acceptance by their perceived 'betters.' Oh from below!! Surely the criticism of being 'obsessed' - the very language of the enemy, said much about those who adopted it, to justify a callous act of intellectual discrimination. Critical awareness is their enemy too, it would seem.
Jung, it could be argued, would have found much for which to laud the Sevco thread. For therein could be found the dreams of many, laying bare their deepest longings for a more just society. Kierkegaard would have relished the thread's option for concrete human reality over abstract thinking, while not rejecting it completely, and the enlightening use of metaphor, irony and symbol. (I'm sure Marx would have taken him to task on this.) Perhaps, admittedly, all may have questioned the merits of the 'pun.'
But most of all, the Sevco thread was a goldmine of information on the psychology of human sexuality to be found in a section of Scottish (and Northern Irish) society. The designation of maternal prefixes to a large house (Fraud surely would have seen this as an indirect reference to the vagina), the choice of red cards to wave is certainly connected to female discharge and a primitive understanding of clean and unclean, and attempts to insert objects into holes in the mother house which do not actually exist!! (An in depth study of Electra and Oedipal complexes was there on the Sevco thread for all to read.) Yes, sometimes a cigar IS just a cigar. But sometimes it's a lot more. In its own way, the Sevco thread peeled back the layers and scraped away the defensive veneer of many.
The KDS moderators may think they have simply called time on a rather unkempt, crude and unpalatable, overcrowded bar room. But alas, I fear that they have closed the door on an important school of urban philosophy and smashed a mirror which was being held up to expose a nation to itself in a sometimes unfavourable light.
Jung was right when he said that self-reflection was amongst the most terrifying things known to mankind and that most people flee from it. Or shut it down.
Next week, instead of reading the Sevco thread, I shall mainly be studying zoology. I shall pay particular attention to the chapter on horses arses. Farewell for now to the artistes, poets, raconteurs and Bon Viveurs of the Sevco thread. You will be missed.
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26 Jul 2015, 09:00 PM
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Ah, but what would Nietzsche made of the farcical decline of the Ubermensch.
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26 Jul 2015, 11:24 PM
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Ah, but what would Nietzsche made of the farcical decline of the Ubermensch. Strangely enough, I was thinking of that today when a prayer was said at the church I attend, "Oh God, without whom nothing has value....", and 'boing!' the ontogenetic ground of value and natural law disappeared in a puff of theological claptrap. Nietzsche would have turned in his cryogenic freezer!
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27 Jul 2015, 10:10 AM
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http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/33669463 lol
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