>>1819
Liverpool simply can't afford to get rid of Rafa. The papers are saying it'd cost £25m to buy him out of his current contract, and since they're already in a sell to buy position, looks like the waiter's in for 5 more years.

IN RAFA WE TRUST

FUCK OFF YIDS

LOL Wigan

I like Rafa but I'm surprised they haven't kicked him out yet.

>>1867

The Rafa has turned on the players now. How can this man be still in a job having turned Liverpool FC into a stable of shagged donkeys?

>>1868
I think it shows how fucked Liverpool probably are behind the scenes.

Wow, I'm anticipating this season like no other and not just because of Shcumie's now-confirmed return. There's the competition in my favourite team between Massa and Alonso; I hope Felipe Baby can prove to the world he's more than a strong number two. There's also the fight to establish the best British driver, again I'll be behind the underdog. I think the title this year is between Vettel and Alonso, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

Bahrain Grand Prix: 12-14 March. Can't wait.

Football is for nancy boys.

>>1783
Every time it rains I think he'll stand a good chance of a podium but I think the fitness demands of F1 will do him in. He is well known for keeping superfit, but as a forty-year-old myself I just can't see him maintaining the sort of form he used to manage.

I adore him, it will be great to see him storm the odd race and show the kids how it is done, but I'm not expecting the metronomic performance of old.

Forty hurts.

>>1784
Don't worry, you'll be dead soon.

>>1784 speak for yourself old man, you are only as old as you feel, and I feel like a 20-yr old tonight :D

Really looking forward to it now.

pre season prediction: Lewis vs Fernando with the odd bit of Felipe. It will take Jenson six races or more to get anywhere.

Schumacher will win a race or couple of podiums but that's it.

The whole fuel-tank thing will change the races though. Heavy cars at the start, no refuelling, cars basically 25% heavier from qualifying to race-start. Interesting.

>>1865
I'm looking forward to the Semis. Pompey v Tottenham will be a corker. I predict we'll do Harry up the bum and win the cup again before getting relegated.

>>1861

no thankyou. I became bored of this "footballers' wives" style media coverage about 20 minutes before it began. I dont want to idolise my footballing heroes as people, I want to watch them play football. If they spend their free time snorting cocaine from the arse crack of 4 year olds whilst beating their wives dressed as cheap prostitutes and smoking a pipe, I really dont care.

>>1862
Sounds like my kinda guy.

>>1861

The new haircut should put paid to any further shenanigans, along with what remains of his dignity.

>>1855
LOL AT POMPEY

>>1856

>>1856
SCUMMER DETECED

>>1859
How could you tell?

I'd rather watch darts on the telly while at the pub than footie tbh, probably as I have a short attention span.
The rounds last less than 5 minutes, the game has real characters, in the classical sense (fat fucks in capes). When the camera pans backs over the arena I'm treated to the sight of hundreds of screaming 'fans' who're clearly there to simply get bladdered in a communal setting.
The competitors wives are pig ugly, I doubt they're overpaid like most sportsmen... I can feel a certain empathy for darts players I just cant summon with Chelsea strikers on half a million a week.

Some bloke called Nicholson giving PTP Taylor a good run at the minute on ITV4.

He's hit every single double with one dart so far, three of which have been Bull... including the 170 checkout to break Taylor for the second time.

Brilliant stuff.

>>1832

>The competitors wives are pig ugly

I have found that to be remarkably untrue. Most of the younger (but no more attractive) arrowmen have rather sexy wives, even if they do look a bit...estate, they're still lookers.

>>1847
I must have missed these diamonds, I humbly request pics.

>>1830
>I'm fully supportive of all sports that you can play while drinking a pint.

precisely. i don't think any closed sports are really "sports" in the proper sense.

What always amuses me is that lots of Americans who dislike football seem to be under the impression that the rest of the world is somehow butthurt about it. As if we're all lying awake at night wondering why America doesn't want to join in all our reindeer games.

An big burly football player in a sports shop over in America said to me "Oh England, is that like a third world country now or..?" Which his friends found hilarious.

>>1841

To be fair, if he came to England he'd just get some rat saying "oi m8, are all u yanks fat as fuck then or wot?"

He'd find a way to make sure you knew it was spelt thus even when spoken, too.

>>1841

Fucking yanks.

>>1843 fucking wanks <-fix'd

>>1845
I've always been a fan of the Winter Olympics too. I enjoy it much more than the Summer games.

Completely agree. Snowboard Cross was one of the best events of last time. So pissed off that this time around I am gainfully employed and can't sit around in my pants watching this eating those expensive German biscuits and getting stoned.

>>1849

watching the mens snowboard X now... this course is pretty fucking brutal.

>>1829
If he wins tomorrow I imagine he'll be declared British.

>>1831
Still Scottish then...

>>1833

He cried, though, which is about the smartest move he can make from a PR perspective. The biddies that make up the core of the Wimbledon audience will finally take a shine to him now and he'll be "our Andy."

All Scottish people are British. It's a matter of fact.

New Sauber looks pretty good for a car with no sponsorship on it, shades of brawn last year maybe?

>>1822

First of many, one expects. Football finances have been untenable ever since the dawn of the Champions League and the huge disparities in earning it has wreaked upon all the domestic competitions across Europe.

I wish I had £100million.

And now being sued by Sol Campbell

>>1805 I was never a fan of rugby.

>>1794
This is a picture of Graeme Smith looking very sad. Conversely, seeing him sad makes me very happy.

Let me taste your tears, Saffas. Your sweet, delicious tears.

>>1794
I am Graeme Onions...

>>1802
...and I am Graeme Swann...

>>1803
...together we bring you, a big "Fuck You South Africa"

Sports Personality Of The January goes to Colly, hands down.

>>1791
You need to also dig out "Hoddle and Waddle". The track was called Diamond Lights if my memory serves me correctly. Similarly mindblowing.

Simply outstanding

http://www.youtube.com/v/phMqmrX3Tpo