Found some interesting information I would like to share in the Official Stuff Thread. This should be SnV's random thread, imv
FC BASEL FIRES COACH VOGEL, IMMEDIATELY HIRES YAKIN
BASEL, Switzerland -- Swiss champion FC Basel has fired coach Heiko Vogel and hired former player Murat Yakin to replace him.
Basel, which trails eight points behind Swiss league leader Grasshoppers, says in a statement it would explain the decision at a news conference.
Vogel's firing was unexpected after he led the team to an exceptional season in his first head coaching job.
The 36-year-old Vogel was interim coach when his team eliminated Manchester United from the Champions League last December.
Days later, Basel gave Vogel a contract through the 2013-14 season and he led the team to a Swiss league and cup double.
Yakin, a 38-year-old former Basel and Switzerland defender, was fired by Lucerne in August.
http://www.tsn.ca/soccer/story/?id=407425
forgot my emoticon :lol:
You do realize that you have now given up the right to comment on the quality of content of anyone else's posts ever again?
And you do realise this was a joke in light of some of the utterly random postings elsewhere lately?
As I said earlier - we need Bundesliga 2 injury updates
I must admit that I am not a fan of *the one big thread theory*. Yeah, yeah it's neater but does it actually do anything constructive in livening up this place?
My heart sinks when I have to wade through pages and pages....and pages.
Not enough emoticons.
I know there's at least one other poster on this board that cares about Toivonen being injured for the rest of the season.
Completely agree. There are some topics where giant threads are justified, for example the picture thread, betting thread, film thread, other games thread etc. But do we really need a jumbo thread for each and every player too? They serve absolutely no purpose. Even the transfer thread, why? Surely posting new topics on potential targets, barring the ridiculous rumours, can only encourage posters to post more and be more active.
Completely agree. There are some topics where giant threads are justified, for example the picture thread, betting thread, film thread, other games thread etc. But do we really need a jumbo thread for each and every player too? They serve absolutely no purpose. Even the transfer thread, why? Surely posting new topics on potential targets, barring the ridiculous rumours, can only encourage posters to post more and be more active.
They serve to keep everything about one player in one place and to stop us having 5 different threads about the same player open discussing pretty much similar things.
I agree with the transfer one, but there should be a 'sub-thread' to post threads about transfer targets and the like...
The next transfer window will most likely be done differently, you'll just have to wait and see...
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.A San Marino player asked for Wayne Rooney’s shorts and Rooney obliged
By Brooks Peck
For the mostly amateur footballers that comprise the San Marino squad, playing at Wembley against some of the biggest names in the sport is a special experience. And even after a 5-0 loss, some of them were still eager to make the most of that experience to the point of making unusual requests.
After the match, Wayne Rooney, who served as captain for the match and became England's fifth highest goal scorer of all time with a brace, explained (via the Telegraph):
"I have kept the armband and will keep it forever. I gave my shirt to one of their players and had to give my shorts away as well. That was a first. It has certainly never happened before!"
So a San Marino player went up to Wayne Rooney after the match and asked, "May I please have your shorts?" and then Wayne said, "Indeed you may" and then he took off his shorts, handed them to his opponent and then both players went on their way (we can only assume the San Marino player did this to ensure that Rooney's shorts were properly disposed of in a medical waste bin somewhere). Where else could that request possibly play out like that?
Somehow visual evidence of this incident has not turned up yet, most likely because when every cameraperson in the stadium saw Rooney start to remove his shorts, they immediately pointed their cameras anywhere else and/or burned them.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/socce...ayne-rooney-shorts-rooney-061705236--sow.html
i do think this could have gone in the England thread to be honest
Vice Den surely?
and i wasn't joking? are you psychic? or telepathic?.. for the record my comment was made with humorous intentions, so politely, please go ahead and do one good sir.