Well, well,....well. Here I am. Fresh from my epic trip to England. I must say what a successful trip it was. I didn't think they were going to let us leave with the way things were going. Every day it was at least 50 deg and sunshine. Not a drop of rain the whole trip!!! I was hoping for at least 2 days out of the 10! Let's see what transpired while I was away: When I left for England, we were 5 points behind Arsenal going into our match against Aston Villa. Liverpool was fighting Celtic to go through in the UEFA Cup. Arsenal was in pursuit of a Quarterfinal Berth in the Champions League and pursuing a Treble. When we took off for home on Sunday, we were top of the league, had seen a Ruud hat trick (with a very special goal), and both Liverpool and Arsenal were out of Europe. It couldn't have gone any better!
Glad to see you had a great trip. I was thinking about you as I watched the Villa and Fulham games. I thought that the Fulham game was particularly entertaining, with good, crisp, attacking football for the entire game. And of course, Ruud's 2nd goal was one of the goals of the season. I fell out of my chair with that one.
Yes. Definately the Goal of the Month and a Goal of the Year Candidate. Right now, I'd have Henry's goal as GOY, with Ruud's 2nd and Gudjohnsen's bicycle 3rd. We had a choice of things to do on the Friday, and we picked lunch just above taking over France. We were kinda hungry so it made sense.
It was similar to Ruud's goal, I believe it was against Tottenham. I'd really have to see them both in a row to determine which I'd prefer really.
Yes. Pictures. Forthcoming. As soon as they're ready I'll either post them here or/and in my new Personal Forum. I got a really close up shot of Sir Bobby from outside the gates at the Villa match! Hopefully next week! Cheers!
glad you had a good trip. when you get a chance to catch up fully you'll realise what a cluster fcuk it was getting tix for the US tour. I got some, others weren't so fortunate. it's a good thing that you got yours early.
Yeah, after the Fulham match on Saturday I saw in the Manchester Evening News that the tickets had outsold the World Cup when it was in the States. I was supremely joyful I procured mine before leaving!
Well, in London, we did the Open Top Bus Tour thing. It was cool to do that and get our bearings, etc. We went to the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, and Piccadily Circus. We hung out most of the time in Piccadily Circus and Leicester Square since our hotel was nearby. Most free time was also spent pub crawling. Went to Madame Toussaud's Wax Museum. It's cool cause the "statues" are not behind ropes so you can get pictures taken with famous people - Becks and Buffy were my two faves. Oh, and The Rock with his eyebrow raised greets you when you enter. I'm not a wrestling fan, but it was cool nonetheless. That covers most of the three days we were based in London. Manchester, we took the Old Trafford Tour and Museum. Ate at the Red Cafe. Visited the MegaStore. The Tour was cool cause we got to go into the dressing room and see tactics drawn up on the board - looked like corner kick planning to me, which I found ironic, since we suck at them. We also got to walk down the tunnel that the players come out of - they play a recording with crowd noise and team announcements for the full effect! And, my God, the Trophy Room. Took the rail to Newcastle for the Barca match. Went in the Castle Keep which is the "New Castle" that they got the name from. More pub-crawling. Back to Manchester. Saw a reserve match, which was frustrating really. The kids are all so talented, I thought they should be able to play better together as a team, and poor Danny Webber. Took the rail to Preston to see the International Football Hall of Fame. It was pretty good, it had alot of old stuff in it. The coolest things were the ball that England won the World Cup with and the first film ever taken of a football match in 1880-something! More pub-crawling and sampling of food from Fish n Chips, to Indian, Chinese and Thai restaurants that were all really good. Budweiser is 5.0% there! It was actually good! I couldn't believe it when my friend said that they drank it alot over there. Who'da thunk it? I liked Stella Artois, Carlsberg (I know), Carling, and Boddington's. And the beer there isn't as warm as you'd be led to believe. It was all very good. I guess that's it for now. I'll have pics and stuff later. I promise!
This is sad. I miss Motter. Come to think of it, I'm only about an hour from where he lives or lived. Hmm...
While he's not technically "dead", he grew up, got married and has kids. So he'll be back here once the kids go off to college. Same fate has fallen the likes of FifaRay and others.
You know who I had forgotten about until the Valencia thread bump? United Forever. Forgot about that kid. I miss some of the old characters. BigSoccer has really been kind over the years.
He was pretty recently active no? But I feel like I didn't know he was going. Well, maybe that's not true, I remember him talking about being more busy, but there didn't feel like there was a gradual shift. Just here one day, gone the next. Which is how I feel about UF, he just vanished. Lot of good old posters. Sitati Kituyi was the first person I'd ever 'met' online that I missed. 50 Euro too. #reminisce