Belated review: Triangles, triangles on the wings. Hughes bullying players twice his size. Uddersfield can’t speak English can’t understand their chants, their players are extremes, dwarves, fat baldies, the tall one etc etc After the wing triangles lots of step overs. Then off it goes to one of the good Latin types to score. We wait to see if they can somehow get past 8 players to walk it into the net, yet the replay somehow shows they just walk in a straight line and touch it once??? Huddersfield reduced to shooting from distance. Success doesn’t pass as he is desperate desperate for his goal, gets it eventually Then we all go home for tea
The foil display in the Sannino season was the way to do it. I paid the Wobby photographer a few bob & it still hangs on the wall.
That reminds me, did anyone else notice the fraction of a second he spent, after making one of his saves, resting his chin on the top of the ball and grinning cheesily for the cameras?
This could be be turning into a history thread. Yes both sides in World War One exaggerated so called atrocities in order to galvanize public opinion at home. However there have been a couple of documentaries covering the Great War in the last few years coupled with historical research of documents which reveals that the occupying Germans did commit what we would see as war crimes. This includes the summary executions of civilians, rape, punitive sanctions against local business and seizure of all sorts of goods including the wholesale transport of machinery back to Germany. Belgian civilians were treated with great suspicion as possible saboteurs and resistance fighters as some indeed were. The occupying Germans destroyed the centre of Leuven for example and turned what was a prosperous economy into a basketcase which never fully recovered. It is akin albeit on a smaller and if it can be said a less vicious horrific version of what happened for example to Poland (which also still has not recovered) and the then Soviet Union. The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War I by Larry Zuckerman is worth reading Unhappy Bunny.
I have it too! Mad Barry has been strangely mute since I told him I would have to smother him with his flag if he kept burbling on about the ref,the opposition and everything else under the sun! His daughter has resumed her seat to my right,having been to the Bros concert. Apparently she tickled Isaac! I know anglers do this with trout but I'm unsure of its context with footballers.
True, up to a point - but "dominated" rather than "ruled", I'd say. And the chances of Britain being invaded and losing our freedom was minimal, and it's the reference to "our" freedom that I was objecting to
Which only serves to emphasise how despicable was France's insistence on such humiliating terms meted out to Germany in the Versailles Treaty. And we all know what that led to.
Mmmm this is a matter of historiographical debate, and there are/were multiple prominent figures, now and at the time, who believed the terms were nowhere near harsh enough, and would guarantee a further conflict because of how leniently they treated Germany, so we can't really judge it in such a linear fashion.
Is anyone now saying that Versailles was too generous to the Germans? They certainly weren't when I was doing my history degree. Quite apart from Hitler exploiting the thirst for revenge, there was the economic stupidity of reparations - the Germans giving us free coal etc which put our miners out of work.
Dr Margaret MacMillan, who randomly is one of Lloyd George's great-granddaughters, for one, argues it should probably have been harsher and that may have thwarted some of the Nazis early work, with the stab in the back myth allowed to germinate without Germany actually having suffered particularly badly in terms of its own territory/citizens. I suppose I would elaborate more that I mean as much that there's a distinct school of thought that the treaty wasn't anywhere near as harsh as popular perception would have it, and that it was in practice a paper tiger that wasn't actually to blame for hyperinflation and the collapse of the Weimar Republic. Full disclosure, I also have a history degree, but these points are from my own reading as much as anything I studied at that time, and I'm not necessarily saying they are my own beliefs, hence the acknowledgement of historiographical debate.
If that has the same meaning as the Scottish word 'guddling' - which means fishing using only your hands - then it involves tickling the fish along its underbelly. History tells us that that method wouldn't work with Isaac though - he apparently doesn't 'rise to the bait'...
Strange game on Saturday I thought. 2-0 up at half time and it could have been 4-4. But we played well and were deserved winners over the 90 minutes. A bit embarrassing for me for the 3rd goal - when we took the free kick, seemingly aimlessly, I did say "What the phuq was that". To be followed shortly thereafter by "Oh, it's a goal". Oops.
War does beget war. Germany invaded and completely humiliated France in 1870 - 1871, forcing the abdication of Napoleon III and annexing Alsace-Lorraine. It was no surprise that Clemenceau's terms at Versailles were seen by many as 'revenge as much as restitution. Overall, however, it is difficult to deny that the unification of Germany, the German Empire until 1918 and the rise of the Nazi's primarily relied on an aggressive, militaristic Prussian led policy of territorial expansion beyond the homeland. The Germans were quickest to mobilise and attack in 1914 on two fronts. That can't be said of Britain and France who were clearly unprepared for the attack through Belgium.
