Monty's Sports thread.

[Monty]

Like Adidas Samba, or Tab,this was a classic thread. Therefore Im reviving it.

Though bought back for the World Cup, its here for any sport.

And to start it off, congratulations to Leicester Tigers for becoming the greatest rugby union team in England and the best club in the whole wide world......whooo ha ha haaaa.

Monty


PS Next week womens field hockey. Thats not a topic, more a passing interest.

[Limehouse]

Congratulations Monty! I don't know much about rugby, being a footie fan, but the small amount I have seen looks exciting.

The only consolation I can find in my team (Peterborough United) being demoted after only one season in the Championship is that we will not be playing Milwall because they have been promoted! Obviously, I would have preferred them to be going down rather than up but at least I won't have to hear their fans singing 'No one likes us, we don't care!' on our terraces!

One of our earliest games last season was at Leicester and as my daughter lives and works there we made an evening of it. What a great stadium you have over there. It makes PU rather unworthy of their nickname POSH!

[Monty]

You watched Posh play at our manor?

Oh dear, must have been traumatic for you.

Seriously, Posh played some good stuff that season. Deserved to come up. Alas you need a lot of physical prescence in this league. I felt they fell short in that department. Shouldnt have sacked Darren either in my opinion.

Your daughter works in Leicester? Wow, anywhere (rough area, dont want to give away addresses here) Id know?

Monty

[Limehouse]

Hi Monty,

Darren was very good for us. Troubel is, he couldn't keep his hands off other people's WAGS!

We did play some good football, even in the Championship, but like you say, we didn't have the bottle for most of it.

My daughter works as a paramedic. Leicester keeps her very busy! She works at various bases around the city and its outlying districts. She used to live in Anstey (is that the right spelling?) but has now moved to Asfordby.

[Monty]

Copa Mundial

Im ready.....are you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLG6jh23yE

Monty

[Nurse Sarah]

Ive been enjoying some 20/20 cricket lately...and a bit of rugby...does that count?!

[Supe]

Monty,

I emailed you about this very subject a few days ago and still waiting on your considered opinion. Though. Ferdinand's being out now does not help, clearly.

Don.

[Monty]

Don,

You did indeed, apologies. I have been meaning to return you mail.....honest.

Yes, Ferdinand is out. However he hasnt really played that much this season. My fear is Cappello will put Carragher in, who is looking creaky in my opinion. Dawson, from what Ive seen, has had a decent season. Id prefer him to go straight in.


Nurse,

I may watch our game with Lancashire or Notts.

Monty

[Supe]

Monty,

I agree that Ferdinand, aside from reputation, may not have desrved to start except that he and Terry have played so often together that they had developed a sense for the other's presence. That is crucially important on the back line, as the USA learned just last week against Turkey.

We gave up a goal when Spector had a clear run upfield almost to the box. He probably held one touch too much and lost the ball. The crime, though, was that none of the other defenders rotated back toward goal as Spector went so deep, so that one long pass and Turkey were in unmolested. You'd think at this level it would be automatic for someone to drop back to cover for an advancing back.

We daren't do that on the 12th.

Don.

[Monty]

Don.

Please forgive me but I do find it funny when Americans talk football.....unmolsted sound amusing.....sorry.

I fear USA in our group. Infact, at every World Cup there is a team which trot through as dark horse and the US, in my opinion are that team.

Dempsey is a great player, as is Donovan. They will cause us issues whoever plays back there for England.

Monty

[Nurse Sarah]

Monty, if the games are on Sky, I shall be watching...


20 June- Yorks v Leics. Grace Road, 1440

(May the best team win) ;-)

[Supe]

I'm going to intrude on the World Cup and cricket chatter to pay a small tribute to a very wonderful basketball coach and even more wonderful man, John Wooden, who died Friday just months short of his 100th birthday.

Without doubt, he was the greatest basketball coach in collegiate history. At UCLA he won 10 national championships over the course of 12 years, including seven in a row. And while clearly blessed with great players, he was able to achieve those crowns with short, fast teams; tall, slow teams and teams with a mixture of all those qualities.

More important, though, was the kind of life he led. His was the story book sort that seems more a thing of the fiction that died out in the late 19th Century with Frank Merriwell. An Indiana farmboy, he personified all the old traditional values of America, getting ahead on will and determination alone, and he embued those same values in all whom he coached.

Bill Walton, a great basketball player and even greater campus rebel of the 1970s, played for Wooden at UCLA and while there he often was in conflict with the coach's old-fashioned ethics. Yet, Walton later admitted that when the time came he raised his own boys on the same precepts of piety and perseverance that Wooden preached. These sentiments have also been echoed by almost all of John's "old boys."

Despite his incredible fame, John Wooden remained not only modest but accessible to all, as I can personally attest. His home number was listed for all to call right up to the end, and while I suppose he or his wife of 53 years got an occasional abusive call, I doubt there were many. Even the sickest in society probably realized that to harrass John Wooden was something even worse than an act of lese-majestie.

Almost to the very end, John Wooden remained as mentally sharp as in his youth. The last three years his body betrayed him a bit, but he remained quite lucid and insightful not just about basketball--which he would have said was only an avocation--but more importantly about the world and its people.

Conan Doyle's epitaph--"Steel true, blade straight"--could just as easily serve for John Wooden. We shall not see his kind again any time soon, more's the pity.

Don.

[Adam Went]

Might be worthwhile posting up about our bet on here as well, eh Monty?

For those of you who aren't aware, Monty and myself have a bet running for the upcoming Ashes test series....I've laid down $50 AUD, and Monty 50 quid....the loser, however, is donating said amount to the McGrath Foundation for breast cancer.

If there's anybody else on here who wants in on that bet, I'm sure we'd both welcome it and so would the McGrath Foundation, a very worthy cause.

Cheers,
Adam.

[Monty]

Monty's World Cup match of the day

It simply has to be.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGSXMiQrFQ

Versus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_gTaKvMKJ4&feature=related

Monty

[Stephen Thomas]

True Story

Here's Jim Lennon Jnr announcing a Mike Tyson fight

Lennon: And to sing the National Anthem we have the queeeeeeeeen of ssssssssoul, Gladyssssssssssss Knight

Shout from the crowd: Gladys Knight sucks

Lennon: Nnnnneverthelessssss.........