Things I hate about football...

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

In the southstand there used to be a red tap type thing at the tea kiosk,it looked like tomatoe sauce but was in fact hot water for the tea.I and one other person I know have squeezed hot water on to our hotdogs by accident :?
This doesnt really go in here does it.

That would really fit into the 'Slapstick moments' forum which Dazzzzza is currently working on

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

And that IS a slapstick moment - Pure Stan Laurel!

[Reg Smeeton]

Anyone even know what a slide rule is or how you actually use one?

  http://www.tcf.ua.edu/AZ/SlideRule.jpg

  Hard to believe kids, but there was a time before calculators when all scientific calculations were done either with tables or slide rules.

 As a student of science it was my misfortune to have to master the the thing, and it wasn't easy......although with care and practice quite complex maths could be achieved.

[yeo]

Reg have you been at your lads crack pipe again?

[janaage]

But have you ever needed one to work out goal difference in a group of four teams, or if Arsenal lost 2-1 away and they're 1-0 up what happens if the scores stay the same???

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

But have you ever needed one to work out goal difference in a group of four teams, or if Arsenal lost 2-1 away and they're 1-0 up what happens if the scores stay the same???

PRECISELY my point Jan the Jock - HOW do you work out goal difference and stuff using THAT?

[janaage]

Je ne sais pas mon ami.  I tend to do simple arithmatic using my brain.

[Reg Smeeton]

Well in the day of the slide rule....you in fact had goal average for which you did need a slide rule to work out.

  So taking a random exampe our goal average for 70/71 was 1.1960784.

[Simon Pieman]

John Motson's lisp. I reckon he needs some fixodent, because it's got so much worse in the last few years.

"oooh milan baroshhhhhhhh almost scored there"

[strooood]

thats because the accent above the S in baros means it is pronounced barosch  

[Simon Pieman]

thats because the accent above the S in baros means it is pronounced barosch  

yeh even i say it like "barosh" but not "baroshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" like motson. another example is  "the ashishtant referee raished hish flag, and the whishle blew, indicating jamesh beattie wash offshide"

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

During the 2002 World Cup the Turkish player Hassan Sass became at some stage, thanks mainly to Motty, Hashan Shash.

Motty's a bit of a twat really.

[Dazzza]

Anyone even know what a slide rule is or how you actually use one?

  http://www.tcf.ua.edu/AZ/SlideRule.jpg

  Hard to believe kids, but there was a time before calculators when all scientific calculations were done either with tables or slide rules.

 As a student of science it was my misfortune to have to master the the thing, and it wasn't easy......although with care and practice quite complex maths could be achieved.

Yes!

I remember now.  I looked at this earlier today and that contraption looked vaguely familiar.  

I now recall that we briefly used them back in school when I must have been 8/9 we had an old school maths teacher who use to rule his class with a metre rule.

I couldn't for the life of me remember how it worked now.

For some reason I always excelled in classes taught by teachers from the old school.

[Simon Pieman]

During the 2002 World Cup the Turkish player Hassan Sass became at some stage, thanks mainly to Motty, Hashan Shash.

Motty's a bit of a twat really.

oh i'm glad i'm not the only one!

[janaage]

Barry Davies 1994 World Cup.  Would pronounced every player normally expect Bebeto and Romario, when he'd do some kinda of Italian accent, now he was a crap commentator.