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Strip clubs over-rated??! How freakin' dare you! To not know the loving warmth that envelopes you on walking through the doors of a top notch titty bar is indeed a sad sad thing.

I mean, what's the point?

Go to one - but a good one ,not like the wee one in Galway, and you'll get the point pretty quiclky my man.

I can only assume you mean going behind the curtain and paying for sex? Well then I suppose you are getting action then.

But the normal dance, pay, unsatisfied routine doesn't appeal to me.

The Office? Come off it, tv brilliance.

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Strip clubs - actually never have been in one, nor do I see the point in them.

Scrubs? Come off it, TV brilliance.

Oh, nice fliparound.

It's very, very good - I just don't have it in the top-class bracket.

JD, the janitor are excellent. Dr Cox is funny for a series or two, then it's just the same joke repeated.....and repeated.....and repeated.

Strip clubs over-rated??! How freakin' dare you! To not know the loving warmth that envelopes you on walking through the doors of a top notch titty bar is indeed a sad sad thing.

I mean, what's the point?

Your a fag

Yes that's it.

It's not as if you get action at a strip club. You get frustrated.

Strip clubs over-rated??! How freakin' dare you! To not know the loving warmth that envelopes you on walking through the doors of a top notch titty bar is indeed a sad sad thing.

I mean, what's the point?

The Office? Come off it, tv brilliance.

Scrubs
Friends
Ireland
Damian Duff
Damian Duff
The Bot
Strip clubs - actually never have been in one, nor do I see the point in them.

If this isn't an acceptable level of fitness, my granny is a goat....

Alan Wiley, the official accused by Sir Alex Ferguson of not being fit enough to referee, ran farther than all but four Manchester United players during the 94 minutes of the game against Sunderland.

The FA has written to Ferguson asking him to explain his comments about Wiley by next Tuesday. The United manager could yet be charged with improper conduct.

Before he composes his reply, the Scot may want to consider that Wiley, The Times has learnt, outdistanced the average player in the 2-2 draw on Saturday by 205.8 metres. Refereeing officials believe that Wiley's official ProZone statistics from the match at Old Trafford "100 per cent" disprove Ferguson's claims that the Staffordshire referee "just wasn't fit enough".

Wiley covered 11,039.1 metres, the eighth farthest of any individual on the pitch. "Eighth is entirely credible," a refereeing source said yesterday. "He had a bloody good game."

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ProZone shows that only four United players and three from Sunderland ran farther than Wiley, 49. His average distance from the ball was 17.7 metres. Elite referees in England are allowed an average of up to 20 metres.

Concern is growing among the close-knit refereeing fraternity about the long-term effects of constant criticism from managers, especially Ferguson. Several leading referees, including Graham Poll and Mike Riley, have retired in recent years in part because of the persistent sniping.

"They're getting sick of it," a senior refereeing source said last night. "Ferguson is the past master. It deflects any criticism from his team and players and he succeeds every time. Why doesn't he just talk to the match delegate?"

The Times has also discovered that Wiley's fitness was assessed more recently than most of his colleagues in the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) select group of referees. The officials take a challenging test of their fitness twice a year and if they fail either they are not permitted to referee.

Wiley was on holiday in July and was not tested until August. Since he passed, his level of fitness is, in theory, less questionable than those of younger referees, despite the fact that he is the oldest of the group.

Wiley had been "very upset" at first, according to Dermot Gallagher, the former referee who was his mentor when he joined the select group in 1999. "He is the most competitive guy that I have ever met in my life," Gallagher said. "I used to think that I was one of the fittest Premier League referees and if he thought I could run a yard more than him in training it would break his heart.

"He really is the consummate professional. Of all the referees that someone could lay this criticism at, it really is the wrong one. It is a massive sting to your pride, especially for someone who really does pride himself on looking after himself.

"I thought he had a fantastic game, I really did. I really do think it was a comment that can't be substantiated."

Expert evidence confirms the referees' opinion. "Ferguson is creating a doubt in people's minds over the fitness of Alan Wiley where none probably existed," Dr Martin Roderick, a member of the sport, health and policy research group at the University of Durham and a former Kettering Town midfield player, said.

"One of the only givens we have about the body is that it does deteriorate with time; there is a well-understood age at which referees know their time is running out. But I don't think there was anything in what Ferguson was saying.

"The game ebbs and flows and everybody on the pitch will be more or less exhausted at various times. Alan Wiley, like an older player such as Teddy Sheringham, will have learnt to play the game his way, to understand the patterns of the game — where they can take a breather and when he really needs to keep up. A younger, less experienced referee will tend to run more."

Roderick's view is supported by a study undertaken in 2008 by PGMOL and sport scientists in Italy and Switzerland, using data on the performance of 22 referees aged between 31 and 48 in 778 Premier League matches over four seasons.

The findings suggested that older referees were able to use experience to cover for the loss of a yard or so of pace. Despite covering less ground and performing fewer sprints, referees in the 43-48 age group were able to maintain an average distance from fouls that was comparable to that recorded by the youngest referees.

Wiley has to pass the same strenuous pre and mid-season tests as Stuart Attwell, 26, the youngest of the elite referees. Stamina is tested by a 3,000-metre run that must be completed in less than 12 minutes.

Capacity for coping with change of pace is assessed by a test in which referees alternately run 150 metres and walk 50 metres, repeating the sequence 20 times. The 150-metre runs must be completed in 30 seconds, with 35 seconds allowed for the 50-metre walk.

Six 40-metre sprints must be completed in less than 6.20sec each — assistant referees have only 6.00, with only a minute's rest between sprints. Referees can repeat one sprint if they fail to complete it within the time, but only one.

I think the stats you're talking about showed that Wiley covered more ground in that Sunderland game than seven of Uniteds starting eleven.

Sounds right.

Rambo, "why single out of one incident from one manager and ignore countless others?" – I think it is fair to say Ferguson is probably the worst offender in the Premiership. I think sympathy will be in short supply.

To show i'm not all anti-United, I see the officials are calling for a longer ban, I think it's fair enough.

Henry Winter, Telegraph, if anything he always pro-Liverpool until recently, but he seems to be trying to shun that in recent weeks, including questioning Rafa's behaviour after his father died.

A bit of a lickarse column alright but he's a journalist serving his own agenda so what would you expect. Next weeks he'll probably be lambasting Fergie himself! Raises a couple of relevant points though

Does he f**k raise relevant points, he licks arse from start to finish.

Winter was never one for controversial for the sake of it. I wonder is he working on a book or something with Ferguson?

Do you think Fergie had a point in that the fittness of some referees could be better?

Do you think he made the comment for that specific reason or because it was a dig at Wiley?

As it happens the Premier League referees are put through vigorous training tests and if you don't pass, you don't get to ref.

Honestly? It is an issue I haven't noticed. One of the papers did a few stats on it and the distance Wiley covered was incredible, i'll have a wee gander for it.

It was an insult for the sake of an insult, not some magnanimous comment to highlight a bigger issue.

Henry Winter, Telegraph, if anything he always pro-Liverpool until recently, but he seems to be trying to shun that in recent weeks, including questioning Rafa's behaviour after his father died.

A bit of a lickarse column alright but he's a journalist serving his own agenda so what would you expect. Next weeks he'll probably be lambasting Fergie himself! Raises a couple of relevant points though

Does he f**k raise relevant points, he licks arse from start to finish.

Winter was never one for controversial for the sake of it. I wonder is he working on a book or something with Ferguson?

Will this cause a split amongst supporters, making it a dead-rubber competition?

Is this for real or are we just being ribbed by O'Neill?

Henry Winter, Telegraph, if anything he always pro-Liverpool until recently, but he seems to be trying to shun that in recent weeks, including questioning Rafa's behaviour after his father died.

Holy f**k! Winter has lost the run of himself in recent weeks, I originally thought this was a wind-up....

They berate and banish Sir Alex Ferguson for a stupid comment about a slightly chubby referee and cravenly ignore all the good the Manchester United manager has done, all the glory he has brought to English football, all the talent he has helped mould for the cause of St George.
So who do you want influencing football? Pen-pushers or Treble-winners?
Ferguson's verdict on Alan Wiley's fitness was undoubtedly insulting and iniquitous. Referees, even those like Wiley slightly lacking sleekness, deserve respect. The alternative is mayhem in the opinion-forming playgrounds of the Premier League and subsequent anarchy in the UK schoolyards.
Those brought up to bow at the altar of "the referee is always right even when he is blatantly wrong'' cannot tolerate Ferguson's stance.
The belittling of officials is a widespread modern curse that needs combating. Even Fabio Capello ambushed the referee in the tunnel in Dnepropetrovsk, raging about decisions against England, using language that would make Ferguson blush. Did the FA call Capello to account? No chance.
"As the senior statesman Fergie should be setting an example,'' reflected an England supporter. "A lot of young managers look up to him, but any other manager probably would not have been punished so harshly. The FA have got to be more consistent really. Players abuse the officials weekly.'' And escape.
The case against Ferguson lacks perspective. It is like hounding Barack Obama for double-parking outside the White House. The FA must see the bigger picture with Ferguson.
This is an individual whose managerial feats have been worth tens of millions of pounds to his rivals, raising the Premier League's coefficient to permit a fourth side into the Champions League.
At the risk of straying further into Monty Python territory, what has Ferguson ever done for English football? Well, this is a leader of men who has built on David Moyes's fine work at Everton to nurture Wayne Rooney into England's one saving grace.
This is the club boss who could supply more than half of England's starting XI in Ben Foster, Wes Brown, Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick, Owen Hargreaves and Rooney, let alone cultivating Ravel Morrison as a potential gem for 2014.
Better than Kieran Gibbs and Jack Wilshere, certainly up there with Jack Rodwell, if Morrison does emerge as the pre-eminent English footballer of his generation, it will be because of a certain Scot's shrewd guidance.
I can't remember the last time the FA acknowledged Ferguson's role in shaping England's present or future.
Crassly imitating a scene from Swift, Lilliputian no-names attempt to bring down a giant of the game. The cast of pygmies includes Alan Leighton, a rep from referees' union Prospect, an unknown organisation in football until its pushy principal began piggybacking on Ferguson's fame.
Apparently, Prospect represents referees. So Leighton will know that Ferguson was the first manager to inquire after Mark Halsey's health.
It is the inconsistency of individuals such as Leighton that is particularly galling. Ferguson makes a mistake and gets pilloried. Leighton's members make shocking errors, ignoring beach-balls and bad challenges, yet the Prospect chief stays silent.
The FA seems to have been swayed by a union man stamping his feet and spouting off on the airwaves. Football would be better place if a wise owl such as Ferguson, for all his acerbic outbursts, was advising the FA and its hordes of amateurs on how to run the game.
In a land where many FA types just worry about guaranteeing their free tickets to Wembley every year, Ferguson plots how to take his team there again and again. Ferguson contributes so much to the game that the FA fails to note.
England's most important player, Rooney, rallied to his manager's defence yesterday, detailing why Ferguson should be cherished.
"First of all the trophies he's won,'' began Rooney, "and the type of football he wants you to play – attacking football all the time. Sometimes you feel you can't do it but he keeps you going. At his age [67], he still wants to win all the time. That's incredible to see.''
Ferguson should show more respect to referees – and football should show more respect to Ferguson.

tony mac the new cross manager???

Crossmaglen will win the Armagh SFC in 2010 with Tony McEntee at the helm - a proven winner.

Nonsense, impossible to say. I would bet a good dollar that he'll be a classy manager, but playing success guarantees nothing.

Found my first gripe with the game last night, disabling party chat and private chat for mode of the on line matches. I understand the reasons infinity ward did this but as I normally play with the same people whether on the same team or not, I can now only chat if they are in the same team with a load of poxy Americans talking over us or kids (who should not be on there) calling everyone homo's.

My other gripe is since I've started playing Modern Warfare 2 on line, my gamer reputation says 30% found me too aggressive (up from 10%). Now I can only conclude its from my gameplay as we now have to use skype for on line chat and I haven't used game chat at all. It's a f**king war game, poxy crybabies.

Good news though my kill ratio is 2.04 

"There are playlists that support Party Chat, identified by a black asterisk, but players who are just beginning to play don't have access to any gametypes that actually support multiple party members."
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Hardcore team

non hardcore

non hardcore modes as I shoot on people and run on to get a new position,

Is it a game or a porno?

Gaelic Life no longer sponsoring the Dr McKenna Cup.
Could suggest that there is something in the rumours.

What rumours?