Two match ban for swearing!

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Cant argue with the decision really, Rooneys a bit of a prat for doing it, however, who in their right mind thinks the football stadium is a no swear zone. Turn the ****ing camera mic off, as you hear it from fans, managers, players swearing at refs anyway. Far worse out there. At least the lad is passionate (including his outburst in South Africa) for football.
 
Castiel said:
Is that 211 countries a verifiable fact? or are you simply making stuff up again.

According to the World Atlas there are not 211 countries in the world.

The maximum seems to be 195 independent countries at this current time.

Are they broadcasting to secret human colonies on Proxima Centuri as well I wonder?:rolleyes:

http://www.worldatlas.com/nations.htm

If you cannot get something as simple as that correct, how are we supposed to take anything you say as fact with any confidence.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ball-Association-bares-its-teeth-at-last.html

it's a fact. i couldn't care if you take what i say with any confidence or not btw
 
cm1179 said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ball-Association-bares-its-teeth-at-last.html

it's a fact. i couldn't care if you take what i say with any confidence or not btw
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That doesn't make it a fact, it simply means that the dumbass journalist who wrote the piece included territories that are not countries, or simply doesn't know and made it up.....(the press making stuff up.....shock horror)

http://geography.about.com/od/countryinformation/a/capitals.htm

Here's a list of all the independent countries in the world, all 195 of them.
 
cm1179 said:
put your keyboard down eh you might knock something over? you broke the agreement
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Keyboard? I can come over and knock you over without if you would prefer?

I broke the agreement to point out when you're talking crap, which means it is pointless having an agreement in place because I am going to have to constantly correct you and point out your flaws.

Maybe you should start a FAO thread every time you don't know your arse from your elbow? Oh hang on, you do that constantly already :D
 
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Alex Dunn said:
The common perspective opined is that £200,000-a-week is ample compensation to be the subject of personal attacks, to have your family abused, to have your private life chanted about by 40,000 people who will be disgusted to the point of writing a letter to the FA, or Sky, to express their ire should Rooney or any of his ilk have the brass balls to demonstrate verbal dexterity themselves.

In what other walk of life do people feel entitlement to act like a four letter word because they've paid for the privilege? Hollywood stars can command £20million for a film, and shoot a couple each year, yet if you pitched up in Tinseltown to the set of a Tom Cruise flick and chanted about his wife's sexual predilections for 90 minutes you'd be arrested. Try persuading a judge that the fact you'd once paid £6 to see Top Gun at your local Odeon gives you such an entitlement and you'd be sectioned.
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Quite right in my opinion, especially on the latter paragraph.
 
dmpoole said:
the fact he held united to ransom? - What? How?
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Basically Rooney and his agent came out a good while ago and said the team wasn't 'meeting his ambition' and other claptrap like that, and essentially hinted that he might be tempted to move from United.

More than likely it was a fairly cynical ploy cooked up primarily by his agent to get money, which he did promptly get, but in the end it severely damaged his reptutation with the United fanbase.
 
guyfawkes5 said:
Basically Rooney and his agent came out a good while ago and said the team wasn't 'meeting his ambition' and other claptrap like that, and essentially hinted that he might be tempted to move from United.

More than likely it was a fairly cynical ploy cooked up primarily by his agent to get money, which he did promptly get, but in the end it severely damaged his reptutation with the United fanbase.
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I think you missed the point.
How did he hold them to ransom?
 
guyfawkes5 said:
Basically Rooney and his agent came out a good while ago and said the team wasn't 'meeting his ambition' and other claptrap like that, and essentially hinted that he might be tempted to move from United.

More than likely it was a fairly cynical ploy cooked up primarily by his agent to get money, which he did promptly get, but in the end it severely damaged his reptutation with the United fanbase.
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Hardly ransom though, it is something that pretty much everyone who is on a similar contractual basis does regardless of occupation.
 
dmpoole said:
I think you missed the point.
How did he hold them to ransom?
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Don't mistake me taking the time to explain something to someone who mightn't know the details of a story (which I think is a fair assumption when they express suprise and disbelief rather than just simply disagree) as some tacit agreement with anyone or anything.

For the record I don't think Rooney 'held United to ransom', although it does somewhat show up his record on loyalty and professionalism a bit. For a while there I thought we were above the antics of Terry, Gerrard, et al...
 
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