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So, Toffeewebbers, we are informed that - "Yakubu, the only fit member of a largely unfit Everton forward line, has departed to join up with Nigeria's squad" (cTW)
Well would you Adam and Eve it?!? The lad played 94 minutes and Saha wasn't even on the bench against Burnley (although Vaughan was). Injury would have been Nigeria's problem for the next four weeks, not ours. And might we have expected Burnley to hack Louis down at every step? I would have predicted it and David Moyes, who has much less experience in these matters, might have come to the same conclusion.
And dear TW editorial team - what is a "forward line"? Possibly another Blue Bill musical, like all the rest, I have missed.
Good New Year all the same.
Keith Glazzard, Posted 30/12/2009 at 16:44:41
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Good evening Michael - sherry at this time of night? Were you reared in Bootle?
(and I know that the Ted McCormack and his family from the Shakespeare streets of Liverpool 20 would support me in this assertion). Besides, where can you get an Ellesmere Port for 3& 6 a bottle these days? (You started it).
You missed Jo - or have you already counted him out? Kieran Agard was hacked down a few times against BATE looking like a decent forward.
The FA Cup is important, but nothing compared to the next seven wins we need. Expect a BATE team against Carlisle. Upset? Who cares. Here is where we need a squad, and I think we actually have one.
Incidentally, its a two year old Gigondas (Cotes du Rhone Villages, if you’re not familiar, just under Les Dentilles, perfect slopes kissed by the sun. And it tastes like it too. Shame about the alcoholic content I suppose).
And so, back to football ...
(and I know that the Ted McCormack and his family from the Shakespeare streets of Liverpool 20 would support me in this assertion). Besides, where can you get an Ellesmere Port for 3& 6 a bottle these days? (You started it).
You missed Jo - or have you already counted him out? Kieran Agard was hacked down a few times against BATE looking like a decent forward.
The FA Cup is important, but nothing compared to the next seven wins we need. Expect a BATE team against Carlisle. Upset? Who cares. Here is where we need a squad, and I think we actually have one.
Incidentally, its a two year old Gigondas (Cotes du Rhone Villages, if you’re not familiar, just under Les Dentilles, perfect slopes kissed by the sun. And it tastes like it too. Shame about the alcoholic content I suppose).
And so, back to football ...
Dad was from Walton, raised in Bootle, so such coarse manners may have become ingrained. Elesmere Port? Nice one...
Ooops... Jô... How could I possibly... ??? Wishful thinking, definitely. He is injured too, however. And Agard; of those on show v BATE, I found him to be the most disappointing. But Moyes has had him on the bench a fair few times, so good point. I just can’t see Moyes naming Agard to lead the (non-existent) forward line alone against Carlisle on Saturday... So Vaughan it is then.
Gigondas? I prefer some of the West Coast US stuff myself; some great wines from California (Napa Valley), Pinot Noir from Oregon (Willamette Valley), and the rich reds (Merlot, Cab Sav, Syrah) from Eastern Washington State (Columbia Valley; Walla Walla) are fruit-rich and plenty high in alcohol... if somewhat overpriced.
Ooops... Jô... How could I possibly... ??? Wishful thinking, definitely. He is injured too, however. And Agard; of those on show v BATE, I found him to be the most disappointing. But Moyes has had him on the bench a fair few times, so good point. I just can’t see Moyes naming Agard to lead the (non-existent) forward line alone against Carlisle on Saturday... So Vaughan it is then.
Gigondas? I prefer some of the West Coast US stuff myself; some great wines from California (Napa Valley), Pinot Noir from Oregon (Willamette Valley), and the rich reds (Merlot, Cab Sav, Syrah) from Eastern Washington State (Columbia Valley; Walla Walla) are fruit-rich and plenty high in alcohol... if somewhat overpriced.
Anyone care to make a point?
By the way, I’m on the Nelson Mandela!
By the way, I’m on the Nelson Mandela!
Just finished our second bottle of Hardys Nottage Hill Cabernet Shiraz 2007 and contemplating whether to have a lager!
Got to say, I’m as bemused by Keith’s comment as Michael was. As the author of the news-in-brief item in question, I very much had Saha, Vaughan, Anichebe and Jô in mind when I penned it. [And a forward line is exactly what the two words "forward" and "line" would suggest. It's not rocket surgery, is it?]
I’m trying to decipher the response but all I can get is the vague notion that Moyes was pretending that Saha and Jô were injured so he wouldn’t have to play them and risk injury during Yak’s time away.
I’m trying to decipher the response but all I can get is the vague notion that Moyes was pretending that Saha and Jô were injured so he wouldn’t have to play them and risk injury during Yak’s time away.
Martin, speaking as the newly self-appointed an accutely underpaid TW wine critic, go for the lager. But not, as always, too much. We don’t want to get sued here.
Michael - the USA is a place to be admired for many reasons - but wine? I thank the great spirit in the sky (to echo to another thread) that I was born close enough to stumble into Bourgogne one day and have my taste buds exploded.
Stephen - I’ve tried and I’ve tried. And I do dead hard crosswords quite quickly, usually, honest.
Please, what is a Nelson Mandela?
I know I’m gonna hate myself when you tell me.
Michael - the USA is a place to be admired for many reasons - but wine? I thank the great spirit in the sky (to echo to another thread) that I was born close enough to stumble into Bourgogne one day and have my taste buds exploded.
Stephen - I’ve tried and I’ve tried. And I do dead hard crosswords quite quickly, usually, honest.
Please, what is a Nelson Mandela?
I know I’m gonna hate myself when you tell me.
Keith my guess is it’s goold old wife beater - Stella
Lyndon - I never go up for one up - unless I’ve been on the sherry (never say never).
But it isn’t rocket surgery (sic) to work out that, yes, would you bloody believe it, Moyes would risk an injury to Yakubu rather than Louis. Not what I would call rocket science. And hallelujah (unless your Hebrew transliteration is better than mine) it worked.
Goodbye Yak for a few weeks. Our leading goalscorer will be on the bench on Saturday. Play YADM yourself. Squad nin use.
But it isn’t rocket surgery (sic) to work out that, yes, would you bloody believe it, Moyes would risk an injury to Yakubu rather than Louis. Not what I would call rocket science. And hallelujah (unless your Hebrew transliteration is better than mine) it worked.
Goodbye Yak for a few weeks. Our leading goalscorer will be on the bench on Saturday. Play YADM yourself. Squad nin use.
I’m halfway through a cheeky little Stella from the south aisle bargain booze.... what are we talkin about?
Keith, the west coast of the US has some of the best wine you will find. They don’t call that great part of NorCal wine country for nothing. Some of my recommendations are Bonny Doon Vineyards or Organic Wineworks if ever in the Santa Cruz area. Great wines and amazing scenery for wine tasting, up in the mountains of Santa Cruz. Some of the pinots from Oregon are great too.
Gavin - a good mate of mine has a wonderful partner called Stella. He’s a wonderful soul, great musician and an inspiration to all that know him.
And an Evertonian. Is this merely coincidence?
And an Evertonian. Is this merely coincidence?
Taking the thread in a different direction, has anyone heard any rumours about possible signings next month, what seems to be doing the rounds is Saha to the RS, even though I can’t see DM letting him go without a fight with no fit strikers.
David - as the poet said, if only we had time enough.
I’ll bet you some of those wine makers out there can do it. As I’m fairly sure, I hope that our new American import is going to do it for us in January (Eds - note how I turned this back to football, EFC in particular, and never got a penny paid for it!)
I’m afraid that wines and football teams are marketed in the same way. The students in my local (megastore) supermarket buy Ozzie, NZ and US wines because they have heard of them. ’Oh French - no no’ I once heard. How did she gather that opinion?
Chelsea good. RS good? Why do the papers, and SkyTV peddle this crap? Because they can. I buy very nice French wines when I can afford to. I never buy The Daily Mail.
That would be my new year gift to you.
Have a successful one, but not at the expense of others.
In which case we should all get out of football anyway.
I’ll bet you some of those wine makers out there can do it. As I’m fairly sure, I hope that our new American import is going to do it for us in January (Eds - note how I turned this back to football, EFC in particular, and never got a penny paid for it!)
I’m afraid that wines and football teams are marketed in the same way. The students in my local (megastore) supermarket buy Ozzie, NZ and US wines because they have heard of them. ’Oh French - no no’ I once heard. How did she gather that opinion?
Chelsea good. RS good? Why do the papers, and SkyTV peddle this crap? Because they can. I buy very nice French wines when I can afford to. I never buy The Daily Mail.
That would be my new year gift to you.
Have a successful one, but not at the expense of others.
In which case we should all get out of football anyway.
This is my favourite thread for ages, well done everyone...
As for the real issues that matter, I love a Californian but then I get scorned for preferring white to red.
Oh and the strikers, I don’t think Saha is injured as such, merely ’resting a tight hamstring’. As Keith may or may not have been getting at, Yakubu was worth playing against Burnley so that Saha could be free to hammer Carlisle and kick start another glorious FA Cup campaign. If Saha had got injured it would have been a disaster, whereas Yakubu was leaving anyway so played the ’Burnley watchman’ role to protect Louis.
David, for a laugh I thought I’d collect the rumours about potential signings, but decided to stop when it reached 20 players as it all seemed a bit silly.
As for the real issues that matter, I love a Californian but then I get scorned for preferring white to red.
Oh and the strikers, I don’t think Saha is injured as such, merely ’resting a tight hamstring’. As Keith may or may not have been getting at, Yakubu was worth playing against Burnley so that Saha could be free to hammer Carlisle and kick start another glorious FA Cup campaign. If Saha had got injured it would have been a disaster, whereas Yakubu was leaving anyway so played the ’Burnley watchman’ role to protect Louis.
David, for a laugh I thought I’d collect the rumours about potential signings, but decided to stop when it reached 20 players as it all seemed a bit silly.
Honestly, I don’t normally spend as much time on a thread as this, even when I’ve posted.
Get out of football, I said. My partner might echo that sentiment, but she was delighted with her Everton scarf at Christmas as was my neice (birthday 26th) with her ETV subscription. Why?
For all our failings, we aren’t owned by corrupt politicians, pornographers or russian gangsters - sorry - oligarchs. Daft Bill and shite Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers become our lifeblood. Take more school parties, that’s what I say.
Pathetic, in some respects we are, but when Marouane Fellaini hit the cross for James Vaughan to score on Saturday, 40,000 people shouted ’justice’ to the heavens.
There isn’t much justice in this world (and its the only one we’ve got) so you have to scrap for every bit you get.
Johnny Heitinga for man of the season.
I had a solid Sally Army upbinging, so I don’t bet (something to do with a good maths education as well perhaps) but you gamblers out there, bound to perdition, heed my words. And enjoy hell as best you can.
Happy new year, incidentally.
Get out of football, I said. My partner might echo that sentiment, but she was delighted with her Everton scarf at Christmas as was my neice (birthday 26th) with her ETV subscription. Why?
For all our failings, we aren’t owned by corrupt politicians, pornographers or russian gangsters - sorry - oligarchs. Daft Bill and shite Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers become our lifeblood. Take more school parties, that’s what I say.
Pathetic, in some respects we are, but when Marouane Fellaini hit the cross for James Vaughan to score on Saturday, 40,000 people shouted ’justice’ to the heavens.
There isn’t much justice in this world (and its the only one we’ve got) so you have to scrap for every bit you get.
Johnny Heitinga for man of the season.
I had a solid Sally Army upbinging, so I don’t bet (something to do with a good maths education as well perhaps) but you gamblers out there, bound to perdition, heed my words. And enjoy hell as best you can.
Happy new year, incidentally.
Keith, definitely the most surreal and therefore most interesting thread in a long time.
I love the analogy of US wines vs French being Sky 4 Upstarts vs EFC’s History & Class.
I might add I prefer Italian wines myself, red Brunello di Montalcino or any other wine made from Sangiovese grape. Legend says that this grape was cultivated by the Romans and is still going strong today. If you know your history....
An early Happy New Year to all.
Glen
I love the analogy of US wines vs French being Sky 4 Upstarts vs EFC’s History & Class.
I might add I prefer Italian wines myself, red Brunello di Montalcino or any other wine made from Sangiovese grape. Legend says that this grape was cultivated by the Romans and is still going strong today. If you know your history....
An early Happy New Year to all.
Glen
Bastados - as we convivially say in Cataluya (to be honest they still look at me like the village idiot - conyo (cunt in english) is much more acceptable.) Anyway, I really have to crash out as tomorrow is quite important.
1. To our (thankfully many) American bretheren (obviously persons of taste and distiction - ok I’ll stop there) let me recommend a Santa Cruz above the worth of rubies.
1. Roque, injury prone is a good striker. Hughes will buy him again in a future life
2. David B’s recommendation is noted and will be acted upon when possible.
3. The Martin guitar, the best by far ever created has only one rival. The Santa Cruz. A Nazareth trained apprentice escaped and went west young man. All guitars, like cars, vary - but if you find a Santa Cruz you can afford, have a very good listen to it. It will talk to you.
And Glen - my thankfully long time spent in Catalunya is just up the road from Figueres, Dali’s birthplace and his funerery museum. The queue to get in goes straight past my mate Marti’s Dalicatessen. Nicest guy you could ever meet. (he gets a bit twitchy about non-customers using his toilet - but that’s entirely normal). His hobby is pre-war British sports cars. Explain that.
Surreal or what?
1. To our (thankfully many) American bretheren (obviously persons of taste and distiction - ok I’ll stop there) let me recommend a Santa Cruz above the worth of rubies.
1. Roque, injury prone is a good striker. Hughes will buy him again in a future life
2. David B’s recommendation is noted and will be acted upon when possible.
3. The Martin guitar, the best by far ever created has only one rival. The Santa Cruz. A Nazareth trained apprentice escaped and went west young man. All guitars, like cars, vary - but if you find a Santa Cruz you can afford, have a very good listen to it. It will talk to you.
And Glen - my thankfully long time spent in Catalunya is just up the road from Figueres, Dali’s birthplace and his funerery museum. The queue to get in goes straight past my mate Marti’s Dalicatessen. Nicest guy you could ever meet. (he gets a bit twitchy about non-customers using his toilet - but that’s entirely normal). His hobby is pre-war British sports cars. Explain that.
Surreal or what?
OK, Keith, now that I know what you were on about, I can properly respond and I still don’t agree with your hypothesis, as plausible as it is.
Both Saha and Jo picked up knocks in the last games they played so I wasn’t suprised in the least that neither played any part against Burnley.
So, based on that belief, I stand by my assumption of the fitness levels of out strikers.
Both Saha and Jo picked up knocks in the last games they played so I wasn’t suprised in the least that neither played any part against Burnley.
So, based on that belief, I stand by my assumption of the fitness levels of out strikers.
Football, Wine consumption and travel.
How well rounded the working classes have become these days. I bet you even hide your copy of News of the World under a Sunday Times as well.
I never imagined that Bargain Booze carried such a range.
Grow up..
How well rounded the working classes have become these days. I bet you even hide your copy of News of the World under a Sunday Times as well.
I never imagined that Bargain Booze carried such a range.
Grow up..
News of the World? I wouldn’t even wipe my arse with that rag and I’m as working class as they come; ask my butler if you don’t believe me...
The stage is being set for Vaughan to demonstrate his worth to Everton; to use an unfortunate phrase in his case — it’s make or break time... I hope it’s not ’break’.
(I’ve just finished a bottle of South Eastern Australian Shiraz... smooth, mellow with a hint of dark cherries and spice)
The stage is being set for Vaughan to demonstrate his worth to Everton; to use an unfortunate phrase in his case — it’s make or break time... I hope it’s not ’break’.
(I’ve just finished a bottle of South Eastern Australian Shiraz... smooth, mellow with a hint of dark cherries and spice)
Rob - I’ve spent 60 years trying not to grow up. Could I really be a football supporter otherwise? In a last ditch attempt demonstrate that I might be considered a sentient being - where did ’travel’ come into this?
Lyndon - one of our posters (no dis intended but can’t remember his name) reckons he can read Moyes like a book. As can we all. We have lived long enough to know what to expect. I freely give YADM to TW (it was hardly going to be my pension anyway). Knowing the game and the players available you can get 9/11 every time. The BATE game was the the most difficult — a meaningless game, except for the pride of the club, and no more injuries if you please. Moyes’ most radical selection in his tenure. And I bought my ticket knowing that he would put the reserves out — they did pretty well.
Saha is being protected — and he’s still our leading goalscorer. That is how to look after players. Man Utd have no such concept, except for Alex driving round to the Bleeding Wolf in Hale Barns to drag his young players out the evening before a match. That was the ’nurturing’ we obviously didn’t provide for young Rooney. Except that his problem seemed to be the pies.
My post was in hope — hope that Moyes is actually clever enough to protect our lad, and put Nigeria’s in the firing line. He did that, and Saha will warm the bench on Saturday unless the boss thinks we are going out of the cup. Even then, he might not risk the best chance that we have to stay in the PL. And the stakes are really that high.
Not exactly the best Happy New Year, but, hey, we still have tomorrow.
Lyndon - one of our posters (no dis intended but can’t remember his name) reckons he can read Moyes like a book. As can we all. We have lived long enough to know what to expect. I freely give YADM to TW (it was hardly going to be my pension anyway). Knowing the game and the players available you can get 9/11 every time. The BATE game was the the most difficult — a meaningless game, except for the pride of the club, and no more injuries if you please. Moyes’ most radical selection in his tenure. And I bought my ticket knowing that he would put the reserves out — they did pretty well.
Saha is being protected — and he’s still our leading goalscorer. That is how to look after players. Man Utd have no such concept, except for Alex driving round to the Bleeding Wolf in Hale Barns to drag his young players out the evening before a match. That was the ’nurturing’ we obviously didn’t provide for young Rooney. Except that his problem seemed to be the pies.
My post was in hope — hope that Moyes is actually clever enough to protect our lad, and put Nigeria’s in the firing line. He did that, and Saha will warm the bench on Saturday unless the boss thinks we are going out of the cup. Even then, he might not risk the best chance that we have to stay in the PL. And the stakes are really that high.
Not exactly the best Happy New Year, but, hey, we still have tomorrow.
Kevin - speaking as the newly self appointed soi-disant wine correspondent of TW, entirely unpaid and they will be the first to ditch me in any libel action, some advice: Do as I do. Never drink to excess. "Wine is a good servant, but a bad master" as I clearly remember the slogan on the wall as they carried me out of the Yates’ Wine Lodge in Blackpool sometime before a fundamentalist vandal burned it down.
Apart from that I have little to add. This hardly seems to be the season to recommend sun block, but as a freckly redhead myself, I always take care. Danger stalks the unwary.
Can I guarantee this means no more posts and I can go to bed?
Hasta la proxima.
Apart from that I have little to add. This hardly seems to be the season to recommend sun block, but as a freckly redhead myself, I always take care. Danger stalks the unwary.
Can I guarantee this means no more posts and I can go to bed?
Hasta la proxima.
David Barks - The owner of Bonny Doon Vineyard (Randall Grahm) was the best man at my parents’ wedding, he and my father are boyhood friends. Very nice guy, always look forward to his Christmas shipments, the contents of which I am drunkenly imbibing as we speak/type. A nod to your excellent taste sir.
And Donovan supporting Saha or Vaughan is what we will probably be seeing until the Yak returns or Cahill hits his stride.
And Donovan supporting Saha or Vaughan is what we will probably be seeing until the Yak returns or Cahill hits his stride.
Ah, Keith, an explanation. Thanks indeed. Your cryptic style was starting to out-do Mr D Fearon, whose barely comprehensible ramblings, I now deduce, are indeed well lubricated by some of South Australia’s finest fermentations.
But I digress... By way of contrast with the hallowed WebMeister, I think the underlying theory indeed carries some weight... Gravitas, even. The subtlety escaped me because I did not believe Moyes capable of such guile... but 94 mins for the Yak is unusual in the extreme, and your explanation seems as good as any.
I’m suitably amused by the thought that it may have taken you over an hour to compose the last effort. A final thought is about those blind wine tastings (The so-called Judgment of Paris) comparing French and Californian Reds, where the Californian wines always somehow seem to come out on top. Why, they even made a film about it.
But I digress... By way of contrast with the hallowed WebMeister, I think the underlying theory indeed carries some weight... Gravitas, even. The subtlety escaped me because I did not believe Moyes capable of such guile... but 94 mins for the Yak is unusual in the extreme, and your explanation seems as good as any.
I’m suitably amused by the thought that it may have taken you over an hour to compose the last effort. A final thought is about those blind wine tastings (The so-called Judgment of Paris) comparing French and Californian Reds, where the Californian wines always somehow seem to come out on top. Why, they even made a film about it.
I think you should all just form a circle to be honest!.......
As much as I hate that little red Argentinian twat, Mascheranno, I can heartily recommend nice Argentinian reds from Mendoza by the name of Malbec. Accept no substitute, even though the best are Reserva.
As much as I hate that red Spannish ladyboy (oh and the bald Spannish fucker in goal... oh and the FSW of a manager), I can heartily recommend nice Spannish reds from the Rioja region. Accept no substitute even though the best are Gran Reserva.
Now where is all this leading you may ask. Well, does anyone know of a nice Brazilian red I can buy because I hate that dirty little Brazillian twat Lucas as well!? If no Brazillian reds are forthcoming, I will accept substitutes on this occasion!
This is one of the best threads I have read on here for a while. Gracias ustedes!
Given that Yakubu is employed by us and we don't want to risk injury to any other striker, I’m delighted that Moyes played Yakubu for 94 minutes and it seems perfectly reasonable to me given that Nigeria won't give a toss if he comes back to us knackered!
By the way, what's the situation with Yobo?? Has he gone or stayed behind as injured?
Re wines, I’m strictly of the old world variety but find French over-priced and over-rated!
I go for a nice Pesquera, Ribera del Duero, or a decent Rioja, Muga, Marques de Riscal or, if I’m lucky enough to find one, a Vina Ardanza!
Molt d’anys y bon any nou!
Mark, great French wine is to be had in situ at very reasonable prices, it’s the exporters and importers that take the piss with the high prices unless of course you are talking about a Petrus. My personal preference is the Nebbiolo grape and the king of reds a fine Barolo from Italy.
I also enjoy a good Rioja and Barbera and Bardolino. My South African friends also tell me that the best SA Wines are only to be found abroad unless you are quite senior as they too are export only, do any of our SA supporters know if this is still the case?
Anything £3.99 and under from Lidl does the trick.
Matheus Rose, under a fiver from Sainsbogs. Not only a cheeky little wine but shares the name with a very good footballer so it stays topical. I am more a JD man but I will drink Matheus. The missus on the other hand knows her stuff and my wallet doesn’t half know it.
Team for Saturday?
Howard, Hibbert, Neill, Heitinga Baines.
Bilyaletdinov, Osman, Neville, Pienaar.
Fellaini.
Saha/Jo/Vaughan.
Anyone tried the ’Tetleys’ 2009
Happy New Year to you all.
UP THE BLUES
Gavin, for a good cheap glugging wine, I’ve yet to find better than a Puglian or Sicilian red, especially if its the local village stuff served up in their own restaurants and pizzeria!
Can't afford to even talk about a Petrus but I once had a very highly rated but ultimately disappointing Vega Siciliana ’81 that was beaten under the table by a simple Muga reserva!
And Tony, I know lots of Portuguese and they wont touch the Matheus Rose. They say only us English like it. (I dont!)
Re the team for Saturday, Ken, although I think Hibbert gets unfair stick, I’d like to see Coleman in there for him. And I’d rather Saha sits another one out for fitness reasons and to give Jo one last chance to show he can do something! Hope that Vaughan gets an extended run and gets in the groove!
Happy New Year to all!
Steve Green, you stole my thunder on the Malbec wine. A fine beverage. Just type "malbec wines" into Google and look out for the top ranking link to www.stirling.co.uk/malbecwines/index.htm What a clever fella I am.
Plus I got to savour a good few bottles over the festive period in front of my brand new environmentally friendly Jotul wood burning stove. Anyone else have any comments about being environmentally friendly in a consumerism, throw away society?
Keith, have you ever heard of a small village in Catalunya called L’Espluga De Francoli, 40 minutes inland from Tarragona? I worked their in the late 1980s as an English Foreign Language teacher. If you pass ever through and hear the locals saying, "Hey Lar giz a ciggy", I will know my teachings have worked wonders.
Oh, and what about the Yankie Doodle fella coming on loan to play up front?
Tony, Landon Donovan may be USA’s top scorer but he has never played up front on his own before which is DM’s main tactic, if he was partnered in a 4-4-2 maybe but probably played in more of a Cahill attacking MF role just behind the striker or as a winger.
Mark, I fully agree about the Petrus, I don’t think I could ever justify blowing that much hard earned on wine although I did neck an awful lot of Cristal on someone’s company credit card once, a bottle at a time at a xmas do in Jersey; if it’s my own pocket then it’s Veuve Clicquot on the bubbly front.
Mark, I fully agree about the Petrus, I don’t think I could ever justify blowing that much hard earned on wine although I did neck an awful lot of Cristal on someone’s company credit card once, a bottle at a time at a xmas do in Jersey; if it’s my own pocket then it’s Veuve Clicquot on the bubbly front.
Vaughan and Donovan up front to see what the hell happens?
Christ I know it’s new year but I’ve either stumbled into the outer limits or I’ve got the wrong site.
Who does Malbec play for?
Who plays at the Napa Valley?
How many internatiional caps has Montepulciano got?
Oh well might as well get into the "Spirit of things early"
Y’all have a Happy New Year.
Just hope the players don't just because we’re only playing Carlisle.
Who does Malbec play for?
Who plays at the Napa Valley?
How many internatiional caps has Montepulciano got?
Oh well might as well get into the "Spirit of things early"
Y’all have a Happy New Year.
Just hope the players don't just because we’re only playing Carlisle.
Some years ago, some friends and I stumbled across the best Shiraz I have ever tasted in a Welsh restaurant while on holiday. The warm fruits and rich taste caressing ones tastebuds was exquisite! The wine in question was McGuigan Bros Black Shiraz, whch became so popular back in Oz that the buggers stopped exporting it. Other McGuigan wines are available at your local supermarket, but nothing matches Black Shiraz. Oh, how we miss it.
Football you ask? Strikers — what about this soon to be loanee Donovan chappy, isn’t he one?
Happy New Year to you all !
PS - I’m middle class, so I must be evil.
Did someone not report that Moyes had indicated in the Burnley programme notes he would not be playing Donovan in he cup-tie?
Gavin, I once had a very enjoyable dinner in Emiglio Romana, North East coast of Italy, with a wine savvy French lady friend who introduced me to Prosecco claimin git better than her beloved French Champagnes. (My company wa spaying so she had no reason to count the cost!)
Since then its been my white of choice and I will be quaffing it tonight!
Everton content - I hope we win saturday - the last time we played Carlisle at Goodison it ruined my entire Christmas and probably cost us a shot at the league title!
Since then its been my white of choice and I will be quaffing it tonight!
Everton content - I hope we win saturday - the last time we played Carlisle at Goodison it ruined my entire Christmas and probably cost us a shot at the league title!
I do enjoy a nice red — though that doesn’t necessarily equate to a "good" red, as I’m no connoisseur. One of my little pleasures, when on holiday in France, is to buy the cheapest red wine from t’hypermarche & if I have to part with more than 1 Euro per bottle I’m greatly aggrieved! But it’s generally a pleasant surprise how decent the "cheap plonk" is — the same stuff seems to be about £5 a bottle over here.
However, I’m disappointed to note there’s been no reference to Lebanese wine in this thread. Over a 2- or 3-year spell about a decade ago, I kept finding Lebanese red on the wine list wherever we were dining & would promptly order it before anybody else had a chance to see the list. It became a cause of much simultaneous grief & amusement, until I actually developed a taste for the rather "earthy" wine & everybody else decided the joke had worn a bit thin. Sadly, I haven’t seen any around for quite a while.
Re the forthcoming Cup tie, I don’t think we’ll see a VINTAGE peformance, in which CASE I hope it will still be a CORKer ......
I’ll get me coat ......
Donovan will be the catalyst that changes our season. Does nobody drink Blue Nun nowdays?
As for me, I’ll welcome the New Year in South Texas with some nice Spanish sparkling wine.
I thought Tony Marsh was the acknowledged "whine" expert on TW. Happy new year all!
Nice one, Brendan, last word on the subject when it comes to Chardonnay, the Aussies win hands down, but there’s a terrific white from Campania called Lacryma Christi... check it out if you can find it. And we’ve found out that TW posters are closet bourgeois — so much for the working class game!
This number from Brown Brothers in Oz is one you should all be trying. Happy New Year!
http://www.corksout.com/product/brown_brothers_everton_red_corks_out_award_winning_independent_wine_merchants/
http://www.corksout.com/product/brown_brothers_everton_red_corks_out_award_winning_independent_wine_merchants/
Keith I wish I knew you lived in Figueres, where I stayed at Hotel Pireneos a week ago. Actually I like Banda Azul, a cracking Rioja at €4.15 at La Junquera supermercat. Right now, I'm in Le Lot, stocking up on Cahors Reds (sorry they dont do a Blue), €2.60 a litre in bulk, which is what I will be after a session. To be honest, the new world wines are too fruity for me, by the way.
Tony l'Anson - I know Lespluga di Francoli. My son Paul used to teach there also as well as Tarragona. He now lives in Altafulla to where we have just delivered Everton duvets and pillow cases for his two lads both Blues in preference to Barcas!
Was it at English Summer SA? And is he also a St Mary’s old boy? If so, I met him there in the early 1990s. Small world it is... and I believe we may have shared a locally brewed wine too!!
Yes Tony l’Anson. He’s the same guy and now lives in Spain.
Hi Tony L.... I'm afraid that local brew has taken it’s toll over the years and my memory of events in L’Espluga is somewhat diminished! Although the legendary nights in Xenon spring to mind..:)
Remind me!!! You can find me on facebook...All the best for the New Year... COYB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeez - I’d forgotten I could read so much at one sitting, and very entertaining too - thanks.
Football tomorrow then is it?
COYB.
Football tomorrow then is it?
COYB.
Whilst on the subject of drink, lets hope for a happy new year and one in which Blues fans will have no recourse to copious amounts of gripe water!!
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What exactly is wrong with that? Yakubu: departed; Saha: injured; Anichebe: injured; Vaughan: lacking in match fitness... hence "largely unfit Everton forward line" (as in line of forwards, strikers... attacking players... them as is burdened to put the ball in the back of the frigging net... ) Surely it doesn't need to be spelled out any more clearly than that, does it?
Or are you perhaps questioning the concept of a forward line when (a) Moyes usually employs only one such player; (b) even they have to get back and defend for corners; or (c) drop deep/wide in order to see any decent ball possession?
I must be missing something... what exactly is your beef? Happy New Year to you too!