Hammond

Perfect remedy for the Hooligan blues....the song "In Transit" by Albert Hammond, Jr.

I like his stuff...can't put my finger on it, but it reminds me of something....
(all from the drummer of the Strokes)



-J

Green Street Hooligans

Videos from Tuesday's Carling Cup West Ham v. Millwall match. The worst fighting since the 70's and 80's.





Madness.
This is NOT like 95% of football matches over there. The ones I went to were either peaceful, decent afternoon games, or at night, there would be intimidating and chanting, but never acting on it, just a few drunken punches.

-J

Universal

duh.

-J

Prediction Week 4

So...I managed to miss predicting United's match against Wigan Athletic, but I DID manage to play my Monday night pick-up game....and tear a ligament in my ankle as well as chip some bone off, too. So gimme some slack.

Anyway, gameweek 4, when United take on Arsenal. One of the most high class, and often highly volatile, rivalries in the Premier League. Arsenal hasn't been doing nearly as well as United in the last three seasons, but they have started this season better than their northern rivals. A massive 6-1 victory against Everton in their first match really showed everyone what they can do.

No matter how each team has been doing, when they clash, they really step their game up. That being said, I have to go for a draw. If I had to guess, I'd say 2-2, since both teams' strengths right now are in attack. Our defence has so many injuries, they really haven't had a decent run to get used to shutting teams out. While we kept a clean sheet against Wigan, it's more because we were too busy scoring on them...though I will give 'keeper Ben Foster huge credit for some top saves in that match.

One thing to our advantage is that Arsenal had to play Celtic yesterday... so they may have just enough fatigue for us to sneak a win. Still going for a draw though.

UNITED!

-J

Green Street Hooligans

Last night was an infamous Millwall v. West Ham united league Cup match, the first time they've played against each other since 2005. Sadly, it was one of the most vicious clashes between supporters the world's seen for some time.


Watch live video from VIP Sports on Justin.tv

Pretty wild riot police scenes...
Details

-J

NHS

So, I loved this article by American Stephen Amidon, "Why I lve Britain's socialized healthcare system", at Salon.com.

I'm really getting sick of hearing people's unfounded, scare-mongered fears of socialized medicine. To be frankly honest, I think people who are against this are fools, easily manipulated by all those who stand to lose big $$$ if healthcare is reformed. As Representative Barney Frank says, "You don't waste your time on people with whom you completely disagree."

Here is the most interesting part, in reference to the "proposed" government "death panels" for the old:

"I saw it most clearly, however, in the treatment my in-laws received at the end of their lives. My wife’s father, who suffered from acute myloid dysplasia, spent his last year receiving constant care, including several sprints to the hospital for emergency transfusions, where doctors struggled heroically to keep him alive. His final week was spent in a very comfortable single hospice room whose French doors opened onto a terrace overlooking his beloved Yorkshire moors. When he died, he left us his house, and not a penny of healthcare debt. My mother-in-law, stricken by arthritis, got two artificial hips and two knees from the NHS, and received daily home visits from social workers during the last three years of her life so she would not have to go into a nursing home. Neither of these septuagenarians was working at the time. The amount of money spent on their care must have been staggering. And yet, despite shouldering this yoke of decency, the nation prospered around them. People were buying French wine and German cars and second homes. They were attending Cats and supporting Arsenal and going on holidays in the sun. Sure, people complained about the NHS. But the British complain about everything. Living without a public health system, on the other hand, was unthinkable."

Yeah, sounds TERRIBLE.....

-J

Football Equivalent of a Slam Dunk...

-J