Comments on: Horrified Because Our Cause Is Just http://www.runofplay.com/2008/05/26/horrified-because-our-cause-is-just/ Attacking Football Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fredorrarci http://www.runofplay.com/2008/05/26/horrified-because-our-cause-is-just/#comment-1402 Fredorrarci Wed, 28 May 2008 14:23:32 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=926#comment-1402 "What would the nickname be...?" I'm not sure tabloid journalists would know what a Suriname is, though I'm sure they have an arsenal of puntastic epithets ready to load, and I'm not clever enough to be able to second-guess that. Not exactly nicknames, but I reckon we may see the following, patterned after the Sven-Goran Eriksson model: *If Chelsea are doing well / the reporters like him: Frank *If Chelsea are doing <i>really</i> well / the hacks love him: Frankie *If Chelsea draw at Blackburn / the journos are unhappy because he doesn't give good copy: Rijkaard. “What would the nickname be…?”

I’m not sure tabloid journalists would know what a Suriname is, though I’m sure they have an arsenal of puntastic epithets ready to load, and I’m not clever enough to be able to second-guess that.

Not exactly nicknames, but I reckon we may see the following, patterned after the Sven-Goran Eriksson model:

*If Chelsea are doing well / the reporters like him: Frank

*If Chelsea are doing really well / the hacks love him: Frankie

*If Chelsea draw at Blackburn / the journos are unhappy because he doesn’t give good copy: Rijkaard.

]]> By: Brian http://www.runofplay.com/2008/05/26/horrified-because-our-cause-is-just/#comment-1390 Brian Tue, 27 May 2008 19:54:03 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=926#comment-1390 By the way, I'm giving myself a vacation from Tuesday Portraits this week. I'm one up from last week, and it's too hot, rainy, and dull here for me to come up with anything good. Too much delivery-truck-door thunder. Not enough interesting news. By the way, I’m giving myself a vacation from Tuesday Portraits this week. I’m one up from last week, and it’s too hot, rainy, and dull here for me to come up with anything good. Too much delivery-truck-door thunder. Not enough interesting news.

]]> By: Brian http://www.runofplay.com/2008/05/26/horrified-because-our-cause-is-just/#comment-1389 Brian Tue, 27 May 2008 19:48:19 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=926#comment-1389 What would the nickname be: 1) Hair-related? 2) Suriname-related? 3) A pun on "Rijkaard"? 4) A third-generation derivative of "the Special One"? What would the nickname be:
1) Hair-related?
2) Suriname-related?
3) A pun on “Rijkaard”?
4) A third-generation derivative of “the Special One”?

]]> By: Linda http://www.runofplay.com/2008/05/26/horrified-because-our-cause-is-just/#comment-1386 Linda Tue, 27 May 2008 13:11:17 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=926#comment-1386 Part of me would hate to subject poor Frankie, who's had enough abuse and stress to last a life time, to even more, but another part of me is very curious to see what the media would make of a studiously uncontroversial nice guy like him, at a club like Chelsea. Part of me would hate to subject poor Frankie, who’s had enough abuse and stress to last a life time, to even more, but another part of me is very curious to see what the media would make of a studiously uncontroversial nice guy like him, at a club like Chelsea.

]]> By: ursus arctos http://www.runofplay.com/2008/05/26/horrified-because-our-cause-is-just/#comment-1385 ursus arctos Tue, 27 May 2008 10:02:22 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=926#comment-1385 I have it on excellent authority from a highly reliable source within Stamford Bridge that Mr. Grant does NOT appear in the official team photograph for the 2007-08 season. Unfortunately, my source, being a bit hard of hearing, was unable to confirm that selected tracks from this fine album http://www.amazon.ca/Russian-Funeral-Nikolay-Andreyevich-Rimsky-Korsakov/dp/B000003WAX were clearly audible at Fulham Broadway on Monday afternoon. I have it on excellent authority from a highly reliable source within Stamford Bridge that Mr. Grant does NOT appear in the official team photograph for the 2007-08 season.

Unfortunately, my source, being a bit hard of hearing, was unable to confirm that selected tracks from this fine album http://www.amazon.ca/Russian-Funeral-Nikolay-Andreyevich-Rimsky-Korsakov/dp/B000003WAX were clearly audible at Fulham Broadway on Monday afternoon.

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