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enthusiasm

  1. The curse of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

    Curb = Genius. Lead Balloon. Not. Grandma's House. Absolutely not in anyway shape or form. Please make it stop.
  2. MrB

    England v Hungary

    Anyone actually going to bother watching tonight? I can't muster up any enthusiasm for it whatsoever!! I realise it's a designated International week and therefore the only chance for Capello to look at the team before the first Euro 2012 qualifiers but the timing is just ridiculous with the...
  3. A bit of respect and perspective?

    So we got a great win last night. And Paul Sturrock has assembled a new squad of players in a relatively short period of time. And it's all different and new and there's some promise of what might be achieved. I also have a lot of regard for what Paul Sturrock has achieved as a manager at...
  4. Razam

    Sofiene Zaaboub Echo Interview

    apologies if this has been posted before: http://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/theblues/8292946.Zaaboub_wants_to_get_back_on_track_at_Blues/
  5. Tampa Blue

    Screech

    Spare a though today for Scott Spencer - personally I really rate him and his enthusiasm and effort when given the chance last season was fantastic and I reckon he could do really well this season, but: Has he signed a contract? - can anyone please confirm or deny - will it still be on the...
  6. Thrills, Spills and Unpaid Bills - The League One Review Part One

    So, another season bites the dust and it’s all over bar the fighting at the Wembley mud bath. As ever, ten months of football has served up more twists, turns and travesties than a Mail on Sunday honey trap and hopefully this should spread some light on the season just gone. Norwich Starting...
  7. Another Mitchell Murdered in the East End

    The spate of murdered Mitchells in the East End of London was added to once more, as Kevin Mitchell was blown away by a rampant Michael Katsidis at an Upton Park which is growing accustomed to home losses. Much was made of Mitchell’s recent form and his credentials as another English...
  8. Slipperduke

    Fourth? Pah!

    Has there ever been a tag-line as profoundly underwhelming as the ‘Battle For Fourth’? Even for the English, who celebrate mediocrity with such enthusiasm that Tim Lovejoy has been encouraged to forge a career in broadcasting, this is a new low. Fourth? It’s not even a place on the podium. It’s...
  9. Rusty Shackleford

    The Shackleford Alliance

    With no party looking capable of securing an overall majority, a hung parliament and a second election look likely. With that in mind, I believe a new political movement is required to shake off the current inertia and fill the electorate with a heady mixture of enthusiasm and terror. I...
  10. Xàbia Shrimper

    ¡que lastima!

    There's something very wrong with this football club. I've followed SUFC for more than 30 years and, aside from Anton Johnson's brief suicidal tenure during the first half of the 1980s, I cannot think of a worse position that Southend United finds itself at the moment. Ron Martin might spin a...
  11. seany t

    Best Comedy series of the 00s?

    Further to MK's thread about the state of comedy, I thought it might be good to discuss which comedy show was your favourite from the last decade. Many of the choices speak for themselves; The Office was a critical smash over here and developed the fly-on-wall feel of Ianucci / Morris' early...
  12. Question If there was no SUFC who would you go to watch?

    I was watching Arsenal last night and thought that if SUFC didn't exist i'd possibly spend my saturday afternoons at the emirates. I simply couldn't stomach supporting the o's or u's. And i'd rather eat my own vomit than buy a west ham season ticket. Spurs fans get right on my nerves although...
  13. Ricey

    Norwich in the race for Barnard

    Found this on another forum I post on: Norwich City boss Paul Lambert could be poised to enter the New Year transfer window race for Southend's League One hotshot Lee Barnard. City's League One rival's are reportedly ready to off load the £250,000-rated 17-goal striker, who is stalling on a...
  14. Ron speaks

    Make of this what you will. Can't wait to hear his take on squad size! Good luck tonight.Will be listening in - no doubt of the MK commentary as te Southend broadcast is so hit and miss. A few - not many in truth - have commented that I have "gone quiet" over the past two or three weeks...
  15. DoDTS

    Memory Lane New Book on Southend United

    If you have enjoyed the series of articles on Shrimperzone or in the programmes on the Southend United at the Kursaal you may be interested to know that the book has now been released. The Forgotten Years of the Kursaal - The Home of Southend United 1919-1934 By Peter William Baker...
  16. The Hand of Frog.

    While you're reading this, Giovanni Trapatoni will be giving his statement to an array of police equipped with notebooks and forensic packs, as one of the greatest robberies of sporting history occurred tonight. No more than three years ago, Thierry Henry lambasted Barcelona for their...
  17. DoDTS

    Memory Lane Episode No 5 Season 1931-32

    I'm not sure how these episodes are going down but here's the fifth episode of season 1931-32 as was printed in the Oldham programme. No. 5 IMPRESSIVE AWAY POOR AT HOME Southend, despite poor showings at the Kursaal had been very impressive on their travels and were top of the Third Division...
  18. Rob Noxious

    'Karaoke Capers'

    I was a bit of a late convert to 'Karaoke Capers.' In the early nineties, I could be seen grimacing and tutting in the corners of various hostelries, muttering about the murdering of The Clash's 'Should I Stay...' by misbegotten meatheads and generally being a bit of a misery when the wannabee...
  19. Slipperduke

    Dwight Yorke - Born to Score

    BORN TO SCORE? What would you do if you were a professional footballer? How would you act? I know what you're going to say, you're going to say the same as me. You're going to say that you'd give it everything. You're going to say that you'd be tee-total, that you'd train hard, that you'd...
  20. pickledseal

    Breaking News Revelling In It - 22/7/09

    Revelling In It This week starring: Adam ‘John Rambo’ Barrett Steve ‘living the dream’ Parmenter Dougie ‘YTS’ Freedman Sometimes it’s good to let your hair down (unless you’re Adam Barrett and can’t!) and the last few weeks we’ve had the opportunity to do two things which have certainly bonded...
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