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Leave Blues, score goals



In the last couple of weeks we've seen a lot of ex Birmingham City players score goals. Horsfield and Fagan in the same game, Forrester, Furlong, Woodhouse and of course Andrew Johnson.

AJ was going to be the prodigal son of Trevor Francis and when Bruce and Francis played musical chairs, AJ followed Francis to Palace, with Morrison coming the other way (after we had handed out £4.25m).

Although born in Bedford, AJ is an adopted Brummie and despite his move to London, he maintained a base in the Midlands and is often seen at St Andrews or out on the lash with current BCFC Players.

Many argued that AJ should have stayed at Blues. Young, promising and under the guidance of a new manager he may well have become a class player. AJ for me was always frustrating. Some games he would play at break neck speed, darting into defences, finding space or neatly laying off the ball for someone to put into the back of the net. In other games he would run straight towards the corner flag and appear to get lost, or lose the ball and look for a scapegoat. His enthuasiasm was and is unquestionable. He found his feet at Palace and last season he got a total of 32 goals helping Palace to the top flight. This season he's already bagged 4.

Morrison on the other hand has failed to produce the goods. Harsh but a striker is judged by the number of goals he scores. It's all well and good to say he works hard but no one credits an industrious goalkeeper who can't keep the ball out. Last season Morrison scored the same number of premier league goals that AJ has already bagged in 7 games at the highest level. The previous season he (Morrison)scored a measley 6.

Since joining Birmingham, Clinton has had the pleasure of playing alongside Dugarry, Heskey and Forrsell. Each a very different player but each very skillful and experienced. If you can't improve playing alongside full internationals and world cup winners then, I'm afraid, it's time to don the black cap and pass Judgment.

Bruce made a mistake. Clinton wasn't worth the money we paid for him and Jordan must have been laughing all the way to the bank. Bruce recently said that the players he bought at the start of our life in the Premier League were designed to either keep us afloat or ensure an immediate return. Fine. I've no problem with that, but you don't spend that sort of money on a player just in case we go down. Stern John cost us next to nothing and he is capable of doing a job in either division.

Should we have left AJ go? I don't know. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It's a tough call to make when buying and selling - will this player make it?

AJ seems to be providing the answer.
posted by kwacky at 11:02 am

 
One man's plea

I am Ken Bigley from Liverpool in the Walton district. I am here in Iraq, and I think this is possibly my last chance to speak to someone who will listen from Europe.

I need you to be as compassionate as you have always said you are and help me, help me to live so I can see my wife and my son and my mother and my brothers again.

I don't want to die. I don't deserve it. And neither do those women held in the Iraqi prisons. Please, please release the female prisoners who are held in Iraqi prisons. Please help them. I need you to help, Mr Blair. You are now the only person on God's earth that I can speak to.

Please, please help me to see my wife, who cannot go on without me - she really can't - and my son. Please help me. Please help me.

I also now realise how much the Iraqi people have suffered. The Iraqis have suffered, the Iraqi children who haven't got their mothers. It's not fair.

A child wants his mother. It's of no use keeping a mother in prison, no use whatsoever, ever. Let the mothers go back to their children. Give these people a chance. Please, I beg you.

My wife, she can't even speak very good English. She doesn't know anything. She rings Paul and asks, 'Where's Ken ?'.

Mr Blair, I am nothing to you. It's just one person in the whole of the United Kingdom - that's all - with a family like you've got a family, with children, like your children, your boys, your wife.

Please, you can help. I know you can. These people are not asking for the world. They're asking for their wives and the mothers of their children.

Please, Mr Blair, please show some of the compassion you say you have. Please, I don't know what I can say. Please, I wish you could talk back to me. I wish you could tell me what I've got to do. I'm nothing, am only a small man. I'm nothing. I have no political gains. I have no ambitions of grandeur. I made the mistake in coming here. But I've worked a long time in the Emirates.

I just didn't have real fear, not like I have today. Please, please, help me Mr Blair. You know you can. You know you can. Thank you. Thank you.

And... also if there's anyone else that can, can help me within the British political world, the Liberal party or the Conservative Party, if you can talk with Mr Blair and assist him.

I know things aren't easy. I know things aren't black and white, white and black. But we can overcome this. We can overcome it. I need to live. I need to see my family. And these people here need to see their mothers and their wives back in their homes. They do.

I've been here a week, and they've taken good care of me. They have. Under the circumstances, they've taken very good care of me. So, please, anybody, anybody in England, anybody at all that can talk to you Mr Blair and convince Mr Blair to help me and help the Iraqi people.

This is not only helping me. This is helping the Iraqi people who need help. They don't need bully boys. They need help.They need care. And they need compassion - the things you say you are, Mr Blair. Please, anyone at all who can help, and also to the British people - you are going to be watching because it is on TV, I presume.

You look at yourselves, and think of your wife or think of your husband not being home - not because they committed a crime but because they just get arrested and are guilty by association, just thrown inside a jail. And the families want these people home like you would want your family, your mothers, your wives, your husbands home.

Please, please, lobby Mr Blair. Please lobby all of the political parties that you are involved with, and ask them to stop and have a look at the Iraqis' plight.

Iraq is suffering, and has been suffering too long. And it needs its country, like you. Would you like the Germans or any other country walking down the street with a gun, in England, in Scotland? I don't think so. And the Iraqis don't like foreign troops on their soil, walking down the street with guns. It's not right. And it's not fair. We need to pull the troops out and let the Iraqis run their own country, their own destiny.

And I ask you all, of course I need help, of course I do, that goes without saying - but the Iraqis also need help. They need to be left alone to rebuild their country and their own futures at the speed they want to do it and not be pushed and shoved. People of Britain and people of Liverpool particularly, you are very special people, you are people who can open your mouths and speak and say, 'Enough is enough. Enough is enough of playing with Iraq like a toy. Pack your bags and get out.' And let's hope we can come back and visit the country as a guest, as a guest of the Iraqis.

Please, especially all the people of Liverpool, we all know how important, how special Liverpool is to everybody, people who speak the truth. I'm not afraid to speak the truth, I never have been, that's probably why all the Liverpudlians have suffered over the years.

I'm begging you, please, please talk to MPs. Talk to the government. Talk to anyone. Please, please look at Iraq and help. Me, yes, I want to live. Yes, I want to live. But please look and help Iraq, Iraqi women and children, women and children.

I've been in Iraq some months now. Believe me, they have nothing. They have nothing, only their pride. They're kind people. Please talk to, talk to everybody that you know who can influence people, can talk to politicians, can talk to anybody who can let the decision makers know, people who are close to the government, who are close to the opposition, Amnesty International, the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, everybody. And the Asian community, the Asian community in England, please, please open your mouths and be listened to and speak up for the freedom of Iraq, please.

No commentary is needed.

posted by kwacky at 1:45 pm

 
Georgina's baptism



That's me with my wife and our daughter. For those of you who don't go to church, the bloke in the green is the vicar.


posted by kwacky at 4:15 pm

 


Strange World

The following link is not safe for work. It's also not recommneded viewing for anyone under the age of 18. It's a webcam plea from a psycho webcam weirdo who is making a plea to some guy called "Matt". I can't work out if he's an ex or if he's turned her down point blank in the not too distant past.

This delightful nutter proceeds to strip then attempt to seduce "Matt" by distracting him from her Kathy Bates monologue by prancing around the room naked and fiddling with herself.

The link

What possess someone to put themselves on display in such a pitiful manner via a media which enables half the World to see your madness within minutes?

Matt, I don't care if the sweets in the shop look good. There's a mouse trap in the middle of the lucky dip barrel and the shop keeper put razor blades in the toffee apples. Run home. QUICK.

Whilst I'm picking on people, check out this twit. He's up for a martial arts audition. What was I saying about the internet? I bet he's stopped telling people in the pub how hard he is.

Bluetitch was recently tempted to go and see "I, Robot". I think I put her off, but if not, here's a succinct review


Chavs are the current media hobby. Goldie Looking Chain seem to have arrived at the right time. Long standing nutters from Newport, they've managed to crowbar their way into Joe Publics CD collection. Fat-Pie.Com have a couple of classy interviews with blokes who are both called Darren. Both are twatted on "pills". Both have caps. Both love to call everything "gay". Sounds like half of Brum.
posted by kwacky at 6:31 pm

 
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi militants said Thursday they had killed three Turkish captives, as France pressed on with diplomatic efforts to win the release of two French journalists held hostage by another guerrilla group.

The Arabic Al Jazeera satellite station said the Tawhid and Jihad group had claimed responsibility for killing the Turks.

Tawhid and Jihad is the group led by Jordanian al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Washington's most wanted man in Iraq with a million price on his head.

The U.S. military said it had launched an air strike late on Wednesday on two buildings in the restive city of Falluja being used as safe houses by Zarqawi's loyalists, and had earlier observed the men killing a captive and burying his body.

"Surrounded by fields, the two targeted buildings served as safe houses and meeting locations for known Zarqawi associates," a U.S. military statement said.

"The Zarqawi associates were observed removing a man from the trunk of a car, executing him, then burying his body."

Doctors in Falluja said at least 17 people were killed in the air strike, including three children and one woman.

U.S. forces pulled out of Falluja in early May after weeks of fighting that killed hundreds of Iraqis and sparked nationwide outrage. Security was handed over to an Iraqi force, but the city is largely in the control of insurgents and is regarded as a haven for foreign militants.

The U.S. military has launched several air strikes on suspected Zarqawi safe houses in Falluja in recent months.

Iraqi Vice President Ibrahim Jaafari, who has been critical of some U.S.-led military operations, said air strikes were not the best tactic for pacifying Falluja and efforts should focus instead on isolating insurgents and cutting their supply routes.

"Blind bombing does not distinguish the terrorist from the non-terrorist," he told Reuters in an interview shortly before the latest air strike Wednesday night.

It appears reasonable for the occupying forces to bomb residential areas and to watch hostages being executed.


posted by kwacky at 5:55 pm