INSPIRATION

Galasso · Post by **Galasso** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:26 am

"We've got Brian, Brian Marwood, Brian Marwood on the wing" I can't remember there ever being an "..on the wing, on the wing"

Should do a stearmaster poll

augie · Post by **augie** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:25 am

It goes without saying that I liked the film Fever Pitch (although it was nowhere near as good as the book) but THE best sports movie of all time has to be "Remember The Titans"

Christ I love that movie.

Correct me if I am wrong but I think the Irish did serve in the wars - didnt the english shove them into the front lines like they tried to do in Braveheart before the Celtic nations joined forces on the scottish battlefields to kick english arses (yet again)

Galasso · Post by **Galasso** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:29 am

I can't imagine anything like that happening augie

TheOne2Smooth · Post by **TheOne2Smooth** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:31 am

I always knew the song as Brian, brian marwood on the wing x2

anyway great sports films have you guys forget that timeless classic
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery????

Post by **flash gunner** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:31 am

Wasnt Ireland Neutral in the 2nd world war Augie? Thats what i meant about the Irish character in the film escape to victory

augie · Post by **augie** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:41 am

We are nuetral in every fcuking war flash

What we have a fcuking army for is anybodys guess

I would nearly start a war to send the cnuts out to earn their money cos it is just a joke over here having them getting paid money, doing army training and manouvres and yet have no intention of fighting. I have a good buddy in the army and I tell him all that

Post by **SPUDMASHER** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:43 am

Far be it from me to be serious but this might be of interest.

In September 1939, the UK went to war with Germany when it invaded Poland ignoring British and French demands for it not to. Northern Ireland, as part of the UK, found itself at war too. Eire, being a small country with few military resources, immediately declared neutrality. The return of the naval ports had come just in time, since Eire would have had to oust the British to remain neutral. The Eire government looked with increasing anxiousness as Hitler invaded and took over 8 neutral European countries in 1940, since they knew that the Irish army wouldn't have a hope against the Germans in an invasion. (In fact documents found after the war showed that Hitler had genuine plans to invade Ireland. The operation, called "Operation Green", would have provided a springboard for invading mainland Britain through its unprotected west coast. The invasion never happened due to German distractions in the USSR.) Nevertheless, de Valera refused to join the war. When the IRA began collaborating with the Germans in 1940, the Eire government cracked down hard in order not to anger the British and provoke a strategic invasion.

Despite the government's official line, however, the Irish people sympathised with the British and 40,000 Irish joined the British army and over 150,000 worked for the war effort. Nevertheless, the Irish declaration of neutrality brought resentment in Northern Ireland where times had got hard with rationing and blackouts while Eire could still trade freely.

So that loosely explains how an Irishman was in a POW camp with Sylvester Stallone.

Galasso · Post by **Galasso** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:45 am

Great, but that doesn't explain why Sylvester Stallone was there...

Post by **SPUDMASHER** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:48 am

Sylvester Stallone was there because he was researching what it is like to live under an oppressive regime in order that he could bring more realism into his role in 'Stop or My Mom Will Shoot'.

Post by **flash gunner** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:50 am

Maybe Silvester was there to get away from his mum

augie · Post by **augie** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:55 am

Fcuk me spud you are delving deep into history today arent you ? I thought I was back in school there for a minute

Post by **SPUDMASHER** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:59 am

augie wrote:Fcuk me spud you are delving deep into history today arent you ? I thought I was back in school there for a minute

Well Augie, At least you can say that you learnt something new about Sylvester Stallone today
And people think I'm just an idiot

Chunky The Gooner · Post by **Chunky The Gooner** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:18 pm

[quote="rebel gooner"]i love fever pitch,, but escape to victory is the bollocks

went to the cinema when it came out and every one was cheering as the goals went in,, only gripe i had was the only paddy ( cant remember his name)kevin o callaghan i think,, had his arm broke so sly stallone could play in goal

[/quote]

"You dont kick well you dont dribble well but you could be good goalkeeper! "

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:55 pm

rebel gooner wrote:...

don't know what to say really.
Three minutes
to the biggest battle of our professional lives
all comes down to today.
Either
we heal
as a team
or we are going to crumble.
Inch by inch
play by play
till we're finished.
We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me
and
we can stay here
and get the shit kicked out of us
or
we can fight our way
back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.

Now I can't do it for you.
I'm too old.
I look around and I see these young faces
and I think
I mean
I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make.
I uh....
I pissed away all my money
believe it or not.
I chased off
anyone who has ever loved me.
And lately,
I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror.

You know when you get old in life
things get taken from you.
That's, that's part of life.
But,
you only learn that when you start losing stuff.
You find out that life is just a game of inches.
So is football.
Because in either game
life or football
the margin for error is so small.
I mean
one half step too late or to early
you don't quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game
every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that's going to make the fucking difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.

I'll tell you this
in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know
if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face.

Now I can't make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to see a guy
who will sacrifice himself for this team
because he knows when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for him.

That's a team, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
That's football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?...

A BIT TOO HOMO-EROTIC FOR ME REBEL!!

NOT SURE IF YOU ARE PREPARING FOR BATTLE OR A MALE ORGY!!

Galasso · Post by **Galasso** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:00 pm

Big on inches, not big on substance......

GET THE FUCKING METRIC SYSTEM

INSPIRATION

Re: INSPIRATION