RAPFA pre season meeting invitation - Saturday 9th of July

[Ollessendro]

The Real Ale and Proper Football Alliance (RAPFA) would like to welcome all real ale and proper football lovers to a pre season meeting at the Coach and Horses on Saturday the 9th of July. Prior to SUFC’s match against Sheffield FC we’ll be sinking a few pints of real ale and talking about the beautiful game.

There will be strictly no lager and talk of Blackwell and Hoofy Adams is outlawed. Any talk of tippy tappy, ticky tacky, pass and move football is welcomed and conversations about Cryuff, Maradonna, Beckenbaur and Pele will flowing like the real ale. You should be prepared to discuss who was better in Platini and Zidane and ready your views on which team was better: the current Barcelona team, AC Milan with the Dutch trio of Gullit, Rjkiard and Van Basten, Real Madrid with De Stefano or Sheffield United with Currie and Woodward. Blades wearing a Hungary 58 shirt with Pushkas on the back will be warmly welcomed.

If you have never heard of Byron, Keates or Shelley then this is not the place for you. Nor if you can’t think beyond Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth or Hamlet when thinking of William Shakespeare. Being able to recite Milton’s paradise lost is worth a drink from Ollessendro and if you need to Google Joyce, Wells and Kipling to know who they are then you might be on shaky ground. Reading at least three Orwell books is an absolute prerequisite. But alas, we are not racist and if you wish to discuss the merits of Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy, Hugo, Zorillo, Juarez, Hemmingway or Dostoevsky then it is fine.

If you have ever contemplated that what Thatcher did was right, then don’t even think about applying for RAPFA membership. Conservatives should generally stay well clear or be prepared to have their mouth washed out with soap.

You will be expected to swear an allegiance to the beautiful game and vow to do your upmost to ensure that hoof is banished from Beautiful Down Town Bramall Lane. RAPFA will not stop in its quest to bring free flowing, attractive, effective, passing football to S2 and its members should be expected to put themselves on the line for the cause.

As an added bonus Pinchy may be getting a round of Jaipuir’s in if the rumours are true and the maestro is offloaded before the match.

So, on Saturday July the 9th, come along for a few pints of the divine ambrosia and listen to the sweet orchestra of South Yorkshire accents talking about football being played beautifully.

 

[davidpinder]

what Time??

 

[Foxy]

As an added bonus Pinchy may be getting a round of Jaipuir’s in if the rumours are true and the maestro is offloaded before the match.

I'm afraid at best it'll likely be a few bottles of Jaipur (no second i ), as last time I was in the Coach & Horses Jaipur was no longer on tap.

 

[JohnDenver]

Being able to recite Milton’s paradise lost is worth a drink from Ollessendro

Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

Very apt for League 1 football, and thus well worth a Jaipur out of Olle's pocket.

 

[blade too long]

can we discuss Pep Wilsoniola,s plans for sexy football

 

[Pinchy]

We certainly can. I will be there but don't let that put anyone off. You can ignore me as usual

I'll sit in the corner with a pint reading an anthology of 17th century Romantic poetry by Andrew Marvell, whilst plotting the downfall of the capitalist system with my Facebook friend Billy Bragg.

I'll buy anyone from this forum a pint - but don't ask for lager!

Then we'll have a sneak preview of Wilson's Wonderland.

 

[MunXy]

id just like to ask, politely if you guys can drop the hoofball etc bollox, its not needed and does have a tendancy to anger people.
bassett and warnock have two of the best win percentages in post war blades history and both did it using using direct football BUT and this is after watching both i was not ONLY direct football some nice football was also used, so please drop this un called for tagging.
as for poetry, sorry best i can do is dirty limerics that start "there once was a man named fenis" for example
MunXy

 

[SwissBlade]

I know a few of you from Blades games so if I make it back in time i'll say hi and have a pint or two and chat about the Blades etc

But sorry all this other bollocks is just, well... bollocks

And yes Pinchy, we'll get a chance to sneak a preview of things to come in the Wilson Wonderland

 

[JJ Sefton]

The Real Ale and Proper Football Alliance (RAPFA) would like to welcome all real ale and proper football lovers to a pre season meeting at the Coach and Horses on Saturday the 9th of July. Prior to SUFC’s match against Sheffield FC we’ll be sinking a few pints of real ale and talking about the beautiful game.

There will be strictly no lager and talk of Blackwell and Hoofy Adams is outlawed. Any talk of tippy tappy, ticky tacky, pass and move football is welcomed and conversations about Cryuff, Maradonna, Beckenbaur and Pele will flowing like the real ale. You should be prepared to discuss who was better in Platini and Zidane and ready your views on which team was better: the current Barcelona team, AC Milan with the Dutch trio of Gullit, Rjkiard and Van Basten, Real Madrid with De Stefano or Sheffield United with Currie and Woodward. Blades wearing a Hungary 58 shirt with Pushkas on the back will be warmly welcomed.

If you have never heard of Byron, Keates or Shelley then this is not the place for you. Nor if you can’t think beyond Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth or Hamlet when thinking of William Shakespeare. Being able to recite Milton’s paradise lost is worth a drink from Ollessendro and if you need to Google Joyce, Wells and Kipling to know who they are then you might be on shaky ground. Reading at least three Orwell books is an absolute prerequisite. But alas, we are not racist and if you wish to discuss the merits of Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy, Hugo, Zorillo, Juarez, Hemmingway or Dostoevsky then it is fine.

If you have ever contemplated that what Thatcher did was right, then don’t even think about applying for RAPFA membership. Conservatives should generally stay well clear or be prepared to have their mouth washed out with soap.

You will be expected to swear an allegiance to the beautiful game and vow to do your upmost to ensure that hoof is banished from Beautiful Down Town Bramall Lane. RAPFA will not stop in its quest to bring free flowing, attractive, effective, passing football to S2 and its members should be expected to put themselves on the line for the cause.

As an added bonus Pinchy may be getting a round of Jaipuir’s in if the rumours are true and the maestro is offloaded before the match.

So, on Saturday July the 9th, come along for a few pints of the divine ambrosia and listen to the sweet orchestra of South Yorkshire accents talking about football being played beautifully.

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[Highbury_Blade]

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[Deleted member 1486]

I got 5! What prize do I win?

Shelley

Romeo

Kipling

Hugo

Juarez

 

[cahill]

Any opportunity to praise TC, Woody whilst slagging off all thing Tory and Lib Dem (Tories in reality) sounds worth making the effort for. I'm no democrat (a middle class fetish) so if you can cope with an old Tanky ?

 

[Ollessendro]

Any opportunity to praise TC, Woody whilst slagging off all thing Tory and Lib Dem (Tories in reality) sounds worth making the effort for. I'm no democrat (a middle class fetish) so if you can cope with an old Tanky ?

Do you love real ale and wish United played some exciting, pass and move (effective) football? If so, come on down old mucker.

id just like to ask, politely if you guys can drop the hoofball etc bollox, its not needed and does have a tendancy to anger people.
bassett and warnock have two of the best win percentages in post war blades history and both did it using using direct football BUT and this is after watching both i was not ONLY direct football some nice football was also used, so please drop this un called for tagging.
as for poetry, sorry best i can do is dirty limerics that start "there once was a man named fenis" for example
MunXy

Oreit Munx. Funny, I never really had you down as a literary man either. Dinosaur Dave's hoo .... erm, I mean 'direct' tactics were ok back in the 90's (I remember a Wimbeldon team having some success around that time). However they are way outdated now. Even then we had some players who could actually play football and pass a ball. Bradshaw, Whitehouse and Hodges for example where all talented players, with falir and ability. Whereas Sir Neil played a very confrontational and aggressive way, his teams could play football. I think the 'direct' tag on Warnock is a tad unfair, as in 02/03 and the promotion season we were not masters of hoof ....I mean a long ball team. No sorry, 'direct' team. Again Tonge, Brown, McCall and Jags were all decent players. Warnock's teams were 'direct' at times, but he mixed it up and we defo played some attractive football.

Very apt for League 1 football, and thus well worth a Jaipur out of Olle's pocket.

JD, google-ing it and copying and pasting it is different to reciting it. But if someone has the audacity to (rote) learn it before hand and recite it to me, then they can have a pint of any of the real ale's behind the bar (according to one website it is '5 of the Thornbridge cask ales are served at any one time, these are: Wild Swan, Brother Rabbit, Lord Marples, Blackthorn Ale, Jaipur IPA, Kipling & St.Petersburg +limited editions')
though apparently they don't have Jaipur anymore, so it will be have to be sumert else.

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what Time??

Dave. I plan to be there for around 1-1:30.

 

[Robbie]

I'll buy anyone from this forum a pint - but don't ask for lager!

Might cancel my holiday to take you up on this.

 

[JohnDenver]

JD, google-ing it and copying and pasting it is different to reciting it. But if someone has the audacity to (rote) learn it before hand and recite it to me, then they can have a pint of any of the real ale's behind the bar (according to one website it is '5 of the Thornbridge cask ales are served at any one time, these are: Wild Swan, Brother Rabbit, Lord Marples, Blackthorn Ale, Jaipur IPA, Kipling & St.Petersburg +limited editions')
though apparently they don't have Jaipur anymore, so it will be have to be sumert else.

That wasn't googled young man. That happens to be the only Milton quote I know.

I'll settle for a half.

 

[SwissBlade]

Might cancel my holiday to take you up on this.

Does that mean that your holiday is worth less than a pint Robbie?

Even at the worst case bars in Zug a pint of Swiss Beer/ Carlsberg/ Guinness is only £5.50 and i've never had a holiday for under a tenner

 

[Robbie]

Does that mean that your holiday is worth less than a pint Robbie?

Even at the worst case bars in Zug a pint of Swiss Beer/ Carlsberg/ Guinness is only £5.50 and i've never had a holiday for under a tenner

But it's a free pint

My holiday.... I'll let you know if it was worth it in a few weeks ;-)

 

[Ollessendro]

Official launch of RAPFA: meeting this Saturday - from 13:30

The Real Ale and Proper Football Alliance will officially be launched with a pre season meeting this Saturday. Real ale and proper football lovers that support the mighty Blades are welcome to join executive members Ollessendro and Pinchy from 1.30pm onwards.

It is looking increasingly unlikely that ‘the maestro’ will be gone by Saturday and hence Pinchy might not indeed be buying any pints of any of the Thornbridge range to all and sundry. But come and join us if you are going to match.

Topics for discussion are:
• Concerns that Montgomery has not left the club (and how this might be resolved)
• Can Wilson bring attractive football to BDTBL?
• The campaign for two central midfielders that can pass a ball
• Keates or Byron, Dickens vs Shakespeare and Shelley or Wilde
• Added tax/duty on beer (real ale)
• Best French player of all time: Zidane or Platini
• Greatest player of all time: Maradonna vs Pele
• Biggest twat: Osbourne or Thatcher
• Next RAPFA meeting date and location

No hoof lovers, Blackwell defenders, ale house Micky ‘should have been given a chance’-ers, Tory voters or car protest numpties allowed. A B in English Lit O-Level would be welcomed and if Tony Benn is not in your favourite 5 politicians then an explanation will be needed.

Drop me a PM if you are coming down and want to meet up.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

So basically you just want people that will agree with you then?

Sounds thrilling.

 

[JJ Sefton]

The Real Ale and Proper Football Alliance will officially be launched with a pre season meeting this Saturday. Real ale and proper football lovers that support the mighty Blades are welcome to join executive members Ollessendro and Pinchy from 1.30pm onwards.

It is looking increasingly unlikely that ‘the maestro’ will be gone by Saturday and hence Pinchy might not indeed be buying any pints of any of the Thornbridge range to all and sundry. But come and join us if you are going to match.

Topics for discussion are:
• Concerns that Montgomery has not left the club (and how this might be resolved)
• Can Wilson bring attractive football to BDTBL?
• The campaign for two central midfielders that can pass a ball
• Keates or Byron, Dickens vs Shakespeare and Shelley or Wilde
• Added tax/duty on beer (real ale)
• Best French player of all time: Zidane or Platini
• Greatest player of all time: Maradonna vs Pele
• Biggest twat: Osbourne or Thatcher
• Next RAPFA meeting date and location

No hoof lovers, Blackwell defenders, ale house Micky ‘should have been given a chance’-ers, Tory voters or car protest numpties allowed. A B in English Lit O-Level would be welcomed and if Tony Benn is not in your favourite 5 politicians then an explanation will be needed.

Drop me a PM if you are coming down and want to meet up.

Ditto what HB said. Plus youre setting out a list of topics for conversation beforehand? Sounds like a right laugh. Even a bit, dare I say, North Korean.

 

[Darren]

Ditto what HB said. Plus youre setting out a list of topics for conversation beforehand? Sounds like a right laugh. Even a bit, dare I say, North Korean.

When I was on my way back from the gym yesterday I saw that the SWP's "Marxism 2011" was in full swing at the ULU buildings on Gower Street. Just outside the Spartacists were proclaiming the need for solidarity with Cuba, Vietnam, China and North Korea, just as they were when I was at university 25 years ago (though then it was the USSR, Poland, Romania etc as well).

As you do, I popped in and had a look round the various stalls and it was like nothing had changed in the intervening 25 years - some guy from some obscure group handed me a leaflet criticising the SWP's interpretation of the Theory of Value and you could buy Thatcher Death Celebration kits.

Mind you, they did have a decent bookstall and I managed to get Crosland's follow up to "The Future of Socialism" and a 1950's history of ASLEF for only £8 the pair. Feeling very satisfied with myself, I bought a can of coke from their food and drinkstall and they charged me £1 for it. Bloody money grabbing revisionists!

You would have loved it...

 

[JJ Sefton]

When I was on my way back from the gym yesterday I saw that the SWP's "Marxism 2011" was in full swing at the ULU buildings on Gower Street. Just outside the Spartacists were proclaiming the need for solidarity with Cuba, Vietnam, China and North Korea, just as they were when I was at university 25 years ago (though then it was the USSR, Poland, Romania etc as well).

As you do, I popped in and had a look round the various stalls and it was like nothing had changed in the intervening 25 years - some guy from some obscure group handed me a leaflet criticising the SWP's interpretation of the Theory of Value and you could buy Thatcher Death Celebration kits.

Mind you, they did have a decent bookstall and I managed to get Crosland's follow up to "The Future of Socialism" and a 1950's history of ASLEF for only £8 the pair. Feeling very satisfied with myself, I bought a can of coke from their food and drinkstall and they charged me £1 for it. Bloody money grabbing revisionists!

You would have loved it...

I spent quite a bit of time hanging around those sorts of things when I was studying at Birkbeck. Sometimes its enormous fun to be surrounded by people who you disagree with entirely. And I used to go in Bookmarks quite alot when I worked over by Goodge Street.

Among my favourites was hearing a student leader make an impassioned call for a General Strike against the cuts. I put my hand up and asked "Which job will you be striking from then?" Answer came there none.

 

[Ollessendro]

So basically you just want people that will agree with you then?

Nope. We want real ale lovers and people who enjoy watching proper football.

Ditto what HB said. Plus youre setting out a list of topics for conversation beforehand? Sounds like a right laugh. Even a bit, dare I say, North Korean.

Ah there is the sound of someone with green eyes. Like the North Korean jibe though. Bit of irony on my part? After all I am the (self proclaimed) KOC.

 

[JJ Sefton]

After all I am the (self proclaimed) KOC.

Er, not sure what to say about that old boy. Dont be so hard on yourself?

 

[Darren]

I spent quite a bit of time hanging around those sorts of things when I was studying at Birkbeck. Sometimes its enormous fun to be surrounded by people who you disagree with entirely. And I used to go in Bookmarks quite alot when I worked over by Goodge Street.

Among my favourites was hearing a student leader make an impassioned call for a General Strike against the cuts. I put my hand up and asked "Which job will you be striking from then?" Answer came there none.

I don't agree with them at all either, but i am quite interested in obscure religious and political sects, so it is all great fun to me.

Don't think much of your latter point though - I can't see why, to be in favour of something, you have to be a participant in it.

 

[JJ Sefton]

I don't agree with them at all either, but i am quite interested in obscure religious and political sects, so it is all great fun to me.

What strikes me, looking back and looking at them now, is how similar they are to alot of the people I met in UKIP. They are all on some quest, endlessly upstream, for some ideologically pure waters they can bathe in. Compromise is the most evil word but, sadly, being neccessary to achieve most things it dooms them to irrelevance. I know a few Conservatives like that too, they all fume about what a lily livered pinko Cameron is. I call them the Tory Trots.

 

[Darren]

What strikes me, looking back and looking at them now, is how similar they are to alot of the people I met in UKIP. They are all on some quest, endlessly upstream, for some ideologically pure waters they can bathe in. Compromise is the most evil word but, sadly, being neccessary to achieve most things it dooms them to irrelevance. I know a few Conservatives like that too, they all fume about what a lily livered pinko Cameron is. I call them the Tory Trots.

The similarities between Libertarian types and Trots are rather instructive. They both adhere to an inflexible dogma which cannot be deviated from whereas, as you say, in the real world you don't get anything done without either (a) compromise or (b) killing people who disagree with you.

You used to be a bit of a Tory Trot (I remember a wonderful argument we had where you said there shouldn't be compulsory education as we didn't have compulsory haircuts), but that was probably in your unregenerate UKIP days....

 

[JJ Sefton]

I remember a wonderful argument we had where you said there shouldn't be compulsory education as we didn't have compulsory haircuts

And you have a go at me for attributing beliefs to people which they never held!

 

[Darren]

And you have a go at me for attributing beliefs to people which they never held!

Seriously, we definitely had that argument. Back on the BU site maybe 3 or so years ago.

 

[JJ Sefton]

The similarities between Libertarian types and Trots are rather instructive. They both adhere to an inflexible dogma which cannot be deviated from whereas, as you say, in the real world you don't get anything done without either (a) compromise or (b) killing people who disagree with you.

I used to be an actual Trot but, oddly perhaps, I have more respect for the Stalinists these days. As barmy, brutal and bloodthirsty as it was, it did, at least, exist. Trotskyism hasnt anywhere (though one Trot I spoke to recently gave me two examples - the Paris Commune and Soviet Russia 1917 to 1923, neither exactly encouraging me to rush back to the fold). You cant say 'but look at this' or 'look at that' because they will simply tell you it wasnt Trotskyism. The whole thing is rather a pretty gutless moral dodge.

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Seriously, we definitely had that argument. Back on the BU site maybe 3 or so years ago.

I remember the discussion but that is not what I said.