sleepkid wrote:Ok. I'm in. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to create the league...

And finally, time but only just enough to bring you highlights from a chat between the magazine Sport and Graham Taylor, the former custodian of England soccer fortunes, now a celebrated pundit on the BBC. So often these interviews become mired in sports cliche. Here, we meet the real Graham. "Are you a briefs or boxer shorts kind of chap?" he is asked. "Boxer shorts, definitely. I find them to be much more comfortable - particularly as I'm such a big guy." "What do you mean by that, Graham? A 'big guy'?" ... He chuckles: "I'll leave you to work that out. It's just one of these things." He is, we learn, a slipper man. "Slippers but no socks. I hate socks. They're just horrible. They make your feet sweat and they never do what they're supposed to. I prefer to have some freedom ... to wiggle my toes - as I'm doing now, incidentally." And inevitably enough, we get his take on biscuits. " What's the greatest biscuit known to man?" "Ooh, a custard cream, isn't it?" "You say that, but what about the Jaffa Cake?"..."Do you know I haven't had a Jaffa Cake for such a long time. It's all gone modern now with biscuits, though, hasn't it? All these oaty biscuits and baked things you never used to have. My wife's into all these horrible baked things that are no fun at all. I say custard cream, but then I think: 'When did you last have a custard cream, Graham?' You're right, put Jaffa Cake." Graham has spoken. It is so.

simmo wrote:Any more takers? You've got about twelve hours to put a team together! It would be nice to have a tenth team in the league.

One small hint about my team: it's success will rely on Raymond Domenech not being an idiot.

iembalm wrote:My God, have you ever seen someone be more of a little bitch about their transfer "request"?

Waits to make any kind of statement until he's sequestered with his national team in the offseason. Then only speaks through his agent to a journalist for a South American website, stating he wants to go to Real Madrid, but only if they pay the kind of money United should be expected to get for a player of his caliber and then meet his wage demands. Tops it all off by refusing to answer any more questions, refusing to meet with his manager, who has offered to cut his family holiday short (and Ferguson gets, what, a week off per year, if that?), and then says, "it has nothing to do with me."

What a pussy. Can't wait to see him get decapitated by Vidic in the Champions League next season.

Oh, and Arsenal.....32 million pounds for Adebayor? Jesus, take the money and run.