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I hate it when they have a break. At least it's not the summer when there seems to be no football for months.

Still I've many hobbies, and will be watching the last ATP Tour Tournament before the final in London, in 2 weeks.


I am a huge fan of Nadal.

Jeez 2 weeks with no footie - I'll go mad.

I personally will play pro evo and re-watch lost before it starts again January!

I'll watch England play in Qatar then I'll probably cheer on the Paddies against France in the world cup play off.

The Republic of Ireland is the only other Home team I have any time for.

I dont care about Northern Ireland, Wales are a waste of space and I just wanna sh1te on Scotland

International football is on so going to have to watch that otherwise will get football withdrawel signs. International football is not the same generally a lot slower but it will do

Concentrating on the pub league team I've organized. Got a gritty 1-0 win last weekend over last season's champs. Back to tweaking the formation...

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Concentrating on the pub league team I've organized. Got a gritty 1-0 win last weekend over last season's champs. Back to tweaking the formation...

Keep getting the victories and if Hughton gets the bullet, you never know Tunyc you could be the next gaffer. Maybe start scouting some of the player in the division, as we may be able to afford them.

lol...there is a pretty good German guy on our team...he smokes a pack a day, but what the hell? No worse than Gazza!

Can he drink like gazza, commit crime like some of the hooligans we have had and be generally hated like Bellamy when he left, if so he is the guy

">Gazza being Gazza

">I'm now away to get me suit measured





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Oh, he can drink with the best of them. I think the guy was given bottled lager as an infant...

Germans generally can, probably been brought up on Ocktoberfest. Make the guy skipper for the team, sounds like you unearthed a gem

lol...mmmmmmmmmm, Oktoberfest (I grew up in a community mainly descended from German immigrants)...

Tunyc

Have you read Gazza's autobiography?

If not you should try and get a copy on-line somewhere because its a great read

Not yet-will do now, though! Thanks for the tip!

read the damned united bought it on the weeken 4 chapters in and loving it my bus journeys fly by

If your going to get into reading forget footballers and read 'one hundred years of solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. By far the best book ever written, I have read it a dozen times at least and stil find something new in it each time.

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If your going to get into reading forget footballers and read 'one hundred years of solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. By far the best book ever written, I have read it a dozen times at least and stil find something new in it each time.

throw me a brief summary if ya can mate

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By far the best book ever written

Nah, that's gotta be Push, by Sapphire...

One Hundred Years of Solitude is not a typical novel in that there is no single plot and no single timeline. The author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, has crucial thematic reasons for the unusual construction of the novel. It is his intention to show that history moves not only in cycles but also in circles. For this reason, there is no single main character in focus, nor does the novel follow a regular timeline. In his quest to show how history moves in circles, Marquez gives virtually every member of the Buendia family one of the following names: (men) Jose Arcadio, Aureliano (women) Ursula, Amaranta, Remedios. This can sometimes be confusing to the reader, which is, after all, the point. In an effort to make matters less confusing, Marquez has included a family tree at the beginning of the book, and he uses a slight variation on these names for each different character.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is both the history of Macondo, a small town in an unnamed region of South America, and the town's founders, the Buendia family. The book follows seven generations of the Buendias and the rise and fall of Macondo. The family patriarch, Jose Arcadio Buendia, founded the town with his wife, Ursula Iguaran. Because Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran were cousins, they have a fear of bearing children with pig's tails; this fear will linger over the book.

Jose Arcadio Buendia is an intrepid, curious man with a flair for exploration and the sciences. He delves into one scientific quest after another and eventually loses his senses, forcing the men of the town to tie him to a tree. Both his strengths and weaknesses are exhibited in the Buendia men throughout the novel, starting with his sons Jose Arcadio and Aureliano. Jose Arcadio inherits his father's massive strength and implusiveness; Aureliano inherits his strong ethical sense and his solitary intensity. Both these men go to their own extremes: Jose Arcadio becomes the ultimate macho and dies mysteriously after usurping lands; Aureliano (known in the novel as Colonel Aureliano Buendia) becomes one of the greatest and most notorious rebels in the country during an extended period of civil war. Macondo, once an innocent paradise, becomes acquainted with the outside world during the period of civil war. It is during this period that death and bloodshed first comes to Macondo's door; the town remains linked to the outside world because of the fame of Colonel Aureliano Buendia.

In contrast to her husband, Ursula Iguaran is fiercely practical and possessed of much common sense. She is energetic, tenacious (she lives so long that she loses track of her age) and spends her life looking after the family line. Unfortunately none of the female Buendias match her fortitude: Amaranta, her daughter, is tenacious only in personal bitterness while her great-great-granddaughters Renata Remedios and Amaranta Ursula are possessed of her energy but none of her common sense. The failure of the next generations to be possessed of their ancestors' strength of character causes the family to falter as history and modernity storm Macondo.

After the civil war, foreign imperialism comes in with devastating effects. White capitalists come to Macondo and seem to usurp God's powers with their ability to change the seasons and the water flow. They set up a banana plantation that exploits the residents of Macondo; when the workers organize and strike, they are all systematically killed in a government-sponsored massacre. One of the Buendias, Jose Arcadio Segundo, was a major organizer and could not face the world after this event.

For Macondo, too, the banana massacre brings major change. Rains begin the night of the massacre and do not stop for almost five years; washing away the banana plantation and leaving Macondo in a state of desperation. The impoverished town loses its importance and its modernity; from then on, the town exists in a state of regression. For the Buendias, also, the rains signal the quickening speed of their downward spiral. The older members of the family are lost in nostalgia; the younger ones are lost in debauchery and solitary isolation. As the town is abandoned, the last members of the family succumb to incestuous desire and birth a child with a pig's tail. At the very end of the book, it is revealed that the history of the Buendias has been ordained since the beginning, and that they will never have a second chance.

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You forgot about the tattoed penis.


Seriously though, that book cannot be summarized in any substantial form. It's so rife with allegory that even Spenser or Langland would be impressed.

If you're into the magical realism that Marquez does so well, I highly suggest reading some Borges. Labyrinths is an amazing anthology containing two of the greatest short stories ever: "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "The Library of Babel."



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nah waffles, dave didnt forget anything.

apart from mentioning who he got to do his homework

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unless of course dave wrote it there first?

i just finished ben eltons novel 'chart throb'. i wont go to the length dave has (or hasnt - haha) to review it, but it opened these eyes to the way simon cowell has so many people enthralled by what they suppose to be a talent contest.
he's a fine writer of easy reading fiction, often with a social conscience. i've read a few and liked them all. recommended!

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i just finished ben eltons novel 'chart throb'. i wont go to the length dave has (or hasnt - haha) to review it, but it opened these eyes to the way simon cowell has so many people enthralled by what they suppose to be a talent contest.
he's a fine writer of easy reading fiction, often with a social conscience. i've read a few and liked them all. recommended!

If you want a nice little light reading book, I'd highly suggest Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist.

It's a wonderful satire about a guy who intentionally tries to write a best selling novel by putting every possible cliché into the book as well as going on national television to intentionally cause controversy.

No I cut and pasted it I thought I'd said sorry I meant to.

Its to bloody hard to sumarise it.

Just read it its worthwhile.

On a side note I didn't get it from that site, I wonder who riped who off first.

Just finished 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' and The Kite Runner'
Now looking forward reading Stephen King's, 'Under The Dome'

s king's dark tower series is very good and i aint a big fictional reader

I hope the books are away, and it is quite weird going on a football website and hearing all of these reviews and tips for books to read. Personally not a huge fan of reading as I get bored within a few pages but have enjoyed what everybody have wrote, I might be converted now.

Thank good football is back, I getting worried for the end of the season now to see what will be discussed

Read Football Factory over the break, rather enjoyed it. The best of both worlds, eh, TTID?

Wasn't struck on the football factory to be honest.

Personal thing thats all I am sure many people will enjoy it.

Try the girl with the dragon tattoo, and after your finished read the book of the same title.

dave-

I'll add it to the list of-ahem-things to do.

Yeah, I'm getting into the football lit. Among the Thugs was tighter and more insightful than Football Factory but all...outsider-y. Moving on to The Firm and The Damned United (by the way-was the movie for that one any good?)

Martin Sheene who played Brian Clough was briliant one of the finest performances I have seen, but that aside no I didn't enjoy the film as much as the book.

It loses the humour of the book and gains little. Still worth a watch mind.

Another football (kind of anyway) book that I enjoyed was confessions of a sports writer, about what journalists get up to at world cups, (I read the italian version, but I believe its available in english.)

And Terrace legends about football hooliganism, which as someone who lived through the 80's it did strike a cord, even though I am willing to do many things for Newcastle, fighting is not one of them.

Cheers for the books chioces, have read a few about football and especially the hooligan stuff, so next time we get a break in football will have a read and feedback what i thought