“To be fair he’s got a rate of about 1 in 4 which is good considering the clubs he’s played with, Reading, Hull and West Brom. He could really flourish at Southampton.
“Thanks for the offer, but I can’t accept, that would involve me crawling out from under my rock and putting my money where my mouth is, and sure that would be no fun at all.”
“Play a drinking game during that; every time you see a false smile, a hollow compliment from one of the lads, or Tiger talking about getting back to fitness to take on the ‘kids’ of Rory and Ricky, take one shot. I predict a alcoholic paralysis. Classic American puff piece.”
“What have you got there Barry?
“It’s a thermos, it’s a great thing this, it keeps your hot things hot and your cold things cold”
Great, what have you got in it?
“Tea and an ice-pop”
Yo-Yos, drinking games and an ice-pop: It's the week in comments
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John Frungus tries to get over the fee Southampton paid for Shane Long and look at the value instead:
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“Play a drinking game during that; every time you see a false smile, a hollow compliment from one of the lads, or Tiger talking about getting back to fitness to take on the ‘kids’ of Rory and Ricky, take one shot. I predict a alcoholic paralysis. Classic American puff piece.”
And Casey struck again with this so-bad-we-had-to-love-it reaction to seeing the Yo-Yo world champion in action.
“His form has been very up and down this year.”
After Robbie Keane became international football’s leading active goalscorer, Cormac Byrne knew Miroslav Klose was running scared.
Stop it, Joe Bloggs. We cried enough when Billo left the RTE studio without you starting us off again.
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