Palace Theatre

Congratulations to Crystal Palace for winning the play off final today.
Great to have Ian Holloway back in the Premier league, and possibly a last fling for Kevin Phillips who will hopefully carry on for another season.
History suggests it could be a one season wonder for Palace, but you never know?

Nearly There

The Olympics is finishing tomorrow and the footie season kicks off with the Charity Shield which has been moved to Villa Park.
The latest version of the League cup (capital one) started today and Sheffield United were kicked out by Burton!!
Rangers started life in Scotland's lowest league with a draw away to Peterhead.
Typically England have arranged a friendly 3 days before the Premier league kicks off meaning some of my Fantasy league players will get injured before kick off.

The Olympic footie was won by Mexico who beat Brazil 2-1, the womens version was won by the Americans who beat Japan 2-1 thanks to a blind ref.

.... and here's another Terry scene stealer from Twitter :)

Gagged

England have revealed their plan if there's racist chanting during an England game.
The players will tell John Terry to shut the fuck up.

With Rooney suspended for the first two games and Defoe going home for family reasons, we're left with only two striking options ... Danny Welbeck's right foot, and his left foot.

Greece were poor yesterday ..... They are still poor today.

Apparently John Terry was seen crying during the England teams tour of the Auschwitz concentration camp ... He couldn't find the souvenir shop.

Poll Results

Congratulations to Joey Barton for winning the NBTF Muppet of the Season award :)

Just 16 votes cast sadly out of the 1200+ pageviews since it was posted, but with 43% of the vote he takes it comfortably.
A 4 way tie for second with John Terry, Luis Suarez, Mario Balotelli and Kenny Dalglish all getting 2 votes.

Muppet Of The Season

There is an obvious winner here but please vote anyway :)
The poll is on the right, with the 10 football related people who I think deserve recognition for their outstanding contributions.

Joey Barton started and ended the season with the thug behaviour that we have been used to for many years, although somehow he has become a minor celebrity during the season for appearing to be "intelligent"??

John Terry has again managed to lose the England captaincy this time for on pitch antics after racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, and then his idiotic foul in the Champions league semi nearly cost Chelsea the game.

Luis Suarez diver extraordinaire and racist moron.

Neil Warnock has the amazing knack of blaming everyone else for all his failings, despite bringing in a shedload of expensive players at QPR he turned them into almost certain relegation candidates and has followed up by making Leeds also rans when they looked certain for the play-offs before his arrival.

Ched Evans rapist scum.

Carlos Tevez, I obviously like the guy and reckon he is one of the best players in football, but his 6 month sulk almost cost City the title and showed him up as a prize muppet.

Steve Kean totally out of his depth as a manager and really didn't seem to know why everyone hated him, I know he was unlikely ever to land another managers job but he really should have walked.

Mario Balotelli is an easy choice, yes is he is a great player but only on days when he wants to be and yes he is young but the mind is probably still 10 years behind the body.

Kenny Dalglish for his blind support of Suarez showing his football brain is still stuck in the 80's.

Garth Crooks, why oh why is this guy on telly every week? his rants can send insomniacs into a deep sleep and he really doesn't seem to know the first thing about football.

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