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	<title>Comments on: John Bostock and the London bust up</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Yid of the Norf</title>
		<link>http://beefbagel.com/bagel/2008/05/john-bostock-and-the-london-bust-up/#comment-42431</link>
		<dc:creator>Yid of the Norf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wattson

Apparently no stadium tours throughout the closed season due to some sort of construction work going on.  Obviously not the large scale construction work most of us Spurs fans desire, possibly General Levy's plan to move his drinks trolley six yards closer to the pitch or something

Mini Yid &#38; I have never done a stadium tour, Mini Yid due to the fct that he's growing up too far away &#38; me for the fact that when you live close enough you assume that you always will have the chance to take in a tour some time or other, now I live in darkest lancashire, I pine for The Lane, I miss it so much... sob!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wattson</p>
<p>Apparently no stadium tours throughout the closed season due to some sort of construction work going on.  Obviously not the large scale construction work most of us Spurs fans desire, possibly General Levy&#8217;s plan to move his drinks trolley six yards closer to the pitch or something</p>
<p>Mini Yid &amp; I have never done a stadium tour, Mini Yid due to the fct that he&#8217;s growing up too far away &amp; me for the fact that when you live close enough you assume that you always will have the chance to take in a tour some time or other, now I live in darkest lancashire, I pine for The Lane, I miss it so much&#8230; sob!</p>
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		<title>By: Wattson</title>
		<link>http://beefbagel.com/bagel/2008/05/john-bostock-and-the-london-bust-up/#comment-42376</link>
		<dc:creator>Wattson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yid of the Norf - any reason why stadium tours have been stopped this year? Never been to be honest, but it sounds like something that would be good.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yid of the Norf - any reason why stadium tours have been stopped this year? Never been to be honest, but it sounds like something that would be good.</p>
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		<title>By: oog</title>
		<link>http://beefbagel.com/bagel/2008/05/john-bostock-and-the-london-bust-up/#comment-42260</link>
		<dc:creator>oog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think that Bostock is ours to the extent that Crystal Palace probably do. In other words, I imagine he's signed some kind of binding agreement with us and the registration issue is a formality. Hence we've put it on the website. Not sure I see the problem, and I imagine Palace, whilst not happy to lose an apparently gifted player, are being blustery as a tactic rather than because they think we've done anything wrong.

There might be a morality issue, but no more than with Fabregas, Merida etc.. We're exploiting a rule to our advantage - its a non issue as far as I can tell. Compensation is yet to be agreed but we've obviously decided that we're prepared to pay whatever amount is negotiated.

Agree with you about Gallas. Will look out for the laconic irony...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that Bostock is ours to the extent that Crystal Palace probably do. In other words, I imagine he&#8217;s signed some kind of binding agreement with us and the registration issue is a formality. Hence we&#8217;ve put it on the website. Not sure I see the problem, and I imagine Palace, whilst not happy to lose an apparently gifted player, are being blustery as a tactic rather than because they think we&#8217;ve done anything wrong.</p>
<p>There might be a morality issue, but no more than with Fabregas, Merida etc.. We&#8217;re exploiting a rule to our advantage - its a non issue as far as I can tell. Compensation is yet to be agreed but we&#8217;ve obviously decided that we&#8217;re prepared to pay whatever amount is negotiated.</p>
<p>Agree with you about Gallas. Will look out for the laconic irony&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Ali the Yid</title>
		<link>http://beefbagel.com/bagel/2008/05/john-bostock-and-the-london-bust-up/#comment-42259</link>
		<dc:creator>Ali the Yid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I remember Sammy Nelson once showed the Ar5ena1 supporters the deginity they derserve after scoring at boths ends.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember Sammy Nelson once showed the Ar5ena1 supporters the deginity they derserve after scoring at boths ends.</p>
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		<title>By: Oi oi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Oi oi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oog,

You know what I'm going to point out next:

So, do you believe Bostock is a signing, after he was officially announced, well, announced on the official website.

Also, I wasn't just refering to the sacking of Jol, the unwritten rule of lets no poach managers mid season has been broken by 6puds several times.

The media is a great resource for my arguments, I love picking bones from the remnants of yesterdays gutter press and serving up a feast of anti-6puds rhetoric, garnished with larconic irony and lashings and lashings of Mighty Arsenal smugness.

I thought the Gallas episode at Birmingham was absolutely unbefitting a club captain at the Mighty Arsenal. To act like that while the ball is still in play is completely wrong, I can't imagine Big Tone ever doing anything like that - inexcusable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oog,</p>
<p>You know what I&#8217;m going to point out next:</p>
<p>So, do you believe Bostock is a signing, after he was officially announced, well, announced on the official website.</p>
<p>Also, I wasn&#8217;t just refering to the sacking of Jol, the unwritten rule of lets no poach managers mid season has been broken by 6puds several times.</p>
<p>The media is a great resource for my arguments, I love picking bones from the remnants of yesterdays gutter press and serving up a feast of anti-6puds rhetoric, garnished with larconic irony and lashings and lashings of Mighty Arsenal smugness.</p>
<p>I thought the Gallas episode at Birmingham was absolutely unbefitting a club captain at the Mighty Arsenal. To act like that while the ball is still in play is completely wrong, I can&#8217;t imagine Big Tone ever doing anything like that - inexcusable.</p>
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		<title>By: Yid of the Norf</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yid of the Norf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So, the Bostock lad, is he ours yet or what?  Surely if his contract ran up until 31st May, then he's a free man now.  Besides, when are we likely to see him?

I can't believe it, no stadium tours at The Lane this summer.  I was planning to take Mini Yid down this month, but apparently no tours this entire summer</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, the Bostock lad, is he ours yet or what?  Surely if his contract ran up until 31st May, then he&#8217;s a free man now.  Besides, when are we likely to see him?</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t believe it, no stadium tours at The Lane this summer.  I was planning to take Mini Yid down this month, but apparently no tours this entire summer</p>
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		<title>By: oog</title>
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		<dc:creator>oog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I meant "undignified" rather than "deluded"! As I remember, I was more in favour of it than most of my fellow yids!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I meant &#8220;undignified&#8221; rather than &#8220;deluded&#8221;! As I remember, I was more in favour of it than most of my fellow yids!</p>
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		<title>By: oog</title>
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		<dc:creator>oog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Either he was chasing Eto'o or he was actually chasing Dos Santos and the media storm about Eto'o was something that was i) out of his control and ii) not an issue if Eto'o wasn't in fact the main target.

Maybe he was in Barcelona to find out about both. Maybe he did make enquiries. If so - what is he meant to do? Stop the media reporting anything they feel like saying? Easier said than done.

If we were messing up the Nasri transfer in the way that the gooners seem to be, you would be accusing us of acting without dignity and chasing him around Lyon.

Point is its practically impossible to make signatures / enquiries / do anything in the world of football these days without intense media speculation. Its usually impossible to tell what media speculation is rubbish (most of it, though) and what isn't. I choose to believe none of it (or even read too much about it) until someone is officially announced as having signed. You seem to choose to believe anything that you can twist into anti-Spurs rhetoric.

I think the point about Gallas and dignity is that when your captain throws a hissy fit in the centre circle, its not very dignified. I am absolutely certain that if a Spurs player did this, you would still "fail to see" the point about dignity! 

I don't claim Spurs have always acted with dignity! The sacking of Jol was clearly deluded. But lets not pretend dignity is something that any football club shows very much of these days, Arsenal included.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Either he was chasing Eto&#8217;o or he was actually chasing Dos Santos and the media storm about Eto&#8217;o was something that was i) out of his control and ii) not an issue if Eto&#8217;o wasn&#8217;t in fact the main target.</p>
<p>Maybe he was in Barcelona to find out about both. Maybe he did make enquiries. If so - what is he meant to do? Stop the media reporting anything they feel like saying? Easier said than done.</p>
<p>If we were messing up the Nasri transfer in the way that the gooners seem to be, you would be accusing us of acting without dignity and chasing him around Lyon.</p>
<p>Point is its practically impossible to make signatures / enquiries / do anything in the world of football these days without intense media speculation. Its usually impossible to tell what media speculation is rubbish (most of it, though) and what isn&#8217;t. I choose to believe none of it (or even read too much about it) until someone is officially announced as having signed. You seem to choose to believe anything that you can twist into anti-Spurs rhetoric.</p>
<p>I think the point about Gallas and dignity is that when your captain throws a hissy fit in the centre circle, its not very dignified. I am absolutely certain that if a Spurs player did this, you would still &#8220;fail to see&#8221; the point about dignity! </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t claim Spurs have always acted with dignity! The sacking of Jol was clearly deluded. But lets not pretend dignity is something that any football club shows very much of these days, Arsenal included.</p>
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		<title>By: Oi oi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Oi oi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Buying Gallas was our only victory in the cole saga, we didn't want to sell cole and and don't agree that tapping up players (or managers - tut tut 6puds) is correct, so negotiated a player that chelsea needed at the time.

His choice as club captain continued in the vein of our club captains being defenders, the great Titi being unable to inspire the team when he relied so much on his own confidence.

I agree with the sentiments, but cannot agree it has been a success, but don't see an alternative at the moment, though perhaps Senderos or Cesc might make great captains in the future.

I fail to see your point about Gallas and how it has not helped us maintain dignity.

Levy on the other hand chased Eto'o all over Barcelona, when even my Granny knew he wasn't going to sign for the 6puds, that's just not very dignified, he was clearly played by the player and/or his agent and should have known better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Buying Gallas was our only victory in the cole saga, we didn&#8217;t want to sell cole and and don&#8217;t agree that tapping up players (or managers - tut tut 6puds) is correct, so negotiated a player that chelsea needed at the time.</p>
<p>His choice as club captain continued in the vein of our club captains being defenders, the great Titi being unable to inspire the team when he relied so much on his own confidence.</p>
<p>I agree with the sentiments, but cannot agree it has been a success, but don&#8217;t see an alternative at the moment, though perhaps Senderos or Cesc might make great captains in the future.</p>
<p>I fail to see your point about Gallas and how it has not helped us maintain dignity.</p>
<p>Levy on the other hand chased Eto&#8217;o all over Barcelona, when even my Granny knew he wasn&#8217;t going to sign for the 6puds, that&#8217;s just not very dignified, he was clearly played by the player and/or his agent and should have known better.</p>
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		<title>By: Hornchurch Yids</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hornchurch Yids</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How has buying Gallas and making him club captain helped you to maintain your dignity?

You often accuse us of being deluded. You really should look at yourdelf and some of the things that you are posting on here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How has buying Gallas and making him club captain helped you to maintain your dignity?</p>
<p>You often accuse us of being deluded. You really should look at yourdelf and some of the things that you are posting on here.</p>
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