Monday, October 31, 2005

the help


jonny and jonny dickie-bow

Sunday, October 30, 2005

amazing horn skills

alright jonnys,check out this video!Pretty good skills by the frenchman

french horn

Samuca

Friday, October 28, 2005

Harolds Food Frenzy

Harold's Food Frenzy

bit of neighbours fun!

great result last night lads, big game next week!

Match Report

class class class

I am under the rue conviction that our time represented the perfect balance between brute strength and finesse. Walking on to he pitch facing these high flying league contenders was a daunting experience, especially as they had already been part of match brawl. But none the less the 5 fit jonnys took the pitch and things looked like they were gonna be tight. Sure finishing from samuel and a cheeky nut meg form my self took us into half time with a narrow edge and probably the lowest scoring hald we had been part of. Not least of this due to another magnificent performance form smaba! could the man be any better.

After an inspired tacktical speah from kev the secod hald followed suit, tight aggresive denfending from daudi at rock; high energy from the jonnys (me and al) in the middle and clear finishing form samuel, even if one of his well placed finishes ended up in the back of the net, and more class saves form smaba. A shrewd goal from dave and hat-trick for myself lead us eventually into a comfortable victory ending 9-6. A well fought match and i know i always overate personal perfomrmanecs but i thought we were nothing off exsquisite.

Post match banter followed suit, great to say the injured boys supporting as always, nick still looking like a panda and kevs walking like the handicapped guy of the usual suspects. We found ourselves knocking back lime soda (80p a pitcher) and other varieties of soft drinks in a near by pub-the glee of winning still going strong. Been in the car with sam on the way back he explained to me how after his own goal he believed he could rectify by scoring more goals and refused to let his head droop. It was tear jerking stuff lads, it really was.

Heres to a great season and whats turnig out to be a greta amoutn of jonny banter

the title is there for the taking

yours sincerely

Jonny relaxed

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Quintosole

If your a little bored, here's a free 50-minute film
Quintosole
"The documentary Quintosole has been realized in the prison of Milan-Opera. It tells the story of a team of prison inmates (Freeopera) which entered the regular 2003/2004 italian soccer championship in the third category and succeeded in winning and getting through the heat.
In Quintosole, soccer is a pretext to talk about prison conditions from a new and original viewpoint. The training scenes and the matches are accompanied by the words of the protagonists, revealing their intimate thoughts and hopes.
Confronting themselves with a popular sport like soccer and with external teams, the inmates seem more real and sincere when talking about their problems and their lives in such a place as a prison."

More Football Skills

Check out some of these keepy-uppies/dribbling skills. Its like the ball is attached to their feet with string or something.

Skills

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Taribo Definition

Taribo
1. Noun. A vehicle; A car or bus used for the collective good of a group of people
2. Verb. To drive somewhere. See Tariboing it.
3. No-Go Taribo(colloq.) When someone cannot drive, either due to not having a licence or because their car is broken.
4. Noun. A female. Usually only used when referring to someone close to the speaker, emotionally. It can also be used when talking about any female eg.Check out the taribo

Footy Thursday

Melee boys,

Another week, another crucial, season-deciding game at powerleague.
Last weeks pivotal game, saw melee rise above the relegation dog-fight
and have some aspirations of the title. In order for those aspirations
to have any chance of coming to fruition, a win against third place
'The Otter' is vital.
With Foster suffering from a broken face, and Webb still out, melee
are left with 5 players once more to fight their corner. A win against
'The Otter', and Melee should move up a place to 4th, with a great
shot at the title going into the second half of the season.
The injury sustained by Foster on Saturday has come as great news to
Singlehurst who, despite playing well away from Melee, was facing the
axe after a wonderful team performance last week in his absence.

Kick Off: 9pm
Melee'd Jonnys: Samba, Married, Grateful, Jonny jonny, Obrigadinho

Note Change in terminology: Grateful Jonny has kindly nominated
himself to taribo us to footy on thursday. He will be 'taribo-ing it'.
If the two not-so-able jonnys want to come as well, either daudi, nick
or me will also taribo.

Jane is now the lady formely known as taribo.

Attention

Taribo has been banned from the new oxford melee dictionary to be replaced by Jane!
This is due largely to the huge negative feedback received from all members, and the lack of traceable origins from whence it came. From this day forward anyone who utters the word will have an automatic shotgun ban for two weeks, enforceable by wedgies and one-nil’s.

a joke

One night, after a long evening of drinking, Jim was thrown out of the bar as usual. On his way home he spotted a nun walking down the road.

After looking at her twice he ran over and tackled her, then proceeded to beat the living shit out of her.

Some people passing by spotted this and called the police.

As the police were pulling him away in handcuffs he looked back and said, "I thought you'd be tougher than that, Batman."

One for JonnyGreen

These three English guys are out drinking one night and decide that they want to have a fight. They stagger from pub to pub looking for a likely victim to pick on when they come across a single Irishman in this one bar.

"Watch this." Says the first Englishman, heading over toward the guy, "I hear that St Patrick was a shirt lifter."

"Really." Says the Irishman, calmly continuing to drink.

With that the second English guy decides to join in, "Yeah, and I hear he was a pervert too."

"Is that so?" the still calm Irishman responds.

"I know how to rile this tosser." Says the third Englishman, staggering toward the Irishman, "Hey, did you know St Patrick was really an Englishman?"

The Irish guy casually looks up and says, "Yeah, so your mates were telling me."

Monday, October 24, 2005

Taribo Troubles...

It has been a few weeks now since anyone brought their taribo along to footy on a thursday night. In fact, if i'm not mistaken, it has only been kev and tom who ever brought taribos along. With married jonny's taribo being pregnant and uni jonny being away, it looks like other members will have to bring a taribo along...

Friday, October 21, 2005

Matchus Reportus

Jonnys,

It was billed as the biggest game Melee has faced since its rebirth in
the summer of 2005. And probably in the top 3 games in Melee history.
Post war. If we won, we would be left with a real opportunity to push
for promotion. A loss would leave us struggling at the foot of the
table.
When approaching a game like that, its always handy to give the
opposition a helping hand. So not only did we decide to be sporting,
and field only 4 players to start (as one of theirs was late), but we
also decided to let them score first. 1-0 Feet of Fury. We equalised,
and then they scored again. 2-1. It felt like it was going to be one
of those nights.
However, despite what it felt, there was an aroma in the air. A scent
that can only be recognised by those who have fought with someone for
something. It had travelled with us in our car, with all 5 of us
crammed in to a little skoda, and had made its way onto the pitch. I'm
sure it was there when Liverpool came back against Milan last season.
"Ah...", I thought, whilst thinking of a Nirvana song, "...It smells
like team spirit".
And with that smell, came a performance riddled with movement, laced
with encouragement, and toped with a few sprinklings of obrigadinho
magic.
We didn't look back. Daudi scored a goal which would be the equivalent
of a 75 yarder on a real pitch. We kept plugging away, and some lovely
passing moves saw us 11-6 up at half time.
Second half saw more of the same, and i never thought I would ever say
this, but some of jonny 'Make it Large' Crouch's movement was class,
and saw him grab a few.
As usual, Samba jonny in goal's importance to the result cannot be
over-estimated. The occasional leak, in what was quite a tight ship,
would be quickly mopped up by the small brazilian wonder. So good was
his performance, and at 16-9 up, he was set free from the captivity of
the semi-circle, and was allowed to roam.
Clearly, this meant that he was no longer in goal. I was put in. The
score soon became 16-13. Andre managed to score a nice goal, and at
last the final whistle went at 19-14.
Get in the boys.

Best Moment: Final whistle baby!!

Worst Moment: When they scored 5 in a row after we changed keepers

Most Taxiest Moment: Jonny no-knee being out with a skirt instead of
watching the boys. Hope the picnic was worth it.

Funniest Moment: Pre-match, when I thought the ref was gonna start the
game with 1 against 5.

Ugliest Moment:Wasn't really a moment, but the fact that samuel got
hacked, and pushed around an unbelieveable amount was the ugly side of
the game.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

The jonny split

Jonnys,

Me, Samuel and Nikky F have all been sent 'on loan' to the East Herts Kings Reserves side. In Hertford. Sitting comfortably third from bottom, its gonna be a struggle. I feel a little like Kieran Richardson last season. Not quite good enough for Kings, but presumably gonna walk in at what is a third team.
The massive advantage of the move, is that me nick and samuel can probably dictate where we play. Bagsies on Centre-mid with foster!! Kwallo.

Here's the link to their league table:
http://football.mitoo.co.uk/LeagueTab.cfm?TblName=Matches&DivisionID=3986&LeagueCode=HDFL2005

Later boys

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Big game thurs

Melee,

This week we're up against 'Feet of Fury', who sit just below us in
the table. We find ourselves in a bit of an extreme situation. A win
this week, and we'd be right back in the hunt for promotion. A loss,
and we could have a relegation fight on our hands.
However, with 3 players away on 'international duty' of sorts (Pete,
Luke and Justyn), Tom 'foundation-year' Hill studying hard up in
loughborough, and Kevo struggling to get up in the morning, the
depleted squad is down to its naked bones.

Kick off is at 8pm on Thursday.

Melee (from): Andre, Daudi, Nikky F, Samuel, Alex.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Mourinho Magic

Some guy has done a couple of parody songs about Mourinho, both of these are well funny.

Song 1 - Sign a Little Player or Two
Song 2 - Jose's Technicoloured Dream Coat

I like the second one best, the abuse of drogba is ace (in a good way!)

Jonny busted anterior cruciate ligament

Thursday, October 13, 2005

a joke

what did the dyslexic pimp do?

bought a warehouse

Ridic video

This guy has got some stupidly good skills.
Check it out
Ridic Skills

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Let me be leverkusen all over again

Football Manager 2006 has arrived, in Gold Demo form at least. Theres 300-odd MB of stuff there to download. Jonny no-knee will be clickin on this link faster than you can say "alex is the best manager to have ever graced the game of champ".
I'm downloading mine on broadband now and its claimin it'll be done in 25 mins.

Champ Man

Monday, October 10, 2005

Equal Wages?

Alright,

This probably isn't the place for this discussion, but thought i'd raise it anyways. Women want to get paid the same as their male counterparts for the same job. Fair play, you might say. Why shouldn't they? Its only a chromosone difference after all.
I would like, to rather contraversially, say that I don't think that they should both get the same wage at all. Picture this. Susan and Gary both work as senior managers for some company. They both earn 30k and are both happily married. From the company's point of view, that can't be right. When Gary was first appointed, he came with a guarantee. He is guaranteeing that he will work 365 days a year, except ill days and holidays. When Susan gets employed, she is guaranteeing that she will work when not ill, on holiday or on maternity leave. Thats a huge extra. In a worst case scenario she could be not working for an additional 6 months every year compared to Gary.
Obviously that is a worst case. In an average case, where she has 2 children during her 15 year spell at the company, thats one full year not working (based on 6 month maternity leave per child). That means, that she should get paid 1 years salary less over the course of the 15 years. Thats 30k/15 which is 2k. Gary should earn 30k, she should earn at most 28k.
What are your thoughts?

Thursday, October 06, 2005

a somber night

There are monets in life which cause happiness, smiles and celebration-times for praise and an overjoyed sense of well being and fulfilment, there are in turn times of the opposite, and are performance tonight was one of these. About half way through to the second half i thought to my self 'what the hell i am gonna write in the jonnys match report'

well i will try and gve a very brief overview of the game: Started mediocre, tempers got out of hand, rapidly performance decliend and we then lost by over 10 goals. Enough said!
The post mach banter was comeple ranter, rants mainly form myself and Dave which lead into a long deiscussion between us and lukus in the car on the journey home. In conclusion the three of us decided that an apology is most appropriate, so sorry jonnys for acting like a bunch of jonnys and hopefully we will on move on to bigger and better ways.

Anyways been back in the squad for Saterday a few of us can look foward to an away game that couldnt be closer to mine and jonny jonnys house-For the rest of the team its jobs abroard, ladies, uni and for one lucky camper a prolonged Bible study session. Again our dearest comiserations go out to jonny no knee, but dont worry mate as always us at melle are looking out for you and have looked up some websites which i trust you will enjoy when you find yourself with a bit of spare time check out:
www.countrysiderecreation.org.uk, and a personal favourate www.picnicshop.co.uk or you could try www.nakedwomenintopicnics andfootball.com
One out of the three websites was made up.

Jonnys around on saterday night-after football then watching international football im keen for another poker night, jonny coz will still be around so let me know if you boys are up for it. There is also rumour of a bit of a come back for oval football on sunday, keep it in mind.
night lads

Jonny

Jonny Abroad's Newsletter

Hello

I have been on my course for about two weeks now. It is really enjoyable but the pace that we have to work at is quickly increasing. The first week we went through the book of Philemon, all 25 verses, and they showed us the systematic method that we are going to be using for the next 9 months. We then went on to Titus (46 verses) and we had about 4 days to finish that, which wasn’t too bad.

I’m doing Ephesians at the moment; the method isn’t quite set into me yet. We have to make a chart for each book giving the basic outline and key points of each division and section and then make another set of charts (one chart per approx 30 verses) giving the basic outline and key points of each sector and paragraph. Apparently we are meant to get these secondary charts down to about 45 minutes per chart. It’s taking me a lot longer at the moment (Ephesians is 6 charts). They are slowly getting done - hopefully I’ll speed up a bit.

There has been a bit of time for other activities such as a trip to Glacier National Park (an amazing place) and generally getting to know people. I think this time will diminish pretty quickly though.

I helped out at a garage sale today, not quite the English garage sale though. There were two huge warehouses filled with people’s donated goods. It was quite impressive how quickly it disappeared. I was in the furniture and large goods area, helping people get their purchases into their trucks. I was there for about 6 hours, in which time my section went from crammed full, to where you could move, to a barren wasteland (almost). Well it was pretty fun talking to random people and I think we raised quite a lot of money for New Orleans relief. There was also a big blood drive for the same cause, but I am banned from giving blood due to mad cow disease!

Prayer Requests: that I have enough discipline not to procrastinate (usually a hobby of mine), that I find some things in common with my Korean room mate (Sun Bok Bae) because we haven’t found much to talk about yet, that I keep healthy (so far so good).

In Christ

Jonny Abroad

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Adding stuff to the blog

Alright jonnys,

To add stuff to the blog. Go to www.blogger.com and log in with the details that were sent out in the e-mail.
Click on 'melee' - that is the name of the blog page.
Here you are shown a list of the topics added. Click on 'Add new' or 'create new' or whatever.

Your then shown a e-mail like page where you type. Click 'Publish Post' to finish

No rockets.

Alex.

Life's a ......

The news that countrylife will not be in action for a few months has brought me to thinkin how fickle the beautiful game can be...one minute you are skinning defenders and top scorer for melee - the next you are lying on the couch but still top scorer for melee.
The question to ask was would you not play football for a season if you knew that one game you would get nailed???

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Melee Updates

Alright guys,

Thought it'd be quite class to have a melee blog. Actually, i think the use of the word 'class' is questionable. It'd be useful tho.
Anyways, i think it'll work. Just slap on any stuff u've got to say or whatever.

Nice one.