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c0dec:
Chelsea now have their man.

They've bought Michael Essien for 26 million pounds. a club record fee for lyon.

One more proof that Ch€£$k¥ have their own transfer market. Would you have bought Essien for $40 million? I wouldn't, but anyways, good for them. The guy is a very good player.

I hope that our own Mikel is looking at this, https://www.juventuz.com/forum/images/smilies/jester.gif because this is further proof that he won't play in Chelsea.

Let's look at this move: Personally, I think that on paper Ch€£$k¥ really look scaryhttps://www.juventuz.com/forum/images/smilies/scared.gif, yes, but with Lampard on that team did they really need Essien? Not unless they want to play 2 offensive halfs (which is what Lampard and Essien are) and have an excellent defensive half (which is what Makelele was). Makelele is still a good player, don't get me wrong, but he is 33. A more ssensible buy for Ch€£$k¥ would have been Diarra. That is the guy who freed up Essien to shine last season at Lyon. For the first half of this season, Ch€£$k¥ are going to look almost unstoppable (although I still don't think they'd beat Arsenal, Liverpool or ManU), but what I am worried about on their behalf is what will happen by the time Makelele has played at least 25 games in the coming 16 weeks? And there is no Scott Parker or Smertin there again? Please don't say Tiago, Tiago is more of a Lampard and Essien type player, in Porto it was Maniche that used to cover his arse...!

Well, on a good note (for me), if Sani Kaita can impress in the coming weeks, Ch€£$k¥ may go for him (since they ovbiously are capable of looking at Nigerians), and that would be a great thing!

With the exception of the Betis-Barcelona file, just click on the link and download. It is straight forward. If you are on Windows, WMP will play them, if you are on Linux, use Xine.

The Betis-Barcelona is an archive, use WinRar to open the archive, then watch. How else I wan take talk am?

Timmy got ot right. My take on that issue is this: God didn't destroy King Solomon who was a well known f*ckist for fornication or adultery neither did he desotroy David for f*cking Iya Solomon (he even made the child of that union David's heir).
[b]BUT HE RAINED FIRE AND BRIMSTONE ON SODDOM & GOMMORAH[/B]
That says it all.

Betis-Barca (Spanish Super Cup Leg1)

[url=http://www.freewebtown.com/Bramaldo100/Arsenal%20-%20Newcastle%200-1.wmv]Arsenal 1-0 Newcastle[/url]

[url=http://www.freewebtown.com/Bramaldo100/Arsenal%20-%20Newcastle%200-2.wmv]Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle[/url]

[url=http://www.freewebtown.com/Bramaldo100/Wigan%20-%20Chelsea%200-1.wmv]Wigan-Chelsea[/url]

I'll pretend I didn't hear that...https://juventuz.com/forum/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Bros, welcome to the forums. You are 20 years late when it comes to complaining about NFA.https://www.juventuz.com/forum/images/smilies/mad.gif

Read the signature baby https://www.juventuz.com/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif

Some people talk of Chelsea's domination of the English game last season. You want to see domination? Look:
https://www.juventuz.com/_images/scudetto0405/standings.jpg

Funny...

Nigeria at the weekend, launched a spirited campaign in Accra for a permanent representation on the United Nations (UN) Security Council, citing the size and population of the oil rich West African country as factors for consideration.

"Nigeria is a regional power in its own right. It is a potentially economic giant. With an estimated population of 130 million, Nigeria is easily the largest single market in Africa," Mr Abdullahi Adamu, Executive Governor of Nasarawa State, said in Accra.

Mr Adamu, who was a Guest Speaker at the launch of a 319 -page book that eulogized the foreign policies of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, at a seaside hotel in Ghana's national capital, said his country was the most populous black nation in the world.

"One out of every four Africans is a Nigerian. One out of every five blacks in the world is a Nigerian," he said, attracting cheers at the function attended by Ghana's Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, his wife, Hajia Ramatu, Ministers of State from the two countries, members of the Diplomatic Corps, chiefs and journalists.

He said of all the countries that had shown interest in the permanent seat, including Egypt and South Africa, Nigeria was the only true black nation that could raise a purely black national flag. Mr Adamu said although the UN effected some reforms in 1965 by increasing the membership of the Security Council from 11 to 15, no change was made to the five permanent members structure.

He said at that time the world was divided rather neatly between the Western and Eastern blocs with the Non-Aligned nations constituting themselves into swing support for one or the other group as circumstances dictated.

"All these have changed in the 40 years since the reforms. The time calls for some fundamental reforms in the United Nations Security Council in line with contemporary global developments," he noted.

Mr Adamu said military prowess or the possession of means and weapons of mass destruction could no longer be the sole determinant of the relevance of a nation to do its duty to the international community, adding, " Economic power has become even more relevant and Japan has shown the way."

Backing his bid for his country for the Pan African representation, the Executive Governor recalled the role Ghana's first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah played to entrench pan- African Unity. "Here in the historic Ghanaian capital, more than 50 years ago, the great Pan-Africanist, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the Ghanaian President of blessed memory, preached the gospel of Pan-Africa unity and planted in the black race the seeds of black pride.

"But Africa and the peoples of Africa face new struggles and new challenges. The challenges of illiteracy, health care delivery system, poor communications, unemployment, rural-urban drift and of course, poverty are enormous."

Mr Adamu said in Africa's current struggle, President Obasanjo had emerged as Africa's rallying point.

" I can find no place more fitting than Accra, Ghana, to present to the world the man who rules one country but devotes himself to the service of every African, nay, every third world country." Alhaji Mahama who launched the book, " Obasanjo And The New Face Of Nigeria's Foreign Policy", described the Head of State as " a proven colossus of international relations," who had played a role in dealing with sectional and other bloody conflicts in the West African sub-region.

"As a veteran of the political scene in Nigeria, President Obasanjo has had the benefit of being at the helm of the nation in different capacities and forms. He has been a key of the process of political rejuvenation in Africa from experimentation with authoritarianism to the re-establishment and entrenchment of democracy."

Alhaji Mahama congratulated the author, Mr Abdulmumin Jibrin, for a job well done.

" I have the singular honour and privilege of declaring the book...duly launched", he said paving the way for the review and auctioning of the first copy for 30 million naira.

Where the money from show?

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=87953

Good. Just do it.

What do you mean too large?

The biggest one is 2.46MB. <snip>

Right, let me see how long I can sustain giving these, goals from the 3 major leagues each week...

[url=http://members.home.nl/l.euser/Everton%20-%20Manchester%20United%200-2.wmv]Everton-ManU[/url]

[url=http://members.home.nl/l.euser/Portsmouth%20-%20Tottenham%200-2.wmv]Portsmouth-Spurs[/url]
[url=http://members.home.nl/l.euser/Blackburn%20Rovers%20-%20West%20Ham%20United%201-3.wmv]Westham-Blackburn[/url]

http://media.koreus.com/200506/butsimmanquables.wmv

If you have any others please share them...

Seun:
Trust me, console games are much better than PC games!

Young man, I HAVE TRIED BOTH. Now let us look at the physics: for console games (take XBox as an example (not the new generation XBox), has system specs of 700MHz, 128Mb RAM, 5 Gb HDD, 64 Mb VGA, and all of this computing power is geared towards just running games, unlike in your normal PC where first and foremost a lot of the RAM is already allocated to running the OS.

Now to really enjoy a PC game, my advice is this: love-vendor up your system (2.8GHz, 512Mb RAM, 64Mb VGA as an example), then install GameGain for example. Then let's see what happens...

Personally I don't think Babangida is interested in coming back. The speculation that is surrounding him now is the same kind that is surrounding the whole 3rd term project. Sponsored by some (a lot of) self seeking individuals.

As long as they keep the existing notes intact, prices will remain the same. Coin 5 card and 10 card, 20 card becomes the new lower limit.

Enakhire (like Nigerian players tend to foolishly do) has gone after the money and joined Dinamo Moskva.

Good judgement. Hope the Appeal Court upholds the judgement.

You forgot about Cantona. He was a talented flop before he left Leeds for ManU and Fergie raised him.
The point is this: all decent coaches can point to players that they've raised, Mourinho isn't the only one.
Obi would have had a better chance of developing in ManU than in Chelsea.

Anyways, FIFA have made IMO the best decision for him. So he can go elsewhere when his contract expires at the end of the year.

http://www.fifa.com/en/media/index/0,1369,109096,00.html?articleid=109096

At the end of last season, a legend said goodbye to professional football forever (bye Signor Zola, and thanks for all the fish). The silliness and nonsense of the EPL must all end now, because the Italian league is about to kick off...

By now most people know that it was nice guys Juventus who won Serie A last season, helped by the spectacular AC Milan collapse. In reality the championship was only ever between those two sides. This time it could be different though, because it seems that Inter are maybe, just maybe, getting their blue and black striped backsides into gear. After years of buying the wrong players for him every summer, the directors are finally letting their manager do the shopping, and luckily for the club, the manager is a very good one.

Last term Mancini’s team looked solid and competitive, but not quite the finished article. In recent weeks he has bought very well, including Serie A title winner Walter Samuel from Real Madrid to partner Ivan Cordoba in defence (is this the end for hapless hacker Marco Materazzi?). He has also snapped up lively midfielder David Pizarro from Udinese, and the criminally-underrated Santiago Solari and Luis Figo (you may have heard of him) to dazzle on the flank. The wage bill has also been trimmed as well, with Christian Vieri shown the door.

Expect beautiful football and drama from the Nerazzurri this season, but remember that they probably won’t win the title, because like those lovely old men in the Last of the Summer Wine they always find a way to cock it up. Second place and the Champions League quarters are a possibility.

In football, Milan is a city of two tales, and the 04-05 campaign was unforgettable for the red-and-black half. Their disintegration in the league and of course Stevie G’s big night in Istanbul showed just how beatable the team actually is. There has been suspicion over manager Ancelotti’s quality for many years now. He is still seen by many as a glorious loser (that is why Juventus sacked him a few years ago). The advancing age of the Milan defence was shown up hideously in the latter stages of the Champions League, and as soon as Andriy Shevchenko and Dida lost their form, the team looked ordinary.

The Rossoneri have signed left-sided defender-come-midfielder Marek Jankulovski, and the talk is that they will switch to a three-man defence. Alessandro Nesta, Jaap Stam and Paolo Maldini look great on paper, but could well struggle week in, week out. The youngest of those guys is Nesta, at a youthful 29 .

Further up the pitch, Johann Vogel’s arrival from PSV has strengthened the midfield, but he is probably nothing more than cover. One can’t see him having an Earth-shattering impact at the San Siro.

The area that has had the biggest overhaul is up front. Crespo has returned to the King’s Road and Jon-Dahl Tomasson has gone to play for Stuttgart. In their places have stepped two interesting characters.

First up is Mr Christian Vieri: big, moody and in the twilight of his career. He came for free, which is a good job, because his powers do appear to be on the wane. It is unlikely that he will shift Sheva from the first eleven, so he will probably do his damage in the Coppa Italia (i.e. B team).

The other new striker is Alberto Gilardino. There are two schools of thought about the new Milan number 11. One says he is 2005’s Paolo Rossi- a super predator who will fire his team to glory with every type of goal under the sun - headers, scuffers, blasters, acrobatic efforts and so on. The other school says he is another overpriced, overrated Italian striker, just like Corradi, Di Vaio and Miccoli before him. He could even be described as Italy’s answer to James Beattie if one wanted to be a bit naughty.

Most likely the truth lies somewhere between the two. He certainly cost far too much, but that is modern football’s financial problems taking over, and not his fault. A partially re-invigorated Milan will not get to the Champions League final this season, and even the semis would be a miracle. It is even plausible that this could be Ancelotti’s last season in charge. Prediction: third in Serie A in what could be a lean old time.

And what of champions Juventus? We steamrollered our way to a 28th title in May with some vintage gritty performances that left pulses unchanged. Our summer shopping has been very telling indeed. Instead of buying flair, excitement and fun we have plumped for three men who like a foul: midfield spoiler Giuliano Giannichedda, the prickly defender Robert Kovac and of course ex-Gunner leader Vieira. Not very mouth-watering really, is it?

It may turn out to be a gamble to expect the forwards already at the club to spearhead a double assault on the scudetto and the Champions League, because David Trezeguet will get injured for part of the season (his f*cking glass leg), and Zlatan Ibrahimovic will get suspended somewhere along the way (his f*cking temper!).

However, as always with this club, we won’t do our transfer dealing to anyone else’s timetable (mi bello amore Moggi ). So we could surprise you all and announce a big shiny signing on deadline day like last year when we got Fabio Cannavaro and Ibrahimovic. Regardless of any potential new recruits though, we still have enough quality and know-how to win title number 29 next May...but should it is in Europe that I worry.

I know I am late to post here (sorry I just noticed this thread)!

How can you guys be gushing on about consoles when there are PC games? Just love-vendor up your PC well, and you have the ultimate console with you...

As for my favourite game, I used to be hooked on MK, Tekken, FIFA 99 (the best FIFA game of all time IMO), KI Gold, Road Rash, Need for Speed, Age of Empires (never saw a better network game) and Civilization. But ever since I first touched the Championship Manager Series (now FM 2005), http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sports/champmanager0304/review.html, I have pretty much ignored everything else, except as a spectator.

As a spectator, some really good games making the rounds now include:
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Deus EX
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Spiderman: The Vampire Armand
Unreal Tournament
Half Life
(all this knowledge comes from hanging out with Texazzpete (seulement un)

but the best head and shoulders above any remains Football Manager 2005!

Update: The fools have finally released the guy who designed the site, but the situation as at press time still remains the same...

1) They haven't paid the blighter a kobo
2) The site is still online as it was when the offensive story broke
3) Galadima and co refuse to acknowledge that they gave the boy the data he put online

Three mice are sitting in a bar in a pretty rough neighborhood late at night trying to impress each other about how tough they are.

The first mouse pounds a shot of scotch, slams the glass onto the bar, turns to the second mouse and says, "When I see a mousetrap, I lie on my back and set it off with my foot. When the bar comes down, I catch it in my teeth, bench press it twenty times to work up an appetite, and then make off with the cheese."

The second mouse orders up two shots of sour mash, pounds them both, slams each glass onto the bar, turns to the first mouse and replies:
"Yeah, well when I see rat poison, I collect as much as I can, take it home, grind it up into a powder, and add it to my coffee each morning so I can get a good buzz going for the rest of the day."

The first mouse and the second mouse then turn to the third mouse. The third mouse lets out a long sigh and says to the first two, "I don't have time for this bullshit. I gotta go home and screw the cat."

Sure, you've got the perfect shade of lipstick and the little black dress... but is that all you need? Hardly.

1. A fabulous photo of yourself
We all have that photo: The one where your smile, hair, and (let's be honest) bod all come together in one sexy little package, whether it's that snapshot from your hike in the Grand Canyon or that cocktail party photo where you're dressed to kill. Post that sucker at eye level on your fridge so your male guest can't help but notice it as he checks out if you have beer (see item #5). What he says: "Is that you?" What he means: "Daa-aamn, girl, you're hotter than I realized!" Keep a digital version handy so you can email it to online suitors or blind dates who want a glimpse of the goods beforehand. And never, ever throw it away—when you're 80-something it'll serve as an instant reminder that back in the day, you were a total dish!

2. A pretty pair of heels
Admit it. You feel like Maria from West Side Story (You feel pretty, oh so pretty…) when you slip on a pair of nice heels. The good news is that these days, you can transform virtually any outfit to make it on-the-town ready by adding heels to a skirt, jeans, cropped khakis, whatever. And no, they don't have to be towering stilettos, even a pair of 1-inch kitten heels will make you stride a little more confidently. (Added bonus: The taller you are, the more cute men you'll be able to see around the room.)

3. An Eminem CD
What's one of the first places a guy peruses when he walks into a woman's home? Her music collection. Good for you if you have an extensive one. But if all he sees is a stack of girl bands (say, the Indigo Girls, the Go-Go's, Joni Mitchell and the Bridget Jones' Diary soundtrack), he's going to panic. Balance out your collection with one CD, any CD, by Eminem and you have no idea how relieved he'll be. It shows you have an open mind and aren't easily offended—and that's music to any man's ears.

4. A great pickup line... and a way to blow 'em off
In this post-chivalrous period, we can't always depend on guys to initiate contact, so prepare thyself with one simple, non-cheesy icebreaker to lay on that cutie who's making his way to your area of the bar. Our favorite: "Hi. Having fun?" (Though a friend of mine has recently taken to asking well-dressed men, "Hetero, homo or metro?" And in cases when a guy initiates contact and you're not interested, better have a better blow-off than "Ummmm, no... " Our suggestion: "Sorry, I don't think the guy I'm seeing would appreciate it." Sure, it's a lie, but it'll let him down easy—without destroying his ego or making him think you're a jerk.

5. A six-pack of good bottled beer
A prepared single girl is ready to host and toast at any time. If you want to make a guy-guest feel at home and your girlfriends feel special, skip the mass-produced swill and go for microbrews like the exotically-named Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale from Portsmouth, New Hampshire or the grandfather of microbrews, Sam Adams Boston Lager.

6. Bathroom reading
What man doesn't appreciate finding interesting reading in his sweetie's bathroom? So instead of tossing out your magazines when you're done reading them, toss them into a basket by the toilet. No need to go overboard with a stack of Sports Illustrated (if you don't follow sports, that would just be weird), but consider Newsweek or even Cosmopolitan (hey, this may be the only time he's a captive audience and can learn a few things). Or, just buy a book that's made for the bathroom, like Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott ($10.17 at amazon.com) so he can learn a few things about shoelace lengths and sign language while he passes the, uh, time.

7. A business card
After the age of 18, it's no longer cute to scrawl your first name and phone number on a napkin and hand it to a man who wants to call you. So if your job doesn't provide a card or you'd prefer one with your personal email address and phone number on it, then have some made at your local Kinko's. The very budget-bound can get 250 full-color business cards for free from vistaprint.com if you don't mind the company's logo on the backside of the card. Hey, it's better than nothing. A napkin he can lose. A card he'll file and keep.

8. Earplugs
Ah, there's nothing sweeter than a man who wants to cuddle up with you in bed for a long night's sleep. Unless — SNZZGGHGHRRJJZZZ! — he snores so loudly you can't get any sleep. Prepare thyself for surprise snorers with a pair of earplugs stashed in your nightstand. (2 pairs of Mack's brand self-described "snore-proof" plugs sell for $2.79 at cvs.com.)

9. A straight male friend on your speed-dial
Every girl knows she needs a gay male friend she can go to for fashion advice (a personal Queer Eye for Your Closet). But when it comes to relationship advice, you need another source. While your female friends may have good intentions, if you really want to know if you should call that guy, save the guesswork and go to someone who's been there, done that.

10. A condom
Hey ladies, you know the drill by now. If you want to be able to have spontaneous fun of the bodily kind, you have to prepare for it yourself. You can't always count on him to have something in his back pocket—or a 24-hour drugstore on the route home. (Your new mantra: If you don't want it to break, you buy it.)

Speaking of Ashley Cole, who has just signed a new £60,000 a week contract, he had his £100,000 fine reduced by 25% yesterday and declared himself delighted, whipped out his chequebook and paid up the fine so he could put this whole sordid tapping-up mess behind him to concentrate on his football again.

Oh wait, I have that slightly wrong.

Instead of paying his fine he has instructed his legal team (a left-back with a legal team I tell you), to bring an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. What a little cunt. If he got sent off he might get himself a two week fine and he'd happily admit he did something wrong so why can't he pay little more than a week's wages, accept that what he did was out of order and against the rules and just get on with things? Cole's pathetic agent Jonathan Barnett says they will go to 'the ends of the earth' to clear their names? What the are they on? The world and his mother knows they broke the rules.

For me Ashley Cole embodies everything that's wrong with today's footballers. I sincerely wish Arsenal had sold him and I don't [care] how it might have weakened their squad. He's embarrassing himself and more importantly the club. Give it up or <snip>, Ashley.

Been a while since I started a thread... This one was motivated by a mail that my chic sent me, so I did some research


At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Sciences, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story...

So begins a text circulating rampantly on the Internet since 1995, cropping up again and again in postings to mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, almost always accompanied by the claim that the story recounted is actually true. Even now, years after its Net debut, search engines pull up no fewer than a hundred Websites where "1994's Most Bizarre Suicide" still resides in more or less its original form. Is it just another Internet-enhanced urban legend, or did it really happen?

Let's investigate.

On March 23 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a gunshot wound of the head caused by a shotgun. Investigation to that point had revealed that the decedent had jumped from the top of a ten story building with the intent to commit suicide. (He left a note indicating his despondency.) As he passed the 9th floor on the way down, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, killing him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been erected at the 8th floor level to protect some window washers, and that the decedent would not have been able to complete his intent to commit suicide because of this...

Obviously the story's main selling point is irony, which is also a promising clue as to its veracity. In urban legends, suicide attempts always have an ironic outcome – as in the familiar (but untrue) tale of the man who was fired from his job and leapt from his office window intending to kill himself, only to land on his former boss on the sidewalk below, killing the latter instead. The impact of the story in both cases derives from the "poetic justice" brought about by a freakish coincidence – perhaps too freakish to be believable.

Ordinarily, a person who starts into motion the events with a suicide intent ultimately commits suicide even though the mechanism might be not what he intended. That he was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below probably would not change his mode of death from suicide to homicide, but the fact that his suicide intent would not have been achieved under any circumstance caused the medical examiner to feel that he had homicide on his hands...

Note that regardless of whether it's true or false, the story is lent credibility by the fact that it's told from the point of view of a medical examiner trying to determine whether a crime was committed or not. From this point on, it reads much like a detective story.

Further investigation led to the discovery that the room on the 9th floor from whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. He was threatening her with the shotgun because of an interspousal spat and became so upset that he could not hold the shotgun straight. Therefore, when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife, and the pellets went through the window, striking the decedent.

When one intends to kill subject A, but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. The old man was confronted with this conclusion, but both he and his wife were adamant in stating that neither knew that the shotgun was loaded. It was the longtime habit of the old man to threaten his wife with an unloaded shotgun. He had no intent to murder her; therefore, the killing of the decedent appeared then to be accident. That is, the gun had been accidentally loaded...

Accidentally loaded? By whom? The plot thickens...

But further investigation turned up a witness that their son was seen loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal accident. That investigation showed that the mother (the old lady) had cut off her son's financial support, and her son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that the father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus...

Except for one last, perfect ironic twist...

Further investigation revealed that the son became increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to get his mother murdered. This led him to jump off the ten story building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a 9th story window.

The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.

This is a great story – so great that we want to believe it, we hope it's true, however outlandish the "facts" presented may be. The question we must ask ourselves in our investigation is: mightn't it be too good to be true?