18 Aug 2022 06:16:35
What do you all think of Lampard meeting with Maupay? and now he wants to wait . while Lampard shifts a few out I guess before signing Maupay.
Should we pull out and look elsewhere?
18 Aug 2022 06:53:04
If he doesn't want to play for forest move on
Simples.
18 Aug 2022 07:52:41
If any players have any doubts about joining our great club, then we should move on……. so mupuy muppet or whatever your name is go somewhere else because if reports are true that your holding out for another club that will be far more in fairer club to Nottingham Forest to come in for you, then get lost. I would rather give someone like the Boudreaux striker Hwung Ui-Jo a contract, as he is desperately wanting to play for Forest, so that says everything to me……sign him up.
18 Aug 2022 09:36:52
Totally agree Jolly if Maupay is stalling move on
On a different sporting note but still about Nottingham now our English white ball captain Eoin Morgan has retired with his anti Alex Hales stance can we please get Hales back in the England team as Roy can’t buy a run and Alex is on fire.
18 Aug 2022 13:18:39
Munmad, Hales is a better one day batsman than Roy and Morgan combined mate. Unfairly treated for his one personal mistake.
As far as Maupay is concerned I don’t think he ll go to Everton. He’s London based and I’m surprised he hasn’t gone to Fulham. I always think that talented players of Maupay s extrovert and maverick personality tend to head for the bright lights and distractions of London. (or Brighton which is London on Sea) . Think of the Charlie George’s, Stan Bowles, Thierry Henry etc. Even Gazza the thoroughbred Geordie ended up at Spurs. Maupay is a Parisian and used to the perceived glamourised lifestyle.
If he does come to Nottingham it will be because we’ve offered him better wages (ie More Pay! You see what I did there? As Arthur Askey used to say “Once again I thang yow)! ????.
18 Aug 2022 13:23:22
Having spent a lot of time in London over the years I have an ambivalent view of the place. As ayoung man I loved it and was thrilled by the place. As an old git I still like to see the things London has to offer, but I visit then get home as soon as possible. It seems a soulless and unfriendly place.
18 Aug 2022 13:42:26
I’m riffing a bit now and mulling on poets rather than young professional footballers but the different views of London are reflected in Wordsworth and TS Eliot.
So Wordsworth, a country boy from Cumbria, is thrilled and overwhelmed on being in London in a poem “Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3 1802”
“Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty;
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The Beauty if the morning; silent, bare
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
Etc etc”
Whereas TS Eliot, a sophisticated man of the world, speaking numerous languages, a graduate of Harvard, Oxford and the Sorbonne changes his Nationality from American to British and lives ( and dies) in London but he sees the world weariness of the City in “The Waste Land” ( The Burial of the Dead)
“Unreal City
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought that death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine”.
18 Aug 2022 19:57:28
I love this poem, simply entitled "WAR" . "Boom! " Boom! Boom! Boooooom! ".
"Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boooom!
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19 Aug 2022 10:28:55
Rogie, I’m guessing rhats one of the very early works of the War Poets mate! Was it Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon or Robert Graves? ????.