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Burton - whats the deal
So I was looking at the new boards on dogfunk and saw that some some of the new Burton boards are over $1k.... Have they made some great breakthrough that is driving their price up that much or is it just them being the big B.....
I just can't see spending $1500 on a burton method when I can get a great lib tech for half the price.... |
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Yeah, with Burton you just have to ignore the extreme high end models. Those are there for folks where price is not an issue and they just want the latest Burton technology.
The good thing for the rest of us, is just like luxury cars, Burton tests out the potential of new technology on the high end models and if they are successful, they make there way to the normal boards in a year or two. |
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i highly doubt we will be seeing titanium edges on an even close to affordable board anytime soon lol:P
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I can't say I hate on Burton. I have a Custom X and a T6. The X has been a great board and I hope to get the T6 out this year. Maybe this is the first time I saw a board for over $1500 but that just seems very extreem for a snowboard.
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This was my first ever pdga event in the States.
It was enjoyable but could have been better in a couple of areas.
As an am senior grandmaster i found it kind of dumb that i had to tee off at 7:30am three days in a row. I never play dg before 11am, my old body doesn't easily allow it. From the 3 Palms it was a1hr run out there .... 6:30 plus a half hour to get up makes it a 6am start to play dg, just plain nuts from my point of view. get the young guys up to play early ... send the gm's out at 11am or later or shotgun it. Another thing dg is supposed to be realitively fun ...... none of us grandmasters ended up under par. The game is about making birdies, with the holes set up as they were am gm arms don't have the power to get there ..... nobody finished under par. It should be more fun ... short tee boxes, different angles more chances of birdies.
One other thing that could be better is a better player party. Rent a rec centre gym, put on a catered $10 banquet, get everybody there pros and ams and do some partying, 6pm to 10pm dinner's on. We do it here for our BC Senior Games feed 3500 people and we get to see everybody from around the province and renew acquaintances. Just good good clean fun.
If you want good events for older guys, the pdga is not the place to look.
Given what you've said above, I think you'd be interested in joining Peter Shive's Divisional Tour Newsgroup: http://discgolfer.ning.com/forum/topics/join-the-divisional-tour
I have been getting the emails for a while now and they do seem to be a strong advocate for the benefit of players masters age and up. I'm sure they have addressed many of these issues before.
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Colposcopic and histologic findings in 41 patients with Chlamydia trachomatis-associated cervicitis and in age-matched controls with nonspecific cervicitis are presented. Colposcopy showed exophytic follicular cervicitis in 30 patients in the chlamydia group and in none in the control group. Atypical transformation zone occurred significantly more often in the chlamydia group. Directed biopsy specimens revealed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in 10 cases in the chlamydial group but in only 1 case in the control group. In 4 patients with chlamydial cervicitis lymphoid follicles were observed in histologic specimens. |
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This article examines the relationship between law and historiography. Law played a central role in the creation of the nation-state. Historiography also narrates the victories and sacrifices of the nation and constructs its "imagined community." Recently, court hearings are increasingly used for history authentication. Developing Hannah Arendt's argument in Eichmann in Jerusalem, the article argues that legal proceedings are not suitable for clarifying the historical record.
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Jerry Zgoda missed the entire Kevin Garnett era, but he's back covering the Timberwolves after working the beat for their first four seasons two decades ago. In between, he covered a bit of everything: Gopher men's and women's basketball and NCAA athletics, golf, outdoor recreation, sports media and a little Vikings and Twins.
Given how things have gone for his team, you might understand why Rick Adelman wasn't going to believe it until he saw it.
Adelman recently concluded his pre-game meeting with reporters, and he was talking about tonight's game with the New Orleans Hornets. Specifically the fact that Hornets coach Monty Williams had just confirmed that Eric Gordon, still working his way back from injury, would not play tonight.
Gordon returned to action Dec. 29. But, as he works his way back to 100 percent, the Hornets are not playing him on the second night of back-to-back games yet, much like the way the Wolves treated Ricky Rubio when he first came back from knee surgery.
But Adelman, joking, was having none of it. "I still think he's going to play," Adelman said. "I'm just very pessimistic. I think he'll play, probably, 40 minutes.''
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--A big part of it was the zone the Wolves used against the Lakers Friday, but once again the Wolves were slammed on the boards. Adelman said a big priority tonight is rebounding. In a statistical oddity, Andrei Kirilenko played nearly 32 minutes Friday without grabbing a rebound.
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Having been named 'Person of the Year 2007' by an American magazine that invariably supports progressive candidates, soon-to-be Russian ex-President, Vladimir Putin, is now listening to political consultants advising him to start a vigorous campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire as the strongest candidate on the Democratic ticket in 2008. "Every Democratic contender promises to change America," says General Yezhov, a member of Putin PAC and Chairman of the Putin Presidential Exploratory Committee. "If change is what the Americans want, Putin can give it to them better than any other candidate. And trust me, it won't be some cosmetic do-over - it will be a change that's final and irreversible. We challenge all the activists who talk about change to put their money where their mouth is and support Vladimir Putin for American President." |
Barbra Streisand: Vlad has definitely got more chutzpah than Hillary. I mean, she was my first choice, but if you put her next to Putin - who's got a bigger ability to bring about change? Oprah Winfrey: Daily Kos: Now Putin is officially the most popular man in America - AND he is available! | |
Putin's Political Action Committee headquarters on Lubianka Square in Moscow. Iowa Activist: I want the strongest candidate on the Democratic ticket in 2008 and Putin is it. I wish any of our Democrats could be half the man he is in dealing with the right-wing media. |
"Right now the American political experts are divided. One camp favors bigger experience with a wider sway typical of Hillary; the other camp fancies a new guy in Washington who has smaller experience but greater penetrating power which is what Obama is known for. With those conditions in play, the board is now set for us to declare that Putin has god-like experience, enormous - if not throbbing - penetrating power, and he'll be a new guy in Washington. So what are the pundits, the experts and the media consultants going to do? By their own standards, Putin is the ideal candidate for the Democratic primaries! He is a shoe-in for the nomination! A shoe-in!"
We met with General Yezhov in his office on Lubianka Square in Moscow, decorated with dull portraits of old Soviet leaders and a lively display of colorful English-language posters and buttons:
The General dismissed skepticism about the fact that Putin wasn't "technically" born in the United States. "What's the fabrication of another American birth certificate for the KGB paper factory? Patooey! Let's talk about real issues, like Hillary or Obama's experience!" The General issued a short and disciplined belly laugh.
"You know what the 'experience' argument between Hillary and Obama supporters reminds me of? It's like that quarrel over the best way to open an egg as described by the great Russian writer Jonathan Swift - from the big end or from the little end. They Hillary group are the Big Endians and the Obama group are the Little Endians. If that's what your choice of candidates boils down to - from which end it is better to open the Golden American Egg to suck dry - then Putin can crack the egg open from both ends simultaneously! His KGB training included a skill to shell a raw egg with only two fingers, without leaving a mess.
"Putin is everything your Democratic contenders can only dream of being and so much more! Nobody except him can bring political stability to America. Having analyzed reports in the American 'paper of record', The New York Times, within the last seven years of the Bush Administration, our experts have concluded that your country is devastated by Republican failures, weakened by partisan bickering, and is being ravaged by hateful mobs of 'fiscal conservatives' who are looking for an excuse to start another civil war. America needs stability - even more so than Russia!
"Our theory was confirmed by Time Magazine's selection of Putin as 'Person of the Year' for bringing stability to Russia. Time editors must have subliminally guessed what's best for America. And that's why Vladimir Putin is your top choice for president.
"If we are to believe the American mainstream media - and I see no reason not to - Americans are ready for a benevolent foreign leader who will be strict but fair to his American subjects. Just think what he can do for your country with only a few edicts! The possibilities are endless!
"The Edict to Balance the Media and Unconfuse Public Perception will lead to a quick shutdown of Fox News and conservative talk radio, followed by a poisoning of Rush Limbaugh, a quiet assassination of Ann Coulter, and the jailing of Republican leadership with the subsequent nationalization of GOP funds. The debate is over, comrades! No more partisanship!
"The Total Employment and Rehabilitation Edict will give a chance to human refuse known as the 'right-wingers' to rehabilitate themselves through hard labor in Alaska, digging the world's longest canal between the Pacific and the Arctic Oceans. With millions of them living in the barracks, the housing problem on the mainland will fade away automatically and home foreclosures will cease to be. Financing for this project will be provided by tapping into the bank accounts of today's captains of industry who will be shoveling permafrost. The resulting overall prosperity will easily cover the cost of shipping surplus shovels from the Motherland.
"The Simple Vote Edict will be similar to Simple Tax; only instead of eliminating the IRS it will eliminate the Federal Election Commission. This will end once and for all the confusing need to know the distinction between the House and the Senate, the Elephant and the Donkey, the Capitol and the White House. The edict will rid us of the Electoral College and other excesses that frustrate the Democrat voting bloc. There will be only one Duma and only one Party, renamed into 'Americans United for Choice and Stability' - a utopian ideal for many of progressive activists.
"The Centralized Self-Governing Edict will abolish the costly and farcical gubernatorial elections. The liberated funds will then be used to build dachas for the loyal State Governors whom Putin will choose himself as he did in Mother Russia. That in turn will ensure a better cohesion of state economies with the federal Five Year Plans, thus eliminating the 'free-market' chaos and dubious capitalist 'creativity.' A tighter government control over industries will release additional funds into the hands of other distinguished apparatchiks who will thus reward themselves for the selfless service to the people and the President.
"The No War for Oil Edict will nationalize American oil companies and end their tyrannical reign over the world. While this triumph of progress will be deafeningly celebrated by people who believe that Big Oil was the main cause of wars and violence, Putin will quietly sell American weapons to Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran, helping to achieve a peaceful and final solution in that war-torn region. With the destruction of Israel and America's unilateral disarmament, an everlasting peace will ensue; it shall be known as Pax Putinia.
"The Kazakhstanization of Arizona Edict will bring civilization to the American wastelands of Arizona and New Mexico by rerouting the Mississippi River into the Arizona Desert. One doesn't have to be a cartographer to see the unfairness of the current system under which the Gulf of Mexico has too much water while Arizona has none. It's time we made Big Gulf of Mexico share its vast water wealth so that the Southwest can become the new Tselina (Virgin Land) - just like Kazakhstan. It will grow corn for the American Motherland to be distilled into ethanol, whose importance will only increase due to the failure of nationalized oil industries.
"The Edict to Improve Economic Indicators will ensure that America's prosperity will continue to be fabulous and immeasurable despite the bureaucratic mismanagement and economic sabotage by the people's enemies. The only government-approved economic indicator left in place will be the perception of the economy by the New York Times editorial board - just like in the Golden Age of Bill Clinton!
"The Minimum Wage Tax Edict will simplify the tax system by making everyone a government employee, with automatic wage deductions for new glorious projects. A standardized universal minimum wage will be a welcomed change from the stressful need to count dependents and file tax returns.
"The Total Health Edict will bring you a standardized universal healthcare plan by forcing doctors and pharmacists to work for the standardized universal minimum wage. A few widely publicized show trials of "white coat criminals" will subdue the rest of the greedy scoundrels with knowledge of the medical field. We know that progressive mass media will cooperate; they already can't wait to lay their hands on pharmaceutical companies. The ACLU will also be standing by at our disposal.
"The Social Security Reduction Edict may not be even required, as the advancement of standardized universal healthcare should quickly reduce the number of freeloaders surviving past pension age.
"The immigration issue will also wither away as there will no longer be an opportunity left for any laborer - foreign or domestic - to be outside of the government hierarchy and state-assigned residency system. As Americans are expected to start fleeing to Cuba and Mexico, The Border Minefield Edict may be required, which would place landmines and heavily armed patrols on the southern border to prevent the outward movement of people and the depletion of the federal workforce.
"The Guns Kill People Edict will establish a no-trial-needed death penalty for gun ownership, lest the selfish American kulaks get any ideas about resisting the will of the people represented by exacting Party apparatchiks. Come to think of it, a constitutional amendment about the separation of guns and people should be announced by a special edict on our very first day in office to ensure that we survive all the other edicts and live to see the next term, and then the next term, and the next term after that.
"Vote Putin - do it for the children!"
Commissar Pupovich
There is one potential gulagblock that I had not considered, one that I am afraid we ourselves are to blame for! Comrades, for years we have rightfully claimed that George Bush was not elected to the White House! So what does that mean you ask?Comrad Bubalasky
This will actually give Bushitler the opportunity to attack Iran,Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, China, Russia, Japan, Hawaii, and Canada.Commissarka Pinkie
(sigh) What a hunk! He's so dreamy looking! Those pecs, that pate, those ice blue eyes that look as if they could bore right through me and touch my[SIZE=2][FONT=Verdana,sans-serif]Commissarka Pinkie
Nice try, Bubalasky. That's what you said about Ahmadinejad and Che, too. They can't all be the father of her love child! (Besides, are you sure it's Hannah, and not What's-her-name Spears--that sister of Britney that I never even knew existed till the rabbit died this week?)Premier Betty
I never even knew existed till the rabbit died this week?Commissar Pupovich
There is one potential gulagblock that I had not considered, one that I am afraid we ourselves are to blame for! Comrades, for years we have rightfully claimed that George Bush was not elected to the White House! So what does that mean you ask?Quote:
Now about that rabbit. Who's skinning it? How do you want it cooked? Fried? Fricasseed? Hasenpfeffer? (Alas, I watch too many Bugs Bunny cartoons.)Red Square
Merciful Kim Jong-Il
Putin is good leader. But why not ME as President of Amerikkka? I AM The Dear Leader of the PERFECT DPRK. AND I was born on a Mountain!!! I don't think Putin was born on a people-ing mountain.Commissar Pupovich
Comrade O'Brian, have you not heard we have added to the RightSpeak dictionary?Red Square
Barbra Streisand: Vlad has definitely got more chutzpah than Hillary. I mean, she was my first choice, but if you put her next to Putin - who's got a bigger ability to bring about change?Red Square
In the Motherland, "Vlad" is not used as a name, nickname, or a short form at all.Red Square
Vladimir (Vlah-DEE-mir) is Volodia, Vova, Vovka, Vovik, Vovochka, Voloden'ka, etc.Commissarka Pinkie
[which of these nicknames do you recommend I call out so he'll know I'm the comrade for him?Commissar Pupovich
Share that bone with me!Commissarka Pinkie
Red Square
Vladimir (Vlah-DEE-mir) is Volodia, Vova, Vovka, Vovik, Vovochka, Voloden'ka, etc.Red Square
Please be reminded that you that you are at the Party Organ and not Clinton Library.Red Square
Call him Vovka-Morkovka. I'm sure he'll like it. If things get really, really, "Progressive" - and you feel you have both reached a state of "advanced socialism," ask him to show you his "morkovka." That'll help you to get to "social utopia" sooner.Branish
Comrades, but how can we nominate Putin to be President of the USSA when he is poised to become "national leader"/ Prime Minister/ pending the Russian presidential (s)elections in a few months? Wouldn't our nomination curtail his quests to become a modern czar?The Tsarevna
Comrades, but how can we nominate Putin to be President of the USSA when he is poised to become "national leader"/ Prime Minister/ pending the Russian presidential (s)elections in a few months? Wouldn't our nomination curtail his quests to become a modern czar?Мой Хороший Друг, Красный Квадрат (Red Square)
Call him Vovka-Morkovka. I'm sure he'll like it. If things get really, really, "Progressive" - and you feel you have both reached a state of "advanced socialism," ask him to show you his "morkovka." That'll help you to get to "social utopia" sooner.Zampolit Blokhayev
Мой Хороший Друг, Красный Квадрат (Red Square)
Call him Vovka-Morkovka. I'm sure he'll like it. If things get really, really, "Progressive" - and you feel you have both reached a state of "advanced socialism," ask him to show you his "morkovka." That'll help you to get to "social utopia" sooner.- Would you like to be a mote in our vast collective?
- We shall cure your weak liberalism with our strong communism, comrade!
- Has Hillary won the elections? Cause this must be workers' paradise!
- Are you up for a few revolutions? 'Cause we're up for a massive uprising!
- Didn't we see you in the library on the cover of Communist Manifesto?
- Put your hands behind your back and stand still, so we can pick you up!
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WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- MBNA America, N.A., has been selected as the new credit card provider for the Auburn Alumni Association's Alumni Spirit Card program.The program offers no-fee, low interest MasterCard and VISA cards to Association members and royalties from the program are returned to Auburn University through the Association. These royalties benefit the Association's academic support efforts which include providing scholarships, professorships, and teaching and research awards for outstanding students and faculty.
"The success of the Auburn Spirit Card program through the years has allowed the Alumni Association to benefit the university in a variety of ways," said Bill Porter, Auburn Alumni Association president. "We look forward to our new relationship with MBNA, one of the leading credit card providers in the nation. They have an outstanding reputation for customer service and are very experienced in the collegiate card arena. We will be working closely with them in the coming months to ensure a smooth transition."
MBNA and the Association will offer several card options, including a Platinum Plus VISA with credit lines up to $100,000, low introductory annual percentage rates for cash advance checks and balance transfers, $1 million in common carrier travel accident insurance, and inclusion in MBNA's Platinum Plus registry, which offers card and document registry, emergency cash, and replacement airline tickets. A preferred VISA will also be available.
Current Auburn Spirit Card holders will receive more information on how to obtain their new MBNA cards in October. Only MBNA-issued cards will return royalties to Auburn through the Alumni Association. Alumni and friends who do not currently have a Spirit Card but who wish to obtain more information on how to get one can call the Association at 334-844-2960.
"We selected MBNA in order to provide our cardholders with the very best customer service and card benefits available," said Porter. "The cards provide alumni and friends with a great way to support Auburn while receiving excellent benefits."
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"Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells! Jingle all the way; Oh what fun it is to see Chelsea win away. Hey!"
The lower tier of the School End of Queens Park Rangers' Loftus Road was packed solid with a very festive-sounding Chelsea choral section in this particular part of South Africa Road London, W12.
It was Boxing Day 1981. Kick-off was still 90 minutes away, scheduled for the rather peculiar time of 11:30am.
Even the frigid temperature was not going to dampen spirits, especially of those who were clearly still feeling the effects of their Christmas Day excesses. Not me or one of my elder brothers though as we stood and swayed on that School End in amongst the overflowing Chelsea support, part of the wide-eyed and amazed, feeling blessed to be part of the festive football fun. Fun which began for us the moment we closed the front garden gate behind us to set out on the short hop across west London on the underground.
Chelsea's hideously coloured yellow away shirt, which came resplendent with a Santa red pinstripe, added to the sense of occasion, as did the weather. In the lead-up to Christmas 1981, London had been blanketed by a foot of snow. However no fear this game would be postponed. This was the era of the 'Plastic Pitch.'
An Omniturf surface had been installed at Loftus Road the previous summer. Pioneering stuff. QPR became the first English professional club to play on a non-natural surface.
Some clever wag or wags with little malice intended had broken into Loftus Road ahead of the game and discovered their inner Banksy. Whitewashing in foot-high block capitals on the pitch by the halfway line over towards the touchline, a few words that in later years I would go on to recognize as a famous Chelsea terrace away-day refrain.
A rare occasion in those days that the TV cameras were in attendance for a second division game was likely their motivation. Yes folks, this wasn't your globally enshrined English Premier League. This was the hard as nails English Second Division and Chelsea's natural habitat through the late 1970's and 1980's.
Off the pitch during this era, Chelsea was a club in shambolic disarray. Chairman Brian Mears, the grandson of Chelsea co-founder Jo Mears, led an overly outrageous attempt to redevelop and regenerate Stamford Bridge. As contrived by the property developers Mears was in bed with, their plans included Chelsea relocating to Loftus Road, with Fulham and QPR merging. Spiralling interest rates alongside economic gloom up and down the country was the backdrop. Not the cleverest of types was Brain Mears. Chelsea was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
Thank heavens for the intervention of the then Lord of the Stamford Bridge manor, Viscount Chelsea and a chap who would win two Oscars for his adaptation of Ghandi, Lord Attenborough. A club director at the time since 1993, Attenborough has been Chelsea's Life Long Honorary Vice President.
Chelsea had gone into the 1981 Boxing Day action at Loftus Road on the back of a five-game unbeaten streak. In a game dominated by the home team, very much against the run of play, Chelsea went ahead midway through the second half. When Clive Walker's shot from the edge of the box found the far corner of the net, this was the cue for the toilet paper and Christmas streamers from the upper tier and for the overflowing crowd in the lower tier, which was already hugging the touchline, to surge ever close to the edge of the pitch. I was so close to the action, I was half expecting the PA announcer to award me an assist on the Walker opener.
Chelsea added a second shortly after and left Loftus Road with the three points. The crowd was announced as a little over 22,000. I'm sure 21,998 of them arrived slightly inebriated with every one of the 5,000-plus Chelsea supporters in attendance leaving Loftus Road punch drunk.
The 2012 European Champions finished that 1981/82 season though in a lowly 12th place. Worse was to befall the club the following season when but for a win in their penultimate game of the season, they staved off relegation to the English football backwaters of Division 3. Clive Walker scored the winner that day, too.
Very much an old-fashioned winger with jet heels that left defenders frozen to the spot, Abramovich would likely invest £50M in today, Walker arrived at Chelsea the old-fashioned way. He earned it as a highly regarded reserve team player. Walker spent time in the NASL when Chelsea sent him out on loan to Fort Lauderdale for one off-season. There you go then. Neither Beckham nor his people invented bi-lateral soccer loan agreements between the old allies. It's been going on for roughly four decades.
Speaking to much more innocent times, the earliest recorded Boxing Day game in England occurred all the way back in 1881 when Hotspur played Reading Minster in an FA Cup third round replay. It would be another decade before Boxing Day fixtures became a staple in the English Football League. Remarkably, many teams also played 24 hours earlier on Christmas Day.
Imagine that, Arsene?
Not that I count, but I am rigidly opposed to any form of a winter break. What's the point? So England's richest clubs can fare better against their footballing superior European counterparts? Last time I checked, English clubs seemed to be holding their own and have done since first permitted to participate on the European stage.
For the inaugural 1955-56 European Cup, the predecessor of the UEFA Champions League, the English Champions were persuaded by the Football League not to participate. That so-termed club with no history, Chelsea as the champions would have had the honour of being English football's lone representative in a brand new mid-week tournament, which today is the global standard-bearer for club football.
Not to be. At least with no over-packed fixture list nor daunting travel by boat to the continent for midweek matches, Chelsea could purely focus on retaining the title. Everyone at Stamford Bridge apparently forgot to read the script. The following season, Chelsea only managed to win 14 of 42 matches and finished just above the relegation places.
Please stop it now. Liverpool's quite superb and highly unexpected renaissance this season is purely down to the fact they are not playing in the Champions or Europa League. Codswallop. Instead, doff your cap to Brendan Rodgers, Suarez, Henderson, et al. Do remind me again please how many times did Little Luis hotfooted it from Merseyside to Montevideo this fall for his nation's Brazil 2014 cause?
Then there's the ludicrous argument, the English national team would fare better than the 50 years and counting zeitgeist of invariably tripping over in the first or second knockout stage of international tournaments. Well, before we dismantle one of the last remaining century-plus traditions that is the festive fixture list, how about a government inquiry into bog standard soccer and antiquated attitudes which prevail throughout?
We seem to forget back on October 26, 1863 when a number of influential gentlemen gathered at the Connaught Rooms in Central London and devised the rules of modern day football, they did so on behalf of everyone, not just a chosen few. This very select sub-set of overpaid, over-pampered and over-hyped footballers are in desperate need of instilling the more traditional football faiths and attitudes; ones which take us back to a more innocence and respect for all time.
This was most famously captured when Portuguese legend Eusebio had an opportunity very late on in the 1968 European Cup Final to win it in normal time for Benfica, his close-range effort cannoning off the Manchester United goalkeeper Alex Stepney, who, on realizing he had the ball, gratefully kicked it way up-field and away from danger. This was Eusebio's cue to walk over towards Stepney with an outreached hand and in that moment with a smile on his face, congratulate Stepney for the game-winning save. Somehow I can't imagine Eusebio's compatriot Ronaldo doing that exact same thing in next spring's Champions League Final.
In recent years, more and more of English football's traditional characteristics and codes have fallen by the wayside - victim of the modern day over-commercialization culture which sadly reigns oh so supreme.
Boxing Day still stands above. Just ask the family of Gary Parkinson, who was in attendance at Middlesbrough Thursday as they played another of his ex-clubs, Burnley. The ex-professional, who started his career at Everton, attended his first professional game Thursday since been diagnosed with locked-in syndrome following a 2010 stroke. According to the BBC, Parkinson requires 24-hour care, unable to speak, move or swallow and spent two years in hospital before returning home ahead of Christmas 2012.
This the best example and true testament to the deep-rooted Boxing Day soccer culture that envelops the nation which invented the modern game exactly 150 years ago. Thursday, the very full complement of 158 professional and semi-professional football clubs were in action up and down jolly old England, where, for many of the lower league clubs especially, they will have recorded their largest attendance of the season plus experienced their best action of the season at the box office and club shop.
Remember all you newly recruited Chelsea supporters, your club used to be part of that lower league football fraternity not that many years ago. Then ask those, who so add to the unique English soccer culture and setting, the local traders which litter the immediate surrounding areas of the England's sacred soccer grounds how they fared Thursday.
I for one will certainly raise a glass that my children and their children will always have opportunity to experience Santa and soccer in one sleep or less. It was Boxing Day 1976 when the Sex Pistols, fronted by legendry Arsenal supporter John Lydon, went into a London recording studio located not very far from the Highbury shrine and recorded the anthemic, 'God Save the Queen', a song dedicated to the working class, that outstanding cloth-capped brigade on whose very shoulders the pillars of English football rest upon.
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