Nick Against the World (83 Viewers)
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Every candidate is cut from the same 'turd'...Hillary is riding Bill's ticket.. (ironic)..Barack is riding Dr King and the great black ticket even though he is a first generation black american....McCain is just not sound enough and riding the hanoi hilton ticket...Rudy rode the 911 ticket ..
I see no difference between who I see the front runners: Hillary, Barack and the POW ... they are all slinging the same b.s. At least Bush-Gore and Bush-Kerry let us see the difference...
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I see no difference between who I see the front runners: Hillary, Barack and the POW ... they are all slinging the same b.s. At least Bush-Gore and Bush-Kerry let us see the difference...
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As if Obama is anything remotely close to a civil rights figure.The closest Obama ever gets to a speech about diversity is in talking about how much he likes his MacBook Pro.
Correction: undead.
Chimp Chumps cannot be killed. They only come back to haunt.
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This is for Andy:
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, standing before you today is Juventus sporting director Alessio Secco. His crime? Alleged inadequacies on the transfer market, dating back from his appointment in June 2006 to the present day.
Secco has been on trial ever since he was promoted from his team manager role. Thrown into the deep end after the club was almost torn apart by the Calciopoli punishments, doubts have existed over his ability from day one.
Alessio, an example of pure Juventinità, wasn’t the club’s first choice. They actually offered his position to Franco Baldini given the transfer prowess he had demonstrated at Roma. But Baldini, who now finds himself part of Fabio Capello’s England set-up, couldn’t bring himself to join an outfit that he had openly fought against during the rule of the Triade.
Sampdoria official Beppe Marotta and Giovanni Sartori of Chievo were also mentioned as possible Luciano Moggi successors. Yet La Vecchia Signora went for the young blood of Secco, whose charisma and professionalism could be used to help cleanse the club’s tarnished image.
Secco has found the transition tough. Even though he was initially aided by Roberto Bettega, the clean third of the Triade, the general consensus is that he has flopped on the transfer market. While his inexperience and the club’s uncertain status in the summer of 2006 makes his initial market moves almost impossible to judge, his work since then has been questionable.
Exhibit A is Sergio Almiron. Bought for £6.5m from Empoli, he’s now on loan at Monaco. Tiago Mendes is Exhibit B, a £9m swoop whose proposed move to Tottenham last month apparently fell through because his wife didn’t fancy a London return. Exhibit C is Momo Sissoko. A Liverpool reserve who nobody seemingly rates, but a player who Secco was willing to spend £8.2m on.
Secco, of course, could argue that there are extenuating circumstances for his actions. Although he’s officially in charge of transfer policy, we doubt he’s acting alone. Nevertheless, that’s not a viable alibi.
Juventus need to be a force on the transfer market if they are to again be a force on the field of play. Secco’s inability to immediately bring in Olof Mellberg in January was a significant failure and the necessity to sign Guglielmo Stendardo on loan to “plug a hole” – as Secco noted – was not an operation worthy of the club.
Mercato whispers in Italy have seen Juventus linked with the likes of Amauri, Diego, Andrea Barzagli, Rafael Van Der Vaart and Cristian Zapata. They’re all interesting names and quality players, but the club must first come up with a verdict on whether Secco has the ability to make those moves happen. If they have any doubts then Juve’s next buy needs to be a sporting director rather than a multi-million pound player.
From Football Italia
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, standing before you today is Juventus sporting director Alessio Secco. His crime? Alleged inadequacies on the transfer market, dating back from his appointment in June 2006 to the present day.
Secco has been on trial ever since he was promoted from his team manager role. Thrown into the deep end after the club was almost torn apart by the Calciopoli punishments, doubts have existed over his ability from day one.
Alessio, an example of pure Juventinità, wasn’t the club’s first choice. They actually offered his position to Franco Baldini given the transfer prowess he had demonstrated at Roma. But Baldini, who now finds himself part of Fabio Capello’s England set-up, couldn’t bring himself to join an outfit that he had openly fought against during the rule of the Triade.
Sampdoria official Beppe Marotta and Giovanni Sartori of Chievo were also mentioned as possible Luciano Moggi successors. Yet La Vecchia Signora went for the young blood of Secco, whose charisma and professionalism could be used to help cleanse the club’s tarnished image.
Secco has found the transition tough. Even though he was initially aided by Roberto Bettega, the clean third of the Triade, the general consensus is that he has flopped on the transfer market. While his inexperience and the club’s uncertain status in the summer of 2006 makes his initial market moves almost impossible to judge, his work since then has been questionable.
Exhibit A is Sergio Almiron. Bought for £6.5m from Empoli, he’s now on loan at Monaco. Tiago Mendes is Exhibit B, a £9m swoop whose proposed move to Tottenham last month apparently fell through because his wife didn’t fancy a London return. Exhibit C is Momo Sissoko. A Liverpool reserve who nobody seemingly rates, but a player who Secco was willing to spend £8.2m on.
Secco, of course, could argue that there are extenuating circumstances for his actions. Although he’s officially in charge of transfer policy, we doubt he’s acting alone. Nevertheless, that’s not a viable alibi.
Juventus need to be a force on the transfer market if they are to again be a force on the field of play. Secco’s inability to immediately bring in Olof Mellberg in January was a significant failure and the necessity to sign Guglielmo Stendardo on loan to “plug a hole” – as Secco noted – was not an operation worthy of the club.
Mercato whispers in Italy have seen Juventus linked with the likes of Amauri, Diego, Andrea Barzagli, Rafael Van Der Vaart and Cristian Zapata. They’re all interesting names and quality players, but the club must first come up with a verdict on whether Secco has the ability to make those moves happen. If they have any doubts then Juve’s next buy needs to be a sporting director rather than a multi-million pound player.
From Football Italia
Well duh Nicky, I mean Kerry ran the "I was in Vietnam ticket", Bush road the "My dad was president ticket" and the "I've been President ticket". It's what politicians do. They ride tickets and hope they get them to the white house. Though I have to disagree with you on the Obama issue. He's riding the "I want to unite the world" ticket. But then again he's a colored boy. 
Anyway welcome back.
Anyway welcome back.