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Man City (A): Stoof's Shout

Paxtonite

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Utter rubbish Stoof......

Well with all that praise someone had to be different!


Only joking. Very good piece. :up:
 

dirtydave

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Just been reading an article on the Beeb about Man City suggesting that the new club owners probably aren't happy as City are just one point off the Premier League relegation zone after pumping £76m into transfers in the summer and i thought what the hell did they spend 76m on? Can anyone enlighten me?
 

pierreb

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I've been watching Tottenham for 48 years and I can't think of a team that you would guarantee to hold onto a 1-0 lead.
 

Bus-Conductor

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I can't believe you feel so non-plussed by Gomes. I feel exactly the opposite. He's the first keeper I've warmed to since Big Pat (and I include the legendary Barry Daines in that).
 

BringBack_leGin

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I can't believe you feel so non-plussed by Gomes. I feel exactly the opposite. He's the first keeper I've warmed to since Big Pat (and I include the legendary Barry Daines in that).

i'm sorry, i commend your use of a brilliant word, but it is just nonplussed, no hyphen. i know i'm being a pedant but i could not help it.

also, are you completely sure about the context you are using it in. nonplussed (or nonplused) means to be confused by something or perplexed. in fact, literally, it means "at a total loss as to what to say or do". Unfortunately, it seems to have been used in the last couple of years to mean indifferent, something for which we have the declining New York Times to thank as they introduced it in this context. It is a totally incorrect use of the word.

If you indeed meant that Stoof is perplexed by Gomes, I apologise for this rant, but I am guessing that you did not mean that.

Nonplussed when used correctly is a beautiful word, but the non at the begin is not intended to convey a negative alternative to "plussed" because one can never be plussed, it does no exist. The word actually comes from a latin phrase "non plus" which means "not more" and has been adapted in our language to means, literally, not more to add (as a result of confusion).

Sorry for the rant, I am a pedant.
 

fatspur

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interesting comments about keepers. Each of Sullivan, Robinson, and (not so much) Walker had spells of absolute excellence, followed by cataclismic (sp?) fallability, from which Sullivan & Walker never truly recovered, and the jury is still out on Robinson (who admittedly was inspired for Blackburn agaiinst Chelsea). They say class is permanent while form is temporary, but I wonder whether keepers run the risk of losing it permanently once their confidence has taken a hit. Discuss.
 

tevezito

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Jun 8, 2004
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Fatspur, I'm nonplussed you find the goalkeeper comments more interesting than BBG's history of the English language comment.

Erm, I think I'll go change my sig.

P.S. I'm all for big-upping Heurelho, but is it pronounced Gomes or Gomesh? I wouldn't want to be mistaken for Pleaty.
 

davidmatzdorf

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I'm all for big-upping Heurelho, but is it pronounced Gomes or Gomesh? I wouldn't want to be mistaken for Pleaty.

Oh good, another pedantry question to start the morning.

We had a chat about this on the forums last Summer. I suggested that the Portuguese pronunciation should be "Goh-mesh" and someone who had lived in Brazil replied that, whilst this would normally be correct, in the particular dialect of our goalkeeper's home region (Minas Gerais - and don't ask me how to pronounce that...), they would probably pronounce it more like "Goh-mess".

So we did not reach a consensus.

Shouldn't that be "bigging-up"? :wink:
 

pierreb

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As an ex-lexicographer with lots of Brazilian friends I'm beginning to enjoy this thread:grin:
 
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