Emmanuel Adebayor

[mr underhill]

my kids always used Deacon as a pejorative term and Itchy, itchy Boris for some reason, the latter when questioning the truth of something. Early to mid nineties thing with them

[old man villa fan]

It's very unlikely that anybody is going to pay money for Adebayor so Spurs are left with a £100k per week (of £5m over the season) salary they have to find.  I would have thought Villa's first offer would be to offer Spurs something to reduce their financial exposure.  Not sure where we are pitching our leading players at, £60k a week?  If so, I would be offering £60k and Spurs pay the other £40k a week.  It would mean Spurs saving £3m over the season or, alternatively looking at it from another angle, getting the equivalent of £3m for selling him.

The above would be financial sense to Spurs but I bet it would stick in Levy's throat like a pork sausage.

[Damo70]

Judging by the slang my fourteen year old son uses 'bummers' are now 'gaybods'. Which urguably is a tad more politically correct.

[cdbearsfan]

bet it would stick in Levy's throat like a pork sausage.

Any need for that?

[garyshawsknee]

I prefer "div". "Joey" sounds like an insult used by someone who has watched too much Neighbours/Home and Away. And by "too much" I mean "any".

This really is a kick in the bollocks offence. joey predates Neighbours/Home Away or any type Aussie soap shite. You really have let yourself down here. You div.

Anyway, div refers more to an action of a person whereas joey normally refers to a speech error.

Didn't 'Joey' come from Joey Deacon/Blue Peter in the very early eighties? That is as I remember it from junior school.

I was a little too young to see him on Blue Peter, but using it as an adjective , survived for twenty odd years in Luton.

[Slaphead]

You lot are fucking up my childhood. I thought it was "gaybard", "Itchy beard", "Having a barney" (term for throwing dolls out of pram)... Damn Brummy accent.

I have no idea if I want Adebayor or not, him and Tim will just make headlines weekly for fighting. Villa have usually been a "nice team" with decent enough lads overall, I don't want us to turn into a bunch of wankers... I'd take personal respect over trophies any day in a world where money buys the league.

[OzVilla]

Judging by the slang my fourteen year old son uses 'bummers' are now 'gaybods'. Which urguably is a tad more politically correct.

What about "Gaylord's" I remember that one went along with bummer too.

[TopDeck113]

Non-PC insults were all the rage in the late 70s/early 80s. Remember being called a "spacka" on more than one occasion, for no apparent reason other than wearing National Health glasses...  The other one I remember well - usually reserved for someone doing something uncoordinated in PE - was "flid" (from thalidomide) accompanied by pulling your arms into your T-shirt and waving the hands out of the end of short sleeves.   

[PeterWithe]

Its rather reassuring to see that todays youths dont lower themselves to using the kind of crass insults we did and now settle their differences with the more grown up method of stabbing each other.

[old man villa fan]

bet it would stick in Levy's throat like a pork sausage.

Any need for that?

Apologies if anybody is offended.

[Legion]

Its rather reassuring to see that todays youths dont lower themselves to using the kind of crass insults we did and now settle their differences with the more grown up method of stabbing each other.

Far more civilised.

[UK Redsox]

bet it would stick in Levy's throat like a pork sausage.

Any need for that?

Apologies if anybody is offended.

A classic non-apology apology. Are you a politician ?

[Damo70]

Non-PC insults were all the rage in the late 70s/early 80s. Remember being called a "spacka" on more than one occasion, for no apparent reason other than wearing National Health glasses...  The other one I remember well - usually reserved for someone doing something uncoordinated in PE - was "flid" (from thalidomide) accompanied by pulling your arms into your T-shirt and waving the hands out of the end of short sleeves.

I had forgotten about flid and the accompanying actions. Spaz was usually accompanied by a facial expression achieved by poking your tongue into the bottom of your mouth. Someone wearing glasses or shiny new shoes or sporting a new haircut would imaginatively be called 'glasses', 'shoes' or 'haircut'. The name would rather randomly stick with them for a length of time that could range from anything between one break time to the rest of their schooldays. You would have a fifteen year old called 'shoes' because he came to school in a shiny new pair as a ten year old.

[old man villa fan]

bet it would stick in Levy's throat like a pork sausage.

Any need for that?

Apologies if anybody is offended.

A classic non-apology apology. Are you a politician ?

One man's meat is another man's poison or, with our new French contingent, poisson.

[E I Adio]

bet it would stick in Levy's throat like a pork sausage.

Any need for that?

Apologies if anybody is offended.

A classic non-apology apology. Are you a politician ?

One man's meat is another man's poison or, with our new French contingent, poisson.

Sounds a little too fishy to me.