Meet the Moderator: casteer17

Soccer What position do you play? Did you watch the world cup?
Books...fiction, non fiction or both? My brother only reads non fiction but I'll read just about anything especially if stuck in a hospital waiting room...mind last time I tried to read some Somerset Maugham and it nearly killed me (serious brevquot overload)
Del

I usually play sweeper, but could also manage left back. I barely survived watching the final for the world cup. I was cheering for the Netherlands, but they couldn't figure out how to handle the ball. So sad. I prefer to read fiction, and my favorite author (currently) is Terry Pratchett. I like reading enough that it doesn't really matter what the topic is as long as the writing is decent. That being said, I never managed to finish A Tail of Two Cities. Just couldn't do it.

Way back in the 60s someone asked me if I liked Dickens...
I said 'Dunno I've never been to one'
(The old jokes are the best)
Del

Is it "Meet the Moderator" Thread or Football World cup thread?

It was Ok till your above post. But then onwards, everybody forgot the original thread.

BTW: Where is your photograph?

I never saw the photograph that was taken of me, and I don't have any digital copies from that trip. And all the hard copies are a couple of states over in my parents house. Sorry.

Are you trying to recruit some players for the English national team? I have a dog with three legs and one eye that is available and at only 50% of the cost of some of the "stars" that play for England.

I think you will agree that it was quite a dismal performance from the "best league" in the world.

Indeed...I expect we'd still have lost against Germany even if Lampard's goal had been spotted.
Devoid of ideas up front and a Sunday league defence.
The only players who would try to run at a defence and take them on were back home or on the bench.

The best team won the tournament.
Del

Del, As an avid Man U fan (I believe that you are a Portsmouth fan - sorry about that) I was very disappointed by the performance of Rooney. However I think that the real problem lies in Midfield with Gerrard and Lampard - they are a bit like Tina and Ike . I felt sorry for Green, as he is actually not a bad keeper. Can't understand why Cole (Joe, not the other money garbbing one) did not play.

Regards

WA Snow

We'll get told off if we talk about football (#15) . I think they should only take people who actually want to be there too, I'm sure a pub team would have worked harder. On one of those late German goals, we barely broke sweat trying to chase back... given up by then.
Yeah Cole, Walcott, Wright-Philips they'd have run at people and tried to create something...like panic in the opposition defence
Del

I did not take any notice of post #15 - just another crank on CR4 as far as I am concerned.

Very good point about taking people who want to be there - I would give anything for the chance to go and play at the WC but perhaps my age (and not to mention my lack of footballing skill) is against me.

Take care and perhaps you will have better luck in the European Championships in two years time.

Regards

W.A Snow

Thanks for Honor "Crank"

My point is .. let us start another thread to discuss and enjoy football. Now, we are kicking original thread out of field.

I thoroughly enjoy reading about football, and since the thread is about me, I'm game for a discussion of the world cup. Unfortunately, I have nothing to say about England. I was hoping the USA would have a slightly better showing than they did. Or at least not give up a goal in the first few minutes of every other match. I have heard some people blaming the vuvuzela horns for the lack of defense and/or offense. Apparently the horns can emit sound at 127db. That just seems painful.

I believe there is a curse on English world cup performance. In 1966 they won by a controversial goal.Before the world cup started Terry was removed,Beckham got injured,Ferdinand was injured. Meanwhile Rooney had told that he enjoys playing alone in the front.Football is a team effort.If two or more players become strikers there will be more chances for scoring a goal,good example is called one-two.In the seminal we saw this.Tevez was in a convenient position to score a goal but Pedro didn't pass the ball to him and wasted a golden opportunity which one might not get again. Also there might have been a clash of personalities(who is big?).All the three greats Rooney, Lampard and Gerrard were big wigs and each of them would have wanted to score the goal.Then the defence was weak and goal keeper allowed the ball slip past him in the game against USA Meanwhile they have found that in the past no team with a foreign coach has won a world cup.But we saw Ghana with foreign coach doing exceptionally well. They should have gone to semi finals. Finally I realised that rules should be revised by including 04 linesmen,video replay and even to have two refrees ,one in each half of the ground.

Rottenburg Rothenburg?

Both are cities/towns in Germany. I am not entirely sure which one I visited being that I was only 10, but my postcard is spelled with two T's. It was a city that was completely surrounded by a wall, and had the most interesting houses built right into it.

Welcome and greetings from down under. Moderating here should be a simple thing to do. Self moderation is one of our better traits but sometimes things do get out of hand, a bit. Not to worry too much.

We do have fun around here at times so don't get this mixed up with rudeness.

All the best, Ky.

That's so typical. Tried to copy the movement but failed miserably. You'll know what I tried doing anyway, Ky.

Oh good, someone to over see the quality [or lack] of the moderation

Amazing what an extra "o" can do. Dog forbid mentioning the DROL

Welcome.

Would like to see your photograph, of a girl, who was favourite of Asian tourists.

Wonder how you feel casteer17 about your power over Veteran Gurus with thousands of posts on CR4. I wonder what you were told to do. We shall see.

I of course want to convert you to my view. I have an agenda here. I get cranky sometimes. I think a good deal of peace on CR4 would come from the institution of the Political Science Section. As a Godwin Anarchist, I will use any tool at my hand for my purposes. CR4 is one.

Of fiction works I believe Absolam Absolam is a fiction to put at a number one position for it is about how the greatest tragedy for a human being is to dedicate themselves to the wrong ideals.

Round here for reading I recommend consistently in fiction, Nevil Shute. In non fiction I recommend Henry Petroski. In a subset of non fiction I recommend Jared Diamond, or William Shirer. [Big one to read is Classic Readings in International Relations] put out in 1994. In there read Grotius and Edward Hallet Karr.

My prompts for Reading Lists, and Movie Lists, and Poetry Lists or the Sayings about Work that get you through the day, ought to be closed now, since they are old as was Can We Make a Better Government?

P.S. A sort of friend of mine, like really someone I knew for years and years along with people from his family wrote a book titled Galaxies of Fire which was about his journey through VietNam and the Kundalini experience. In structure it is a bit like The Wild Palms by Faulkner as well, though not quite as clear in the contrast.

I think I have the same callouses, but I always blamed my riding boots! I guess they could be from soccer. I played for years and now my sneakers always wear out. I always thought the shin splints were worse than anything else!

I just hate that buying dress shoes is nearly impossible for me. The break in time needed is so much longer than the amount of time I actually plan on wearing the shoes it becomes pointless. Needless to say, I will never develop a shoe fetish.