Tommy Butler

Mute Witness · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:10 am **Posts:** 3572

Roberto Martinez hailed Swansea City goal hero Tom Butler as "Premier League quality" after his late winner against ten-man Luton Town on Friday.

"He is a Premier League player playing in League One," said Swans boss Martinez.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 260463.stm

rolfl

aido87 · **Posted:** Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:35 pm

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

Sounds like Mr Martinez may also drink from the brown cup.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:32 pm

it says he is good at one-on-ones and getting into good shooting positions rolfl

katcha · **Posted:** Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:02 pm

he dribbles well in the box and is great at tackling from behind.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:16 am

And he loves cupping Balls!!!! confised

Spender · **Posted:** Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:24 pm

Bend It Like Butler!! :grin:

BritishWestHpool · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:35 pm **Posts:** 1243

hilarious
Lets make some jokes about black players now.

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:14 pm

Now let me cast my mind back.....what was 'British West Hartlepool' based on again?...... confised

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

He's as queer as a Danny Wilson team sheet.

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:50 pm

chip fireball wrote:

or so she reckons, and she isnt someone i would consider to be a liar.

Ripper has never lied about his sexuality. :wink:

Ambivalent, is the word he uses. :uhoh:

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

BritishWestHpool wrote:

hilarious
Lets make some jokes about black players now.

Yeah, if you like. Be as politically correct as you like, just don't expect the rest of us to join in.

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:13 pm

Did I read too much at the time into Chris Westwood's comment in the the programme from the Play Off Final when he gave the lowdown on his teammates;

"Not afraid to have the ball at his feet when someone is in behind him"

:shock:

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:55 am

I noticed he was pulled off by his manager in the second leg of the Southern Final of the Johnstones Paint Trophy tonight.

seatonwasp · **Joined:** Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:44 pm **Posts:** 135

beats a slice of orange and a cup of tea

rolf

BritishWestHpool · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:35 pm **Posts:** 1243

I realise I'm being a bit of a killjoy and that nobody probably cares anyway.
Just thought that in the world of football Mr Butler has probably had his fare share of puff jokes and that being gay in the macho(?) football world is one of the last non mentionables and that narrow mindedness has probably made life very difficult for him.
Fair play to him for sticking it out I suppose - fnar fnar

grabec · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:22 pm

I didn't realise TB was gay (not that it matters one way or the other ). Bunkerites are always saying someone or other is gay, especially each other :wink:

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:23 pm

Probably.

Almost definitely and we aren't the dinosaurs we appear to be and none of us think like we write on here.

It's just our little oasis where we can behave like daft kids without getting arrested or harangued.. which is rare nowadays, for better or worse. :roll:

grabec · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:25 pm

I do...I think like I write on here :uhoh:

BritishWestHpool · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:35 pm **Posts:** 1243

So whats the attitude to gay people in China then Kev?
Or arent there any? (nobody admitting?)

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

Just curious but are you a touch light on your loafers Mr BWH ?

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:37 pm

chip fireball wrote:

there most be dozens of gay/bi-sexual professional footballers out there.

it seems strange that they have to hide their sexuality.

i cant think of many other walks of life where this would be the case.

Too right chip, call centres, for example, are 40% puddle jumpers, 40% 'big boned' lasses and the remaining 20% are just plain old mentalists

aido87 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:40 pm

TB once looked at me funny when he walked through the lounge. he made me feel like i was just a piece of meat. i had to take the week off work, i felt that degraded confised

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37171

aido87 wrote:

TB once looked at me funny when he walked through the lounge. he made me feel like i was just a piece of meat. i had to take the week off work, i felt that degraded confised

He'll have been mentally dressing you.

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:56 pm

you are all gay

BritishWestHpool · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:35 pm **Posts:** 1243

Mr I wrote:

Just curious but are you a touch light on your loafers Mr BWH ?

No Sir.
Got a mrs and two kids and never thought about fiddling around with anyone of the male persuasion.
I'm just one of those people who believes in equality and understands that those who constantly 'joke' about certain types enforce discrimination whether they do so intentionally or not.
Never had a pair of loafers in my life but I bet you have Mr I?

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

BritishWestHpool wrote:

Never had a pair of loafers in my life but I bet you have Mr I?

I'm not actually sure what loafers are. Some kind of footwear obviously but couldn't recognise them.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:45 pm

I've got a pair....but they are a bit raggy!!!! :sweeeet:

I'm hoping to get a new pair in the next few weeks!!!! :sweeeet:

Jonny · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:45 am

Back to the main subject - i thought Tommy Butler was a quality footballer in a poor team when he played for us. He carried the team on his own for about the first half of the Scotty season if I remember rightly.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22638

MutleyRules wrote:

I've got a pair....but they are a bit raggy!!!! :sweeeet:

I'm hoping to get a new pair in the next few weeks!!!! :sweeeet:

Try and be a bit lighter on the new ones Mut.

aido87 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:39 am

Jonny wrote:

Back to the main subject - i thought Tommy Butler was a quality footballer in a poor team when he played for us. He carried the team on his own for about the first half of the Scotty season if I remember rightly.

nope, he was a one trick show pony with a vicioous streak who wasted too many opportunities to cross the ball :grin:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37171

I just have to agree, a fair weather player.

Spender · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:30 pm

BritishWestHpool wrote:

So whats the attitude to gay people in China then Kev?
Or arent there any? (nobody admitting?)

There's plenty. No-one bats an eyelid. No one cares much. It's simply not important.

Mind it's only 16 years since homosexuality was taken off the list of mental illnesses so I suppose they've come on leaps and bounds.

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:04 pm

Pooliekev wrote:

BritishWestHpool wrote:

So whats the attitude to gay people in China then Kev?
Or arent there any? (nobody admitting?)

There's plenty. No-one bats an eyelid. No one cares much. It's simply not important.

Mind it's only 16 years since homosexuality was taken off the list of mental illnesses so I suppose they've come on leaps and bounds.

I watched Inside Sport? a programme on BBC about the forthcoming Olympics in Bejing. They were very impressed with the whole set up on a whole Kev and Matthew Pinsent tipped China to top the medal charts. However they were less complintary about the Chinese lack of facilities for the disabled, in fact disabled people in China seemed to be treat like kids in an Romanian orphanage sadx

. Tanni Grey Thompson done the report and said things had improved a little since her last visit.

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:28 pm

BritishWestHpool wrote:

hilarious
Lets make some jokes about black players now.

MK Dons manager Paul Ince was continually puzzled as to why referees and FA Officials always referred to him as Magnum, but not wanting to upset them he would play along, flash them a big white smile and have a bit of a giggle with them. Eventually, one day when he was at the FA headquarters in Soho Square talking to their top brass the curiosity finally got the better of him. He said to one of the suits, "Why do you all constantly refer to me as Magnum? Is it because I wear the initials PI on my training top and am suave and sophisticated like Sellick?"

"No", replied the FA bigwig, "It's cos you look like a fkin chocolate lolly."

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:09 pm

Quote:

I watched Inside Sport? a programme on BBC about the forthcoming Olympics in Bejing. They were very impressed with the whole set up on a whole Kev and Matthew Pinsent tipped China to top the medal charts. However they were less complintary about the Chinese lack of facilities for the disabled, in fact disabled people in China seemed to be treat like kids in an Romanian orphanage . Tanni Grey Thompson done the report and said things had improved a little since her last visit.

Pooliekev wrote:

BritishWestHpool wrote:

So whats the attitude to gay people in China then Kev?
Or arent there any? (nobody admitting?)

There's plenty. No-one bats an eyelid. No one cares much. It's simply not important.

Mind it's only 16 years since homosexuality was taken off the list of mental illnesses so I suppose they've come on leaps and bounds.

I watched Inside Sport? a programme on BBC about the forthcoming Olympics in Bejing. They were very impressed with the whole set up on a whole Kev and Matthew Pinsent tipped China to top the medal charts. However they were less complintary about the Chinese lack of facilities for the disabled, in fact disabled people in China seemed to be treat like kids in an Romanian orphanage sadx

. Tanni Grey Thompson done the report and said things had improved a little since her last visit.

Even at the last Olympics even in supposedly developed Greece the negative attitude to disability is astounding. We are lucky in this country that there are increasing provisions made for people with disabilites.

Some cultural attitudes are very strange to me. When our lass used to do home visits in Coventry for folk with disabilities, some of the non-British service users were kept kind of locked away in attics, even if their disability was relatively minor.

Jonny · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:40 pm

aido87 wrote:

Jonny wrote:

Back to the main subject - i thought Tommy Butler was a quality footballer in a poor team when he played for us. He carried the team on his own for about the first half of the Scotty season if I remember rightly.

nope, he was a one trick show pony with a vicioous streak who wasted too many opportunities to cross the ball :grin:

i will give ou the benefit of the doubt and presume that you are taking the piss. he was in a team with clowns like Lwellyen and proctor....

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