bkkjames

He knows nothing about football. He presumably got a job in broadcasting in Asia because of his 'pretty boy' looks, and because he attracts female viewers to the programmes he fronts.

For Jamie Yeo, change " he " to " she "...

I love her !!!

Personally, I believe the show would be much more successful (FF) if they replaced Andy Pandy or Mase with Jamie Yo Yo Yo. At least with her on FF, she wouldn't have to try and say anything intelligent. Just picture her sitting next to Makka and John turns to him to ask a question and he is not paying attention.

Ronaldo Named FIFA World Player Of The Year

Monday, 12th January 2009

Christiano Ronaldo has been named the FIFA World Player of the year for 2008.

The United striker became the first ever Premier League player to win the award which was presented to him at the ceremony in Zurich by Brazilian legend Pele tonight.

"It's the most overwhelming moment of my life," Ronaldo has said.

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Cristiano Ronaldo has been named the Fifa World Player of the Year for 2008.

The Portugal and Manchester United winger becomes the first Premier League player to win the award.

Ronaldo, 23, beat AC Milan's Kaka, Liverpool's Fernando Torres and Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Xavi to the prestigious title.

"It's an overwhelming moment in my career and I'd like to dedicate this award to my family, friends and colleagues," said the United star.

His 42 goals for Manchester United last season helped the Old Trafford club clinch the Premier League and Champions League double.

Ronaldo, who also picked up the European Player of the Year crown in December and the FifPro World Footballer of the Year honour in October, paid special tribute to United boss Sir Alex Ferguson. 606: DEBATE

"It's also true that the manager always has an important role to play. It was a great season for me and for my club and the coach was important for me because I learned a lot for him," he added.

"His experience over so many years is of paramount importance - it's a privilege to have such a great club manager.

"This is the climax of a fantastic era for me. I'm happy and proud about what has been done by my team and what we have won.

"I am lucky to be part of the history of a club like Manchester United."

The coaches and captains of 155 national teams took part in the voting for the award, with Messi finishing second ahead of Torres, Kaka and Xavi.

Crikey, Steve bloomin McMahon is eating away at my soul. When I read his pi$ poor column in the Bangkok Post, I find myself imitating his voice - not moving my lips and sounding world-weary, like I'm admonishing a 10 year old child.

excellent description of mcmahon's delivery. it's world weary and comes across like he's seen it all before and is somehow bored by it. which he hasn't so shouldn't be.

"well John,,,," Chevrolet (Shebby) Sing along- let's count tonight how many times he says this.

can't stand commentators using players' nicknames like they're mates with them. JT, stevie g, lamps, becks, wazza, all that <deleted>. they've got surnames, use them.

masefield goes overboard with these sometimes on FF.

Torres backs Man Utd for league

Torres believes 14 March will be the crunch date in the title race

Liverpool striker Fernando Torres believes that Manchester United are favourites to win the Premier League title after their 3-0 win over Chelsea.

Leaders Liverpool have a five point lead over third-placed United, but the Manchester side have two games in hand.

"They are the favourites and the champions right now and have shown over the years they are a very powerful team," said the 24-year-old Spaniard.

"They have two more games to play. If they catch up they will be top."

Torres, who was one of the nominees for the Fifa Player of the Year title, won by United's Cristiano Ronaldo, said his side's match at Old Trafford on 14 March could decide the destination of the title.

"We know we have Old Trafford waiting for us and then Arsenal and Chelsea at home - we have to fight until the very end," added the forward.

"The match at Old Trafford could turn out to be the decider and we hope we can be on an equal footing when we go there and try to win the match at a place that has not been advantageous for us in the past."

United are at home to Wigan on Wednesday before travelling to Bolton next Saturday.

Wins would see Sir Alex Ferguson's side gain the advantage in the title race with Liverpool not playing their next match until Monday 19 January when they host the derby against Everton.

Guess even the Liverpool players are starting to question themselves.

i'm backing man united for the league too. you're the reigning champions, you have the most experience and the best squad. it's yours to lose in fact.

nice to see everyone from Torro Torro to Stevie Wonder already laying out the framework if LP chokes it.

As for Ducktail, if my comments don't affect you then why all the intellectual comebacks?

Ha ha ha.

Queer.

Come on ducktail, surely an educated LP man such as yourself can come back with something a little more than what would be expected of a Reds fan?

When they say "young man" or "young lad" about how they shouldn't do something or other. As if they are so high and mighty. Many of them were probably far worse players than the young lad they are talking about when they use those words. It's annoying.

Also, when I hear "Rooney" or "Ronaldo" follwed by "goal."

you should be used to it by now JJ

Charge 1 "We have seen players sent off at Old Trafford and we do not see our opponents sent off."

He was talking about Mascherano in all likelihood, and not just about this season. He was talking about being at Old Trafford, not Anfield. Next.

Charge 2 "During the respect campaign, and this is a fact, Mr Ferguson was charged by the FA for improper conduct after comments made about Martin Atkinson and Keith Hackett. He was not punished. He is the only manager in the league that cannot be punished for these things."

He was talking about the respect campaign in its height which was last season. About time Dame Fergie got punished this year, he's saying he gets away with a lot more than any other manager on the whole and is probably right. They at least got it right once this season.

Charge 3 "Then he was talking about the fixtures. Two years ago we were playing a lot of early kick-offs away on Saturdays when United were playing on Sundays – and we didn't say anything."

Benitez called him correctly on this one, as you noted. What's so wrong with that? Ferguson somehow thinks it's a disadvantage to have Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool at home in the second half of this season. Laughable, indeed. I think it was just five years of pressure of these things building on Benitez's mind, so he got it off his chest. Of course the media love controversy so they read more into it than there is, and like to make a bigger deal out of anything to get readers.

That said, looks like Benitez has got under your skin, mate. A little scared perhaps?

Rafa has risen to the bait, and IMO has "lost it', I'm sure Fergie was grinning like a cheshire cat when he heard the outburst. Pressure is now back on.

Amazing. He lost it? All he did was say what everyone has wanted to say, and even top former referees were agreeing with him. The media are idiots. An outburst? Get real. He never lost control of his emotions in that press conference, he was just telling how he sees it. He wasn't ranting and raving like all the obviously biased commentators liked to put it. Kudos to those commentators who recognized that. How is that losing it? Worthless couch potato commentary, that is.

Sounds like Rafa is not the only one taking the bait..

I wonder whether I could find a native English speaker as a friend. I could introduce her to Bangkok in and around at weekends, meanwhile, I could practise English. Please contact me.

Best Regards,

Humor

So let me get this right. You want free english lessons and a girl to go out on the town with at the weekends?

Yes, u r right. One stone, 2 bird. It is not bad, yes?

Firstly, change your screen name mate - how can you expect to be taken seriously with a name like humor - which is it, good - or bad?

Secondly, chances are the native english speaking fem farangs on this site don't require a guided tour of the city.

Lastly, western women are like plants - the more you talk to them the more they think they know. Good luck!

Are we seriously comparing costs of living based on rabies injections and aircon repair costs?

I would suggest comparing the cost of a typical LOCAL food dish locally- with the cost of a similar LOCAL food dish in the foreign country- to be comparing oranges with oranges. For example, compare kao manh gai here to the cost of a not-so-fancy chicken sandwich in the UK. Otherwise you're really just stacking the odds.

For example, the cost of THAI books in Thailand is super-cheap compared to the cost of ENGLISH books in the U.S.

If the question is, is it more expensive to live EXACTLY LIKE BACK HOME, here- the answer should be pretty bleedin' obvious!

Yes perhaps but have you compared the cost of English Books in Thailand?, seeing as this is primarily a farang site with the majority reading English and not Thai. I don't care what the cost of a book is in the USA cause I ain't buying them there, I am buying them here. A bit more relative considering the topic of this thread than buying Thai books with perhaps less than 1% of TV actually do.

Just sorting a few things out back home in England and went to check that a friend was getting the best landline rate when calling me here (they were paying 2P a minute to my mobile with Savacall). I came across this useful rate checker which may save you some pennies as it seems that there are several companies with rates of half that.

Also, if you're faced with dialling an irritating premium rate number which costs more even on Skype, you can often find a regular alternative here.

I've no interests in either of these, just thought I'd pass them along.

skype to skype doesn't cost anything

I wonder whether I could find a native English speaker as a friend. I could introduce her to Bangkok in and around at weekends, meanwhile, I could practise English. Please contact me.

Best Regards,

Humor

Why not "HIM" also?

or u want just "HER" only? ....hmm

Unless he is gay, I suspect he would prefer a her to teach English with / to / two / too

May be in the "Ladies Forum" would be more appropriate?

Yes, sir.

unless I'm a lesbian, then U can call me "sir"

Where is the "Ladies Forum"? Thanks.

show me your pix first, then I will tell you whether you can go there or not..........haha

sorry my legs aren't that nice but I do have other redeaming qualities - looks, personality, charm, wit and so on.

I wonder whether I could find a native English speaker as a friend. I could introduce her to Bangkok in and around at weekends, meanwhile, I could practise English. Please contact me.

Best Regards,

Humor

Why not "HIM" also?

or u want just "HER" only? ....hmm

Unless he is gay, I suspect he would prefer a her to teach English with / to / two / too

May be in the "Ladies Forum" would be more appropriate?

But then you would not see his post.

alternatively, you could go into a regular Thai restaurant and order the Khao pat moo, sans the moo?

I wonder whether I could find a native English speaker as a friend. I could introduce her to Bangkok in and around at weekends, meanwhile, I could practise English. Please contact me.

Best Regards,

Humor

Why not "HIM" also?

or u want just "HER" only? ....hmm

Unless he is gay, I suspect he would prefer a her to teach English with / to / two / too

I wonder whether I could find a native English speaker as a friend. I could introduce her to Bangkok in and around at weekends, meanwhile, I could practise English. Please contact me.

Best Regards,

Humor

I wonder whether you can or not too.

I've been looking on the web for a round trip BKK-Tampa-BKK. The best I have found so far is on the Northwest Airlines

Thailand site. With taxes and fees it is $1400 USD. At the regular NWA site the same ticket for the same dates is

$1700. If you reverse it to Tampa-BKK-Tampa it is $1200. It seems to me that the average Thai would have less money

than the average farang, so why would thus be so? Is the airline trying to get back at Thais for gouging foreigners at the

waterfalls?

Willing to guess that if you searched flights from Singapore or KL to Tampa you would find the same....more expensive from here to there than the reverse.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job in the US, wait until you need to hire a “professional” in Thailand - it could be costly.

I have lost 2 aircons already!!!

Just me here

How did you lose two aircons? I mean did they get up one day go out for a walk in the fresh air and got lost? Couldn't they take the heat of TC's house?

Spark spark...., shhhhhhhhhhhhh...., black fume!!! -----then cheapy smilesssss from the so called “professional”

First hand eyewitness - from mom tho - she got him near our WAT

When I get back to thailand in October, I will learn how to fix "everything" by myself.....haha

as long as you don't learn from the same "professionals" you speak of...

It's all about conserving heat, not necessarily producing it. Your body produces a lot of heat by itself.

Did you know that about 70% of body heat escapes through your head and feet? (30% through your your hands)?, I have heard tho

So I would guess, your first priority is to cover your feet and your head.

So you are saying that if I cover my head, feet and hands and then walk around naked, I won't lose any heat. Can't argue with that math, will try it tomorrow.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job in the US, wait until you need to hire a “professional” in Thailand - it could be costly.

I have lost 2 aircons already!!!

Just me here

How did you lose two aircons? I mean did they get up one day go out for a walk in the fresh air and got lost? Couldn't they take the heat of TC's house?

What a terrible xmas period! All games were lost with very late goals. I wonder about the fitness of the players as some of them look knackered last night. Bad subs, Gomes was clearly injured but was made to play on....back in the bottom 3...hmmm...could the unthinkable really happen?!

something seems to missing - you look at your squad and say wow, should be top ten minimum - probably top 6. as for the late goals, seem to recall spurs getting a few of those right after Harry took over.

bad, bad day at the office that. and rafa still puzzles the fuc_k out of me sometimes.

long way to go yet though.

don't want to say I told you so, but I did warn of the 'late game draws' this year. Trend continues.

we're a big TV draw. i think we play fewer 3pm saturday games than anyone else.

buying into rafa's conspiracy theories again?

everything rafa said about ferguson was correct. no theories, no ranting, not an emotional outburst. just stating what everyone has known for a long time.

like Rafa, you should check the facts first stevie boy before commenting....

Benitez is an almost compulsive intriguer. He has spent the last year engaged in a loosely concealed attempt to undermine his own chief executive, Rick Parry, employing innuendo and double-speak rather than come out and clearly define his position.

He left Valencia after falling out with the club's sporting director and has continuously tussled for every advantage behind the scenes at Liverpool.

Yet this attack on Ferguson is not the Machiavellian scheme some might attribute to Benitez.

Leaving aside, for a moment, the accusation that Benitez has risen to Ferguson's bait, it is worth examining the validity of Benitez's various accusations. Disinformation and half-truth abound.

Charge 1 "We have seen players sent off at Old Trafford and we do not see our opponents sent off."

There has only been one player sent off at Old Trafford this season. In September, Middlesbrough's Emanuel Pogatetz was shown the red card after he went in two-footed on Rodrigo Possebon. The young Brazilian midfielder was lucky to avoid serious injury and both the Boro manager Gareth Southgate and Pogatetz apologised. There can be absolutely no dispute.

Two players have been sent off for the opposition at Anfield this season. Wigan's Luis Antonio Valencia was sent off for two bookings in October in a game that Liverpool won 3-2. His first caution was for encroaching on a free-kick. Here's what Steve Bruce said about it: "I just thought all the little decisions in the second half went Liverpool's way. It's difficult enough coming to Anfield, but you need some fairness and strength. Two minutes after Valencia was dismissed, [Nabil] El Zhar tackled Mario Melchiot in the same way and... nothing. That's what annoys us to."

The other player to be sent off at Anfield? Nemanja Vidic of Manchester United.

Hardly fits Benitez's conspiracy, does it?

Charge 2 "During the respect campaign, and this is a fact, Mr Ferguson was charged by the FA for improper conduct after comments made about Martin Atkinson and Keith Hackett. He was not punished. He is the only manager in the league that cannot be punished for these things."

Ferguson was charged for making some pretty pathetic and disparaging remarks about Atkinson after the FA Cup quarter-final defeat to Portsmouth in March.

Carlos Queiroz, his then assistant, was also charged. Both were later cleared by an independent commission, not the FA.

In regards Hackett, Ferguson accused him of being biased towards Chelsea after John Terry's red card against Manchester City was rescinded. Ferguson looked paranoid – the decision to send off Terry had been considered pretty harsh – and not a little self-interested as Terry was freed up to play United. And perhaps the FA's failure to punish Ferguson was a weakness.

But to suggest other managers get punished misses the mark. Everton's David Moyes has been fined £5,000, Phil Brown has been fined £1,000 and Roy Keane received no fine at all relating to charges of improper conduct. All were warned about their future conduct. Joe Kinnear has two charges outstanding.

While this might show that the Respect campaign is a sham, it does not suggest the FA are cracking down on anyone. Not a touchline ban to be seen.

Oh, except for Ferguson, who was given a two-game ban for abusing Mike Dean after a the 4-3 win over Hull in November. He also got a £10,000 fine. So he is the one manager who has been substantially punished by the FA this season.

Charge 3 "Then he was talking about the fixtures. Two years ago we were playing a lot of early kick-offs away on Saturdays when United were playing on Sundays – and we didn't say anything."

Ferguson's claims of an anti-United bias in the fixture schedule are laughable. But so is Benitez's counter-suggestion that United were favoured in the past. True, Liverpool did play five away fixtures in the early Saturday slot in the 2006-07 season, losing two, winning two and drawing one.

But then United also played five away games for the Saturday matinee audience. Again, Benitez seems to have his facts wrong. He is right that United played more Sunday games that season – nine to Liverpool's five – but they are hardly advantageous if you are playing in the middle of the following week.

Jose Mourinho used to complain that the English league disadvantaged its Champions League competitors by failing to move games that undermined preparation for big ties. But then all teams have been disadvantaged equally.

Few managers take on Ferguson and come off unscathed. Benitez's courage might be applauded if only his claims had more substance. Ferguson is petty and irrational, and he will wind you up until you crack.

have a look at football forecast right now, masefield has turned into peter suttcliffe

actually he looks like he has been on a crash diet

Did anyone catch Masefield's rant about Berbatov on "Football Forecast". He doesnt show enough passion fumes Masefield. No he doesnt, he just shows class and talent as in the Chelsea match last night. Masefield would like Berbatov to tear off his shirt and run around the pitch waving it above his head after scoring.

What a moronic comment.

Mase likes CF's of the Drogba mold, big strong stupid and the touch of blind elephant.

Poll: Will anyone sign up for these extra channels?

Me: Not a chance.

I have just looked at the True Vision web site and can find no information on these 4 new channels. As I cant read Thai, cant unravel what the promo is saying costs etc and what one could expect . Are they 24 hour programmes , constant replays of the same shows etc etc

basically its 24 hour MUTV, CHELTV, LPTV and ARSTV - no live games, just re-runs of classics and talk shows. I think the price is around 600 baht a month if I am not mistaken.

bad, bad day at the office that. and rafa still puzzles the fuc_k out of me sometimes.

long way to go yet though.

don't want to say I told you so, but I did warn of the 'late game draws' this year. Trend continues.

we're a big TV draw. i think we play fewer 3pm saturday games than anyone else.

buying into rafa's conspiracy theories again?