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Ha - I observed the average word in that brief synopsis is about 15 letters

I have read the first 2 - 3 pages, I will be acquiring and reading a copy. It certainly gets along at a good rate of verbosity.

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KYPU

Lots of hilarious hysterical comments on the Sky article about the drugs test







If the punishment for missing a test was less than failing one, everyone who would fail would just miss the test.

Yeh, you're victimised as united fans, regularly dealt a rough hand by the FA.

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KYPU

i'll give them a rough [S]hand[/S] fisting

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

Given that Kolo's problem seems to be a psychological obsession with his weight, will he be greeted with chants of: "You fat bastard" on his return to action.

Yes, he almost certainly will

He became paranoid about his 'belly' apparently

Football transfer rumours: Rio Ferdinand to Spurs?Today's tittle-tattle lived to tell the tale



reddit this Tom Lutz guardian.co.uk, Monday 31 October 2011 08.51 GMT Article history Continuity has been elusive for Manchester United this season with the preferred centre-halves Rio Ferdinand, above, and Nemanja Vidic playing together in the Premier League for only 52 minutes. Photograph: Andrew Yates/AFP/Getty Images
Bad news for Kolo Touré today, readers. McDonald's have raised the price of Big Ma... Manchester City want to take away his image rights following his failed drugs test, according to the Mirror, something that could cost the defender £1.5m. Touré is so angry with the row over the rights – which give the owner access to vast archives of Kolo sitting in the stands in a suit looking a bit fed up – that he's threatening to leave City. Kolo's brother, Yaya, isn't too happy about the situation either, according to the Mirror, but won't leave because it is City suits rather than Roberto Mancini who are behind the ruling.


Maybe Kolo should start reading caughtoffside.com because they reckon Arsène Wenger wants some defenders to play in defence rather than Per Mertesacker. All this means Arsenal will snap up Touré in January and give him a Polaroid to take as many pictures of himself as he wants.

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

Is anyone else feeling a bit disillusioned with the reports that Kolo's been fined 6 weeks' wages over this drugs ban? I know the papers reporting on it are hardly reliable, but I can't understand why the club's taken such heavy action against him - especially now, given that he's already served his ban and the whole thing was an accident in the first place...? What do we gain from this, other than a wafer thin amount of legal traction against Tevez, should that situation continue to develop? I still think he's a better defender than Lescott, and would prefer him to be partnering Vinnie in defence...

(the article: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/218553/Manchester-City-ace-Kolo-Toure-to-get-six-weeks-pay-fine/)

MANCHESTER CITY ACE KOLO TOURE TO GET SIX WEEKS' PAY FINE
ABOVE: Manchester City defender Kolo Toure is facing a £600,000 fine for his failed drugs test Manchester City defender Kolo Toure is facing a £600,000 fine for his failed drugs test
1st November 2011 By Jeremy Cross

KOLO TOURE is facing a £600,000 fine for his failed drugs test.



The Manchester City defender attended a two-hour disciplinary hearing with club officials yesterday after being banned by the FA for six months in March.

The Premier League leaders have seven days to inform Toure of their decision, but are expected to hit him with a six-week fine for gross misconduct.

City stood by the £100,000-a-week star and honoured his contract in full while he was suspended.

But Starsport under- stands the Blues fear a backlash from Carlos Tevez and his camp should they fail to punish Toure in accordance with his crime. Tevez was fined four weeks’ wages – up- wards of £800,000 – for refusing to warm up dur- ing his side’s Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich last month.

This was reduced to a two-week fine when the PFA intervened.

But the PFA are powerless to stop the Blues hitting Toure with an even bigger fine as it is allowed for players who have failed a drugs test.

Toure, 30, will have a fortnight to appeal.

He is expected to challenge the decision after maintaining the positive test, which detected traces of a banned substance, was unintentional and caused by taking his wife’s slimming pills.

PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor said: “We presented the fact that the FA could have given him two years but only gave him six months because they took into account that it was a genuine mistake and not performance-enhancing or a diuretic to mask drug-taking.

“He also had excellent character references from Arsenal and a number of other players.

“It just seems strange that after being welcomed back to the club, reinstated as captain for Carling Cup matches, that someone has come up with this hearing.

“Instead of sending out a message that this is someone who has made a mistake and served his punishment already, they are now taking action against him again.

“He trained every day while he was off and maintained a very positive attitude, so he was shocked to find they were looking to take action against him.”

City boss Roberto Mancini has backed Mario Balotelli to come in from the cold and fire up City’s stuttering Champions League campaign against Villarreal in Spain tomorrow.

The in-form Italian comes back from a three- match ban after scoring six goals in his previous six outings.

From the OS

Kolo fined 6 weeks' wages

Following the conclusion of an internal disciplinary process, Manchester City Football Club can confirm that Kolo Toure has received a fine of 6 weeks’ wages which relates to doping offences committed by him earlier this year.

Kolo accepts the decision and he and the Club now wish to draw a line under this matter and focus on the season ahead.

that's a fine of £740,000... wowzers!

Can't really see why they nheed to fine him with him being banned etc. Claw back lost wage payments on a banned player I guess.

Yeah, having an employee on gardening leave for 6 months whilst on full pay...
I wonder why indeed:rolleyes:

Every little helps towards financial targets.

fair fucks to kolo for not running to those pfa ball bags, like a certain argie twat!!!! take your punishment and get on with it, welcome back into the fold sir:approve::approve::approve:

I think as the other article says, they had to do it to set a common ground in the Tevez case, otherwise they would not have a legal case against Tevez.

Probably why it was now and not at the time.

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Venga City, Venga city !

Whats got up Kolos Arse???? has apparently launched a scathing attack on the club in the Mail tomorrow. City pick on me because i play for my country and

Also Had this to say about Savic........

"I know my qualities and I have got nothing to prove here in England. They know me here. When you look at the performance of Savic against QPR, excuse me but I am relaxed.


He's played his last game for us.

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Keep Calm and follow Jesus Navas

He'll move to PSG in a few weeks. I don't really mind to be honest... but i'm worried on how this will affect Yaya.

what the fuck?

to be honest kolo has looked shit for us for a while.

apparently the scum may be sellign vidic and wereduck in january, well, according to the metro. i'd have vidic in our squad in a heartbeat.

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"