The Brits Abroad Thread

[6ft Kerplunk]

19 year old Mohamed-Ali Cho has been one of Real Sociedad's stand out players this season. From Staines

Wikipedia seems to think that's Stains the suburb of Paris not Staines the shithole near London.

[Winston Biscuit]

19 year old Mohamed-Ali Cho has been one of Real Sociedad's stand out players this season. From Staines

Wikipedia seems to think that's Stains the suburb of Paris not Staines the shithole near London.

LOL. that'll be me getting it wrong then. I saw a brief interview with him and it said he was originally from near London, and I wiki'd it to see where and assumed our Staines, rather than their Stains

[6ft Kerplunk]

I'm imaging a sitcom where his dad accepts a job without properly checking the location and the family have to leave Stains for Staines.

[Winston Biscuit]

In case you didn't know, Dennis Wise is President of Como in Serie B and last month he made former Welsh national team assistant Osian Roberts the first team manager. Cesc Fabrigas is also one of the coaches.

They are in 2nd place in the league

[Four Of Clubs]

I'm imaging a sitcom where his dad accepts a job without properly checking the location and the family have to leave Stains for Staines.

...vaguely remember a sub-plot-line within the Beiderbecke Affair/Tapes, where an ageing comedian, known to the lead (James Bolam) character was on a ferry to Rotterdam for a gig.
.... he admitted he must have misheard his agent telling him to go to a booking in Rotherham !

[Sutekh]

19 year old Mohamed-Ali Cho has been one of Real Sociedad's stand out players this season. From Staines

Wikipedia seems to think that's Stains the suburb of Paris not Staines the shithole near London.

20 years old. Signed a 4.5 year deal with Nice after a 12m Euro switch earlier this month. Internationally he is eligible for Morocco (mother), Ivory Coast (father), France (born), England (mainly grew up). Has played for England u15 and u16 but has most recently opted for France u21.

[Brogue]

19 year old Mohamed-Ali Cho has been one of Real Sociedad's stand out players this season. From Staines

Wikipedia seems to think that's Stains the suburb of Paris not Staines the shithole near London.

have you ever been to staines its certainly not a shithole

[Green]

19 year old Mohamed-Ali Cho has been one of Real Sociedad's stand out players this season. From Staines

Wikipedia seems to think that's Stains the suburb of Paris not Staines the shithole near London.

have you ever been to staines its certainly not a shithole

I see this a lot - I think because (a) it sounds shit (Stains) and (b) Ali G. But for the latter part of the joke was he was from a middle class leafy area rather than some inner city gangster.

[Sutekh]

Wikipedia seems to think that's Stains the suburb of Paris not Staines the shithole near London.

have you ever been to staines its certainly not a shithole

I see this a lot - I think because (a) it sounds shit (Stains) and (b) Ali G. But for the latter part of the joke was he was from a middle class leafy area rather than some inner city gangster.

It's a dump and pretentious with it having suddenly decided to acquire "on Thames" as a suffix about 10 years ago in an effort to be "up market" and therefore make it easier to explain to Staines Town supporters why the council didn't really want their football club when it needed help. Plus it's the only town I know that put its "out of town" retail park actually in the town centre. And it's a right bottleneck at rush hour esp. if the M25 is in a bad way.

Still, better than Chertsey though.

[Winston Biscuit]

Jack Harper, the Scottish lad we have discussed on here before, who came up through the Real Madrid youth system, was let go by Getafe in the summer and is now playing for Marbella in the 4th div, which lokks to be his 8th club in Spain

[Winston Biscuit]

Former Middlesbrough midfielder Luke Williams just starting his 3rd season playing in the Iceland 3rd tier at 30 years old

[Stranded]

He plays there with former Chesterfield & Bracknell player Reece Mitchell.

Can't imagine they earn too much playing at that level. Their clubs stadium has a bigger capacity than the town has citizens.

[Hendo]

He plays there with former Chesterfield & Bracknell player Reece Mitchell.

Can't imagine they earn too much playing at that level. Their clubs stadium has a bigger capacity than the town has citizens.

Got to allow for 120 away fans

[Sutekh]

He plays there with former Chesterfield & Bracknell player Reece Mitchell.

Can't imagine they earn too much playing at that level. Their clubs stadium has a bigger capacity than the town has citizens.

Got to allow for 120 away fans

More of their ground...