^^ You're both from Trinidad? The hallowed land of Lara? May I please give you a bro hug and a ghetto fist?

I'm surprised you didn't you know that? Both are from the land far west.

+infinity

Who's Lara?



I only knew about Trini.

Ah nobody. Just pretty much the best batsman in the last 50 years. Cricket, of course. Retired now. Brian Lara is the only man alive to score 400 runs in a single innings. And I'll be damned if I've ever seen a more aesthetically pleasing left-handed batsman. Pure joy and delight to watch. An absolute artist with the bat.



Brian Lara's 116* vs Australia at SCG Game 4, Carlton Series 2001


Oh okay. Trini is evident enough. But Dru said that he's from Trinidad when he signed up, I remember.

Thanks, very informative as always.

Always a pleasure.

Surely saved me some time too. Thanks acid

Sure Jack, why not.

Btw, I believe what called 'ghetto fist' we simply refer to as a 'bounce'.

Don't worry I'll explain it all to you one day when we actually 'lime' (hang out...)

Find & learn more Trini slangs on the net. There is even a 'Trini' dictionary believe it or not.

Here's a link with some common locally used slang: http://users.rcn.com/alana.interport/dialect.html




...Only just realized that I'm about to post all this in the Ibra thread.

Nothing to it, man. The whole of Trinidad should be proud of the man. I mean, for those who do not understand cricket, the 400* (the star means without getting out) Lara scored was after his previous best of 375 was beaten. Hayden of Australia scored 380. But then it took Brian Lara a matter of months to rile up the 400.

You see these kinds of feats almost never in professional sports, and that's a testament to the sheer class of the man. And frankly, these are just a couple of big feats he accomplished. Lara's story is more than numbers, it's of grace and entertainment. Let's just put it this way, I consider myself lucky to have lived and seen the man play. That's that.


Just another day in the land called Milanfan.com. Off-topic is where we thrive!

Atleast the aftermath of dru's Ibra ranting has, if only this once, lead to something educational

I kid of course

Nice!

Well of course you wouldn't back your own country. (we lost 7-0 to Mexico recently Mr patriotic) you're an Ibra fan...the biggest mercenary of the Universe who not only has played for all the big city rivals other than Real Madrid, but is a Bosnian playing for Sweden

Here's another assumption based on nothing...you're probably from Diego Martin


All in all bro I mean no harm (most of what I say is really good natured humor really ). I will never like iBra and you're probably a fan. It's all good as long as we both love Milan

But I'm from South so I'm innately superior to (insert name)



Not only Brian Lara.....Dwight Yorke (apologies for my brief Man Utd fan phase) and Anya Ayoung Chee - the only Miss Universe contestant to release a backdoor threesome video AND win Project Runway in two years' time

As regards football we've regresses a LOT. Now the only thing we have to cheer about is Kenwyne Jones (got his autograph) He's proving to be a Trini Ibra...all the tools (free kicks pace dribbling decent shot) to be a superstar but atm is utter and complete garbage

Trinidad is fantastic and Tobago (yeah we own our own tourist destination island)
I'm getting married on a pier


overlooking a reef in Tobago Next month


I only hope I can stream the Milan match that weekend
One more for good measure:

i should be landing soon...

I don't recall claiming to be this 'Mr. Patriotic' that you so cleverly tried making me out to be with your sarcasm, but okay.

Obviously you were referencing our NT, but surely I didn't realize this; not until just now when you decided that you had to point this out for me.

Not once have I ever claimed to be a diehard supporter of our NT anyway, but whatever.

Quite frankly, our NT and our football federation are nothing more than a complete joke in recent times, and I'll give no false support to a corrupt federation or a lacking football team simply because they are National. Let me see some deserving players called up then I'll reconsider.

And for the record I see no reason why someone should have to represent only their country of birth and may not have much attachment to (considering they grew up somewhere else) - Regarding your Zlatan remark above.

Let's simply agree to disagree as you have openly admited you will never like the guy and I am clearly an Ibra fan.

Again my post was to make peace

Clearly tired. The problem when the management expects someone to single-handedly win you the game every week.

Inexcusable couple of transfer windows will possibly cost us the title. Do your job, Galliani.

Now some whispers are saying he is going to Man City.

He came out and said he is staying. So I don't know exactly believe it.

yea read that.. his agent is in Milan, could be a swap with tevez....

He's not going anywhere.

Yup..for me too. At least until they find a proper replacement for him. The ONLY chance is for a straight swap with Balotelli.

To swap Ibra for Tevez would have to mean that Pato is completely fit and available the whole season and that is no guarantee.

Agreed, a straight swap with Ibra and Tevez would make no sense.

Galliani will have a go for Tevez this summer again, but he players that can go are either one of Pato or Robinho. Atm, Pato is probably worth as much as a Serie B striker so I don't know. His price must have drastically plumetted given the injury antics of this season

So I'm thinking Robinho could be sold. Whether that is to finance a Ganso move or a shot at Tevez is yet to be seen

Nah, PSG will probably cough €25 million and we'll take them, which we'll use to sign Tevez. Anything less is out of the question.

Can you really see them offering 25m for a player who hasn't played this season?

Maybe Carlo might still want him, but I can't see them splashing that kind of cash when they're possibly purchasing a faulty product. We'll have to see, but at this point. Robinho is most likely worth more on the market than Pato is. And if we do get Tevez Robinho imo, would become redundant to this team.

If you look at it objectively, Pato is our only pure finisher.

If PSG do offer us a big sum though, than I think we have no option but to accept it.

Yes.

Me too.

Leonardo + Ancelotti loves him.

PSG won't be spending much. The new French president criticized them, and well, I expect them to go below-radar or at least spend wisely.

Well, seems like Carlo still wants Pato (from the few recent interviews) and I read a story somewhere about PSG wanting Robinho.

Where there's smoke...

I'm reading something on Mediaset about Galliani wanting to offer Ibra the captaincy to make him stay.

I find it very repulsive.

Wow, so many rumors in these couple of days having him as gone. Apparently, he can't stand Allegri anymore. Wouldn't sacking Allegri be a better idea that selling Ibra at this point?

No frickin way. No captaincy.

And yeah..suddenly the media has gone overboard with his having problems with Allegri. I think it's crap.

+1

Yeah. It's just too convenient for the media.

The big scudetto favourites 'crashed and burned' despite their star player's best efforts and the entire spine of the team has upped and left the team hence it MUST be the coach.

They don't even have a single quote from a 'confidential source' in the dressing room!

It seems like Allegri has problems with half our squad. He needs to leave right now.

FAIL.

Swell!

Tell us something we don't know.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic ● All 35 Goals ● 2011-2012

It's quite unbelievable we didn't win the scudetto with such a season from him.

Same for Nocerino... I feel sad that he couldn't win his first Scudetto after having such a season with the reigning champions.

It's because all other departments were greatly lacking.

It's mostly down to Ibra that we held so strong throughout. Losing Thiago in that Roma game for the useless Barca tie was the turning point in the season.

We barely could line-up 11 players on the pitch at some points, that Roma game was the straw that broke the very tired camel's back in the end.

If we do get in some re-inforcements this summer, Allegri needs to freshen up some of the tactics. We're too one dimensional, and most importantly the results against the top sides need to improve greatly. They must be on a par with the results we achieved under Allegri in his first season where we basically swept every top side away, both home and away

You missed an "n" there, I reckon. But seriously, I am not sure he will. Unless we get some new players with drastically different characteristics. If not, then I believe he will continue with his tactics that landed him 1st and 2nd place finishes in two years. Then again, I also believe there is a decent chance Ibra could be sold.

I mean, not everyday you get offers like 40m for an over-30 player, and who knows, Ibra may want out.

Yeah, it doesn't look that way. In fact, I expect no reset or step forward, but just the same and plain old tactic he's been presenting as Milan's way for all of last season.

At this point, I'm willing to look the other way a bit if he's given this squad for next season. It's not like he has many options other than Monto!

If he does get some good players, especially into that midfield and we have another disappointing season, then it's out the door for him


@ acid, Why did you have to be the one to see that before I edited the typo??!!!

I thought he put a C instead of an S.

Exactly. And deep down inside I am sure Allegri believes that (and he isn't wrong, in my opinion) that with some better luck and fewer injuries he'd have won the Scuedetto this year too. He had the setup going for it, which while I may not agree with in terms of how the club should be playing, but it landed him a lot of points.

The players were there to win the title, just the luck and fitness were missing. So no reason for him to change.


Um, because, I'm me? Seriously, it was just a matter of seconds, I just got lucky.


Correct. That he did, and then edited it out. But I was thinking Frenchen up his tactics. Typos do happen, they can happen with me, and I don't normally edit them out. It's perfectly fine. but when Han makes a mistake, it's always fun to smudge it up on his face. That's an opportunity I can't miss.

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