Johan Cruyff Ajax Snub Anecdote

But perhaps the greatest example of a player risking his reputation by taking on a late-career challenge came when Johan Cruyff signed for Feyenoord, aged 36. Having returned to Ajax after a jaunt around the US in which he appeared to be happy seeing out his career in his slippers, he won the title with the club where he made his name two seasons on the bounce. But in May 1983 Ajax chose not to renew his contract. How could Cruyff show them how angry he was? By signing for the club they most hate. And how could he make them regret that decision more than any other? By winning the league and cup double and being voted Dutch footballer of the year, that’s how. Bravo Johan, you brilliant, antagonistic swine you.

 

Six years ago today....

.... my life changed forever. :D x 

TFTD

Shadows from the past are simply shadows. Look up at the life around you now. Our shadow will always follow us but as long as we're walking toward light, we won't be aware of it so much. x 

 

Mike Selvey "King Pair" Anecdote

"Mine occurred when Middlesex played the Pakistan tourists in 1974. I never could play leg-spin, an unfathomable mystery, so it was no surprise in the first innings I was lbw to Intikhab Alam. Second time around, it was a different leg-spinner Mushtaq Mohammad bowling from the Pavilion end, so as I passed him I asked him what he would bowl. “I will bowl you a googly,” he said. It is possible to over-intellectualise these things: I played for the leg break, the ball spun back in instead, through a gate the team bus could have got through and I was bowled. Mushie, a wonderful fellow, chortled away. “I told you I would bowl you a googly.” “Yeah, thanks a bunch Mushie,” I muttered as I went back past. “I thought at least I could trust you to be fucking devious.”

TFTD

"...Isis has used their scholarship to cloak its savagery in ideological legitimacy, to gain recruits and justify its battle with al-Qaida and its affiliates. “Isis took all our religious works,” Maqdisi said. “They took it from us – it’s all our writings, they are all our books, our thoughts.” Now, Abu Qatada said, “they don’t respect anyone”. 

 

Napoleon Bonaparte QOTD

"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." -Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

Carl Sagan QOTD

 

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." -Carl Sagan

Thomas Jefferson QOTD

"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." -Thomas Jefferson 

 

Disclaimer: I may not have any idea what I'm talking about.

 

 

Richard Dawkins QOTD

"For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria." 

 

Religion

Religion:- “An organised licence to be acceptably stupid.”

 

I feel like no one gives a fuck about me

This message is me feeling really cross and angry and pissed off at myself for not caring about myself enough. SELF CARE. Stop bulldozing through. Your damage won't damage them, your lack of self care will. Teach the boys that we need to take time for ourselves to care for ourselves and rest. x

 

 

Break The Cycle With Honesty.

 

 

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QOTD

"One person's bitch, can be an other persons shaman. I have you somewhere in the shaman class, and please, save the false modesty. I have enough of my own to deal with."