Bungpuss Bagpuss and Arse Face struck a deal

A plus B means that someone's stolen a march on Private Eye this week :

Hat tip to some wag over at Urban 75 for the picture.

'Face like a slapped arse'

Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 155

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 155th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

We now have 1570 friends!

Recent blogs:

Human Nature and Human Behaviour

Socialism in the 21st Century?

How capitalism moves

Quote for the week:

"The materialistic. realistic, and collectivist conception of freedom, as opposed to the idealistic, is this: Man becomes conscious of himself and his humanity only in society and only by the collective action of the whole society. He frees himself from the yoke of external nature only by collective and social labor, which alone can transform the earth into an abode favorable to the development of humanity. Without such material emancipation the intellectual and moral emancipation of the individual is impossible." Mikhail Bakunin, Man, Society, and Freedom, 1871.

Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

Robert and Piers

Socialist Party of Great Britain

Renaldo Manager

I'm half-blind at the mo' but even I can see the comic value in this YouTube clip from Portuguese TV.

Blood, guts and buckets of swearing. If only the English team were half as stereotypically English as Capello.

Did Stuart Pearce ever let anyone shoulder barge him like that on the football field? Psycho's lost it.

Hat tip to a Guardinista currently living in Lisbon.

Mixing Footie and Politics (3)

Christ, maybe this series should be renamed 'Mixing Footie and Right-Wing Politics? On the heels of Big Phil Scolari's admiration for General Pinochet comes this old quote from Fabio Capello:

"In Madrid, I breathed a sparkling atmosphere, the air of a country in Europe making the greatest progress. When I returned to Italy it seemed I had taken two steps back. Spain in two words? Latin warmth and creativity regulated by a rigorous order. The order which comes from Franco... he left a legacy of order. In Spain, everything works well, there is education, cleanliness, respect. We should follow their example." [From here.]

What's the bastard deal with football patriarchs and right-wing politics? Used to be the case that footballing patriarchs were identified with the left. Where's this year's Stein, Clough, Busby or Shankly?

Just another reason to want the Trevors to fuck it up come the qualifying rounds for the 2010 World Cup.

Hat tip to 'Red O' over at Urban 75.