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Your welcome. Haha, yeah that goal would give Papiss Cisse a run for his money. Think most Liverpool fans wanted Dalglish to stay just because of his stature at the club, which is ridiculous as he’s doing more harm than good. Legendary player for the club but he should just accept he can’t take them further and should go back to an ambassador role.
I also hope they don’t go for Martinez, Lambert and Rodgers as they will no doubt be under immense pressure and end up being sacked. Liverpool should go for someone proven. One of those three you mentioned should get the Aston Villa job.
@ Nick
Darn, that sucks Exeter got relegated. Good luck for promotion next season. Dalglish has just been sacked. Not surprising considering their poor season. He was always miserable in interviews too. Will be interesting to see who Liverpool appoint now. As far as teams that I dislike, as an Arsenal fan, naturally first will be Tottenham. Then, I’d say Man Utd and Liverpool.Regarding the J-League, my Japanese friend who lives in Saitama and is a Urawa Reds Diamond/Urawa Reds fan, keeps me updated on what’s going on. On Sky they sometimes have a football Asia program which I watch if it’s on. I look at the official J-League site http://www.j-league.or.jp/eng/ to read up news too. Once my Japanese ability is alot better, I’ll watch some live matches and read the J-League website in Japanese :)
Check out this goal, the Nagoya Grampus manager scored http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWw62NTi9aM. It’s incredible technique. He played under Arsene Wenger when Wenger was Nagoya manager back in the 90′s.
Hoping to have finished Season 3 by the time the new update rolls out. I like the sound of new forum features too. It’s something we need here since the last update.
@ andrew
I don’t think money will be the biggest factor if Van Perise stays or not. He wants to win trophies and sadly Arsenal haven’t won anything since 2005. If he leaves and that is his reason, there’s not too many people who could argue against that. If he does go then I hope it’s abroad and not another team in England as that wouldn’t feel as big as a blow. What’s positive about him staying is he and his family are settled in London and he genuinely does love playing for the club. Different to Nasri who was originally going to go go Man Utd but then signed for City as they offered him a bigger wage.I’m with you fully on the money topic. I’m also less passionate about football than I used to be. The astronomical transfer fees and wages has ruined the game to an extent. More and more players are getting greedy and have too much power over their contracts. Seems every team has a rich owner now and they just spend, spend, spend to get the best players. Smaller clubs don’t have a chance of winning anything these days due to the bigger clubs throwing money around and snatching their talent. Aside from Barcelona, any team that develops their own players will usually end up selling either as the player wants to go or for financial reasons.
I was sad to see Arsenal leave Highbury but understand the reasons why. The Emirates while bigger and modern, lacks that atmosphere that Highbury had.
Most of the changes sound positive. Interesting to see what new features Anki 2.0 will bring. I’m about to begin Season 3 so hope that all the vocab and kanji I’ve learned so far doesn’t get rearranged too much.
@ andrew
I agree with your logic about two teams playing each other that you don’t support. The early 2000′s were great seasons. Not just as an Arsenal fan, but it seemed more equal back then. I do feel money is sadly dominating where players play and who finishes in the top 4 each season nowadays. Liverpool need to get rid of Dalglish asap. I thought Rafa was bad in his final season but Kenny takes the crown. But whoever gets the job at Liverpool will have to deal with the fans moaning. So true about Newcastle and Liverpool switching positions.@ Chris
Sadly, that’s Abramovich’s mentality. He has unlimited money and can do what he wants. When the team fails, his first action is to sack and replace the manager. Still think Ancelotti shouldn’t of been sacked. AVB would of come good eventually, he just needed time. His downfall was trying to make too many changes at once, especially with the senior members of the squad. Can’t fault his commitment and dedication though. He was the first to arrive at training and the last to leave. He’d spend hours watching matches on DVD and compiling data on stats.Chamberlain is a great prospect. He should make the squad for Euro 2012. Looking forward to him and Ryo Miyaichi playing on the flanks next season. I do hope we can keep hold of RVP and he resists any offers from City or Barca.
Thought I’d revive this thread rather than making a new one. Just noticed the latest posting on the dashboard about TextFugu V3. Here it is:
“Info On Upcoming Update (TextFugu Content v3)
I’ve gotten to the point where the third “edition” (that’s what textbook authors call it, right?) of TextFugu is nearing the runway and getting close to land. I’d say it’s about a month away (so, mid or late June, I’m hoping). Since this content update is changing a lot of things, I won’t be adding new lessons while I finish this up. It would just make me redo a lot of work, and I’d rather do something one time the way I want it, so there’s more time for other things afterwards. Kanji will continue to get added in during this time, however.
Some info on v3:
– Will include all of Season 7 (that’s a lot of new lessons)
– Ordering of lessons will mostly stay the same.
Hoping to add an “advanced” section when v3 comes out. This will be run by someone else, though, so it’s more like extra content you can use to study with that won’t take my time away from new lessons.
– Vocabulary will be quite different, in terms of order. Right now vocab is the hardest thing for people. I want to put more emphasis on using kanji with vocab right from the start, rather than much later. Also, ordering of vocab that you learn is more based on how common the word itself is. Kanji will also be adjusted for this, too, though all the kanji you see now (and more) will remain available to you, even if the order changes.
– Better menu. Current menu isn’t that great. Too many clicks, etc. Making improvements there.
– Responsive layout. Will look good on tablets and phones (yay!).
– A few extra forum features, but not too many more. Wouldn’t want to make you too powerful… dun dun dunnn.
– More chapters per season, shorter chapters, fewer pages. Kind of a mix between what I liked from TextFugu v1 and TextFugu v2.
– A lot more practice. Also, practice pages are more varied in terms of how you practice, making it more interesting, I think. Will include all the practice pages that “don’t exist” yet, as well. I think the main emphasis of this update is on the practice pages, though, so expect a good amount of it.
– More useful/usable kanji/radicals/vocab page.
– Mnemonics for (almost) all vocab, even ones that aren’t from kanji you’ve learned.
– Separate blog, probably blog.textfugu.com – will make it easier to post up there more often, for various reason that don’t really matter.
– Learning decks that use the nice new features of and are compatible with Anki 2.0 (also hopefully coming out around June?)Of course, if you have any questions feel free to contact me. If you’re on monthly and sad that there’s no big updates for a month, and you’ve been paying for quite a few months, also email me, I’ll upgrade you to Forever. If you are super-duper sad about this upcoming update and want a refund, you can, once again, email me.
Will be showing off a few of the updates pretty soon on Twitter / Facebook and such, so keep an eye out. Study hard! “
@ Chris
I don’t mind Chelsea. Good squad and hope they win the final on sat. Shame each side has players missing through suspension. Di Matteo has worked miracles since filling in for AVB. I think he should be given the role full time regardless if they win on sat or not. But knowing Abramovich he may just sack him anyway :(.Liverpool on the other hand annoy me. It’s mainly Dalglish. He still thinks it’s the mid 80′s and Liverpool are the biggest club in the world lol.
@ andrew
Haha, that comment about the lesser of the two evils made me laugh. City have spent a ton of money to get to where they are but it was good not seeing Utd win it again. As an Arsenal fan, my main concern was them getting 3rd spot above Tottenham.Shinji Kagawa is awesome. He’s certain to leave Dortmund in the summer and could go to Man Utd. Hope Arsenal can put in a cheeky bid and lure him to London. Arsenal already have Ryo Miyaichi who looks a very good prospect.
@ Michael
*Hold’s hands up*. You got me lol. Currently working through the 3 stroke kanji which is going ok. Unless you’d like to give me your kanji superpowers so I can skip the learning part xDHello and welcome to TF :)
@ Chris
I watched the City game live on tv. Most dramatic game I’ve probably seen. Glad they won the title in the end and not Man Utd. Funny seeing Utd celebrate to then hear the City result and their faces turned to dispair :)@ missing
Djokovic is awesome. Look forward to seeing him compete at Wimbledon next month.@ Michael
Interesting site you’ve got there. I’ll have a browse through more songs. Thanks for sharing. Also, yes it is fun to look at all the kanji. If only I understood most of them :’(Gosh, are you trying to make my head explode with number combinations Michael? Haha JK
The song is pleasantly nice to listen to. Perfect before I hit the sack for the night.
Currently working through “Season 2 Chapter 9 – Counting and Numbers”. Saying huge combinations of numbers is certainly a mouthful. :(
