Damien Duff

[jbyrne]

I know he was injured a bit recently but not getting into a very average Fulham team these days. has to be a worry for us

[drummerboy]

Jol has been playing Ruiz (sp) instead of Duff in league games lately. However I'm not sure how long Jol will last there.

[seanfhear]

Jol has been playing Ruiz (sp) instead of Duff in league games lately. However I'm not sure how long Jol will last there.
I do'nt rate Jol but that can make life difficult for our players if he is the guy deciding who plays for Fulham.

[brine3]

Duffer is getting on, can probably do with a bit of a rest.

Jol is a clueless manager.

[Charlie Darwin]

I imagine Duff will be brought back for the next game. Ruiz is a good player but Duff does the defensive work and can hold onto the ball, two things Fulham failed miserably at yesterday.

[Carrigaline]

Goal for Duff against Blackburn.

[SwanVsDalton]

Tweet from Damien a few minutes ago: 'Just got an interesting phone call #decisions'.

Possible move presumably.

[Charlie Darwin]

That account is definitely fake.

[SwanVsDalton]

It does spend a lot of time discussing 24, but then I like 24....

[tetsujin1979]

Tweet from Damien a few minutes ago: 'Just got an interesting phone call #decisions'.

Possible move presumably.
was it from DamienDuff16?
It's more than likely a fake. Whoever it is does spend a lot of time talking about duff and Ireland, but there's also this: https://twitter.com/#!/DamienDuff16/status/147316263746666496

Leeds fans here, Leeds fans there, Leeds fans every ****ing where! Marching On Together! #lufc (https://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23lufc) hahahahaha

[SwanVsDalton]

was it from DamienDuff16?
Nobody knows if that account is fake or not, but I think it probably is

It twas. He has been linked with a few moves in fairness although they all sound a little far-fetched (read one which involved him and Chris Baird and £3 million going to West Brom for Odemwingie).

[SkStu]

lovely run from Duff from the wide right into the box to latch onto a ball over the top frm Murphy leads to him being fouled just inside (or outside) the box - i think it was right on the line - and Murphy scoring the resulting penalty.

[seanfhear]

Duffer looked in good form yesterday. Admittedly from brief highlights on Motd.


Damien Duff in good form will be vital for the Euros.

[Charlie Darwin]

Duff got Fulham's second in a 2-1 win over Norwich today. Good goal by all accounts.

[tricky_colour]

Just caught a look of his cross for Dempseys goal and some good work after that,
he did miss a chance to score but overall he looked sharp, in fine form.

[Colbert Report]

Duff absolutely destroyed the Bolton left-back Marcos Alonso. I don't think I've ever seen one player get so completely and utterly beaten inside out EVERY time he was one on one with a winger. I'm very surprised he wasn't subbed off. Duff looking good...

[tricky_colour]

Lol yea Alonso might as well have stayed in the dressing room for all the use he was stopping Duff.
Also Clint Dempsey has Irish grandparents shame we missed out on him, I doubt he was ever approached to play for
Ireland though but I expect he would have stuck with the USA anyway.

[Charlie Darwin]

Another assist today for Dempsey's equaliser v Chelsea. Hopefully this rich vein of form carries through to the Euros and, finger crossed, no injuries.

[Charlie Darwin]

Another assist today for Dempsey's equaliser v Chelsea. Hopefully this rich vein of form carries through to the Euros and, finger crossed, no injuries.
Jinx. Not in the Fulham squad today.

edit: the teamsheet was wrong - Duff starts. Gibson starts for Everton but no Coleman or Duffy.

[Crosby87]

Chuck you came out swinging today.
By week days he is a mild mannered office worker but once Saturday rolls around...Its on.

[Charlie Darwin]

Still two more weeks in the season. I'll get him.

[SkStu]

Failed to clear off the line for Fellaini's goal. Not sure what transpired but bad enough to be mentioned on the bbc updates...

[Charlie Darwin]

There wasn't anything he could do, it was towards the middle of the goal. Brutal effort from, I think, Senderos to stop Fellaini getting his head on it.

[Junior]

There wasn't anything he could do, it was towards the middle of the goal. Brutal effort from, I think, Senderos to stop Fellaini getting his head on it.

You cant beat a pair of green goggles Charlie


http://youtu.be/DLMJneDU99E

[jbyrne]

You cant beat a pair of green goggles Charlie


http://youtu.be/DLMJneDU99E

wasnt duff also on the post for Jelavics goal (non pen)? think it was duff and thought upon viewing that it was a weak attempt to keep it out

[geysir]

What Charlie mean't to say ' it was a fierce strong header from Fellaini (pronounced Felliney), Duff could do nothing about it'.

[paul_oshea]

Fel-a-nee

A pronounced the English way as opposed to west of ireland aaaaaah.

[KK77]

Shocking attempt of a clearance for the Fellani goal.

[geysir]

Fel-a-nee

A pronounced the English way as opposed to west of ireland aaaaaah.

Felæainey is Flemish, not French. He speaks in a thick Flemish accent and therefore his family name is pronounced in the Dutch way.
http://www.forvo.com/word/marouane_fellaini/

[Stuttgart88]

But isn't he north African in origin? Algeria or Morocco I'd guess.

I know the flemish well having spent 11 years working for them - and I've never come across a name even remotely like it.

[DannyInvincible]

He was born to Moroccan parents, according to Wiki.

[geysir]

He looks North African but I suppose it doesn't matter where the family name originates, the man who headed the ball past Duff as if he didn't exist (bringing some context), is a Flemish speaker born in Flemland, therefore he pronounces his name the Flemish way.
No such issues for Duff, once a Duff always a Duff, no matter where you are on the planet.

[Kingdom]

He looks North African but I suppose it doesn't matter where the family name originates, the man who headed the ball past Duff as if he didn't exist (bringing some context), is a Flemish speaker born in Flemland, therefore he pronounces his name the Flemish way.
No such issues for Duff, once a Duff always a Duff, no matter where you are on the planet.

What about Spittle County? They pronounce Duff as Fudd.
Or Moe's Tavern, where it's pronounced Doof.

:cool:

[Stuttgart88]

therefore he pronounces his name the Flemish wayOf course it matters where the name originates. Is there a Flemish way to pronounce a Moroccan name? I'd hazard a guess that "we've been pronouncing Fallaini like XXXX for a hundred and eighty years now" is not something you oft hear in deepest Vlaanderen. Accent is one thing pronunciation is another.

[paul_oshea]

Felæainey is Flemish, not French. He speaks in a thick Flemish accent and therefore his family name is pronounced in the Dutch way.
http://www.forvo.com/word/marouane_fellaini/

Ya this kept me awake manys a night. Sorry I just meant how the brits pronounce it the whole time, I didnt know if it was right or wrong, but i'd hazard a guess it was wrong, more often than not it is.

[geysir]

Of course it matters where the name originates. Is there a Flemish way to pronounce a Moroccan name? I'd hazard a guess that "we've been pronouncing Fallaini like XXXX for a hundred and eighty years now" is not something you oft hear in deepest Vlaanderen. Accent is one thing pronunciation is another.

There's a Flemish way to pronounce a Moroccan name, just like there's an English way to pronounce Cahill.
But when a Cahill makes his way to live in the other side of the world and has a kid, that kid then comes to the EPL to play football as a Kay-hill then Kay-hill is his default pronunciation.
When some McGeadys left Ireland to live in Scotland, the pronunciation changes to Mageddy with the next generation, Aiden pronounces his family name as Mageddy.

[Junior]

When some McGeadys left Ireland to live in Scotland, the pronunciation changes to Mageddy with the next generation, Aiden pronounces his family name as Mageddy.

All the time he was playing up there, I never heard any Scottish commentators prounounce it as anything but 'MaGeedy' I've never heard Aiden discuss it mind, so not sure what his take is on the matter.

[Eminence Grise]

It's just like being back in First Arts Linguistics! Apart from some lovely French assistantes, there wasn't much to commend it then either...

Can we pronounce the topic dead - or deed, if you hail from certain parts of Scotland?

[Stuttgart88]

Can we pronounce the topic dead - or deed, if you hail from certain parts of Scotland?Pun unintended I'd suspect.

[Eminence Grise]

Come on! It's a post about linguistics, and you think that was an accident?

To slightly misquote Baldrick: 'I have a punning clan...':cool:

[geysir]

It's just like being back in First Arts Linguistics! Apart from some lovely French assistantes, there wasn't much to commend it then either...

Can we pronounce the topic dead - or deed, if you hail from certain parts of Scotland?

I only started it with a throwaway jokey reference in parenthesis, I didn't expect that to be challenged seriously.
But seeing as you're concerned with the thread being on topic, have you something on topic to contribute to the Duff thread or are we just here to keep you entertained (at some very low level) and informed on occasion? :)

[Eminence Grise]

It wasn't your humourous post, but the ten or so posts after yours that treated it seriously. We've had posts on how to pronounce Cahill, McGeady and even a bite on Meara in the last while. If a gentle poke in the ribs (and had I opened up whatever thread the Cahill/Kay-hill/Kahl debate is in, it would have found a home there instead) helps drag a thread back on track, or highlights an inconsequential, tedius debate, then it's worthwhile. Who among us speaks with the clipped precision of RP anyway? Or would want to?

[Colbert Report]

Anyone hear him at the start of the Off The Ball podcast from today? He says that he's made his decision but now is not the time to announce it. Sounds like he's definitely retiring.

[tricky_colour]

Sounds like it, he is 33, he would be 35 next world cup

[tricky_colour]

A chance for one of the youngsters like Stephen Hunt.

[the bear]

I'd like to see him revert to CM a la Giggs

[Murfinator]

would be a great loss to us, I hope he stays on. Our only player comfortable in possession.

[Charlie Darwin]

I'd like to see him revert to CM a la Giggs
Giggs also retired from international football in his 20s.

[the bear]

Giggs also retired from international football in his 20s.

He wanted to spend more time with his brothers family

[mark12345]

I'd like to see him revert to CM a la Giggs

So does that mean we're lacking in creativity in the middle of the park?

In all fairness Keane should have gone to the Euros as Ireland's Totti, or attempt at Totti. Blame the manager that he didn't.