It's hypnotic isn't it?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:08, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Not being a Brit and being far too lazy to use Google, who is the dapper gentleman?

(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:09, Reply)

he was a football player (soccer to you)
and became a well-known pundit. Crucially though, he has a very large chin (and a beard in that pic) which enables the use of his visage to indicate that you suspect that someone is lying. From the english playground, referencing a chin or beard signifies that you doubt the veracity of a statement.

from urban dictionary:
14. Chin

An expression of disbelief.

Usually accompanied by rubbing the chin, in imitation of large-chinned british sports personality Jimmy Hill.
A: "I've just spend the night playing drunken strip poker with Scarlett Johanson, Halle Berry and Sheikh Abu Hamza in the playboy mansion"

B: "Mmmmm... Chin. How would Abu Hamza play poker anyway, he's got no hands!"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:11, Reply)

Hooked hands...
... and it wouldn't be halal. That was the thing that I noticed.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Ex-footballer, and football commentator
with a famously big and pointy chin. For some reason that has always escaped me, this has something to do with lies.

EDIT: Vipros' explanation is better.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:11, Reply)

Yet again, b3ta broadens my horizons and helps me to be a
fountain of trivia at parties.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:14, Reply)

Also crucially
It is Jimmy Hill who is responsible for current football player's grossly inflated salaries, as he campaigned tirelessly against the 'bus money and a sandwich' wages that were prevalent in the game.

The big chinned cunt.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:14, Reply)

And I think he came up with the points system for wins, losses and draws.
Though I might have learned that from www.somedreamihad.aftereatingcheese/possiblystilton
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:17, Reply)

Do the footbal players in the UK and Europe get the same
40-50 million dollar contracts as the best baseball or basket ball players do here?

Also, has the cost of going to a game become ridiculously high in the UK. (It can cost $300-$500 or more to get a really good seat at a Boston Redsox game. Seats in the nosebleed part of the upper bleachers can cost $50 if can actually get one).
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:23, Reply)

not quite that high, for most
but I think some have reached those heights. in real money though, not dollars.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Euros?

(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:25, Reply)

clickin' dis

(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:12, Reply)

I have no idea obout the price of a match - I've never been to one.
But elite players can easily fetch transfer prices in the tens of millions.

Not bad for not having been to school since the age of 12.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Probably not that high
But anything up to £100,000 a week has been known to be paid for a 'top' player who then breaks something not long after signing for a club, but continues to get paid it anyway for sitting in the treatment room over the next six months.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Cunt

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Mwhahahaha!

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Lulled into a false sense of security.
I have an office full of people, and I almost pissed myself.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:27, Reply)

I didn't even read that link
let alone click it

a narrow escape
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:28, Reply)

Best. URL. Ever.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:30, Reply)

I have to admit, I stole the idea from someone
Here.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:37, Reply)

I'm not clicking on that.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:40, Reply)

I doubt it's purple.
You could hover to see the reference. I did think about going for the double, but didn't.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:42, Reply)

After turning my speakers down
its harmless
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:45, Reply)

It's the pipe that completes it I think

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:09, Reply)

It's the way he is clenching the pipe
as if his life depended on it.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:16, Reply)

Yes,
All football players should have to play whilst smoking a pipe, and carrying a large glass of brandy.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:19, Reply)

In Ronaldo's case it would be a small glass of Creme de Menthe.
The fucking bender.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:21, Reply)

I almost choked on reading that
you swine
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:23, Reply)

hats should also be mandatory

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:22, Reply)

A trilby set at a jaunty angle
In fact, just the George Cole "Flash Harry" complete outfit.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 12:25, Reply)