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Reply | Harry Kane
at 10:01 9 May 2024
This is his first season playing in a side that is expected to win trophies, so not sure how he can be considered a Jonah. It's not like he's spent his whole career at Real Madrid and playing for France or someone. Pretty sure he's have won something other than golden boots if his transfer to Man City had gone through.
England: only trophy ever won was in 1966
Tottenham: last trophy was the league cup in 2008 and before that the FA cup in 1991.
213 goals in 317 games for Tottenham (record goal scorer)
62 goals in 89 games for England (record goal scorer)
44 goals for Bayern in his debut season
You could argue that his goals have taken England and Tottenham closer to winning trophies than either side would normally expect to be (Semi and Final with England, League runners-up and CL finalists with Tottenham). |
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Reply | Opening day of the season
at 15:16 8 May 2024
"Your team will be live on Sky Sports at least 20 times next season!"
That exciting/depressing news will probably be received very differently depending on whether you're a match-going fan or someone who can't get to games for whatever reason. Can't see me taking my son to any long distance away games with an early kick-off on a Saturday, Sunday will clash with his football, and Friday/Monday nights will be a no-go unless it's in the school holidays.
Gates are substantially on the up across the league and away supports seem to have been growing for loads of clubs over the past few seasons, so it would be a shame if this puts a bit of a break on that trend, and makes people less likely to travel. Having some proper notice and having more chance of getting cheaper train tickets will help, but they could have been made to do that anyway. Still, at least there's no VAR in the football league. |
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Reply | Show us what you got!
at 13:51 7 May 2024
Nine months after a sexual experiment involving a dozen shoplifted A1 batteries goes disastrously wrong, a boy is born into the Terry household in London, England. Almost immediately, it becomes clear that he is unable to manage his emotions, and that even something as trivial as the awarding of a throw-in to an opponent, sees him consumed by an uncontrollable rage. And with that rage, comes a temporary deafness, that leads him to scream, “Did you say I called you a black cu nt?” at anyone nearby.
Medical tests at Chelsea’s training ground reveal that acid leaking from the shoplifted A1 batteries had combined with the spunk from his father, Ted Terry’s grotty ballbag, to produce a chemical imbalance that would cause John to burst out of his clothes and jump around in a full Chelsea kit whenever he saw someone else being presented with an award. As John wrestled with his need to dominate other people’s achievements, he had to ask himself; do my kids really want me coming to sports day? This is the story of what happens when you indulge a man because he's good at football. When a bad person does bad things to good people. But there are always limits, and this is also the story of what happens when the bad person goes too far; when even Frank Lampard Jr says, "I think you might be a cu nt, John". This is the story of John Terry – The Incredible Cu nt. Out in cinemas now. |
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Reply | Slow, Stalled, Penalty Run Ups.
at 21:33 5 May 2024
Good to see you back, mate.
Why would you complicate a stressful process. Get a target fixed in your head, do not deviate, larrup the cun t and 90% of the time, happy days. Ray Stewart style. Don't be a smart arse. Keep it simple. |
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Reply | Friday Condiment
at 00:23 4 May 2024
My mum's orange marmalade. I hate marmalade and I definitely hated the smell of it cooking, but all my family and friends always swore by it. We have 1/3rd of a jar of it in our fridge with a hand written label, that breaks my heart every time I see it, whilst my wife and son want to keep it to have my mum close. Thinking about it, is marmalade even a condiment? |
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Reply | Anton Ferdinand and John Terry
at 13:54 2 May 2024
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/anton-ferdinand-john-terry-chelsea-
“I knew Anton, we were mates, we knew each other and always got on well. Obviously, I got on well with Rio. We could have done something that was more powerful than what came about in the end. And that’s probably my disappointment because it’s [racism] is in the game... Of course I could have just apologised and shown some contrition, or maybe not called him a 'black cu nt' in the first place, but that's not who I am; I'm an absolute cu nt. A massive, horrible, thick Chelsea cu nt." |
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Reply | LEEDS
at 10:36 1 May 2024
"Where's Steve gone? There's still ten minutes left."
"He's had enough. I think he's gone outside to wander around for a bit, filming himself getting very emotional about a game he watched on the telly, which he'll then upload to YouTube right away, because the world can't wait until the morning to hear his thoughts on the match, Leeds United's promotion prospects, or the new name he's given to QPR's ground. It has to be an instant reaction or it doesn't count. Either that or he's gone for a shi t". |
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Reply | LEEDS
at 10:27 1 May 2024
The energy there is a Zoom call during lockdown with friends who are a few drinks ahead of you and going through a rough patch. |
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Reply | LEEDS
at 10:19 1 May 2024
That bloke is great. Sometimes he sounds like an angry former player working in the studio as a pundit, other times he sounds like an angry manager who knows that he's about 24 hours away from getting the sack after losing seven games on the bounce. He's probably an estate agent from Todmorden.
I know I'm a middle-aged bloke who feels a bit out of step with things at times, but I just don't get the need for "instant reaction" videos from some random fella off the street, especially someone who's just watched the game on the telly. |
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Reply | League One Play Offs
at 13:32 29 Apr 2024
I've spent quite a bit of time in Southampton over the years, and I reckon it punches below its weight, unlike anywhere else in the UK. For a city of 250,000 with quite a lot of money in the surrounding area, it always seems like hard work when it comes to finding good pubs and restaurants. Spent a day on the pop in Southsea with a Pompey mate, and as you say, some nice old pubs. |
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Reply | Dickie off
at 09:12 28 Apr 2024
Rob Dickie has been voted Bristol City's player of the year by the supporters and players. Apart from a couple of slip-ups, he's had a really good season. |
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Reply | St George’s Day
at 18:17 23 Apr 2024
St George's Day was barely acknowledged when I was a kid back in the 70's and 80's, so it's not like there's been some drive to diminish it as an event; it's generally been a bit of a non-event in my experience. I think a lot of English people look at St Patrick's day and think we should make more of SGD, but my Irish mates reckon SPD was very low key for them as kids in 70's and 80's and has largely grown in scale at home in response to the fuss made of it in the US.
If you want to celebrate SGD then crack on - I genuinely have never met anyone who has a problem with people doing that. Maybe if I lived overseas it would be something I could get a bit more excited about, but I'm not exactly sure what I should be doing to celebrate SGD; what does it involve that I don't already do most days? Eat English food? Drink English beers? Listen to English music? |
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Reply | Chelsea sell 2 hotels.....
at 23:20 19 Apr 2024
£100m? Weekly turnover of £2k, approx 25 games a season... actually, I'd go with £200m and see if anyone queries it. |
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Reply | New R Fan.
at 23:18 19 Apr 2024
Congratulations, mate. As others have said, grandparent definitely looks a cushier gig than parent. Also the point when your kids begin to realise everything you've done for them over the years. Have fun. |
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Reply | FA Cup Replays Scrapped
at 10:31 19 Apr 2024
If I ever get off my ar se and stage a coup to take over the FA, I'm going to introduce a rule, whereby any club with a turnover of more than £100m automatically has to play 6-legged ties in every round of the cup (3 at home - 3 away) with the games held in a single week, and if a player doesn't play at least 70 minutes of a cup game, they can't play in the next 50 PL games and they have to hand their passport into the police, meaning they can't play in European away games or go on holiday to Dubai either. Even players with broken legs have to play. Wan kers.
International football: Now that the WC and Euros have 132 countries qualifying for the finals, let's just get rid of all qualifying and everyone automatically qualifies. Pretty much there anyway. You can have a squad of 80 players, so no need for burn out. Get rid of the Nations League or whatever the fu ck it is.
European football: Champions League - get to fu ck. Bring back the European cup. I'll be releasing the rest of my manifesto once I've seized control of football. |
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Reply | FA Cup Replays Scrapped
at 10:18 19 Apr 2024
Everyone knows that the magic of the cup is the opportunity for non-league/lower division clubs to play against clubs from the higher divisions, either with the chance of a packed house and an upset or a visit to a ground you might not otherwise get a chance to see your team play at. I remember bunking off work to queue up for tickets when we drew Man Utd at Old Trafford in the cup in 1999, and 8,500 Fulham travelling up for the game. The majority of other lower division clubs have taken similar supports to the big clubs over the years. Equally, it’s an opportunity for regular away fans of Man Utd etc to see their club playing at a new ground in the lower divisions. So, with that in mind I’m proposing the following:
1) Scrap all the rounds up to the semi-finals.
2) Liverpool v Man Utd in the first semi. 8pm kick-off on a Saturday night. Venue: Doha.
3) Man City v Arsenal in the second semi. 7pm kick-off on a Sunday night. Venue: MetLife stadium, NJ.
4) 8pm kick-off for the final. Venue: Riyadh.
4,000 tickets to be made available to each club. 10% of tickets to cost no more than £60, with the rest going for upwards of £180. No concessions. True supporters will be happy to pay it. The rest going to sponsors, local dignitaries, and wealthy business people.
The semi-final draw would always involve the same 4 clubs but operate on a 3 year cycle to keep the cup fresh and exciting. I had considered scrapping the semi-finals too but think that might kill some of the magic.
This way, the most important and special clubs in England get the opportunity to give big match experience to the young players they have nicked off all the other clubs, but who otherwise wouldn’t get valuable minutes.
What an absolute bunch of cu nts, these clubs are. I absolutely loved watching them all crash out of Europe this week. Presumably Liverpool got smashed at home by Atalanta because even the knowledge that there was the possibility of having to have a replay in the FA cup this season, wore the poor twa ts out and meant they were unable to unable to focus fully on conquering Europe.
I’m on something of a boycott of Fulham because of our absolute piss-taking ticket prices, which is a proper shame as it’s my club and we have a really decent team at the moment, but the upside is that I’ve been watching quite a lot of random games at all levels. I’m not sure if I could watch non-league every week, but I go to a few non-league games every year with my dad, and it does restore your faith a bit. Volunteers keeping clubs ticking over, hardly any diving/cheating, no VAR, prices that don’t immediately convey to you that the owners hate you and think you’re an idiot, and a sense that the club is genuinely representing their community (even if most of the community would sooner watch Liverpool on the telly in the pub). I generally find the same at lower division clubs. I actually love the Championship.
On the subject of mid-ranking clubs resting players - does my absolute head in. Fulham are never going to win the PL, but with a bit of luck with the draw, it's not completely inconceivable that we could win one of the cups. And yet every year, even when we're completely safe from relegation, we still have fans insisting that it's critically important that we rest players in the cups, to strengthen our chances of finishing 11th rather than 14th. Who wants to look back on a cup final win when you could get all misty eyed about the time you finished 12th in the PL. We even had it the year we got to the Europa League final. |
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Reply | Rotherham
at 16:44 17 Apr 2024
I had the misfortune to be at Stevenage v Burton on Saturday - new ground and I was in the area. It was a truly sh it match with not even one player that caught the eye. Evans was either knackered or a reformed character because he barely made it out of his dugout, and when he did, he wasn't even really going for it. He got a lot of stick from the Burton fans - felt a bit sorry for him. |
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Reply | My Mum
at 14:25 15 Apr 2024
Really sorry to hear that, mate. I found it a very weird thing to be told that there's nothing more that can be done and to know that you only have a small time left with that person. I hope your Mum is not in too much discomfort and that you are able to spend some time with her. Take care. |
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Reply | Weekend Championship Games
at 23:20 12 Apr 2024
And Bristol City on the back of a terrible run of form. Leicester fans on the way back to the pub after that game were saying they've been sh it all season and didn't deserve to go up. I had presumed they must have been blitzing teams when they were miles clear a couple of months ago, but apparently not. Don't know who I want to miss out the most: them, Leeds, or Saints. |
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Reply | My Mum
at 09:02 12 Apr 2024
Really sorry to hear that, mate. She sounds like a great Mum. Hope your shared memories comfort you - I'm fully signed-up to the Mexican idea that someone's still with us, for as long as they're remembered. I hope the funeral is a great celebration of your Mum - sure you'll do her proud. |
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