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Reply | Playing 11 a side football
at 12:19 15 Jan 2026
My last proper 11s was in 1991, as per the surgeon's advice. Ignored it a bit and started playing kick-about stuff until mid-90s, then stupidly, 5s until final game in 1999. The twisting and turning was effing up my knees. Last time I kicked a ball in anger: 2002 played rush goalie while in the Galapagos.
Then in an even bigger display of stupidty, started running marathons in 2005 (no twisting or clattering centre halves). Final run in 2019, a 5km. Totally mullered for six weeks!
None of the above remotely sensible for an amputee since the age of two! Currently, I've been a gym monster rebuilding leg muscles as I get back to hiking and attempting Hadrian's Wall later in the year.
Wouldn't change a bloody thing; they really were the best of days, and I miss them immeasurably!
Keep going if you can chaps! |
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Reply | Playing 11 a side football
at 10:50 15 Jan 2026
Sounds like piss poor fitness levels as well.
Tell us chef, what are your teammates' cycling abilities like? [Post edited 15 Jan 10:58]
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Reply | Old Geezers' Bus Pass
at 07:17 15 Jan 2026
In the future when children are taught about the revolution, they'll learn it started with a bloke called Edward on the No. 7 bus!
Biggest misconception about the provision of 'free' stuff, is that it isn't free, someone has to pay for it. The problem western societies have is that in the past, the OAP population was a smaller demographic that didn't live long into dotage. Now, OAPs are a sizeable and growing percentage of the population that live longer, and those of the working ages decreasing proportionately. That's before we consider how AI might render many working people jobless in time.
It's a total clusterfook coming down the tubes that will affect more than bus passes. People have paid into the 'social contract' to fund other generations, in full expectation that when it's 'our' turn, we'll get the same benefits. It might not. Edward, keep wielding that pick axe handle! |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 06:59 15 Jan 2026
No one is destroying B, K, and K well, not that I've read.
If anything, there's acknowledgment of their current abilities and future potential, while wondering how we get the best out of them. Seems fair. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 21:25 14 Jan 2026
Appreciate all that, but as I said, it's early days and far happier with him. |
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Reply | Cat 1. Academy Plans
at 13:10 14 Jan 2026
No, but the statement does say we could seek higher compensation from the poaching club if a miserable little money grabbing sh1t bag does decide to jump ship and go to some puppy farm where they'll get lost, drift out of the game, and probably end up near Heathrow turning tricks for cash, as they look on at our state of the art facility producing Ezes by the bucketload wondering: What if I had stayed at QPR as opposed to, what will this fat Arab bloke want for his £50?
Oh the irony! |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 13:01 14 Jan 2026
Of what I've seen of Kone thus far, and only on TV, I'm finding him increasingly frustrating. Early days of course, but to me, he seems slower, looks tubbier, and maybe it's me, but I find his control and distribution often disappointing.
Doubly frustrating, because, I think the boy can finish! I just don't think he should be asked to do much more than get on the end of things and certainly not play behind the main striker. Plus, I think Buzz facing the goal with his speed is a far more potent player than with his back to goal.
Still, far happier with these two and Kolli, than Armstrong, Dykes, and Right Said Frey. |
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Reply | Kone playing in his actual position as a number 9
at 12:47 14 Jan 2026
I think that unlikely, for two reasons Bosh.
First, you're playing all three of our strikers from the off, and have nothing on the bench to bring on to change things up if needed. Secondly, we have a cast of oompah loompas supposedly there to provide width, guile, trickery, pace, and, in the case of one of them, cherubic smiles. All aimed at selling on for huge profits.
I can't see the project's mission goals being achieved with Buzz, Kone, and Kolli starting and the oompahs all sat on the bench. Speaking of seating, where do we stick Chair. |
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Reply | Morrison going out on loan
at 17:16 13 Jan 2026
Don't forget Saitosan and who knows if Kone or Kolli (no idea if Algeria qualified) might be late bets. |
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 08:25 13 Jan 2026
Aside of the teams in Rio and Rome, Sunday was, by my reckoning, the first time two English teams played a match against each other, who can claim to have had/currently have, a home stadium that's hosted an Olympic games.
And having been to all four of those stadiums, they're all pretty hopeless venues for football matches. |
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Reply | Dunne
at 17:59 12 Jan 2026
100% this.
If I were a Hammers fan, and notwithstanding premier league defenders are likely to be a cut above their championship cousins, I'd be asking why isnt he and/or Wham getting him to play like that week-in, week-out.
With him and Bowen, surely they've got some ammo to play with.
That said....fck 'em! |
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Reply | Cocaine
at 14:53 12 Jan 2026
Sniffer dogs need to work for a maximum two hours before being given an extended period of rest.
If outsouced security companies were used, then I bet their dogs were the ones who failed their tests dor the police/army, haven't been properly trained, and were probably working for several hours without rest. I suspect by the time you all arrived, they'd have trouble sniffing their own arse much less locating some charlie.
Staggering to read a parent was supplying a child. Openly. There really is no hope. |
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 14:16 12 Jan 2026
If I recall correctly, a condition of accepting our 2012 bid, was the stadium had to retain the ability to host athletic events. However, aside of Olympics and maybe world championships in big cities, stadiums rarely, if ever, fill out to olympic games capacities anywhere in the world for athletics events.
City/Manchester Council's bid for the 2002 Empire Games made conversion to a football stadium an element. The running track was moved to an adjacent site, with a reduced stadium capacity. Not sure, but I don't think it sells out, andthey 'dug down' and repurposed it into a football ground and have a far better stadium than Wham!, who are now stuck with a bowl in a non-descript luna setting...boo-hoo! |
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