There are few things more satisfying than watching this self-important, humorless English side go down.
-- Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:15 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Although I agree, the problem is that Terry, Gerrard, Lampard, and all your other "favourites" aren't actually affected on any level by England being shit.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
any *personal level
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
i couldn't watch a game just on the basis that i wanted one of the teams to lose. i mean, what if they won? that would be awful!
― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
England teams needs a tragic-comic, alcoholic manchild like Gazza to bring the lulz.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
-- blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:20 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
It's like wrestling, you don't mind watching the evil Commie win a few matches, as long as he gets his comeuppance in the end.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
or electing Boris so that we can watch him crash and burn a bendy bus
― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i couldn't watch a game just on the basis that i wanted one of the teams to lose
Are you sure you're actually a football fan?
― Tom D., Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
^this
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Newcastle had a good win against Fulham last week and I reckon that most neutrals would want the Magpies to retain their Premier League status.
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
The rather wonderful verb gufare means to support against, to wish bad luck upon. It comes from the noun gufo, meaning owl, since the owl in Italy (and Spain) is a symbol of bad luck. So football fans “owl” for another team.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
shit sorry
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
hey why else would i support England?
― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I can think of several teams I gufo.
― Michael White, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
guffaw
― t**t, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
How does England feel about the upcoming USA friendly? Let me guess: dismissive.
― dan m, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Dismissive of the Enlgand team? Yes.
― Tom D., Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Considering how shit the US have been of late, they shouldn't.
― Michael White, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Jozy Altidore isn't, y'know, awful.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
tbh you can have Giuseppe Rossi back as well, we really don't need him in the Italian national team.
So what was England up to again while the US was beating a Euro qualifying team away by 3 goals again? Oh that's right, not qualifying, or winning, or even challenging the French goal. Keep playing like it's 1960 gentlemen. I hear the long ball is massively effective.
We would love to have Rossi -- except he seems to be drowning in denial.
― mattttt, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
when was the last time the US qualified for the Euros? exactly
― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Hi, mattttt!
― Laurel, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I hear the long ball is massively effective
Scientific study proves that this is indeed the case
― Tom D., Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
the long ball
we've started talking abt rugby now?
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Chicks+dig+the+long+ball
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
-- dan m, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:10 (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
there is a friendly against the USA? I don't think most people know when there is a friendly against brazil coming up until a couple of weeks before, never mind against a team whose own country has little interest in it. so there is zero interest in the outcome of the game per se here, except where it provides opportunities to dislike frank lampard.
― caek, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
C'mon, you can dislike Lampard ANY day.
― Michael White, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i forget why people do
― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
he fat
― caek, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
cos he so fat....... something about yo momma
x-post
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
fat footballers are to be cherished
― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
but not fat rich bastard ones
― Tom D., Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
they're all rich
― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
neville southall isn't
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
and david hillier is a fireman in bristol
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
So Andy Reid's one of the Top 10 most higly paid footballers in the world as well?
― Tom D., Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
he is considerably rich than yow
― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7372163.stm
Quality zinging from Lippi here, based around the central thesis that Robert Acquafresca is better than any English footballer currently playing.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone please suggest England's current best eleven. Otherwise I'm going to use this thread to lol at Trap's belief that "Robbie Keane can be an Irish Totti"
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the sound of that
― the pinefox, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Beckham back as Captain, lol.
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Or maybe Captain Lol
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7429342.stm
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Capello could just suck off Jack Warner and save having to do this.
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7567928.stm
Biggest disappointment of the season so far.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link
meh. more disappointing is the england strikers selection.
― blueski, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Was a bit of a stretch to ask an northern Italian to pick the black guy over the white one, admittedly.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
It's less that I particularly wanted any of the others to be captain and more that I take pleasure in things that annoy John Terry.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link