I know possession stats are a scoundrel's refuge but Burnley winning 2-0 with less than 20% of the ball is... something
― aromantic cuck (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 20 August 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
Credit ref for shawx pen call
Possession is for hipsters
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 August 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
Liverpool has something like 26 shots, 5 on target. Coutinho alone blazed 7 over the bar or wide
― Number None, Saturday, 20 August 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
Neville still a moron
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 August 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
Arsenal were incredibly fortunate with the late penalty appeal. Musa looked great when he came on.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, 20 August 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
Lol gomes wtf capoue htf does costa stay on pitches
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 August 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link
Courtois shouldve saved that Watford goal too
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Saturday, 20 August 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
htf does costa stay on pitches
his immense personal charm
― Number None, Saturday, 20 August 2016 22:18 (seven years ago) link
Clattenburg is just a stinking cheat
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 August 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
credit shawx for being more dismissive about the one given to him than the one against
"hopefully i can rectify that in the future and not get done again" otm
― r|t|c, Sunday, 21 August 2016 07:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_WIWbDBfbQ
fully deserve the bictory.... appy for bincent and bince...
― r|t|c, Sunday, 21 August 2016 09:44 (seven years ago) link
Fuck this "The London Stadium" bullshit.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 21 August 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
naming rights placeholder (to whu's profit no doubt) but yeah
― r|t|c, Sunday, 21 August 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
West Ham Football @westhamfootball Aug 20Sinclair: How important is it that working class feel welcome at the new stadium? Brady: This stadium offers us a different kind of future
still wince at that idiotic new badge every time too
― r|t|c, Sunday, 21 August 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
HERRERA: VALENCIA IS WORLD'S BEST RIGHT-BACK
― r|t|c, Sunday, 21 August 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
He's been surprisingly great so far. Fellaini too
― Number None, Sunday, 21 August 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37150006
this is what i missed most about moyesy, the pr masterclasses
― r|t|c, Sunday, 21 August 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqdaU4JWcAAknKm.jpg
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
Moron
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 10:11 (seven years ago) link
Surely fake.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 10:13 (seven years ago) link
If there's one club that could have come out of
― imago, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 10:23 (seven years ago) link
hope so for his sake cos the dole really love it when you make yourself unemployed
― Herodotus Reading (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 10:24 (seven years ago) link
hopefully he writes his CV in Comic Sans too
― imago, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 10:25 (seven years ago) link
I doubt it's real. Wenger's 600 staff comment was utterly laughable though
― Number None, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 10:35 (seven years ago) link
http://thesetpieces.com/features/sweeper-steve-bruce-review/
Discovery of the day.
It’s like a pound-shop Westeros, only made up entirely of places you imagine voted for Brexit despite being largely dependent on EU funding.
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 11:24 (seven years ago) link
I've tried and failed to track down a copy of Striker for years but this goes into an admirable amount of detail.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 12:21 (seven years ago) link
He reviewed the other one as well at some stage.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 12:32 (seven years ago) link
There's a link to the other one from that article.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link
I'd like to read Mike Phelan's novel.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link
A la recherche du Tom Huddlestone
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 13:36 (seven years ago) link
*yomp perdu
― imago, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
IDS still makes Bruce look like a slightly better writer.
― calzino, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
Those books weren't actually by Steve Bruce, sadly. From the comments section here: http://thinkofengland.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/book-review-sweeper-by-steve-bruce.html
All 3 books (Striker, Sweeper and Defender)were published by Paragon Publishing in Huddersfield. They were written by the owner of the company a guy called Reggie Sharpe. A former headmaster, who was trying to make money as a publisher. He was an obnoxious man, who bordered arrogant to most people who met him. He wrote each book in about 3 days, and then had them printed. Steve Bruce had nothing to do with any of them, I doubt he even read them cause they really were drivel. I think he got paid £2000 for having his name and image on each book, and attending a book signing at Waterstones in Huddersfield. I know this because I played a part in converting the text files from M.S. Word format, which Reggie Sharpe wrote them in, to Apple Mac formats for printing, which at the time was the only way most print houses worked. On the second book cover, Reggie appears in the picture as the janitor with a sweeping brush. The whole affair was a money making scheme, designed to sell Paragons books. Bruce was nothing but a paid figured head who’s fame was used to create awareness. But I think that the sales were poor, with only a few hardened fans parting with their money. The rest of the copies were pulped I believe. Sorry to shatter peoples images of Steve the author, but he wasn’t. You were all conned.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
Venables keeps his place at the top of the literary manager's league then.
― Herodotus Reading (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
He wrote each book in about 3 days
Writers' Block, eh? (Trad. arr Hislop)
― I like it when you shoot inside me Dirk (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
Unsung Hero - a novel by Mike Phelan.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
Every Holmes has a Watson... now meet Mick Feelgood
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
The air caused goosebumps on his skin, his thighs had become flabby and weak since the days when he roamed the midfield for Fellowcheshire United. But it didn't matter. Shorts again. On the pitch. In real boots. "You look ridiculous," she said, with a smirk, patting his knee. Alexa Featherington. The gaffer. Harder than any man who ever played. But did she have a soft spot for Mick? Sometimes, he liked to think so. Sometimes too, the lines in their professional relationship blurred, became more fluid, like a fancy formation deployed by a foreign coach, but never feeling quite so wrong.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
haha
― ♫ Corbyn's on fire / PLP is terrified ♫ (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/early-doors/steve-bruce-cringes-laughing-stock-novels-122106485.html
You've got to admire his commitment, he was still claiming in 2013 he had written them.
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
Robbie Benson for Dundalk vs Legia Warsaw
https://twitter.com/888sport/status/768172176562413568
― Number None, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
Warsaw player sent off. Big chance for Dundalk here
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
That is some goal! Only five minutes left though? They'll never get as close as this afaik
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
1-1....
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
ah nuts. Sucker punch
― Number None, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
Xpost 1-1 in the end. 3-1 on agg to Warsaw. They tried, oh they tried but they just didnt have the fitness level in the end.
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
still, they could get Utd in the Europa
― Number None, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
Will start a CL thread proper tomorrow probably but Ajax currently 4-0 (!) down at Rostov, who will be CL debutantes. Ajax playing their worst game in probably ten years. They are being demolished. Loving every second of it, not sorry,
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3758071/Tottenham-consider-15m-Crystal-Palace-winger-Wilfried-Zaha.html
lol wut
― Number None, Thursday, 25 August 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link