PUBIC LICE
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Thursday, 6 August 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
or worse still
CURBS
;_;
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Thursday, 6 August 2009 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Chester sort of saved, sort of torpedoed
― William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Weird, it seems like the worst Premiership in ages, but bizarrely the best Championship/L1/L2 in living memory
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 01:02 (0 seconds ago) Bookmark
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
It really does, btw. It's like every sub-Prem league has suddenly been filled with a lot of clubs 'better' than it, a lot of clubs 'just right' for it, and very few clubs 'beneath' it. I honestly can't see many teams struggling, at least relative to the previously prevailing standard of their division. There's a lot of optimism. A lot of bitterness (especially in L1!), but a lot of optimism. I can't actually explain it because the quality of footballers surely isn't much better if at all. Some strange balancing alchemy has been wrought, like the Scales Of Justice in Worms Armageddon
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
how is it the worst prem in ages? this strikes me as "real talk" which is actually nonsense, like most "real talk" is.
― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Friday, 7 August 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
TBH the 'worst Prem in ages' thing is less important than the 'best league in ages' one, which was the starker and more exciting revelation, but this Premiership really is shaping up to be mediocre. Exciting, mind.
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
It's gotten to the stage where I'm almost giving both Spurs AND Man City a crack at the top 4, and where I can't see a huge world of difference in class between Everton and say Wolves. Plus, there's about 6 teams positively begging to go down.
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
So, anyone here going to any interesting games tomorrow?
I'm moderately stoked about the start of the season.
― Tim, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm kind of in "too excited to sleep" mode right now. Partly cos I'm at work til one then getting the train down to Southampton at 6.15 to see us enter the brave new world against Millwall.
Pre-season anticipation extending to the Boro-Blades game this evening, too. It's toniiiight...
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 7 August 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
And Boro's first-choice keeper, Brad Jones, is apparently injured, which, from the squad list on their site, suggests England U19 keeper Jason Steele is getting his first-team debut...
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 7 August 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
No, they've signed Danny Coyne, so he's in goal instead. Ah.
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 7 August 2009 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Grimsby's finest! Wales' non-finest.
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
SS1's preview has just ticked round to League One. Did you know that Phil Parkinson is still only 41?
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 7 August 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I did. He was a Reading legend not so long ago, as my Reading-supporting friend (also Bolton but he is weird) keeps telling me. We could do with his sort alongside Racon and Bailey in the middle.
Still, I expect us to turn Wycombe over tomorrow. I'll possibly be watching it with a Wycombe fan, which will be a barrel of laughs. And yeah, pretty excited here too.
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Newcastle being hawked around for £20m cash down say 'city sources' in The Times. That's less than the £400m asking price it started off at. Some glove puppet man is front-runner. Ashley desperate to conclude a deal this weekend it also says, so even that might prove to be optimistic.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 7 August 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Shearer could easily afford that, but will he put his money where his mouth is? I am quite literally on tenterhooks.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 7 August 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
has Chris Morgan killed anyone yet?
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Friday, 7 August 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
oh shit, it's that time again
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
time for justin.tv
in fairness, most lower-league football is more exciting than this
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, this is suggesting that both of these sides will have a run at the play-offs while finding automatic promotion just beyond them. Then again, that's to suggest there's sides in the division who are a clear cut above everyone else, and that's most likely not the case. Because it's The Championship, and that just isn't how things work.
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^this
friend of mine reckons sheff u will win the league; to that i say pffft lol
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
As I said, all three lower-league divisions looks exceptionally well-balanced this season. There are few obvious giants or stragglers, but a general wash of sides accustomed to or at least harbouring ambitions of football at a higher level
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
It's ok, I'm going to stick it out. Now I have no life I have picked a team (or will pick before tomorrow) in all 4 English leagues and major European leagues to follow, just to give me something to distract me from the exciting life I currently live. So, c'mon Arsenal, Reading (local team), Millwall (dad's team), Burton Albion (picked at random), Fiorentina (purple), PSG (loose Arsenal connection), Barca (Thierry), Nurenburg (Nordtveit is there on loan, so again rubbish Arsenal connection), and I think that is too many teams to follow as is. Might eventually get reduced to Arsenal and any team playing Newcastle.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I am trying to keep a lid on how excited I am about going to Leeds tomorrow, but (a) first game of the season (b) Leeds are the team I supported as a boy in Bremner's '70s (c) Leeds is the town in which I went to University (d) first time City've ever played Leeds in the league. Amazing. But to be too thrilled is a bit tinpot, eh?
― Tim, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe you should drop by for a drink with Swygart? Oh wait. REALEST OF TALKERS, ON THE MOVE '09
I was due to see the first (and only) time Leeds played at Edgar Street in the league last season, but it got frozen off. This fact, although I hardly knew at the time, was an indirect factor in my subsequent harrowing break-up
I'm thrilled about Wycombe at home, tbh. Football, that insidious disease
― cockles (country matters), Friday, 7 August 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
wd mark bentley, getting us off the mark after the North's finest summarily failed last night
― cockles (country matters), Saturday, 8 August 2009 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
now i go. exciting.
Oh, Norwich.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Boro v Blades was an absolutely terrible game btw
― AND I KNOW THE NEIGHBORS HATE ME NOW (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, am also an arsenal fan w/ a soft spot for millwall cos they're his dad's team...if hoy hoy likes cecil taylor and the dead c i feel i will have passed a v. jolly corner indeed
am stupidly excited abt LIVE! CHAMPIONSHIP! FOOTBALL!! at teatime on a saturday
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah me, it's cos its on the beeb and it will distract me from the cricket.
― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Could be a cracker, the Manchester United of the Championship taking on the Newcastle of the Championship.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Norwich have scored! And so have Colchester.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm enjoying Shearer's quote on why he should be given the Newcastle job: "I'd dearly love the chance to finish what I started last season."
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
ha, I thought the same thing. To the Conference!
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Norwich 1-7 Colchester
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Lee Hughes got a debut hat trick for Notts County...
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Joey "Bad Boy" Barton - has apparently had a bust up with Chris Houghton before the match - not in the start 11
― djmartian, Saturday, 8 August 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
lol that was genuinely TOO exciting, if a game can be such a thing
― cockles (country matters), Saturday, 8 August 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
rob elliot with two distinct candidates for save of the decade at 3-2
all manner of missed chances and goal-line clearances, one of which came from one of our own players to prevent us going 4-2 up
― cockles (country matters), Saturday, 8 August 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
basically fucking awesome insanity, loving league 1 already XD
Looks like BBC definitely beat out Sky wrt the game they showed first.
Also: Carson, Damien Duff, Luke Moore: so many broken men.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Saturday, 8 August 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
we fucking broke carson, and i hope he remembers that
― cockles (country matters), Saturday, 8 August 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Whereas Luke Moore broke himself, and Duff was broken by the earth's atmosphere.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Saturday, 8 August 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
XD
― cockles (country matters), Saturday, 8 August 2009 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
toon's reserve keeper is a 'very good kicker of a football'
― cockles (country matters), Saturday, 8 August 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Scotty C is mad good at kicking, to give him his due.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Saturday, 8 August 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
ricardo rocha described as having A LATINO SHORT FUSE
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
both the managers are p scary but not as scary as the grotesque canted angles and weird straub-huillet via chris brydon feel of the studio sequences
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 April 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
hilarious dive by apparently nonforeign adam lallana
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 April 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link