Realest Of Football, Realest Of Talk: Football League, Blue Square & Beyond, 2009/10

Colchester's first... fuck me.

so many lolz were had about this when my friends and i watched the highlights...just so many lolz

The bits where they cut to Lizzie for the text messages is some properly ridiculous Brass Eye shit.

― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Sunday, 9 August 2009 18:27 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Here's hoping that once the season starts going, they are open to giving in the 606-eque mentos a televised voice, this weekends was predictable start of the season, "bring in shearer!" boringness.

He's never done himself any favours image-wise, to put it mildly, but I think O'Leary could be a decent enough impact manager for Newcastle - you just don't want him hanging around your club too long, and you need to keep him on a tight leash wrt the media.

It's certainly the type of job that would appeal to his ego, if nothing else.

He's definitely the kind of manager you'd be looking for if you had a huge wage bill and needed to get your squad leaner and cheaper.

I especially liked the shaky-cam dude creeping closer and closer to her for each successive email link. The younger, hipper MOTD, with standing presenters and a blue-neon interface printout zone!

Opinion was divided on aesthetic merits of Lizzie. I was the lone voice in the 'for' camp, but then I have exceptionally stubborn friends. Mind you, by halfway through I wanted more football highlights and less Lizzie. Preferably all of one and none of the other.

She kinda looks like John Terry in drag.

Nice body, a faceful of mischief, and seems the sprightly tomboyish kind you always wanted to fuck at school

Ok bro, you may like to step away from the gin/viagra/mushrooms right about now.

TBF she has scrubbed up a bit since Newsround.

Did Manesh used to be a rubbish League 2 defender or something? I'd be able to put up w/ his boringness if he was a footballer; if that's the most exciting presenter the BBC can get after 'im-off-the-One-Show then blaudy hell. Also, cover up the chest hair please.

Lizzie has Richard Hammond's scar-covering haircut.

the sprightly tomboyish kind you always wanted to fuck at school

Did you not go to an all-boys school?

hence the "ish"

It could be worse, it could be Jake Humphries. Instead he gets to ruin F1.

xpost this is as an alternative to Jake, not as an alternative to Lou-Jag's schoolboy fantasies. Though it could work either way, tbf.

there were girls in the sixth form ffs

Manish was a terrible Cricket World Cup highlights presenter, and he's not much better now.

er, alternative to Manish. Jake as an alternative to Jake = kill your television.

Anybody looks good alongside Steve Claridge tbh

I love how the title sequence on this mirrors ITV's The Championship in its emphasis on the fans because the players and clubs are, y'know, a bit shit.

steve was looking in rude health imo

Football is nothing without fans (c. some successful Scottish bloke that Manish has probably never heard of)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_3970000/newsid_3972800/3972827.stm

ITV managed to show all the goals and still have a proper highlights montage of their main match, presumably the Beeb think people watch this shit for pundits and Your Emails.

Ooh, mysterious about her age!

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ITV also had Andy Townsend: Anchorman.

Sorry I'm liveblogging this shit, didn't realise they showed the main match 3rd.

hmm ok she's something of a boring posh bint, less interested, would still smash tho

They also have highlights packages for every game up on the website tomorrow morning, if I read their website right.

Wow. So have the Beeb got internet rights for all non-Premier English league matches then? Cos if I'd paid for a subscription to my club's site to get basically the same footage I'd be well peeved.

The BBC football league show reminds me of the presentation style of Watchdog, with lizzie sitting on desk and reading out texts

Next week's show to feature a bunch of Norwich fans wanting their money back.

"Chris from Newcastle has phoned up to complain about the purchase of an Irish winger"

re: Norwich - I through Delia & Gunny were going to offer up some tasty menus this season, but yesterday was a right Dog's Breakfast

maybe Gunny should go back to his Corporate Hospitality job at Carrow Road?

The club sites getting it first is what keeps Beeb from upping it til Monday, I think. Then again, last season I'm pretty sure Virgin Media had full highlights bobs too, so I'm guessing the Beeb just got their package?

Phil Jones all chasing Danny Wilson to his car, secretly filming Paul Ince agreeing MK Dons shouldn't exist, that sort of thing.

Also, just realised - Peschisolido's the first North American manager in Britain, isn't he?

Presumably. Although he probably qualifies as a Brit by now

Make sure you all watch the Charlton-Wycombe highlights. I can say with absolute certainty that it was the best game of the day. The goals don't tell half the story.

Still trying to think of some random Canadian in the Scottish third division or something, but I think you're probably right.

Lawrie Sanchez

And the second one, Clinton has headed it at knee height. If you're a defender and he heads it that low you take his head off, it's as simple as that.

This will put a dampener on my birthday for sure but Roy Keane's birthday is not, and should not be, important in the grand scheme of things.

Oh, and I forgot to check, so I just found out, but AFC's Conference debut started with a 1-1 draw at home against Luton. Promising, eh?

I can't remember ever having come away from a loss and getting such a positive feeling among our fans. We lost the game to a late goal, but after fifteen or twenty minutes of shocking stage fright, during which we could easily have conceded three, we totally held our own against a moderate Leeds side (and some genuinely astoundingly homer officials). If this is the best we're going to face in the division, the thinking goes, we'll likely be OK. Next up: QPR in the League Cup and Norwich City at ours in the League. Cripes.

Naaarwich fans: Can we (Melbourne) have our keeper back now?

well i never...WBS will be ecstatic at this news

Bristol Rovers striker Rickie Lambert seals £1m move to Southampton
http://bit.ly/qM860

The AFC Wimbledon game was really very promising, both goals were pretty debatable penalties (ours maybe a little more debatable than theirs!) but the general standard of play was a definite improvement to what I have seen from them in previous seasons.

After a bright start from us Luton bossed the first half but the second half was all AFC and if the game had been played for another 5 minutes I reckon we would have won it.

I still think we'll be high mid-table without making the playoffs, 9th or 10th maybe, but then again I also thought we'd get smashed on Saturday so I clearly know fuck all.

Lewis Taylor in our midfield is a league player in the making by the way.

I was out of the country last year so didn't get to many games, but I'll be at most home matches and a few away games this season so I'll hopefully posting more and lurking less...

hopefully *be* etc etc

apparently Exeter City had their biggest away support EVER up at Elland Road - but how many?

2800 odd. Not sure where you heard that it was our biggest away support ever but it wasn't. Might have been our biggest away support for a league game but I'm not even sure about that, tbf.

(That is to say, a regular league game rather than a play-off obv.)

re: Exeter and "biggest away support for a league game"

yep, i was listening to the radio and a journalist at the game mentioned it

Beeb's confirmed Lambert. Holy shit. Did we... did we just get stuff done? I mean, it's not exactly "nothing can stop us now" territory, but it's a pretty huge step forward.