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HE'S READY
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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HE'S READY FOR WHATEVER IT IS HE DOES THESE DAYS
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IT'S READY
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck why can i not separate that face from jimmy bullard's
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Because it looks exactly like Jimmy Bullard.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm predicting the Championship top six to be this:
1. Middlesbrough2. Sheffield United3. West Brom4. Ipswich5. Reading6. QPR
― same dog, different leg action (Mr Raif), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Michael McIndoe has signed for Coventry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PINxfouNQFw
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Odds on Jermaine Beckford moving to West Brom have gone from 20/1 to 2/1 this afternoon.
― Some guy from Goole, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
also Dave Stelfox
― unban dictionary (blueski), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
As one might expect from a channel that's just bought the rights to show Football League matches, the Beeb's League Two preview article is pretty thorough, albeit slightly dodgily subbed. And Macclesfield Town appear to be the only side not tipped for a top-half finish.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Will you be rooting for or inwardly hissing at the Cherries this season?
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit Kevin Poole is still a registered player o_O
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd say that, if they actually manage a run for the play-offs given just how hamstrung they've been financially, then they, and Eddie Howe, deserve all the praise they can get. The prospect of us playing them next season... well, really, we've only ourselves to blame for that.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Kevin Poole was, I think, first choice for Burton for most of last season. Aged 46. I remember him from one of the Premier League sticker books in the mid-90s, when he was at Leicester, and he looked pretty ancient back then...
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
that's the kind of shit that stopped happening in the 1950's, or at least only ever happened to stanley matthews
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
the W.G. Grace of football
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
imo Bournemouth will not be playing Southampton next season. besides, we've both met nemeses already in Gillingham and Exeter
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
regardless, props to Howe and his merrie men.
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Kevin Poole signed a professional contract in 1981
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
1981
Just For Men's been good to him.
He's also older than 12 of the managers in League Two; this includes Paul Peschisolido, his actual boss, who's just under eight years Poole's junior.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Super Donny have made their first signing of the off-season: Quinton Fortune!
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
bloody 'ell
i was watching an early-00's ESPN highlights reel the other day and blow me down if it wasn't Vegard Heggem...
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooh, and the Beeb have done a team-by-team for League One as well, now. Radio Solent dude reckons we should aim for the play-offs, which seems about right. Need a striker tho.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Jonjo Shelvey is the player to watch if you're an Ipswich fan. He won't be at Charlton this time next month. Also A+ sarcasm, cheers folks
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
also it will be interesting to see 24 clubs finish in the play-offs
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
carlisle, yeovil and possibly swindon seem fucked to me
Joe Kinnear claims he was offered a two-year deal to be Newcastle boss, which he turned down for health reasons. In other news, no-one has bought the club off Mike Ashley yet.
― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't decide whether to hope the rumours about Jermaine Beckford being sold by Leeds to WBA are true or not, given it's 72 hours or so until we play them at their place. Like: is an unsettled JB a weaker choice than a second choice with something to prove? Not sure.
― Tim, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Leeds are supposed to have a decent choice of strikers - Becchio's meant to be a bit of alright, and Snodgrass, Grella and Showunmi have all had their backers in the past...
This is all quite tantalisingly close, isn't it? Here's Auntie's Blue Square preview. Not quite as many predicting the play-offs in this one.
― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Right. That's why I'm thinking that Bad Uncle Ken might helpfully hold off selling until next week, giving Jermaine plenty of time to put in a thoroughly below-par unsettled performance. That doesn't seem unreasonable.
― Tim, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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CRABS
― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Thursday, 6 August 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
PUBIC LICE
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
btw you're so not gonna win L1 next season
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
SNARLING THRU BARED TEETH STARTS HERE FOLKS
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
*smiles calmly*
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still looking for things to maim, equanimity will return eventually. Then we will see what Morgan Schneiderlin is really made of.
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, Sammy McIlroy gobbing on his arm just now and trying to wipe it off like it didn't happen...
― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't take your eyes off this, can you?
― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Saturday, 22 May 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
great game
unlucky there cardiff
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Saturday, 22 May 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
DJ CampbellDance with meDJ CampbellLet's pretendLiving out a Championship fantasyWaiting for the match to end
― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Saturday, 22 May 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6of1XpRiC0
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 May 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
It was a broadly fair result wrt how the game panned out but all of Blackpool's goals were basically not necessary... real talk tho, everyone is consolable by the magic words "Ian Holloway in the Prem next season you guys"
― she is mottled and she's looking good (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 22 May 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Next thread title.
― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Saturday, 22 May 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
On 2 May 2010, Bloomfield Road experienced its highest attendance for thirty years: 12,296 (11,192 home; 1,104 away) people watched Blackpool's 1–1 draw with Bristol City as the hosts secured a final-day play-off spot. This beat the previous high of 10,427, when Rotherham United visited on 20 August 1980
That record could be under threat next season - wikipedia reckons they can squeeze another 259 folk in if need be.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 22 May 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
the magic words "Ian Holloway Gareth from The Office in the Prem next season you guys"
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 22 May 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a good way for an irritating season to end
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 22 May 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
well
dagenham or rotherham, wonder what i'd prefer? christ i saw us play dagenham when we were prem and they were non-league
needed a deflected 87th-minute equaliser from salako
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 22 May 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe this was always fated
OH WHAT A MISS
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:32 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
A MISS OF CLASS AND GUILE
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:32 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
he's gonna deny to his grandkids that he was ever a footballer imo
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:35 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is just adding hilarious pathos to the massive mark clemmit interview with his entire extended family on R5 earlier, saying how joyful they'd be if he scored the goal to send them up
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:36 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
all speaking with awed tones of his fairytale ascent from Poole Town FC
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:37 (35 seconds ago) Bookmark
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
and of how he was a bricklayer even as late as last september, but a bricklayer who dreamt of wembley
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
if he dreams of wembley tonight he'll require sedation
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
morrison has looked excellent.
that looked like quite a last minute save, but opn replay it was nearly what a fuckup by the goalie tbh
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
a load of millwall fans going by my window being obnoxious
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
success has ruined them no doubt
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Our train back from Solihull to Marylebone this evening stopped at Wembley and picked up a load of Millwall fans. We had our one-year-old with us and feared the worst but they were absolute sweethearts.
― Stevie T, Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
you're so so so lucky they won
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
They were so subdued I presumed they had lost!
― Stevie T, Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
they've been feeling promotion is a right rather than a gift this season, they'll end up like arsenal fans
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
from firm to plc, a natural progression
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
first time ive watched the football league show
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
ricardo rocha described as having A LATINO SHORT FUSE
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