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

Lee Hughes got a debut hat trick for Notts County...

Joey "Bad Boy" Barton - has apparently had a bust up with Chris Houghton before the match - not in the start 11

lol that was genuinely TOO exciting, if a game can be such a thing

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

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.

we fucking broke carson, and i hope he remembers that

Whereas Luke Moore broke himself, and Duff was broken by the earth's atmosphere.

XD

toon's reserve keeper is a 'very good kicker of a football'

Scotty C is mad good at kicking, to give him his due.

Krul has that Casablancas hollow-eyed, chubby indie kid look to him. Carroll and Moore have both looked hilariously sharp but I hope Moore wins it really.

I feel like life in the Championship will not be kind to Jonas Guttierez.

"You never rest at half-time because you think 'if we score five in a half then so can they'."

Colchester's first... fuck me.

Steve Claridge has grown his hair out.

Today was quite good fun - much better match than the game we had against Charlton. Our kids actually look to be... maturing. Lloyd James looks much better in midfield than at right-back, Lallana was proper probing and surging, lovely touches. Schneiderlin is a touch hot and cold, but his two cheeky lob attempts were fun. Murty and Harding - Actual Full Backs! - have really helped take the pressure off the kids, and once they're more settled in the side we've got a not-awful defensive unit, with Wayne Thomas being the monstrous presence our back four was crying out for. Could may be do with a better partner than Chris Perry, who's willing and gutsy but a bit too easily beaten in the air.

Our big problem's up front. Matt Paterson's come on in leaps and bounds - quick and good in the air, and not a bad finisher - but needs more support. Saganowski wasn't in shape, and we hadn't got any strikers on the bench so when Paterson came off, we seemed to sort of go 4-5-1-ish except not quite. Plenty of green shoots, though.

Millwall's strike pairing - Gary Alexander and Steve Morison - will give plenty of defences kittens, it should be noted.

The Football League Show is on iPlayer every week, btw. Manish is as uncomfortably dull as ever, and the studio makes them sound like they're in a cave, but the highlights stuff is better than it was on ITV.

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

Also, these highlights packages are being produced by BT, so by about October they'll probably be a month behind schedule and £1 billion over budget.

LOL

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"