turkey, algeria, close enough m8 xp
― r|t|c, Friday, 10 April 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
St George was conceivably Moorish, right ah FUCK OFF RTC
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Friday, 10 April 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
st george big in ethiopia, st cyprian for algeria
― ogmor, Friday, 10 April 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
she my map queen let her hit the banter
― r|t|c, Friday, 10 April 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
ah, for the halcyon days of Carlos Kickaball.
― 'come around to your house and fuck your ho' (paraphrase) (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 10 April 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Queens Park Ranger’s Director of Football, Les Ferdinand, talks to 5 live sport’s Mark Pougatch about the club’s financial issues.
"Jermaine Jenas, who obviously you know extremely well and works a lot with us on the BBC, had this to say this week: 'During my time there, it was not being run as a Premier League club. For too long, the thinking was just to chuck money at the team. There has been no organisation, no vision, and no discipline in the way things were done.'"
"Sounds like a Premier League club doesn't it?"
― r|t|c, Saturday, 16 May 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
"From now on, I'm going to focus on doing my talking on the pitch," he told Sky Sports News HQ. "As a footballer, you always get critics whether you're Ronaldo, Messi or myself. All you can do is answer your critics on the pitch."
― turly dark (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 June 2015 07:29 (nine years ago) link
Speaking to Sky Sports News HQ, the former England skipper said: “If Gareth had picked the squad he wanted to pick, we’d have won this tournament. With those players we would have beaten Italy last night and beaten the rest of them as well.”
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 June 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
50 years on. I hope there's not too much of this in the year ahead, ah hae ma doots *though
(*pron. θoʊ)
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Monday, 28 December 2015 11:22 (eight years ago) link
Maybe starting on the 4th Jan is a clue re: how much of this there is going to be
― Coombesbat 18 (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 December 2015 11:46 (eight years ago) link
Norwich City have agreed a deal in principle with Everton for the £8m purchase of Steven Naismith having revived interest first expressed in the summer, though they face competition from a number of rival Premier League clubs to secure the Scotland international.
― things that are jokes pretty much (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
Allardyce has grown increasingly concerned at the lack of opportunities for British managers, something which has become a pet topic over the years, and he believes the situation has reached a stage where the authorities must act to level the playing field.
"The problem for me is we are denying British coaches positions in all divisions now, particularly in the top division and the Championship, and we need to do something about that.
"As a country, as the FA, as the Premier League, we need to protect the position of our own highly qualified coaches who are not even getting an interview now.
"What we could do is make sure that a British coach is interviewed for every position, a bit like the Rooney Rule."
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Capybara (big rat) @ Sea World, San Diego, California, USA (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
tony fernandes voluntarily adopts twp rule by giving token interview to andy hinchcliffe after haisselbaink's departure clears the way for some diversity
― Capybara (big rat) @ Sea World, San Diego, California, USA (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
Couldn't find the appropriate thread but england 3 hungary 6 is up on YouTube in it's entirety. P great stuff and the pace of the play way quicker than I was expecting. Kenneth Wolstenholme on the commentary quite funny when he's bemused by the hungarians interchanging of positions "the outside left takes the throw on the right touchline (2minslater)the outside left still on the right side of the field for some reason". England not as technically lacking as I was expecting tbh.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 11:51 (eight years ago) link
downright rude of those hungarian rotters
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 11:59 (eight years ago) link
literally the worst offside decision of all time against hungary after 10 minutes. should be 4-0 up
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
best moment so far just over 5 minutes in when mortensen gets knocked out cold and the hungarian players literally pick him up and dump him off the side of the pitch
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
hungary's 6th goal genuinely exquisite even by modern standards, and with that i yield
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
Next up, the 7-1 game?
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
CF 9 Bedford Jezzard
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
abysmal and great all at once
After the 3rd Hungary goal goes in there's a shell-shocked astonishment pervading Wembley. The nearest anologue is half-time at Germany-Brazil 2014, this sense that the best team in the world is giving the much-hyped home favorites a shellacking.
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
Quite fancy watching that later. I've read a lot about it - even paid money to get football nemesis on special order from the library a couple years ago - but have watched maybe a minute of footage.
Nandor Hidegkuti 4eva
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
mortensen getting knocked out at 45 minutes, not 5
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jan/13/louis-van-gaal-paul-scholes-manchester-united-coaching-staff
― Blandford Forum, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
Scholes as a coach (as opposed to a manager) is not the worst idea I've ever heard, even if the article itself is terrible.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3731977/I-d-hailed-foreign-boss-claims-Burnley-manager-Sean-Dyche.htmlhttp://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/sean-dyche-wants-a-pizza-the-action-as-burnley-return-to-the-top-flight-a7181411.html
why didnt i get round to reading this bollocks through sooner. i'm crying
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 August 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
that's classic material
'go on Pep, tell us about your pizzas'
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 11 August 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
bbc radio pundit following interview with Woy: "you really hope he can get a job in this country as a Director of Football and not have to go to China or America or somewhere like that"
because it would suck to work in those place, of course
― Our Sweet Fredrest (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 December 2016 10:01 (seven years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4114400/Darren-Fletcher-Manchester-United-illness-dream-West-Brom.html
'People talk about teams pressing but we did that first and then Barcelona took it on,' Fletcher explained.
'Before that in Spain it was, "You have it, we have it and then let's see who is best with it". But they saw what United did and realised that was the way to go.
'It's perfect. You don't even let the opposition have the chance to be in that lovely nice game. Barca eliminated that, but we did that first.'
― r|t|c, Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:50 (seven years ago) link
Pep Guardiola has not had it all his own way at Manchester City and Fletcher's take on that and his belief in Pulis's methods are fascinating.
Fletcher said: 'I heard Guardiola speak about the English use of the 'second ball' and it was interesting. English teams recognise you can control a game without possession.
'Turning teams round, playing a ball up and not caring if you win the first ball but ensuring you win the second or third ball. That's unique to British football.
'I am not sure you get too many of those phrases in Spain, where your manager always talks about pass completion.
'That's why stats don't always work. There are times when I can play a pass that's not complete, but it's what this team needs.
'It can leave a good team facing its own goal. They have to put the ball out of play and then we have territory and a throw-in that we have worked at.
'So now the ball is in their area and we get a chance or a corner. We are progressing but I haven't completed a pass have I?
'So my stats are down but I have done my job.
'At Man City or Barcelona, your passing stats will be off the charts but you have to look at football with your eyes as well. A pass that goes five yards isn't always that dangerous, is it?'
To listen to the way Fletcher has broadened his understanding in two years is intriguing. He has designs on coaching and keeps thoughts and ideas in a notebook.
― r|t|c, Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
christ help us all
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:53 (seven years ago) link
Fletcher is hardly that likeable is he? Suppose anyone looks good in comparison to Busquets. He was also pretty crap last season even before his mysterious virus
― Number None, Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:34 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i kinda like him
― http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhiteAmericanFolks.jpg (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:47 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
makes the most of his talents
― http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhiteAmericanFolks.jpg (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:47 Bookmark
― r|t|c, Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
Posted at 20:15Post updateNewcastle 3-0 Rochdale
In all seriousness Rochdale play some lovely football on the eye and should be applauded for it, I guess. You don't concede goals like that under Keith Curle though.
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
it's proving a poor night for lower-league goalies thinking they're iniesta, that's all
nothing wrong with passing it around the back if you have personnel who can handle it
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
lower league goalies thinking they're iniesta are tempting fate. before they know it they'll find themselves growing grapes, sending their quids on running a bodega in sussex, until one day the sky cracks open, death reigneth and a voice from above booms: 'you're trying to make wine in england ffs, what did you expect other than excrutiating pain and unending suffering, mortal?'
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
:D
like nigel blackwell himself
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
I'll take it!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
Did you see the Bournemouth game at the weekend?
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
that guy is a lower-league goalie making his three or four career EPL appearances tbf
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link