Excellent Colin story:
Funniest incidentI was on the bench for Plymouth and we were 3-0 down at half-time. Neil Warnock came into the changing room. He was ranting and raving, swear words galore. He picked on one of the defenders who he was particularly annoyed with. There was a big metal tea urn in the room. He picked it up, chucked it in the air and headed it! ‘That’s how you f*****g head a ball!’The room was so quiet, no one dared laugh, but we could see the blood start trickling down his face. The physio Norman Medhurst ushered him into the physio’s room leaving Mick Jones and Kevin Blackwell to give the team-talk. We got the game back and drew – he came in with a big bandage on his head, laughing.
I was on the bench for Plymouth and we were 3-0 down at half-time. Neil Warnock came into the changing room. He was ranting and raving, swear words galore. He picked on one of the defenders who he was particularly annoyed with. There was a big metal tea urn in the room. He picked it up, chucked it in the air and headed it! ‘That’s how you f*****g head a ball!’
The room was so quiet, no one dared laugh, but we could see the blood start trickling down his face. The physio Norman Medhurst ushered him into the physio’s room leaving Mick Jones and Kevin Blackwell to give the team-talk. We got the game back and drew – he came in with a big bandage on his head, laughing.
http://www.thenonleaguefootballpaper.com/latest-news/step-five-and-below/18280/good-bad-and-the-ugly-ex-plymouth-exeter-weymouth-and-current-exmouth-town-striker-lee-phillips/
― Tim, Monday, 6 February 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
An old school pal of mine played for Warnock at 3 different clubs and was quite mild mannered, tee-total and from a strict christian family. I always wondered if his background of having quite terrifyingly strict disciplinarian parents made him an ideal Warnock player or at least conditioned him to respond well to that style of coaching!
― calzino, Monday, 6 February 2017 23:14 (seven years ago) link
still some way behind the all-time best ever plymouth manager story...
Shilton was player-manager, or rather goalkeeper-manager, at the time. Plymouth were slipping into trouble in the old Third Division, the fingers of relegation closing round their necks for the second time in three years, and Shilton was trying to encourage his players to believe they could clamber away from the bottom three and rise like a “pheasant from the flames”.After a slightly awkward silence, someone tentatively pointed out the word he might have been looking for was “phoenix”. Shilton, standing in front of his players as a double European Cup winner and the record England appearance-maker, paused for a few moments to take it in, the realisation dawning that his motivational speech had not gone quite as planned. He needed a line to reassert his authority. “I knew it began with an F,” he said.
After a slightly awkward silence, someone tentatively pointed out the word he might have been looking for was “phoenix”. Shilton, standing in front of his players as a double European Cup winner and the record England appearance-maker, paused for a few moments to take it in, the realisation dawning that his motivational speech had not gone quite as planned. He needed a line to reassert his authority. “I knew it began with an F,” he said.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 08:55 (seven years ago) link
I can't remember the fine details, but there is a piss funny 90's Andy Payton story about him going on the run to avoid a drink driving rap and being found by the police hiding in his lover's wardrobe.
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 12:21 (seven years ago) link
Stupid, stupid Gargles.
― Tim, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 12:22 (seven years ago) link
biggest game of the season tonight!
seems like as good an occasion as any to leave out our one good player
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
looking forward to peter beagrie's insight into some unknown we've loaned from accrington
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
kick off delayed due to too many fans seems like a donald trump lie from sisu
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
Fuck Wigan, but I'm chuffed for Omar Bogle hopefully doing us a favour here.
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:31 (seven years ago) link
there's anotherrrr game!? :)
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:36 (seven years ago) link
Which game were you watching tonight?
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
ha sorry, Coventry x
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
lol! I thought you were Coventry. The autoglass/johnstone's pain cup games weren't showing up on my live score tab, and for a while I thought you might have switched to Norwich or something.
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link
haha, also share the omar love btw
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
but yeh p stoked for this, i was 1 in 1987 so other than relegation escapes this is my shangri la
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
on the back of the worst second half I've ever seen all the same
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
There is so much doom and gloom around Coventry, they seem like the most in-crisis club in the league. And then you get Russell Slade :(
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
oh yeh, but at least yakubu is training with us now ha
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
tbf i kinda feel slade over mowbray but maybe i just hate that dude too much
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:17 (seven years ago) link
think big Steve pressley still lives in my hometown, not the best manager but he looked so great all is forgiven
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:20 (seven years ago) link
Elvis applied for the Town job a couple of times and made the cut to the final interviews once, there was almost mass suicide when the bookies made him the odds on fav for the job.
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
hahaha
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
sorry I'm not too verbose, trying to order 5 shots of sky blue that isn't bombay sapphire and we're outta ideas
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
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― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
rolling dickhole dads circling the wagons after being called mediocre [Started by r|t|c in August 2002, last updated Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:50 by r|t|c on I Love Football] 300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 new answers
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
http://htfc-world.com/reports/Leeds8/leeds050217_r38_c1.jpg
The Heff vs Janssen, no competition really!
― calzino, Thursday, 9 February 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4D8ydEXAAAmn8c.jpg:large
doesn't seem much point going to the pub for this one, what with Liverpool-Spurs and a fucking rugby match both on at the same time
― excitable Question Time guest (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 February 2017 11:44 (seven years ago) link
I could easily see the first goal at LR today coming from an unmarked Smith in a set-piece, have gone for the 10/11 both teams to score option today. The joke at our place always was that Lynch feigned injury every xmas, but it looks like he is still out.
There seems to be a QPR/Hudds livestream on youtube, I'll link it if it isn't bullshit.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 February 2017 14:19 (seven years ago) link
I felt like I was going to have a heart attack when it was 7 mins E/T. We have finally won at LR, we are probably going to win this fucking division now!
― calzino, Saturday, 11 February 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
srsly love watching an American stream, great highlights of Deeko and the lads at Molly-noy, would do this every week if i could
― excitable Question Time guest (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 February 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nh11A41klL4/hqdefault.jpg
L-R: Newcastle, Wolves
― excitable Question Time guest (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 February 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link
I notice now that Leeds have lost again after also losing to us, Sutton and Barnsley, that Monk is saying Cardiff parked the bus because they have so much respect for his all-conquering galacticos. He is such an ungracious arrogant wanker whether he wins or loses, and will never admit that his lot were set up wrong or were 2nd best.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 February 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
just happy to see the wheels coming off tbh
― excitable Question Time guest (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 February 2017 21:50 (seven years ago) link
amen to that
― calzino, Saturday, 11 February 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
Although if our wheels don't fall off I would love an effectual bye to the playoff final to face them in the playoffs!
― calzino, Saturday, 11 February 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link
Scuse my arrogance, but when we are having the best season since the year before I was born and Frank Worthington was still a swinger. It is hard not to get caught up in the excitement!
― calzino, Saturday, 11 February 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
totally happy to see a non-dick club having a great season as i peer thru the bars of the Karma Hotel
― excitable Question Time guest (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 February 2017 22:05 (seven years ago) link
Wagner seems destined for bigger things right now, but it doesn't seem that long ago that a flying Warburton at Brentford had similar prestige, but it can all go wrong so relatively fast!
― calzino, Saturday, 11 February 2017 22:17 (seven years ago) link
not to be dramatic but leeds hudds 2 leg playoff semi rematch is world football's only remaining hope
― r|t|c, Sunday, 12 February 2017 13:36 (seven years ago) link
this mike flynn dude really reminds me of tony mowbray
― nxd, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
otm
― imago, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
hah! squint your eyes and they could be twins. Although I could imagine Mowbray as a Clerk of Works/site manager type of grunt wiv Baz written on the back of his viz-vest, but definitely not a General.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
I was talking to an old betting shop manager pal the other day. He says this incongruously glam looking lass comes into his shop with 10 minutes to kill and asks him how to put on a football bet. So she just picks 7 random teams off the coupon and puts on a £2.50 acc and they all win and she has £500+ to collect. One of his regular nosy punters who is watching him pay her out says afterwards: "The tight fucker could have at least tipped you a fiver!" and then says her husband is x player at QPR.
Anyway she has inspired me to use a random number generator to pick my games tonight and pick win, lose or draw for my acc. The random number generator came up with Wednesday, Wolves, L**ds wins and Norwich and Candy Crush Fc draws
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 19:36 (seven years ago) link
Just watched the death of Barca and meanwhile we're stepping up our relegation bid. Guess who's going to the Mol on Saturday btw. Fffs
― Treesh-Hurt (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
I'd be tempted to watch us put a nail in Pep, but since some tin-pot wanker at the club marketing dept put out a half Man City/Town scarf in the shop - i actually want Town to lose this fucking game.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link
My brother has a spare apparently and I'm down there to see my mom so good times but we are incapable of scoring right now so nobody make any daft bets imo
― Treesh-Hurt (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
Lee Clark has left Kilmarnock to take over at Bury, apparently the Bury chairman is a town fan - so he ought to know better really.
"The Directors have given me their full support in rebuilding the squad and the fans will always have a special place in my heart but I still have huge ambition to one day manage at the highest level in England, which is obviously the Premier League, and I feel that the fresh challenge of managing a club in England's League One could provide me with the platform to build towards this goal."
Lol! yeah i've got dreams to be an aeroplane pilot when I grow up.
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
10 wins in 44 games, aye I bet the fucking Kilmarnock fans will be inconsolable.
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
hadnt noticed brum defender "Josh Dacres-Cogley" before
― r|t|c, Saturday, 18 February 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4tz1e2XAAIFyiR.jpg
ooooooo
― r|t|c, Saturday, 18 February 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link