ITV football coverage: Urge To Kill Rising

Noone's complaining about JT being in the team I see.

Wow, some of those names take me back.

Garry Birtles

He was really shit too when he came to Man U iirc.

That's daft too, they felt they had to have a "captain" (xp)

Baffling exclusion of Danny Mills.

Danny Mills / Mick Mills combination would have been perfect

Heather Mills as well.

Danny Mills did not play that badly in 2002 iirc. It was probably the last time he did anything of note in football.

yeah he was a big success in that tournament

For an Englishman, yes

Mark Barham was a Norwich winger in the late 80's IIRC. Didn't Keith Curle go to Euro 92?

Other shitehawks: Andy Sinton (a winger without pace), Stewart Downing (ditto), Gary Bailey (fat goalie), Neil Ruddock (very fat stopper), Steve Froggatt (fragile headless chicken), Richard Wright, Terry Fenwick (slow clogger), David White, Darius Vassell (fast in a straight line, without the ball)

Stuart Ripley? I know he got injured but was he any good?

OK, David White is drawing a total blank. Steve Froggatt?

You really need to raise your game wrt knowing about Villa players from 1993.

Vassell was another shit player with a good record for England, until his missed penalty in 2004.

What a cast of Villans

You really need to raise your game wrt knowing about Villa players from 1993.

Pre-Premiership, English football wasn't as all pervasive as it is now, plus Scottish football wasn't as shite

Well, Villa have provided more England players than any other club, so it's natural that a significant portion of the players who have crushed the national self esteem with their ineptitude over the years would be Villa boys.

did they build up the numbers in the 70's and 80's?

David Nugent scored as well. It was probably the most school football team 'goal' I've ever seen from an England player.

hahaha it was 6 inches out and going in anyway wasn't it

heskey would have blocked it

Remember that West Ham goal where Tevez blocked the ball on the line in an offside position and they gave a goal? That may actually be the worst decision ever.

not while mendes is still breathing (just)

Remember that West Ham goal where Tevez blocked the ball on the line in an offside position and they gave a goal? That may actually be the worst decision ever.

And there was a handball. That was to beat Blackburn, in their pact-with-devil escape which they deserve terminal financial ruin for

I figure Mendes is like a pair of aces in bad decision terms, but the West Ham one is like some Royal Flush of comprehensive wrongness

ok on consideration it trumps mendes, yeah

Wasn't there a goal given this season where the ball visibly didn't even come close to going over the line?

There was the Reading-Watford one in 2008 that went wide.

It went wide.

Hahahahaha omg amazing. Is it on Youtube?

Wasn't there a goal given this season where the ball visibly didn't even come close to going over the line?

there was one of these too, i think it was last season though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0YiuSbBdaQ

also lolwarnock where the ball came off the back off the net/stanchion and the goal didn't stand- some kid's debut goal or something?

if Palace had gone down I'd have posted that one about 40 times by now - against B City iirc

There was a Southampton one in the 90s that hit the advertising hoarding through the net and bounced out again.

Is 'Neil Webb' Neil Webb or Steve Hodge?

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that I reckon 'Neil Webb' is Neil Webb.

xp that's right temurii ketsbaia lost a week's wages on the outcome and a terrible vendetta was born

can't believe Matt DC isn't already thoroughly acquainted with the Jon Eustace Phantom OG - it's part of footballing lore. Stuart Attwell was the referee. The young one.

That's classic - how the hell did he give that. There was one in the 70's where Stevie Kember of Palace (later of Chelsea) hit the outside of the stanchion and it was given until Kember told the ref that he'd missed.

xp - Neil Webb desrves to be in there. Very very slow.

Talking of Palace - John Salako.

john salako is a fucking legend

This is a legend:

Peter Bonnetti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7Smaue7Q4&feature=related

aw he's so little

This is fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4b7flwMTwM&feature=fvw

Some classic Barthez screw-ups, but Taibo (or whatever he was called) is the best - it's the first one.

Back to the matter in hand: Dave Beasant. A career based on one fecking penalty save in the cup final.

Tyldsley and Gray commentating on ITV's coverage of pro-celebrity matches is a masterclass in how not to be self-aware in any way whatsoever and kind of wonderful in a bizarro way. It's like a live action episode of Billy The Fish.

haha, it is, isn't it? I particularly liked the bit where they basically suggested that Cheryl Cole was available for shagging any fit celeb/footballer.

i only wanted to watch this for woody, but i haven't seen him once

Injured in training by Buzz Lightyear

YES

IT IS, ITS WOODY HARRELSON

Woody Harrelson cracked onto a friend of mine in a bar on Thursday night and gave her two free tickets to this game. She didn't take him up on either offfer.

classic Woody

okay woody is going to score the winner isn't he