why is there no ILF thread where you compare football players to avians?
― Japanese Donald Trump Commercialトランプ2016 (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:14 (eight years ago) link
noting that no less an ILX favourite and european championships luminary than andrei arshavin himself was routinely likened to a strigiform back in the day
― Japanese Donald Trump Commercialトランプ2016 (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
not sure, could be a thing, zlatan is a bit heronlike
got some gr8 holiday snaps of avians including what might be a saker falcon
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
daniel sturridge is a jay for sure
― Japanese Donald Trump Commercialトランプ2016 (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
hodgson owl has been done so often that i think it even made the daily mail
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:24 (eight years ago) link
great call on sturridge
this match is abject
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
buffon could be a skua
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
ibra misses from a yard, offside luckily for him
― pandemic, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
So bored. I actually just trying to think of footballer-bird puns, but coming up short.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
his heronly wiles informed him of this
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
Oh, I was just thinking of names! Something something 'wing'
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
trying to work out which footballer is most like a gannet, might be andy carroll
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Busquets would be one of those nuisance birds that consistently up in your shit, maybe an arctic tern or something.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
saw loads of crested larks yesterday at the tombs of the kings, as celebrated by st f of assisi as redolent of the humble friars going busily about their business, obtaining their corn etc. i thereby dub ngolo kante a crested lark
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
busquets is self-evidently a starling
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link
a thieving magpie, though with better footwork, and possibly less ambivalent about the relative merits of the colours white and black
― Japanese Donald Trump Commercialトランプ2016 (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
lol fine or that
arctic terns migrate like twenty thousand miles a year, that is hardly up in anyone's shit
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
giaccherini looks great imo, and was great the other night. and yet... sunderland.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
he is a hoopoe, much at home on the continent but faced with the wearside chill decidedly flighty
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
oooooh sweet
― pandemic, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
Gertcha.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
what a goal
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
what happened the defender there, did he kind of slip or something?
they've been poor but when you defend like italy do always gonna have a good chance
like the brazilian eder
― pandemic, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
that was the most pissweak central defending of the tournament so far
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:47 (eight years ago) link
Hodgson looks more like a hen imo
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
Laying a big fat Rooney egg.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
lol, a powerful and truthful image
― ogmor, Friday, 17 June 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
it was amazing that rashford, sturridge, vardy and rooney were all on the pitch at once yesterday
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 June 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
lol cech stopping the ball with his head
― Jibe, Friday, 17 June 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
croatia lovely to watch
― pandemic, Friday, 17 June 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
those 15 pts that cech was gonna gain arsenal never really materialized did they? unless arsenal were even worse than i thought.
― pandemic, Friday, 17 June 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
And there it is.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 17 June 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
lovely
― pandemic, Friday, 17 June 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
Is Modric the best midfielder in the world right now?
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 June 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
him and iniesta have been a clear level or two ahead of any others in this tourney so far.
― pandemic, Friday, 17 June 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
I would have said Kroos as well but I didn't see yesterday's game.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 June 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
Wes Hoolahan, yo
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Friday, 17 June 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
settle down lads, 2-0 is plenty
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
since when were the czechs this abject
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
shit i used that adjective earlier
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
since when were the czechs this redolent of geese
altho geese know how to stay in formation so
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
we got there
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
mandzukic is such an injury-faking cunt, who knew
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
ah rats' cocks
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
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saw a large flock of Canada geese flying in a nice v formation at sundown few days ago as i blazed a bifter on my roof. well coordinated, and they like to communicate with one another, many a call was heard.
― The Nickelbackean Ethics (jim in glasgow), Friday, 17 June 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
even more unlike the czech defence with each word
― imago, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
lol have you read fergie's book? loved to use a canadian geese analogy when talking to players.
― pandemic, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
Plenty of time for a 3rd
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 17 June 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link