Just did a "find on this page" for the word "passion", and strangely it hasn't been mentioned. Gaah I hate the overuse of that word.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
say something other than fucking 'keystone cops moment' for once in yr career, plz pundits
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 9 May 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
We showed character.They showed character.Character.
― Chris, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Just realised that it's also one of those words that just looks wrong when you write it. Character.
― Chris, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
character is important: utd - (badge + character) = ?
― Black IP's (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, during the man city game the last night i repeated the 'good feet for a big man' trope so often that my gf, who was trying to read in the corner, lost her temper.
― Black IP's (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 May 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Were you gazing adoringly at her feet at the time? That would explain it.
― Home Taping Is Killing Muzak (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 10 May 2010 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm maybe she's jealous of crouchy. an aspect i hadn't considered tbh.
― Black IP's (darraghmac), Monday, 10 May 2010 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
stonewall penalty
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
now there's a football saying that's at least three removes away from correct usage of the original term, right?
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
It does make you wonder how it found its way into football vocabulary.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
'He's gone over as if....falling over a low stone wall there Brian?"
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
On a more topical theme, when Emile Heskey is picked again, we will no doubt be reminded ad nauseam that he 'does things that most people don't notice'.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:34 (thirteen years ago) link
That one's just gonna get repeatedly clunked against the "I don't care what anyone says, if you're a striker you have to score goals" one until something gives.
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
One thing that nobody has considered is that Heskey is so good he scores goals that people don't notice.
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:37 (thirteen years ago) link
pedrofuckingmendes.gif
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Heskey workin thru a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis in his head while the neanderthals around him insist on kicking a sphere. actually that may be more of a Berbatov.
― Hippocrates or wat!! (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"It's their cup final" = e.g when Anderlecht, who have actually won a European competition, played Liverpool in the Champions League a few years back
Neil Warnock actually said, about Barrow. "It's their cup final"... just before Barrow were about to play Stevenage in the, errrrrr, FA Trophy Cup Final
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Berbatov blatantly thinks about nothing but genocide, look at his eyes.
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link
the way the word FOOTBALL is constantly repeated like we don't know what the moronic game is called
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
(US version obv)
like we don't know what the moronic game is called
I thought this was true?
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, that occurred to me
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
cliches are often cliches for a reason. I don't think it unreasonable to expect strikers to score goals though 7 goals in 11 years says a shitload of England managers disagree.
― this skit is ba-na-nas (onimo), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Without wishing to reopen the Heskey debate, I think in my post above I was just bemoaning the patronising nature of being told, in effect, "you, the thicko public, just don't see how great he is"
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
...just before Barrow were about to play Stevenage in the, errrrrr, FA Trophy Cup Final
Would that be the final of the FA Trophy Cup?
― I Ain't Committing Suicide For No Crab (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Invoking Greek mythology whenever Greece or a Greek team are playing
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, Tom, and that old one about Greeks bearing gifts.
World Cup revive, by the way.
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
They're just happy to be here
― ======<() bzbzbzbzbzzbzbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzbzbzzbzbzbzb (onimo), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
This sums it up nicely: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/jun/05/world-cup-2010-cliches
The Italians 'revert to type'Just about everybody connected with English football believes that when push comes to shove Italy always fall back on defensive-minded cynicism. The finest example of this attitude came from Barry Davies after the Azzurri's defeat by South Korea in 2002: "And you have to say they have got what they deserve, because they just will not learn." Italy have won the World Cup four times; England have won it once. This suggests that whatever the Italians have failed to learn was maybe not worth knowing in the first place.
Just about everybody connected with English football believes that when push comes to shove Italy always fall back on defensive-minded cynicism. The finest example of this attitude came from Barry Davies after the Azzurri's defeat by South Korea in 2002: "And you have to say they have got what they deserve, because they just will not learn." Italy have won the World Cup four times; England have won it once. This suggests that whatever the Italians have failed to learn was maybe not worth knowing in the first place.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 09:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Considered zing
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I had the conversation about the Germans with a work colleague earlier on. "Like a machine" he said. I pointed out that they were great to watch, inventive and quick the other night, but he was having none of it.
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Germans passing the Turing test
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not exactly news that Barry Davies is an idiot, but nevertheless it's always worth restating.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Machines can be great to watch and quick imo, so your colleague gets a pass xps
― heywood jabulani (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Only a matter of time before those manufacturing segments in kid's tv shows just default to Klinnsman passing it into the far corner every time.
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:34 (21 minutes ago)
haha
i think it was established in an earlier thread that a lot of casual or stupid viewers srsly seem to take the cliches and phoned-in punditry shite as read
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:59 (thirteen years ago) link
or heard
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost re:'Italians revert to type'The thing is, that doesn't really disprove anything. The Italians have a reputation for falling back on defensive-minded cynicism because they have a track record of falling back on defensive-minded cynicism. They've won more World Cups than England, sure, but that's because they're often very effective at defensive-minded cynicism, not because they're crazy all-out-attack kings of flamboyant lunacy. England are neither of these things.
― I Ain't Committing Suicide For No Crab (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
england reverted to kick'n'rush type against USA, tbh
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Germany have been fun for a while!
― If the US had a dictator we'd call him coach (Michael White), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Germany have been the most consistently entertaining international side for nigh on a decade now
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
xp since 06 at least? iirc they were still quite dreadful in 02 wc
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought they were okay in 02, but yeah they've been great since they got a bit cavalier to cover up their vulnerabilities
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
They were okay in '02 but in '06 their battle against Italy took on almost a moral character for me, like the good vs the dark side of football.
― If the US had a dictator we'd call him coach (Michael White), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
the current Germany is definitely a beautiful machine! Actually so are all good football teams to me. I guess I just love the idea of machines.
― Hippocrates or wat!! (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Voller took them down a bad path but credit goes to both Jurgen and Jogi for the marked difference in the last 4 years
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"just banter"
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 27 January 2011 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link