169 joachim loew combines a stellar managerial career with critically acclaimed jazz freestyle sets, playing sax in a troupe called 'cooking on loew'. Many speculate that the group were never picked up by a major label because that's not how you pronounce 'loew'
― chortlin acoleuthic (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
170 the welsh community of patagonia presented batistuta with a golden leek for his contribution to fiorentina's demolition of inter in 95-96, considering it a belated revenge for the milanese swindler who had convinced them of the transmutative properties of llama urine, a costly delusion that bankrupted many in the 1920s
― a photo post about some black people on a park that had me in tears (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
'llama urine' was a welsh inside forward who ran a successful bar in bridgend after retirement before it was burnt to the ground by an angry mob in the 1920's
― chortlin acoleuthic (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
171 artem milevskiy is known as 'piki', a reference to a controversial leaked video which appeared to show the then dynamo kyiv striker trying to hyponotize a capybara
― a photo post about some black people on a park that had me in tears (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
172 rivaldo responded to suggestions that he was accepting blood money during his lucrative stay at budyodkor by telling journalists that he was 'not shami fucking chakrabarti'
― a photo post about some black people on a park that had me in tears (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
173 jerome boateng is a wiccan
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
174. Martin Taylor's dad believes that 'Dune' is historically accurate.
― chortlin acoleuthic (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 December 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
175 eidur gudjohnsen's transfer to stoke was cast into doubt by an interview given to icelandic tv in which he compared the town's inhabitants to 'the kyphotic orcs who live in the cesspool [by the] bridge in akureyri -- inbred fucking scum, basically'
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
176 the daily sport reported in 2008 that ugo ehiogu had suffered an ectopic pregnancy, a mistranslation that caused the censure of a sub-editor and much mirth in the west midlands' retired footballer community -- 'to be honest with you it came out of the blue', says ehiogu, 'joachy [julian joachim] gave me a bit of stick but at the end of the today i wasn't even pregnant in the first place so it didn't effect things too much'
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 10:23 (thirteen years ago) link
177 Today, 9th December 2010, Mike Ashley will propose the capture of Eddie McAvoy as Newcastle United's next manager and that he has the full support of the board.
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 9 December 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
178. Most football fans know that Alf Common was football's first £1000 transfer. Not many know that Common was also the first footballer to sign a sponsorship deal, which led to him playing the 1904-05 season with the Bass Beer Red Triangle tattooed on his face.
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
179 jordan henderson can be seen dressed as an SS officer in the background of the 22/10/02 edition of 'songs of praise'
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
180 ian holloway was deported from israel for defecating beside the wailing wall
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
181 during chris hughton's time writing for the morning star, he was among a delegation to albania that kicked to death an 'ideologically unsound' parrot for the personal entertainment of enver hoxha
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
182. Tony Pulis reproduces by parthenogenesis.
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
183. Owing to a rare genetic abnormality, if you cut Trevor Brooking he bleeds Claret and Danish Blue.
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
184 neil ruddock attributes his lactose intolerance to a curse from a gypsy girl who he projectile-sharted all over in nursery school
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
185 adam lallana was convicted for stealing a bart simpson toothbrush from the havant branch of superdrug
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
186 ruel fox was fired from the fox soccer channel in 2005 when execs discovered a passage in the news corporation 'ethics' guidebook that prevents employees from sharing the name of a product
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
187 Lee McCulloch was born Zephyrinus de Roumanie Mircea Bourbon-Parma, Prince of Hohenzollern and twenty-sixth in line to the Romanian throne, but for twenty years has lived life as a Caledonian commoner following an unfortunate impulsive decision made after watching Disney's 1990 adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
188 sidney samson's dance hit 'riverside' was inspired by chod, a teeside hardcore continuum offshoot that samson discovered during visits to his stepbrother, marvin emnes
― nakhchivan, Friday, 10 December 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
189 hugo viana curbstomped a gateshead bookie in a 2004 dispute over the authenticity of pessoa's english-language poems
― dioufy (nakhchivan), Friday, 10 December 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
190 yuri zhirkov received a fine for littering in New Haven CT, pleading via an interpreter that he believed this was within his rights as a visiting dignitary
― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Sunday, 12 December 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
191. Mark Bright delivered his first son, specifically so he could ensure the first words the child heard were "There is no Father Christmas".
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 29 January 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
192. The French FA refused to recognise the Offside law until 1983 as they were unable to agree on a suitable Gallicisation of the word.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 January 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
193. Peter Withe is a popular manga character in Japan due to his resemblance to the deity Ebisu.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 January 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
194. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dubious_Goals_Committee&diff=412443044&oldid=412441598
Trying to take this concept out into the wider world a little.
― Bad Fucking Dowie (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 7 February 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Nani replaces Manuel Almunia (o.g.) in Manchester United's 3-1 win against Arsenal.
this is such, such bullshit
― acoleuthic, Monday, 7 February 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Former Tottenham and England midfielder Darren Anderton was breastfed until the age of 32, and was only weaned because his mother refused to move to Birmingham with him in 2004. As such, his apparent calcium deficiency remains a scientific and medical mystery.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
move to ILF
196. bradley pritchard has a higher bleep test score than usain bolt
― imago, Saturday, 5 January 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
197. Ryan Shawcross speaks fluent Tagalog after he found an injured Filipino man on the street as a child and nursed him back to health in his parents' shed.
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 5 January 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
198. In the 1994/5 season, Skonto Riga played away games in 'Frankie says relax' t- shirts
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 5 January 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
199 avant garde techno producer actress once had a contract with west bromwich albion before being forced to retire at 19 due to injury
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
200. Tony Cascarino's left nipple is Taiwanese.
― posters who have figured how how to priv (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
201. BBC foreign correspondent Orla Guerin is a former member of the Derby Lunatic Fringe
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 June 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
202. https://www.instagram.com/p/BCJQ1mVtsLC/
― r|t|c, Sunday, 28 February 2016 09:42 (eight years ago) link
203 Aleksandr Kokorin is the second-highest paid Russian player in the Premier League after Igor Denisov, his former team-mate from Dynamo Moscow. Kokorin is now so rich and famous that his bulldog, Rony, has his own Instagram page.
― nakhchivan, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
204 Ansi Agolli has played for Qarabag since 2010 and has become a fans’ idol there while winning in three league titles, and two domestic cups. His status as well-loved player in Azerbaijan was boosted after Albania’s qualification for Euro 2016. Agolli will be part of Azerbaijani football’s history books, through being the league’s first player to take part in the competition.
― nakhchivan, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
205 Razvan Rat is an avid wine collector, a hobby he began while playing for Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine – where he met his wife, too. He grew up in a small Romanian town, Piatra-Olt, where he watched the country’s legendary 1994 World Cup campaign at his neighbours’ house because his family did not have a television.
― nakhchivan, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
Despite being affectionately nicknamed "Thor" by Aston Villa fans, Birkir Bjarnason's name is actually the Icelandic for "Bucky Barnes". The Captain America sidekick is by a significant margin the most popular Marvel character in Iceland, with 8% of Icelandic men being named after him.
Bjarnason himself credits his 2012 transfer to Standard Liege to feeling more motivated as a result of Marvel's early 2010s revival of the character.
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 6 August 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
Javi Martinez is a World Cup champion and multiple Bundesliga title winner, but the Bayern Munich man also claims to have come up with the concept for ‘The Hunger Games’.
Suzanne Collins is the published author of a series of books which have been turned into Hollywood blockbusters.
The first instalment of her trilogy was released in 2008, with subsequent offerings hitting the shelves in 2009 and 2010.
‘The Hunger Games’ focuses on a futuristic world in which the inhabitants of impoverished ‘districts’ fight for survival in a compulsory televised battle royale.
By the time the books became movies in 2012, over 26 million copies had been sold.
Bayern star Martinez claims he missed out on a piece of that profit having come up with a similar idea in his youth.
The 30-year-old Spain international told German magazine Socrates : “Writing is a great pleasure for me, even as a teenager I started to write a book.
“And believe it or not, the plot was pretty much the same as 'The Hunger Games'.”
When Collins’ version of events hit the big screen, Martinez admits he found it difficult to watch.
He added: “That was strange, I was sitting in the cinema and thought: ‘It does not exist, that's my idea, which I had years ago, the creators must have stolen my computer’.”
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 9 February 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
Marvel Cinematic Universe mainstay Sebastian Stan was given a custodial sentence in 2009 for the aggravated stalking and subsequent attempted kidnap of then-Birmingham City midfielder Sebastian Larsson. The Acocks Green native, born Jordan Scuggins, later adopted his stage name as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the incident, quipping to Tim Lovejoy that it "might help me remember about the restraining order."
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 19 September 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Disgruntled former romantic conquests of Rohan Ricketts at one point organised into a support group named "The Riders of Rohan". The collective's efforts to raise awareness of the former Wolves midfielder's apparent shortcomings in the bedroom ultimately floundered amid confusing legal action from the Tolkien estate and New Line Cinema.
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 23 January 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
I had read that separately tbh
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 23 January 2022 23:26 (two years ago) link
1. Claudia Caniggia doesn't sweat.
― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:12 (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
more sinister now ofc
This thread is very funny. For some reason I am particularly enjoying “Jerome Boateng is a wiccan”
― the article don, Monday, 24 January 2022 00:13 (two years ago) link
210. Declan Rice exudes a unique pheromone which makes him sexually irresistible to English commentators and pundits
― a spectre is haunting your mom (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 March 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link