Oui, je sais. I'd hate the thought of Lyon struggling through the fucking Europa League next season :(
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 22 May 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh plz no. Things are looking ok-ish right now tho, 2 pt lead on PSG with a game to play. I want them to be in the CL because I'm busy on thursday evenings! and for other obv reasons.
― Jibe, Sunday, 22 May 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
Heh, I hear you, I'm busy workwise on Thurs-nights as well
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 22 May 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
Emilio Izaguirre
I can't actually read his name anymore without singing it in my head. I actually woke up with that bloody song stuck on a loop in my brain.
I was randomly thinking about Stephane Bonnes yesterday. His name often pops into my head as a byword for underachiever. See also David Fernandez. Suspect I'll be randomly thinking of Marc Crosas in future.
― ailsa, Sunday, 22 May 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of curious why WBS was thinking of Brek Shea yesterday.
For me it's been Faryd Mondragon.
― Frightening, but full of facts that are difficult to argue with. (dan m), Monday, 23 May 2011 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
hamit altintop
hamit altintophamit altintophamit altintophamit altintophamit altintophamit altintop
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 May 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
Ally Dick <3
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 21 October 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
Ruben Loftus-Cheek
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
Lars Ricken (thx to that awesome goal against Juve)
― Jibe, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:58 (twelve years ago) link
have just learned of a usa youth player named Dilly Duka.
― mizzell, Thursday, 1 March 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
Facundo Dipasquale
― fart bucket (toandos), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
granit xhaka
― r|t|c, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
ziguy badibanga
― r|t|c, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
Jean-Daniel Akpa-Akpro
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Monday, 16 April 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
antonin panenka
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 16 April 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
Steed Malbranque
(why is he called Steed?)
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 16 April 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
He's named after John Steed, allegedly
― Number None, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Cool, hope he has a sister called Peel then
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 16 April 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://boem.postism.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Hans-Krankl.jpg
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Monday, 16 April 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
"commentators are required by FA guidelines to refer to Ruel Fox by his full name at all times"
These guys are the best. Current heroes include Leighton Baines, Charlie Adam, and (rather uninspiringly) Scott Parker.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 15:22 (1 year ago) Bookmark
http://i.imgur.com/MMXgJ.png
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
(i know there was ray wallace too but still)
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 09:27 (twelve years ago) link
Jean Joel Perrier-Doumbe, whose winning goal in the 2007 Scottish Cup Final remains the only goal of his entire career.
― we are not bemused (onimo), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
For reasons best known to myself (which I cannot explain), I spent a very long time the other day - apropos of some reason I can't even remember - trying to remember Helder Postiga's name. And now that I have remembered it, it is stuck in my head.
I liked Joe Doumbe better than most of his replacements.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
Mitchell Burgzorg (born 25 July 1987) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Bulgarian A PFG club Ludogorets Razgrad.
― r|t|c, Saturday, 26 May 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
If Burgzorg can help the Dutch Lions defense at right back and help his rapping career at the same time, and that gets him to the Dutch Lions instead of Cambuur, more power to him.
Also I have a feeling looking at the first video that Mr. Burgzorg/Priester might be a marketing coo for the Dutch Lions if they can bring him on board.
― Éden Éden Éden / H.A.Z.A.R.D (nakhchivan), Saturday, 26 May 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Massinga
aka "Whiskey"
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like Ludovic Obraniak might be my biggest takeaway from euro 12
― mizzell, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Peter Løvenkrands
when you're down in trouble and you need some lovenkrands
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
hristo stoichkov
Esteban Cambiasso
esteban can't be arsed, so
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
Rene Higuita
― onimo, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo142/briger08/CIMG0006-1.jpg
― you can't stream a pancake (onimo), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
amazing
― boxall, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
marco delvecchio
― r|t|c, Friday, 6 July 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
Kyle Lightbourne
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 7 July 2012 09:51 (eleven years ago) link
Jason van Blerk
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 9 July 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
Diomansy Kamara
― ailsa, Friday, 20 July 2012 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/90sFootballers
― Chris, Friday, 20 July 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
Emerson
whose full name is apparently
Emerson Moisés Costa
I was trying to remember who it was that fucked off from Middlesbrough because his wife said it was cold and shite. I'd completely forgotten his wee spell at EBT-era Rangers.
― you can't stream a pancake (onimo), Friday, 20 July 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
i was thinking of the various brazilians who decamped to boro earlier tonight
used to have a fondness for them, gibson is the most admirable of the various small town made good types who used to predominate
― nakhchivan, Friday, 20 July 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
It was Christian Karembeu with the Middlesbrough-averse wife. Unless there was a whole raft of them (quite plausible, I expect).
― ailsa, Friday, 20 July 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
We got post-Boro Juninho for five minutes, his impact at Celtic was about the same as Emerson's at Rangers. As far as I know he's the only World Cup winner to ever play competitively for Celtic (Bobby Charlton played for us in a testimonial).
― you can't stream a pancake (onimo), Friday, 20 July 2012 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
Emerson was famously unsettled and at one point he pissed off to Brazil without permission. I thought his wife complained about the cold - there was definitely some family-related excuse.
― you can't stream a pancake (onimo), Friday, 20 July 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
was it Emerson who said - "I looked on Middlesbrough and knew it was a cold and terrible place"
― Number None, Friday, 20 July 2012 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
We don't have a football boots thread, do we? I was trying to find Bobby Charlton in the Hoops and found this insteadhttp://www.footy-boots.com/vintage-football-boots-6437/
― you can't stream a pancake (onimo), Friday, 20 July 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
62/- (that's £3.10 kids) for a pair of Bobby Charlton Brazilias. Bargain.
― you can't stream a pancake (onimo), Friday, 20 July 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2000/10/09/The+North+East+Archive/7128657.N_E_under_fire_from_soccer_wife/
― ailsa, Friday, 20 July 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Superb
"We didn't move here for the weather. When we first looked at the countryside I didn't think anything could grow here because there is no sun.
― Number None, Friday, 20 July 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/boro-seek-inquiry-on-emerson-1313252.html
Emerson, who will not play at Leeds tomorrow even if he returns today, laid bare his problems in a Portuguese newspaper. "I am starting to live a drama," he said. "My wife is ill. She doesn't like Middlesbrough as she feels it is too cold. I find it hard to concentrate on football as my wife is unhappy living in Middlesbrough."
― you can't stream a pancake (onimo), Friday, 20 July 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
such times as we'll never see again
Nottingham Forest have quashed speculation that they will be selling Ian Woan to Tottenham for pounds 3m, and Birmingham have turned down an offer from Bolton for Mike Newell, the striker they signed for pounds 775,000 from Blackburn last summer.Uefa, European football's governing body, responding to the Bosman ruling on transfer fees and attempting to help smaller clubs, has proposed that players should be signed on long-term contracts until the age of 24, during which time they will be subject to a transfer fee, and after which time they will be available on free transfers.
Uefa, European football's governing body, responding to the Bosman ruling on transfer fees and attempting to help smaller clubs, has proposed that players should be signed on long-term contracts until the age of 24, during which time they will be subject to a transfer fee, and after which time they will be available on free transfers.
― you can't stream a pancake (onimo), Friday, 20 July 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link