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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 14:22 19 Jun 2025
Bristol City have appointed Gerhart Struber as their new head coach.
If things go well, then I'm looking forward to 'Struber-b City smash 5 past X' headlines.
If it all goes tits-up, I've let the Bristol Post have my 'Uber for Struber!' headline FOC. |
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Reply | John Terry's gaff
at 08:26 13 Jun 2025
It looks like somewhere a Russian oligarch would live. Friends of mine stayed in a high end hotel in Sri Lanka just after hotels popular with westerners had been targeted in terrorist attacks, and because of cancellations, they were the only guests staying there. They said it was very weird and uncomfortable having all the facilities to themselves, eating breakfast alone in a massive dining room etc. It must be like that living in a house like that, moving from one cavernous, black and gold room to the next. Imagine forgetting where you've left your keys and walking round for four hours trying to find them. |
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Reply | Blood Donors
at 13:06 10 Jun 2025
Mate, a pint of squash, plain Seabrooks, orange/mint clubs; it doesn't get better than that! |
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Reply | Blood Donors
at 22:52 9 Jun 2025
I donated blood and now that they can take platelet donations at my local hospital, I do that instead as you can't do both. There are only something like 10,000 platelet donors in the country, and they desperately need more, so if you have the option, it's definitely something to consider. You can donate as often as once every fortnight if you choose.
On the blood front, my mum had numerous blood transfusions over the years, which wouldn't have been possible without people giving blood, so I've always been very grateful to all those who donate. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 10:31 5 Jun 2025
94% possession with 2 shots on target against Dundee at home. Celtic will presumably win the league, but Rangers have a massive chance of creating possession history.
"Boys, no-on's ever achieved 99% possession before but we have the chance to make history. If we win the toss, I want that ball played straight back to the CBs. We all know that Dundee will play with a low block. Perfect - that's what we want because it means we can knock the ball about on the edge of our box until the ref blows for half-time. Second half, we need to press like bastards straight from the kick-off, win the ball back, play it back to our keeper, and we're all set for another 45 minutes of stroking it around at the back. Now, say after me, 'Possession is my obsession! Caution over adventure! It is better to slowly probe for an hour, than to attack wirh pace and power!" |
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Reply | National league
at 09:52 22 May 2025
Bet he wishes he'd put it over the bar now.
Either Oldham or Southend going up means wirh Barnet and one of those two back in the league, I get 2 x 92 ticks back to offset Carlisle and Goodison. Sorted.
Should definitely be 2 automatic slots and 1 play-off from the National league to League 2. Not sure how they justify it these days. |
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Reply | Spurs v Man Utd Europa League Final
at 06:59 22 May 2025
A mind-blowingly sh it game of football. Two poor teams producing a terrible game, summed up by the fact that the goal line clearance was probably the most impressive thing that anyone did x 1000.
Not that any of my Tottenham friends and family give a sh it - they've won a trophy. |
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Reply | Pre-season
at 19:30 19 May 2025
Some clubs force their employees to sign NDA's about pre-season friendlies. We don't even tell the players. One of my lot tried to find out who Fulham were playing pre-season once. Got no joy out of the club, so started asking around in the local pubs and on social media but still nothing. One evening, coming out of the Crabtree, he was walking down Rainville Road, when a van pulled up, the door slid open, and two blokes in balaclavas jumped out and bundled him into the van. One of the men stamped on his phone. They had him face down, blindfolded, with cable ties on his ankles and wrists. He was in the van for what seemed like hours before they left a main road and travelled along a dirt track for a couple of miles. He had no idea what was happening and thought he was going to die.
Eventually, he was dragged out of the van, with one of the men forcing a piece of paper into his mouth. "You need to start minding your own business, you nosy cun t" said one of the men before booting him in the ribs. The van drove off, but a few minutes later he heard a vehicle approaching, stopping, and shortly afterwards another car arriving. Fortunately for him, he'd been abandoned in one of Derbyshire's busiest dogging hotspots, and a kindly, horny couple from Matlock, grabbed a toolbox from their van, cut through the cable ties, pulled back the blindfold, and removed the envelope from his mouth. He opened the envelope, and inside was a piece of A4 paper, and written in black ink: 'Benfica XI. Portugal. Kick-off in 10 minutes'. He went through hell that evening, but he did get to watch people having sex in cars, and a lift back to Matlock, so it wasn't all bad. |
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Reply | Nathan Jones Amateur Dramatics
at 09:20 17 May 2025
Nathan Jones - man of faith. 10 part Netflix series - I'd watch it. Would have been better if he'd had a rosary, a crucifix in his hand, and a statue of the Virgin Mary, whose feet he could touched and kissed. Hindsight and all that, but he should also have had a Priest in the technical area baptising him in a wheelie bin full of water, and a load of televangelists laying their hands on him.
Super strange behaviour. You'd moved carriages if he was on the tube with you, eh. |
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Reply | Spurs v Man Utd Europa League Final
at 12:11 15 May 2025
Loads of family and friends are Tottenham season-ticket holders, so I would love for them to win it. It would also wipe out about 99% of Arsenal fans' tedious megabantz in one go, so that would be good. With Kane winning a trophy and possibly Tottenham winning a trophy, it could be time for some new material.
Surrounded by Man Utd glory hunters wherever I go, so I generally want them to lose almost every match they play. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 11:08 14 May 2025
Mate, have you not been listening to the pundits or reading the papers?
When Lampard took over they were ELEVEN points off the play-offs with a goal difference of -3 and only 29 games left in the season to claw back the deficit. It had been SEVEN WHOLE MONTHS since they had outplayed Man Utd in an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley. It defies all precedent and logic. The day Lampard was announced, you could get 4,000/1 on Cov not finishing bottom. It was 350/1 for Cov to score a goal before the end of the season and 2,000/1 on them winning a game.
What he has achieved at Cov puts him right up there with Jesus for me, and I say that as someone who thinks he's an absolute cun t. He surely has to get the Real Madrid job now? |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 10:31 14 May 2025
Devastated for Frank Lampard's Coventry City's Frank Lampard. What he's done at Cov is nothing short of a miracle. To take a team who were bottom of the Southern League, who had lost their last 744 games, conceding 26, 000 goals in the process, and to take them to the Championship play-offs just six months later... it deserved a happier ending.
Denied a fairy tale ending to the season, you have to feel particularly sorry for those long-suffering Cov supporters who were cruelly denied the opportunity to watch their giant-killing side in a Championship play-off final for the first time since two years ago. Having not played at Wembley since last year when they got to an FA cup semi-final, Lampard had finally given them something to believe in. Alas it was not to happen this year. |
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Reply | Famous people you have met on a plane
at 16:34 12 May 2025
Sat behind Dougray Scott on a flight back from Glasgow after watching Hibs at Hampden (he's a Hibby and his young son had a Fulham bag - what a family)
The Hairy Bikers (RIP) were on a flight back from NYC. Disappointingly, they were not revving their engines, and riding their motorbikes slowly down the aisle.
Sat next to Roy Hodgson on a Wizz Air flight from Luton to Belgrade. Draped a jumper over his lap and wan ked him off whilst he read 'Don Quixote' (in Spanish) and ate a prosciutto panini. *
* this one did not happen. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 10:21 9 May 2025
You’re right when you say he looks sad. He plays like a man whose cat’s gone missing. Unfortunately, whilst most fans will generally forgive a player for being sh it if they at least look to be working hard, poor old Armstrong just sort of ambles around at 8 mph, never getting closer than about 5-10 metres from the player he’s presumably closing down. Even though Wells is 34(?) he plays with so much more intensity than Armstrong and obviously offers much more chance of a goal, hence the forward who was supposed to be 3rd choice, starting every week. If you can't be good, at least be busy and make a nuisance of yourself.
Dickie has generally been very good for City, but he is super handsy in those situations. Surprised to see Manning calling the sending-off a disgrace after the game. Would have thought there was zero chance of it being overturned if they appeal it. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 10:03 9 May 2025
Exactly! Whether he supported my team or his local team, he's probably never gonna get to see his team win anything, so he might as well enjoy going to the football with his mates every week! And at least he was back home in bed ten minutes after the final whistle.
Walking to school this morning, I said, "mate, what about when my lot came back from 4-1 down to beat Juventus?" To which he replied, "Yeah, but you were at home and you didn't have Sinclair Armstrong up front". Which are fair points. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 08:18 9 May 2025
Definitely a red card and not even debatable. Frustrating for City as they were doing okay up until that point. Dickie also got sent-off v them were City were 1-0 up at home in the league.
City have done well to get to the play-offs, but they probably have two players who wouldn't be completely out of their depth in the PL - Jason Knight and Cam Pring. Manning has done well to get City to 6th, but insists on playing with the same set up even if he doesn't have players available who are comfortable in those positions. Going into the second leg 3-0 down and with no Pring, Dickie, Williams, or Sykes... it could be a long night.
My son is a lot less excited about Monday night than he was when I told him we had tickets on Wednesday! Eight hours on a coach, the chance to watch his team get smashed, and home at 1:30am. Good times - at least it's his fuc king club! He gets the afternoon off school, so there is that.
As for Sinclair Armstrong... fuc k my boots. I really have no idea what his qualities are. He's not even a nuisance to play against. I know it's difficult playing up front on your own, especially with 10 players, but the way he half-heartedly jogged about 'closing down' is an absolute joke. |
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Reply | Supporting QPR
at 13:57 6 May 2025
Thanks Terry, Harbour, and Kerry. I think there were about 5 minutes in the second half where they dropped-out on the play-offs, at which my son buried his head in my armpit, blatantly having a cry, but obviously not wanting his mates to clock it. I was absolutely gutted for him at that point. For them to drop out after being in the play-offs for a few weeks would have been pretty tough on him and his mates, but thankfully everything worked out in the end. We've done enough aways to qualify for tickets for the second leg, so I’ll be taking him up to Sheffield on Monday. Whatever the outcome, it’s nice that they’ve had something to get excited about by reaching the play-offs (although there will definitely be tears if they lose on Thursday and/or Monday!). |
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