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Reply | goodbye to another one of us, RIP Dad
at 17:10 15 Jul 2025
That's a lovely tribute - he sounds like a great dad and husband. Hope all your shared experiences and memories are a comfort to you. Very sorry for your loss. |
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Reply | World Club Cup Final
at 16:18 14 Jul 2025
The Saudis have bankrolled the whole tournament through investing $1bn in DAZN, which then spent that $1bn for the rights to the tournament, and made all games free to air. Infantino makes a complete transparent mockery of the World cup rotation and bidding process to award Saudi the World cup in 2034, and in return, they finance Infantino's project and get their clubs access to major European clubs in competitive football.
To me, this looks to be partly about normalizing intercontinental club football, probably as an opportunity to get Saudi clubs playing big European clubs rather than pi ssing about in a league that no-one in the wider world cares about. If a European Super league were to happen, then I would be very surprised in the Saudis didn't try and get involved. That would solve the issue they have with players in their prime opting to stay in Europe for 1/10th of what they could be earning in Saudi.
Unfortunately, money talks, and the Saudis have more than most, and are happy to pay whatever, to whoever, to get their way.
Also interesting that of all the properties in NYC, FIFA make the politically-divisive decision to open an office in Trump Tower. |
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Reply | So what's the new song ?
at 10:32 14 Jul 2025
He's Breton, he's French,
He smokes Gauloises on the bench,
Julian, Julian
He's Breton, he's French,
He reads Sartre on the bench,
Julian, Julian
You can have that for free. [Post edited 14 Jul 10:33]
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Reply | Annual flying ant day
at 10:13 11 Jul 2025
What people don't see or appreciate, is the amount of effort that goes into planning the event. |
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Reply | Chelsea fined £27 million
at 09:43 7 Jul 2025
I've heard they've sold a table and 4 chairs from one of their executive suites, to one of their former hotels, for £40m, and a box of crockery for a further £8m. Currently in negotiations for the sale of some old carpet.
They are the spawniest fu ckers in world football, so they will no doubt win this tournament and get about £6bn in prize money. |
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Reply | How optimistic are you now?
at 13:34 2 Jul 2025
Fulham tickets are so expensive that we've even managed to price out the posh kids of West London. If we're not careful, we could lose out on the next generation of local fund managers, corporate lawyers, and property developers. Sad times. |
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Reply | "The Project"
at 16:15 30 Jun 2025
That's the sort of passion I'm looking for. Worst case scenario, we're sacked by November and we just update the slides and go again. When we're presenting, we just need to emphasise how much we're planning to align the fu ck out of everything and instil an identity at the club. What will our legacy be? Good question... a team full of local lads playing in an exciting, instantly recognisable way, and winning every game 10-0, in front of a packed house chanting the name of the club's owner. |
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Reply | "The Project"
at 13:32 30 Jun 2025
It doesn't matter who you are, you need to put a slide deck together that highlights a masterplan that involves:
* winning a lot more games
* losing a lot less money
* signing players for £400 and selling them to Chelsea 12 months later for £2bn
* fielding 10 academy players every week by the 27/28 season
* establishing an identity that sees all sides from U6 academy to first XI playing suicidal balls out from the back
* increasing social media followers to at least 85% of the global population by Christmas
* winning the Champions League within 3 seasons, even if you're currently playing at Step 6.
If you produce a PowerPoint deck with the above goals on it, I guarantee a club at some level will appoint you to be their CEO, DOF, or first team coach by the end of the season. Whether it's a PL club or someone in non-league will depend on how passionate you sound when talking about the project. Football without projects is nothing. [Post edited 30 Jun 13:46]
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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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