even the soccer saturday guys have closed ranks on blackburn, it's quite weird
― modric conservative (darraghmac), Monday, 16 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
the prob with the blackburn fans is just, at least superficially and in the way it is going to be perceived by outsiders, that a lot of their moaning is just bleating "keane out". venkys out i would have a lot more sympathy with.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 16 January 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
They only talk to each other, no? Explains why the occasional cheating, diving foreigner is incongruously fair game, like I dunno Christian Gross or Massimo Taibi. Steve Kean was one too until Ferguson and Moyes pitched in.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 16 January 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
keane out, venky's out, i've no quarrel with either tbh. He's the front, the plant, the mouthpiece, the cuckoo's egg. A win or two doesn't alter that in any way.
― modric conservative (darraghmac), Monday, 16 January 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah but the 'don't be mean to kean!' line seems so uptight and against what fans feel, it borders on ludicrous.
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 January 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
"there was a staleness about them that invited harm"
this is a mccarra phrase from a long-forgotten match report that has inexplicably forever lodged itself in my mind
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 April 2011 20:55 (1 year ago) Bookmark
this has recently been superseded by "the evening fell under the control of marcelo bielsa's squad" just fyi
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Adel Taarabt causes trouble. Despite his undoubted talent, Tottenham gave up on Taarabt. So, earlier this season, did Ian Holloway. On Saturday, Mark Hughes, who has replaced Holloway as manager, started his mercurial midfielder against his former club.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/peter_berlin/04/21/premier.league.thoughts/index.html
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
As United's manager begins his annual summer holiday in the south of France he may reflect that calligraphy derives from the Greek words kallos and graphe. Meaning "beautiful writing", it is a form of expression intended to address the heart as much as the eyes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/jun/05/shinji-kagawa-manchester-united
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
guessed richard williams
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/254015/Liverpool-job-is-Brendan-Rodger-sLiverpool-job-is-Brendan-Rodger-s
just putting the worst football headline of all time here for posterity
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
The new Blizzard contains the following sentence:
Constantly high, drunk or both, Lundekvam took to roaming around in his garden with a huge knife, hunting paparazzi.
― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 15 June 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah,i read that. Thought it was a poor issue in general though.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Manchester City had two new players on show. One was Jack Rodwell, right, spoiling his debut with the mistake that led to Southampton's second goal after a £15m transfer from Everton. The other was not technically foreign to this parish: Carlos Tevez 2.0, who is promising to be all the good things, and none of the bad, that any £250,000-a-week forward should be.
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
The pain inflicted by the loss of Fábregas and, more recently, Robin van Persie – not to mention Nuri Sahin's decision to join Liverpool on loan from Real Madrid – was temporarily at least diminished by his new 5ft 6in Spaniard.
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From Giroud's viewpoint this could only be a good thing. Long before Cazorla had assuaged Wenger's anxieties – not to mention ruined José Reina's afternoon – by scoring Arsenal's second goal, their lone striker had appeared a weak link.
― Unlike humans, dogs don't talk shit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
These are, of course, early days and expectations are, as Wenger puts it, very high. Giroud must be given a decent chance to adapt to a new football culture but it is impossible to resist the thought that a move for Andy Carroll on Arsenal's part last week might not have been quite as left-field as it sounds. Alan Pardew, Newcastle United's manager, sees shades of Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the England centre-forward and what better habitat in which to coax them out of him than The Emirates?
― Unlike humans, dogs don't talk shit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/sep/02/santi-cazorla-arsenal/print
― Unlike humans, dogs don't talk shit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:40 (Yesterday)
i think i just threw up a little in the back of my throat
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 3 September 2012 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
Ezra Pound described his incomplete poem, Cantos, as a "rag-bag", but he could just as well have been talking about Queens Park Rangers' style of play.
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 October 2012 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
Was that Richard Williams? Please tell me that was Richard Williams.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 October 2012 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
once again williams is surprisingly found innocent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/oct/05/premier-league-10-things-weekend
it's this new (?) prat at the graun, not his only choice line either
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 October 2012 10:03 (eleven years ago) link
£'s the cuntos morelike amirite
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 October 2012 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/oct/03/steven-fletcher-sunderland-scotland
first comment hall of fame btw, sweet as a nut
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 October 2012 10:07 (eleven years ago) link
And then there is the question of Gervinho. The Ivory Coast international often looks like an embarrassed teenager on an early sexual encounter; he's scoring, yet most of his time is spent fumbling around without really knowing what to do.
― pandemic, Friday, 5 October 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19885940
I once got a text off Coyle that featured a smiley face. He is an easy man to like.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
cool story
that gurning bio pic.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
International weeks are a killer, mentally. I felt Coyle's passing should be marked, but I just couldn't get it together to revive any thread for it.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't sure where else to put this because Ray Hudson isn't really a journalist and there's no commentary thread I'm aware of. But seriously, this is one of the best things: http://illustratedray.tumblr.com/
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
wait, we really don't have a general commentary thread? ilf is still just an infant
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
Coyle got such a free pass from journalists and pundits in general it was ridiculous. He took down a Bolton team that had been established in the top flight for an entire decade and no one seemed that bothered. Even 2/3rds of the way through last season people like Alan Hansen were still saying "he's a good manager, he'll sort it out..."
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
i believe i have a guffbank thread somewhere
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
AVATAR EYES
― Number None, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Eh I think the free pass was more due to a player actually dying midgame tbf
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Nah it was happening before that. Martinez gets a similar free pass.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KHe3O.png
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
they've changed it now. This slipped by them though
Banks, who won 7 caps for the Three Lions
― Number None, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
would of won more if he had of played for one of the sky 4 and not stoke
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Is there anything de Gea could conceivably do to move into the 'not crap' pile?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
bulk up, get intimidating tattoos, date hollyoaks extra and then dump them with a text sent at exactly the same time as he is photographed leaving a brothel
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
And is there anything Hart could do to be not the best keeper in the world?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
has there ever been a bad boy goalkeeper in the epl?
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Bosnich?
― Number None, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
closest thing i can think of is charles itaandje and his prodding of damien plessis during the hillsborough ceremony
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
change nationalityxp
― pandemic, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
Paddy Kenny's a bad boy AND a bad keeper
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
bosnich true....although he was more a floppyhaired, slightly foppish coke-bloated waster and rather than a really intimidating type
paddy kenny had part of his ear bit off in a 'nightclub incident' iirc but he seems just generally hapless in all respects
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.footyplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Mark-Bosnich.jpg
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
What is everyone's view on the awkward shoehorning of Joe Hart into BGITW theories? It's fucking stupid, right? Is it because Cashley is winding down and twp just won't stand up to Danny Alves and we need at least 1 player to be the best in the world? It's not like Buffon and Casillas are even close to retiring and both won the league last season/CAPTAINED THEIR COUNTRIES TO THE FINALS OF THE EUROS.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
his distribution is shit, and he seems to specialize in doing four or five good saves and then conceding a relatively easy goal
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
best in the world
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link