Soccerball Therad

Post by **dng** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 2:50 pm

but hooray for macclesfield anyway

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 3:13 pm

Indeed.

Genuine 'magic of the cup'-ness on display, there.

Also Wolves cannot be stopped!

Post by **dng** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 3:17 pm

wolves are going to the win the cup, the league, eurovision, everything now

Post by **dng** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 6:51 pm

I know I could probably say this every week, forever, but bloody hell spurs are dismal

Post by **endar** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 7:15 pm

Macclesfield beat Harlow Town 2-0 in the first round 10 or so years ago. So Crystal Palace are as good as Harlow Town, officially

Post by **dng** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 7:50 pm

southend lost 8-0 to palace once, so they're offically worse than harlow

Post by **dng** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 7:50 pm

and everyone else

Post by **dng** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 7:50 pm

in the world

Post by **endar** » Sat Jan 10, 2026 8:49 pm

Poo Moon

Post by **dng** » Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:58 pm

endar wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 7:15 pm Macclesfield beat Harlow Town 2-0 in the first round 10 or so years ago. So Crystal Palace are as good as Harlow Town, officially

harlow town: dead

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70lz06erw0o

weeep

Post by **dng** » Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:58 pm

or almost dead at least

Post by **endar** » Sun Jan 11, 2026 3:08 pm

weep indeed

only glenn hoddle can possibly save us

Post by **dng** » Sun Jan 11, 2026 11:45 pm

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Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jan 12, 2026 1:49 am

Welbeck scoring was especially amusing.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Mon Jan 12, 2026 4:06 am

endar wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 2:30 pm ha yeah I just read that.

Nonchalantly grabbing Nicky Butt by the throat

Better than grabbing Nick Throat by the +++BANG+++

Post by **endar** » Mon Jan 12, 2026 5:58 am

i was expecting that from homfrus

so disappointment x2

Post by **dng** » Mon Jan 12, 2026 1:04 pm

quite weird that nicky butt's turned up in this thread twice in two days, 20 years after anyone last remembered he existed

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Mon Jan 12, 2026 6:36 pm

Nicky Butt is one of my dad's favourite players, probably because he basically played the same sort of football as my dad but at Premiership / international level.

(My dad has played for a team that played in the FA Cup, but he wasn't playing for them when they did that.)

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Mon Jan 12, 2026 6:39 pm

By contrast I refused to play football at all after the age of 10-11, due to increasing hatred of contact sports. No one ever got me to play rugby, despite it being 'compulsory' at secondary school.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 2:30 am

endar wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 5:58 am i was expecting that from homfrus

so disappointment x2

disappointment x2 is my calling carde!

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 2:39 am

Bruce Sato wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 6:39 pm By contrast I refused to play football at all after the age of 10-11, due to increasing hatred of contact sports. No one ever got me to play rugby, despite it being 'compulsory' at secondary school.

Rugby was meant to be compulsory at our school, too, but noone would take part, so after two failed lessons of 'rugby onion', we went back to football, basketball, and badminton, which most of the lads were fine with.

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:53 am

i like the way that man united football director man wilcox appoints managers:

russell martin (southampton): sexy beard, hair
ruben amorim (man united): sexy beard, hair
michael carrick (man united): sexy beard, hair

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:54 am

absolutely resolute in his criteria

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:54 am

i assume michael carricks also going to be the worst manager in history

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 2:57 pm

dng wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:54 am absolutely resolute in his criteria

Which is why Ole could never be.

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 5:59 pm

Oh wait I forgot Rudd van nistelrooy too (sexy beard, hair, one of the worst managers ever)

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 5:59 pm

Although his worst manager ever status largely only manifested itself after he'd left and gone to leicester

Post by **endar** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 8:25 pm

Roony? Gazza?

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 8:35 pm

I think Gazza would make a fine man united manager and they should definitely appoint him

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 8:36 pm

unfortunately he's too beardless, bald to get past the interview stage

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 9:27 pm

i don't know if anyone's watching this man city newcastle match, but they've just had the absolutely shittest disallowed VAR goal just about ever, spending five whole minutes zooming further and further into haaland's boot until it was so pixellated and blocky it looked like some sort of spectrum colour clash image

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 9:28 pm

and haaland didn't even touch the ball at any point, which made it even better

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 9:28 pm

footballs so shit i'm not sure why i watch it anymore

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 13, 2026 9:30 pm

7 minutes of watching a man press the zoom button on his pc

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:48 am

dng wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 9:30 pm 7 minutes of watching a man press the zoom button on his pc

PHWOAR!

Post by **dng** » Sun Jan 18, 2026 9:16 pm

the end of this african nations cup final has been genuinely incredible

Post by **dng** » Sun Jan 18, 2026 9:19 pm

senegal scored in injury time but the ref disallowed it because a moroccan player did a ridiculous dive. then the ref gave morocco a penalty because another moroccan player did a ridiculous dive. then senegal just refused to play for 15 minutes and all stormed off the pitch until sadio mane finally dragged them all back out again. then the moroccan player who'd dived to win the world cup strode up, dinked the absolute shittest penalty ever into the senegal goalie's hands, then burst into tears and then the ref blew for full time just because he was bored of it all or something i don't know

Post by **dng** » Sun Jan 18, 2026 9:20 pm

now we've got another 30 minutes of presumably fighting sulking cheating and corruption to come

Post by **dng** » Sun Jan 18, 2026 9:24 pm

hooray. senegal have scored now

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jan 19, 2026 3:58 pm

And three of the Senegal substitutes fell ill during the match.

Brillent!!!

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jan 19, 2026 4:01 pm

re: dinked the absolute shittest penalty ever into the senegal goalie's hands, then burst into tears

Yep, Diaz looked utterly broken after ballsing up that penno.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jan 20, 2026 8:23 pm

No wonder Man City lost if they had to play both Bodø and Glimt at the same time.

*snickers like Muttley*

Post by **dng** » Sun Jan 25, 2026 11:46 am

They keep losing to brighton and hove too. Must be their weak spot

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jan 27, 2026 8:50 pm

It would be funneh if the European teams boycotted the World Cup. I mean, they won't, but it would be amusing.

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 27, 2026 9:47 pm

only scotland turning up

Post by **dng** » Tue Jan 27, 2026 9:47 pm

(still somehow going out in the group etc etc)

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jan 28, 2026 2:22 pm

Maybe the boycotting teams could be replaced by AI generated facsimiles.

Post by **dng** » Wed Jan 28, 2026 4:08 pm

FIFA already announced that

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -decisions

Post by **endar** » Wed Jan 28, 2026 6:11 pm

then they'll put them all in Fatal Fury instead of having penalty shootouts

Post by **dng** » Wed Jan 28, 2026 10:25 pm

hooray there was a last second goalie goal to put benfica through in the champions league tonight

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... 4bf80#post

which was nice