Soccerball Therad

[Bruce Sato]

Excellent, the BBC managed to quote the wrong OED entry for 'sham' in this story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... y51l3gzq4o

(they're quoting the verb when all the uses of 'sham' in the report and even later on in that story are adjective or noun)

[Bruce Sato]

Abolish the licence fee etc

[dng]

hooray. i hope someone gets fired for this blunder

[Bruce Sato]

Dale Johnson's days are numbered.
Also I think this is most interested I've been in a football story in years.

[dng]

Hopefully the entire premier league collapses

[dng]

and also enough of the championship that West Ham don't accidentally end up as champions by default

[endar]

I was thinking Colchester, especially for you

[dng]

i would simply pretend that never happened

[dng]

and also immediately pretend i never liked football anyway

[vom]

you probably didn't, if you really think about it

[dng]

yes

[blombluss]

I'm not normally one for trial by public outcry/outrage, but I think I'll make an exception on this occasion.

[blombluss]

It's good to see Limmy advising Man City.

[dng]

Tuchel out

[Gravid]

Poor old Croatia

[blombluss]

Croatia are good at water polo, and I reckon they are going to get many new (6000) young fans.

[blombluss]

FFS INGLUND! I EXPECTED NUMEROUS GOALS BY NOW!!!!!!!!!

[An Unicorn]

The missus and i went to a footerball match on Friday between The Army and The Navy

[An Unicorn]

The Navy won 4-3 despite a dreadful own-goal

[An Unicorn]

No wonder the war in Iran is going so poorly

[An Unicorn]

I'm sorry, that was tasteless

[An Unicorn]

I'm not going to delete it for some reason though

[dng]

its not that tasteless

[An Unicorn]

its not that tasteless

I dunno, much like the World Cup, it feels awfully unfair to Iran.

[blombluss]

I discovered a new word vesterdai - 'cleats', which is American for boots, as in football/soccer boots.

I like 'cleats', and I am wearing mine as I write this...

[blombluss]

Man Utd 1 - Perry Como 4 is certainly a MAGIC MOMENT for the Italans!!!!111!!!

[dng]

i don't get it

[blombluss]

Ahhh, a Tony Bennett fan, eh? I thought as much!

[dng]

also poor old man united. i for one simply cannot believe they're crap now

[dng]

for the 14th season in a row

[An Unicorn]

I discovered a new word vesterdai - 'cleats', which is American for boots, as in football/soccer boots.

I like 'cleats', and I am wearing mine as I write this...

Those aren't boots, boots are the big clompy things you wear to go stomping around in the muck.

[An Unicorn]

I bought a pair of cleats for a recreational -ball league

And then never used them again

[endar]

what about when you go stomping around Nashville, what kind of boots of those?