Soccerball Therad

Post by **dng** » Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:19 pm

They’ll be down with Maldon and Harlow soon

Post by **dng** » Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:19 pm

Where they deserve

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:19 pm

Awww, man!

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:07 pm

Things are so terrible now the whole of today's fiver in the guardian is about southend (or phil brown at least)

Post by **endar** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:36 pm

blimey

i haven't read the fiver for years. It used to be part of my afternoon boredom routine at Pearson. A colleague there was one of their regular letter writers

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:54 pm

I only read it because there was a picture of phil brown on the thumbnail thing

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:46 pm

Anyway it worked cause southend just actually won a game

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 3:28 pm

Phil Brown's hair is thriving, lush, and beauteous. Maybe its optimum growing conditions are general despondency?

Post by **richschnauzer** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:41 pm

urgh, Eggland v Andorra on Saturday on an artificial pitch.

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:13 pm

whenever you think football can't get any shitter it turns out it always can

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58821131

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:14 pm

one day soon every single club in the league will be owned by a theocratic state which would have half their fans executed live on stage if they could

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:17 pm

and everyone will still hope they win the league every year rather than man united or liverpool

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:18 pm

southend being owned by the man who runs sealand

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:20 pm

anyway its okay because the saudi arabian state investment fund has assured the premier league that the saudi arabian state totally won't have anything to do with running the club the saudi arabian state investment fund has just bought for £300 million like at all not ever okay

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:56 pm

dng wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:18 pm southend being owned by the man who runs sealand

They could play home matches on Sealand! It might be a helluva home advantage, a la early 80s QPR and their dreadful plastic pitch.

Post by **dng** » Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:30 pm

blombluss wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 3:28 pm Phil Brown's hair is thriving, lush, and beauteous. Maybe its optimum growing conditions are general despondency?

Phil Browns hair is now unemployed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58771069

Post by **dng** » Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:32 pm

Southend are definitely going to be dead soon aren't they

Post by **dng** » Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:34 pm

Then I can start supporting a new team

Post by **dng** » Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:34 pm

Newcastle maybe

Post by **dng** » Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:39 pm

Anyway poor old phil brown. I bet he's glad he came back now

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 1:26 am

Forest Green Rovers brought the climate and ecological crisis into sharp focus by taking the unprecedented step of using their pitchside advertising hoardings to display real-time facts and figures about fossil fuels, plastic waste, and other critical issues during their League Two game at home to Swindon. The 2-0 defeat, televised by Sky Sports, was broadcast across 120 countries.

Forest Green’s “pitchside intervention” was planned by their artistic director, Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja, also known as 3D, in collaboration with the chairman of the club, Dale Vince, who acknowledged the bold move was controversial and could create a backlash. The messages were shown on the LED advertising four minutes into the game at the New Lawn, raising awareness of key world issues in a thought-provoking manner.

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Laudable, but it still rubs me up the wrong way for some reason.

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 1:29 am

dng wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:34 pmNewcastle maybe

aka Saudi Howay-bia United. *winces*

swizpig · Post by **swizpig** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 3:55 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58862741

Is there no end to Southend's woes

Post by **dng** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 5:31 pm

"I will go and watch games"

Don't do it Stan

Post by **dng** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 5:31 pm

If going and watching games is all that's needed, maybe they should stick Alison Moyet in charge

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:08 pm

dng wrote: Sun Oct 10, 2021 5:31 pm
"I will go and watch"
Don't do it Stan

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:14 am

He will overhaul player recruitment whilst dogging on Cannock Chase.

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:04 am

You don't often see baton wielding Police retreating, do you?

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:55 pm

I liked the anti-racism/abuse adverts they kept showing on the hoardings that said "think before you post", as if every racist tweet ever made was some sort of accidental slip of the tongue

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:56 pm

(finger)

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:56 pm

i committed a hate crime by mistake

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:57 pm

if only i'd pressed the preview button instead of the post button i could have noticed my mistake

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:57 pm

and added in some death threats as well

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:58 pm

blombluss wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:04 am You don't often see baton wielding Police retreating, do you?

probably realised most of the hungary supporters were off duty met officers

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Oct 17, 2021 12:56 am

I'm not sure how Wolves won that.

Post by **dng** » Sun Oct 17, 2021 11:42 am

Magic

Post by **dng** » Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:04 pm

Today and last Sunday we've had loads of fighter jets zooming past all afternoon, and I looked up why and it's because there's American football games at spurs's stadium each weekend

Post by **dng** » Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:05 pm

Having to have military fly bys before you can play some sport might well be the most American thing of all

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:06 pm

GAAD BLEZ 'MURICA

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 12:00 am

American football gets fighter jets, English football gets 'White Lives Matter' banners flown over the ground.

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:13 pm

This Plymouth goal is wonderful

https://twitter.com/gunnerblog/status/1 ... 5134159874

Post by **dng** » Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:14 pm

liquid football, etc etc

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:53 am

Best goal!

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:58 am

In other news, Newcastle's Amanda Staveley possesses one of the most fearsome glares I've ever seen in the world of football. :O

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:33 pm

blombluss wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:58 am In other news, Newcastle's Amanda Staveley possesses one of the most fearsome glares I've ever seen in the world of football. :O

That said... if she wishes to glare at me fearsomely, and then hand over a 7 million poun 'golden goodbye', then I think I could bravely cope with that...

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sun Oct 24, 2021 1:59 pm

what the hell is wrong with paul scholes

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sun Oct 24, 2021 5:25 pm

richschnauzer wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 1:59 pm what the hell is wrong with paul scholes

Only the second worst Manchester United thing this weekend.

Post by **dng** » Sun Oct 24, 2021 5:46 pm

You're even worse than Southend now

Post by **dng** » Sun Oct 24, 2021 5:47 pm

In the race for most useless united