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Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:17 pm
by endar
They were doing well til captain Wat Tyler was suddenly replaced with no explanation

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:34 pm
by blombluss
I think the whole Wat Tyler thing was something to do with 'image rights' ownership or summat. :D

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:44 pm
by dng
Off-field disciplinary reasons

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 11:48 am
by blombluss
I think Wolves might already be on holiday.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 12:09 pm
by richschnauzer
my dad turned it off after ten minutes.
This will be a boring nil-nil fest

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 1:16 pm
by blombluss
richschnauzer wrote: Sun Apr 25, 2021 12:09 pm my dad turned it off after ten minutes.
This will be a boring nil-nil fest
A job as a BBC football pundit beckons... :D

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 3:57 pm
by blombluss
Gawd, it's bit weird seeing fans back in the stadium (League Cup final). :)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:03 pm
by blombluss
woo man city won league cupzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:09 pm
by dng
It seems strange that less than a week after it was announced, all football coverage has forgotten the super league was ever mentioned and everythings just gone back to normal everythings okay everythings fine

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:48 pm
by blombluss
Troo. I presume we won't be getting any more Sky-sanctioned rants from Gary Neville on modern football's financial ills.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:21 pm
by blombluss
I presume Arsenal being kinda owned by Spotify (should the takeover happen) would be better than having Stan Kroenke at the helm?

Would it end up being summat like: Stream the latest song by Janet Jacksons 2 billion times, and we'll buy a new left back with the proceeds? :D

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:28 pm
by endar
Never liked spotify, nor the idea behind it. Paying a subscription to listen to music that you could quite easily and more cheaply buy outright just seems wrong and pointless to me

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:06 am
by blombluss
Agreed, Sir.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:16 am
by vom
yep spotify is sinister and horrible

they seem to actively hate music and musicians and not even hide their contempt

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:43 am
by dng
which is why he'll be the perfect person to own arsenal

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:48 am
by vom
yes

also Spotify has never turned a profit at any point in its existence so that seems like a sensible income to spend on a football team

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:54 am
by dng
It is strange howall tech companies hate the very things that they make money off. spotify hate music, musicians; amazon hate books, writers, publishers, readers; uber hate taxi drivers, taxis; facebook and twitter despise absolutely all of humanity

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:55 am
by dng
medium hates mediums

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:57 am
by dng
and nobody has ever hated anybody as completely as ebay hates everyone who has ever attempted to sell anything on ebay

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:05 pm
by vom
bandcamp still loves musicians

lovely bandcamp

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:09 pm
by dng
Yes. Hooray for bandcamp

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:42 pm
by vom
they should buy Southend

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:43 pm
by dng
Southend don't deserve anyone that nice

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:44 pm
by dng
(somehow southend still aren't actually relegated, even though i was sure theyw ere relegated last week when they lost to colchester. but they inch ever closer to death)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:45 pm
by dng
at the moment, they need to win their two games, need the other team to lose their two games, and also for their to be at least a 9 goal swing in goal difference off those four matches

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:45 pm
by dng
i do not think that is very likely

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:48 pm
by blombluss
vom wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:48 am yes

also Spotify has never turned a profit at any point in its existence so that seems like a sensible income to spend on a football team
Whut? It still hasn't turned a profit yet? Chuff me! :o

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:53 pm
by blombluss
dng wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:45 pm i do not think that is very likely
Alas, no.

You'll feel better when it's all over. I used to when I followed Wolves in the past.

And next season, too. I've got a funny feeling we're going down next season.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 3:56 pm
by endar
I'm glad i'm not the only one that hates spotify and everything it stands for. I just couldn't put it as eloquently as you two.

Also they destroyed last.fm and i quite liked last.fm for a while. Discovered some nice music through them

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:00 pm
by dng
i was thinking about last.fm/audioscrobbler the other day (presumably to last month's old photo madness). my final year project at university was a music recommendation algorithm thing based off it

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:01 pm
by dng
if only i'd turned that into a billion dollar hell company extracting the worth out of everything i have ever loved until all is naught but husk

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:30 pm
by blombluss
Maaan, I haven't thought about Last.fm in years! I liked it, also.

Also, if dng had become a dotcom billionaire, he would've had to have married Grimes. And also bought Southend United. And then relocated himself, Grimes, and Southend United to an enormous artificial island off the coast of Africa. It would've been brillent! :D

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:34 pm
by dng
As a southend fan and essexman, the only acceptable popstar wife would alison moyet

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:34 pm
by dng
the rest of your scenario would have proceeded as planned

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 5:54 pm
by dng
dng wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:44 pm (somehow southend still aren't actually relegated, even though i was sure theyw ere relegated last week when they lost to colchester. but they inch ever closer to death)
It's okay they're relegated now

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 7:42 pm
by blombluss
Ouch! :(

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 1:35 am
by blombluss
Talking 'bout relegation...

I see potential England manager Wayne Rooney's Derby County are in rather a pickle.

How odd. How can this be? For is it not written that all high profile England international footballers will become very good managers? :)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 12:32 pm
by richschnauzer
Image

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 5:04 pm
by dng
Hopefully man united get relegated now for interfering with sky's broadcast schedule (the most important part of football)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 5:21 pm
by dng
relegate them all the way down to the conference instead of southend

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 5:21 pm
by dng
even then southend would probably lose next weekend and go down instead of grimsby

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 6:19 pm
by blombluss
The match would've probably been rubb anyway. :)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 6:21 pm
by dng
They should have played it anyway, like when you're kids and you have to avoid everybody that keeps walking across the field

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 6:21 pm
by dng
all the drunks trying to steal the ball

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 6:22 pm
by dng
all the dogs furiously chasing the ball

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 6:22 pm
by dng
resolute seagull who will not be moved

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 6:31 pm
by blombluss
dng wrote: Sun May 02, 2021 6:21 pm all the drunks trying to steal the ball
I've never had that, but I have played in a game where a wandering drunk threw up on the pitch (near the centre circle).

A group of us went down to the kids play area sandpit and filled up two large bags with sand, and deposited that on the pitchvomit. That mostly did the trick. :)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed May 05, 2021 12:50 am
by blombluss
So... Citeh in the final, then...

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed May 05, 2021 11:12 am
by dng
football is dead

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed May 05, 2021 3:27 pm
by blombluss
Talking about dead football, I see Jose has rocked up at Roma! :)