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Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:17 pm
by blombluss
I heop each half of every match played had at least 8 minutes of injury time added to it. Bwah haaa! Haaaaaaa!

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 3:40 pm
by dng
vom wrote: Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:16 pm Excited to see what team the new Southampton manager puts out OH it's the most defensively minded team possible to face League one Lincoln City LET EXCITEMENT END
Can Southampton still return this manager and get their old one back?

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 5:29 pm
by dng
Bloody hell, its Clive tyldsley and Andy Townsend on commmentary on Amazon now. Retro ITV horror

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 6:41 pm
by vom
dng wrote: Mon Dec 26, 2022 3:40 pm
vom wrote: Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:16 pm Excited to see what team the new Southampton manager puts out OH it's the most defensively minded team possible to face League one Lincoln City LET EXCITEMENT END
Can Southampton still return this manager and get their old one back?
It is impossible

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:33 am
by blombluss
dng wrote: Mon Dec 26, 2022 5:29 pm Bloody hell, its Clive tyldsley and Andy Townsend on commmentary on Amazon now. Retro ITV horror
Bring back Alan Parry, I say!

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:39 pm
by dng
oh no poor pele

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:40 pm
by dng
if it wasn't for pele wales would definitely have won the world cup in 1958

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:54 pm
by dng

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:59 pm
by dng
i'm not sure why someone at the bbc decided primal scream should be the soundtrack to 1970s brazil but i'm glad they did

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 2:29 am
by blombluss
Oh noes. :( RIP Edson - arguably the best footballer ever. :(

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 8:59 pm
by dng

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 9:24 pm
by blombluss
I wonder if they're overspending on wages in a bid to return quickly to the FL. They wouldn't be the first to do that.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 9:34 pm
by dng
They're not even paying anyones wages at the moment. The supporters charity funds been covering most of the staffs pay

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 9:35 pm
by dng
I'm not sure why companies are even allowed to trade if you can't pay your staff (regardless of whether they're a football club or not)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 9:36 pm
by dng
massive wage theft/minimum pay violations

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 2:26 pm
by blombluss
Would football be better with a cube as the 'ball'?

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 3:24 pm
by richschnauzer
No.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 4:05 pm
by blombluss
There is none so blind as he who will not see. :D

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:06 pm
by dng
everything about this story about the american mens teams manager, his wife, his wifes best friend, his best friend, and also their son, is basically insane

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64168700

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:07 pm
by dng
richard is currently hoping that phil foden's mum used to be roommates with southgates wife and has some proper juicy gossip from their uni days or something

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 7:13 pm
by richschnauzer
dng wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:06 pm everything about this story about the american mens teams manager, his wife, his wifes best friend, his best friend, and also their son, is basically insane

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64168700
Check out what is happening in the PSG women's team for real madness


https://www.givemesport.com/88101652-ps ... ter-thread

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 7:48 pm
by dng
blimey

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 7:49 pm
by dng
what is it with french football and wild criminal tales of blackmail and other madness (benzema, pogba's brother, probably more)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 8:40 pm
by blombluss
Whereas in our football, Jill Scott wins I'm A Celebrity (after winning Euro 2022).

And that makes England better than France! :D

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 8:54 pm
by endar
that is much madness linked to above

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:07 pm
by blombluss
I give Potter at Chelsea a month, at most.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:12 pm
by dng
they'll sack him exactly two minutes after they've spent £400 million on completely random players on transfer deadline day

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 9:27 pm
by blombluss
Heh! That sounds about right. :)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:14 am
by blombluss
I see Gareth Bale has retired. But not from playing golf, I imagine. :)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:57 pm
by Bruce Sato
A man who retires from golf retires from life

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:55 pm
by blombluss
I'm going to call him Golfeth Balle from now on!!!!

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:30 pm
by dng
Man U have got a player called Mainoo playing for them tonight

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:53 pm
by blombluss
Hehe!

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:52 pm
by dng
dng wrote: Mon Dec 26, 2022 3:40 pm
vom wrote: Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:16 pm Excited to see what team the new Southampton manager puts out OH it's the most defensively minded team possible to face League one Lincoln City LET EXCITEMENT END
Can Southampton still return this manager and get their old one back?
wait maybe he's good now who knows

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:52 pm
by dng
but still blimey

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:29 pm
by vom
very strange. very strange indeed

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:30 pm
by vom
but also hooray

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:41 am
by blombluss
There's something Wigan Athletic, Norwich City, Portsmouth, Birmingham City, about this cup victory.

I hope I'm wrang, though.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 8:57 am
by vom
some good "would you be OK with relegation if we won both cups?" posts on Southampton forum. such a weird mix of optimism and pessimism

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:42 pm
by dng
Surely winning a cup outweighs any number of relegations

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:28 pm
by vom
even 70?

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 7:38 pm
by dng
you'd be used to it by then

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:52 am
by blombluss
dng wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:42 pm Surely winning a cup outweighs any number of relegations
Ves. Winning the Sherpa Van Trophy certainly does. :D

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:50 pm
by dng
i can only assume spurs actually want arsenal to win the league for some reason

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:22 pm
by dng
or maybe not

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:53 pm
by dng
in retrospect, that second half was the most inevitable half of football ever played. i assume kane just put the league table up on the tactics board and made everyone ponder it for fifteen minutes

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 3:03 am
by blombluss
Guardian: "Juventus docked 15 points in Serie A by Italian federation for false accounting"

I, for one, am utterly shocked and amazed at Juve's actions. :p :)

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 3:02 am
by blombluss
Farewell Frank Lamprad. :'( But fear not handsome prince, your high profile and friends in the media will ensure you get another highly sought after managerial position.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 3:47 pm
by blombluss
Dyche wull save us all (Everton).

Maybe.

Re: Soccerball Therad

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 3:58 pm
by vom
seems like a better choice of manager than Southampton made. but we shall see