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but hooray for macclesfield anyway

Indeed.

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

Also Wolves cannot be stopped!

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

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

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

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

and everyone else

in the world

Poo Moon

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

or almost dead at least

weep indeed

only glenn hoddle can possibly save us

Welbeck scoring was especially amusing.

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+++

i was expecting that from homfrus

so disappointment x2

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

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.)

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.

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

so disappointment x2

disappointment x2 is my calling carde!

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.

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

absolutely resolute in his criteria

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

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

Which is why Ole could never be.

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

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

Roony? Gazza?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PHWOAR!

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

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

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

hooray. senegal have scored now

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

Brillent!!!

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.

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

*snickers like Muttley*

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

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

only scotland turning up

(still somehow going out in the group etc etc)

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

FIFA already announced that

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

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

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