Soccerball Therad

[endar]

They were doing well til captain Wat Tyler was suddenly replaced with no explanation

[blombluss]

I think the whole Wat Tyler thing was something to do with 'image rights' ownership or summat.

[dng]

Off-field disciplinary reasons

[blombluss]

I think Wolves might already be on holiday.

[richschnauzer]

my dad turned it off after ten minutes.

This will be a boring nil-nil fest

[blombluss]

my dad turned it off after ten minutes.

This will be a boring nil-nil fest

A job as a BBC football pundit beckons...

[blombluss]

Gawd, it's bit weird seeing fans back in the stadium (League Cup final).

[blombluss]

woo man city won league cupzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[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

[blombluss]

Troo. I presume we won't be getting any more Sky-sanctioned rants from Gary Neville on modern football's financial ills.

[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?

[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

[blombluss]

Agreed, Sir.

[vom]

yep spotify is sinister and horrible

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

[dng]

which is why he'll be the perfect person to own arsenal

[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

[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

[dng]

medium hates mediums

[dng]

and nobody has ever hated anybody as completely as ebay hates everyone who has ever attempted to sell anything on ebay

[vom]

bandcamp still loves musicians

lovely bandcamp

[dng]

Yes. Hooray for bandcamp

[vom]

they should buy Southend

[dng]

Southend don't deserve anyone that nice

[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)

[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

[dng]

i do not think that is very likely

[blombluss]

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!

[blombluss]

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.

[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

[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

[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

[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!

[dng]

As a southend fan and essexman, the only acceptable popstar wife would alison moyet

[dng]

the rest of your scenario would have proceeded as planned

[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)

It's okay they're relegated now

[blombluss]

Ouch!

[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?

[richschnauzer]

[dng]

Hopefully man united get relegated now for interfering with sky's broadcast schedule (the most important part of football)

[dng]

relegate them all the way down to the conference instead of southend

[dng]

even then southend would probably lose next weekend and go down instead of grimsby

[blombluss]

The match would've probably been rubb anyway.

[dng]

They should have played it anyway, like when you're kids and you have to avoid everybody that keeps walking across the field

[dng]

all the drunks trying to steal the ball

[dng]

all the dogs furiously chasing the ball

[dng]

resolute seagull who will not be moved

[blombluss]

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.

[blombluss]

So... Citeh in the final, then...

[dng]

football is dead

[blombluss]

Talking about dead football, I see Jose has rocked up at Roma!