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maybe the follow-up is funnier still actually

imago, Sunday, 30 July 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link

Nothing inherently funny in the death of a child tbf lj

jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link

Although it's mildly amusing that I had to type that

jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link

footselfior

imago, Sunday, 30 July 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

we allowing this 1992 liveblog

imago, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link

gonna say it's more tragic than fun.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link

anything which includes a coventry premier league fantasy is a+ imo

nxd, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41684602

all the highest-rated comments to this are rightly calling it out for the clickbait shite it is

imago, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link

Heh, same with this one, also from today: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41828734

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 15:56 (seven years ago) link

Are you analysing a football piece using the comments like count

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link

come now

imago, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link

What like on a three count or just whenever I'm ready or what

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link

does it not strike you of all people as tedious that any spurs player who emerges above a certain media-dictated parapet of excellence is destined for a 'bigger club' (population: real madrid)

imago, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link

or are you actually quite cheered with the bernabeu feeder club motif

imago, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link

I like to think that we're above reacting to this stuff as if it required our attn tbh

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link

the wiser discourse

imago, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link

I think the media gets in a tizzy at the idea of an English player being good enough to play for a major team outside England.

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link

It's understandable but curiously honestly humble

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link

Think Tom's otm. An English player succeeding - or even just going - abroad always seems to create huge waves with yr press. Probably because so few succeeded.

But it's still clickbait that deserves to be called out imo.

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link

Count yerselves lucky you don't have to watch on rte. For twenty years George Hamilton has been a second ahead of the picture and it has spoiled every moment of football ever and is currently doing so for spurs madrid

Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 19:53 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

rip armfield, have fond memories of the man

#TeamHailing (imago), Monday, 22 January 2018 11:01 (six years ago) link

Ah, shame, good guy. RIP Jimmy.

Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Monday, 22 January 2018 11:51 (six years ago) link

LIVE FA Cup - De Bruyne with cheeky free-kick v Cardiff

FFS! If only he had attempted a deferential free-kick, cos I hate that word.

calzino, Sunday, 28 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link

six months pass...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-45194443

literally end the bbc here

imago, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link

privatised, shut down, fucked off. over.

imago, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link

three months pass...

AHAHAHA LOOK IT'S NOLE GALLAGER I WROTE A "JOEK" ABOUT DEFINITELY MAYBE THAT WAS WORTH EDITING IN

cunts

Mama Weer All Tankee Now (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 25 November 2018 09:12 (six years ago) link

two months pass...

Oh, well, OK, Sutton was talking about the Premier League. But I refuse to recognise that backstop, which exists in these discussions simply to excuse people with no sense/knowledge of history.

— Richard Williams (@rwilliams1947) February 7, 2019

the former old grey whistle test presenter mugging off Chris Sutton goodstyle!

calzino, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link

RW is a contributor to Mark S's book and was at the launch party a few weeks back. I regret not having a word with him. He seems like a righteous fellow.

Tim, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link

Sutton doing the clod-hopping football shock jock thing is currently vying with zombie Humphrys as the worst thing about BBC radio.

Tim, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link

I like him a lot, despite him stanning for Nicola Sturgeon! It's probably counter to everything ILM/ILX represents but I liked his music blog (that is currently on hiatus) as well. His knowledge of 70'/80's footballers is unfuckwithable and he seems to realise it actually existed before Murdoch. Yeah and that fucking high-octane talksport twat style of punditry that is so prevalent these days - he's about as far opposite of *that* as it gets.

calzino, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link

Tim otm, out-Savaging Savage is no way to go thru life

Stephen Yakkety-Yaxley-Rosbif (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link

we have this twat (ex-goalie matt glennon) as a summariser on local bbc radio, and he's done the same course I think.

calzino, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link

god I just want make clear I was repping for RW in xxp in case it sounds like CS.

calzino, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link

That was clear.

Tim, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link

Though the idea that you're an avid reader of Chris Sutton's music blog is a happy one.

Tim, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link

The only thing I don't like about RW's blog was that he kept reviewing great-sounding shows that happened within a mile of our flat and the first I heard of it would be his review.

Tim, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link

virgil van dijk is great tho

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

I don't have words for the degree of my contempt for the cunt Lawrenson

the scamp has a thousand fries (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 January 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link

Hard to tell what he despises more - football or being alive

or something, Sunday, 31 January 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

'Brighton beat Leicester in seven-goal thriller'

A seven-goal thriller is 4-3 you tossers, this is canon

imago, Sunday, 4 September 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link

Idk there is a certain intrigue to watching a team desperately chasing a fifth so as not to have won 4-2, which as I will elucidate in the coming paragraphs is the most embarrassing scoreline to wi

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 4 September 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link

fair fucks

imago, Sunday, 4 September 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link

It was mostly a battering though for real

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 4 September 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

One less problem, one less member of the Liverpool FC mafia and one less jaded miserable git sucking all the joy out of whatever game he's commenting on.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/09/24/mark-lawrenson-axed-bbc-65-year-old-white-male/

Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Monday, 26 September 2022 11:33 (two years ago) link

Mark Lawrenson was sacked by the BBC because he was a 65 year old white man... who travelled the world to commentate on the greatest fixtures in sport but did it in the style of a performance art piece about a miserable depressive hermit utterly consumed by a hated of football.

— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) September 25, 2022

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 26 September 2022 11:53 (two years ago) link

Some aspects of BBC soccer coverage have worsened over time. I'm not convinced that Lawro going is part of that, though.

the pinefox, Monday, 26 September 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link

Greatest Lawro moment anyone? For me it's a game early in the 2018 world cup, where a French player was down injured, and our man witheringly diagnosed a 'dislocated shoelace'

Led By Honkies (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

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