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
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
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
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 (five years ago) link
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
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
'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
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
:(
https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/09/alan-hansen-liverpool-and-scotland-legend-seriously-ill-in-hospital
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 June 2024 17:03 (five months ago) link