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Title: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 24, 2009, 12:23:44 PM
Chat about any sports related topics,
Whats your favorite sport ,

who do you support in football
F1 racing ,tennis ,etc.

youtube clips of good goals,yes


 ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on January 24, 2009, 12:33:06 PM
I am a life long supporter of Ayr United, my local team.

(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii280/indie_180/1918.gif)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 24, 2009, 12:45:52 PM
i am a supporter of Arsenal ,

and live a few miles from their training
grounds



(http://i41.tinypic.com/2d93dbb.png)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on January 24, 2009, 12:55:37 PM
A mate of mine whom I worked beside in two different place for about 15 yrs is an Arsenal fan, maybe that's why they are the English team I kinda follow.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 24, 2009, 01:08:45 PM
Nice,indie ,

my grandson stood waiting by the gates for

his arsenal shirt to be autographed

that was 11 years ago ,hes still got that

shirt now,

probably a collectors piece now ,

hehe   ;D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 24, 2009, 01:12:46 PM
my footballing loalties can be seen in my current sig

nature + nuture lol
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 24, 2009, 01:26:32 PM
I know your a Liverpool fanatic ,

I also like watching basketball,

like the AND1 videos ,


 :D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: CMF on January 24, 2009, 01:34:02 PM
Even though my favorite football player, Dimitar Berbatov, plays in Man. UTD, I am a huge fan or Arsenal.
Another team I cheer is Impact (Montreal). You need to understand that there is not that much football in Canada.  :D

(http://www.uslfans.com/team_images/Montreal_Impact.gif)

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 24, 2009, 01:41:20 PM
Why isnt there much football in Canada,

is it the climate ,

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: CMF on January 24, 2009, 02:54:16 PM
Why isnt there much football in Canada,

is it the climate ,

Well, first of all, the football here, called soccer, is played mainly in summer because of the climate.
The CONCACAF cup is during the winter because it includes also the countries from Central America.
Also, the main sport in Canada is hockey.
It is only recently that football, soccer, got popular, mainly thanks to the improvement of Impact.
You can see more and more baseball fields getting transformed into soccer/football fields in the summer.
Still, it is not as popular as it is in Europe.
But there is some progress.
Football in Canada , you can compare it to the football in USA 15 years ago.
So, I hope, that one day, we will have some good football here too, and I hope that Impact gets into MSL.  ;D
Who knows, one day, Canada may qualify for the World Cup.  ;)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 24, 2009, 04:32:38 PM
HI CMF,
thanks for the info on Canadas football /soccer ,

it would be nice to see Canada in the world cup

one day.


 ;D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 24, 2009, 05:29:18 PM
i am a supporter of Arsenal ,and live a few miles from their training grounds

(http://i41.tinypic.com/2d93dbb.png)

I am a norf London boy originally from Finchley/Barnet.  I actually lived in Crouch End before I moved south of the river, not that far from the Emirates.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 25, 2009, 04:28:49 AM
I am a norf London too smokes ,

nice place mate  ;)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 25, 2009, 05:35:47 AM
World of difference south of the river I can tell you.  My mother still lives in Whetstone so occasionally I get to revisit utopia :)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 25, 2009, 06:59:59 AM
hi smokes ,do you get home sick very often ,

i cant keep my daughter away ,always on the

doorstep,i think kids are like cats ,put them

any where ,and they will find there way home.

 :D :D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 25, 2009, 07:33:26 AM
I miss Norf London every time I read the Sowf London news, and I live far too near to Chelski for comfort.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 25, 2009, 08:06:08 AM
Chelski is a very luxurious area and can be expensive to live


there,ya need lots of money  ;D



Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 25, 2009, 09:58:27 AM
liverpool 0-1 everton at half time.....you would think that they should know about tim cahiill's danger from set pieces by now

70+% possesion of the ball and we did bugger all with it
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 25, 2009, 10:02:57 AM
keep your fingers crossed in the second half oothe ,

we dont want Liverpool to loose ,


 :D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 25, 2009, 10:59:20 AM
1-1 full time....does us no favours....a replay at goodison
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 25, 2009, 11:06:13 AM
well im glad they didnt loose oothe,


 :D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 25, 2009, 11:27:09 AM
so am i :D

FA Cup Draw 5 th Round

sheffield v hull
watford v chealsea
west ham v middlesbrough
sunderland/blackburn v coventry city
derby/forest v man utd
swansea city v fulham
liverpool/everton v doncaster/aston villa
cardiff/arsenal v west brom/burnley

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 25, 2009, 11:30:41 AM
Thanks for that Oothe' as I missed it.  Not totally unhappy with that draw :)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 25, 2009, 11:31:37 AM
whens the replay at goodison,

youll be perched on the edge of your chair that day

i suspect   :D


hi smokes didnt see ya there  :D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 25, 2009, 11:39:08 AM
the borough at home is a good draw for you smokes, i think you will be favs to go through

we got a tricky one if/when we beat everton....villa at home

lem i think the replay is a week on wednesday
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 25, 2009, 12:43:17 PM
i suppose they will show it on sky sports,

i watced the second half ,and Gerrard score

the equaliser,nice one ,

 :D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 25, 2009, 01:17:50 PM
That Gerrard is pesky.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 25, 2009, 03:39:15 PM
Gerrard has scored 111 goals ,

i think i heard that right ,

 ;D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 25, 2009, 04:20:34 PM
West Ham to buy German under 19 international for ?9m dunno his name yet
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 25, 2009, 04:29:40 PM
Savio Nsereko.  That's a really neat part exchange sort of thing for Bellamy, as I always considered him a bit of a sick-note.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 25, 2009, 04:33:35 PM
9 mill is a lot of money for a kid though.

you're right about bellamy, he only plays when the mood suits....like when he wants a move lol
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 25, 2009, 04:36:44 PM
you're right about bellamy, he only plays when the mood suits....like when he wants a move lol

Too true.

9 mill is a lot of money for a kid though.

A kid under Zola's tutorage though.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 25, 2009, 04:53:31 PM
Im glad to see Arsenal in that list oothe   :D


so am i :D

FA Cup Draw 5 th Round

sheffield v hull
watford v chealsea
west ham v middlesbrough
sunderland/blackburn v coventry city
derby/forest v man utd
swansea city v fulham
liverpool/everton v doncaster/aston villa
cardiff/arsenal v west brom/burnley


Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 27, 2009, 10:49:30 AM
posted by a pal on another forum

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Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: lemmings2 on January 27, 2009, 02:32:32 PM
What about poor Sir Alex ???


(http://i43.tinypic.com/1oshmo.gif)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 27, 2009, 03:45:09 PM
"poor"?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on January 27, 2009, 03:53:48 PM
Ayr United was the last professional football team Sir Alex played for.  ;D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: dweez on January 28, 2009, 08:18:43 AM
I know there's gotta be a joke in there somewhere about not being able to use your hands but....
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 28, 2009, 01:07:03 PM
myp2p is not showing english prem games. anyone know where wigan v liverpool is being streamed?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on January 28, 2009, 01:16:23 PM
Found a few by googling "where wigan v liverpool is being streamed".

Watch Wigan vs Liverpool Live Stream Game Online for FREE ... was the claim on one of them.  :-\
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 28, 2009, 01:23:04 PM
there are shed loads that claim to have streams :(

i found one on justintv :)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on January 28, 2009, 03:44:33 PM
Glasgow Celtic have just beaten Dundee United 11 -10 on penalties, they both missed one each on sudden death. Both goalkeepers score their penalties and it went round again, I have never seen that before. 
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: jackalope21 on January 28, 2009, 03:45:35 PM



uhmm, go Cardinals !!
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: oothefuxthat on January 29, 2009, 02:39:24 PM
uhmm, go Cardinals !!
i'm on your side on sunday :)

tottenham confirm that they have made an enquiry as to the possible availability of robbie keane
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: Santafer on February 01, 2009, 01:29:57 AM
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Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on February 01, 2009, 04:43:19 AM
I have a good mind to make that my signature Santafer ;D

Big day for Oothe' today and @lemmings - Arsenal 0  WHUFC 0 <----   That'll do
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on February 07, 2009, 06:58:22 PM
Close one today Oothe'.

Big day for the Hammers later :)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on February 27, 2009, 06:04:32 PM
Here is a list of the top 3 teams in Scotland to have scored the most goals this season so far.

1. Rangers
2. Celtic
3. Ayr United Away the Honest Men  ;D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: CMF on April 08, 2009, 02:09:20 PM
Last Post February 27, 2009  :-\

Anyways, I am watching Bayern-Barcelona right now, and God does Bayern suck!!!!!
What happened with them? 4 goals in less than 40 minutes  :o (for those who are not familiar with football/soccer, this is a lot!)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on May 07, 2009, 02:07:06 PM
My team blew it on Saturday, with only two games left, they needed the win.

It was a 1-1 draw so they will not win the league, but go into the play-off's for promotion.

They are still the third top scoring team in Scotland behind Celtic and Rangers.

There are only two team's in Britain who have not been beaten at home in the league this season.

Liverpool and Ayr United
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: Robin-Graves on May 07, 2009, 04:14:26 PM
(http://208.116.9.205/10/content/15424/1.jpg)

You needed one for Rugby,,,thats some SERIOUS friggin injuries there. lol
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2009, 02:24:49 PM
Confederation cup? Get it there USA!!!!
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on June 21, 2009, 02:36:49 PM
Ayr won the play offs and will be in the Scottish First Division next season, probably the most competitive and hardest of the league's with everyone trying to get into the top flight SPL for the big money.

Don't know what will happen now Setanta look's like going to the wall.  :-\

It won't affect the smaller clubs as they never showed any of the games anyway, but the bigger clubs will suffer.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2009, 05:04:42 PM
Don't know what will happen now Setanta look's like going to the wall.  :-\

Few English give a toss what happens to Setanta after they stole the crown jewels, and then held the terrestials to ransom.  They would have been far better off romancing them, as that would not only have given them some better long term contracts, but also, it might have meant that the English wouldn't have boycotted subscribing after they missed Theo Walcott's hatrick.

Confederation cup? Get it there USA!!!!

Any Americans know what I meant by that ^ ?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on June 21, 2009, 05:30:59 PM
the English wouldn't have boycotted subscribing after they missed Theo Walcott's hatrick.

How the Feck could they miss that.  ???

The brother in law has it as he is a Celtic support(his brother is a Rangers supporter, can't fecking stand him) I like to watch Ranger's on the TV.(They have won more League title's than any other club in the world and were the first British team to compete in a European final .)

I seen all Ayr's play off games on BBC Alba, it was all in Gaelic so I hadn't a clue what they were saying.  ;D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2009, 05:47:50 PM
How the Feck could they miss that.  ???

Setanta didn't miss it, the English masses did.  After Setanta refused the normal deal for terrestial TV highlights and asked for a million a pop instead, the game was never shown at all and they even stopped the channels showing all the goals in their news items.  They did screen it themselves free to air to try and stem the anger, but as no one knew they were or didn't have access to their channel, only a couple of hundred thousand tuned in.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on June 21, 2009, 06:06:14 PM
There are 9 pubs within a 20m walking distance from where I stay.

Now only one can afford to pay the price they want to show live games. ??? 

The Greed for Gold is wasting everything.  :-\
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 22, 2009, 03:49:06 PM
There are 9 pubs within a 20m walking distance from where I stay.

Now only one can afford to pay the price they want to show live games. ??? 

The Greed for Gold is wasting everything.  :-\

Disney to the rescue maybe?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on June 22, 2009, 04:20:06 PM
It just make's thing worst for the Auld Firm games, it was bad enough when all the pubs in the villages around showed them.

I don't go out when Rangers are playing Celtic.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 28, 2009, 01:58:11 PM
WTF!  USA are 2-1 up on Brazil on the Confederations cup, with 20mins left on the clock.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 28, 2009, 02:03:59 PM
2-2 now.. COME ON USA!!!
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 28, 2009, 02:38:08 PM
Oh well, USA lost 3-2 but I cannot believe what a good match it was and how well USA played.  I would have been proud if England had fared so well.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: CMF on July 30, 2009, 09:51:46 AM
U19 semi-final and England are pwning France...
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: CMF on July 30, 2009, 10:10:09 AM
3-1 official score
For England
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on September 10, 2009, 04:08:50 PM
Note to Vilya:

While Croatia might be pissed at England for the spanking they received last night, England will beat Ukraine too, so Croatia only have to beat Kazakhstan to be assured of being in the play-offs for the last four places.  I expect then, for you to have plenty of beer ready on October 10th when you may enjoy an English victory.

 :)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on October 10, 2009, 04:18:43 PM
Note to Vilya:

While Croatia might be pissed at England for the spanking they received last night, England will beat Ukraine too, so Croatia only have to beat Kazakhstan to be assured of being in the play-offs for the last four places.  I expect then, for you to have plenty of beer ready on October 10th when you may enjoy an English victory.

 :)

Ok, scrub that.

Sorry Vilya but it looks like Croatia are all but out of the world cup.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 03, 2010, 01:33:24 PM
Damn you Arsenal, damn you all to hell!!
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: laama on January 03, 2010, 03:20:52 PM
Damn you Arsenal, damn you all to hell!!
I saw that match,it looks like West Ham played only 60 mins and then they just waiting final whistle.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: redlandslide on January 03, 2010, 03:59:58 PM
I was on a buzz from Leeds knocking Man U out and was hoping West Ham were going to dispatch Arsenal, but I suppose they paid the penalty for not taking some early second half chances. They seemed to deflate when Arsenal's first went in and they need a new keeper. And the less said about Upson being beaten in the air by Eduardo the better. Unlucky though, before the game I thought Arsenal were going to stroll it, but West Ham gave a good account of themselves.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: Robin-Graves on January 03, 2010, 04:08:19 PM
Soooo,,,howabout them Cowboys? ( Oh god,, please dont shoot me! I was just kidding!)
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: laama on January 03, 2010, 04:17:59 PM
Soooo,,,howabout them Cowboys? ( Oh god,, please dont shoot me! I was just kidding!)
This bigger than life question,so...
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: Robin-Graves on January 03, 2010, 04:23:33 PM
I dont do American Fottbal ( or as its been called on here,, Hand Egg lol)
Theyre overpayed prima donnas
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 03, 2010, 05:41:34 PM
I was on a buzz from Leeds knocking Man U out and was hoping West Ham were going to dispatch Arsenal, but I suppose they paid the penalty for not taking some early second half chances. They seemed to deflate when Arsenal's first went in and they need a new keeper. And the less said about Upson being beaten in the air by Eduardo the better. Unlucky though, before the game I thought Arsenal were going to stroll it, but West Ham gave a good account of themselves.

West Ham were fantastic today considering the amount of players we have out, and what I think actually happened in the game was not the goal or Arsenal's pressure (West Ham easily coped with that) but was that dreadful moment about 75 minutes into the game when Diamanti looked have sustained a nasty injury.  My jaw dropped as he limped off the field and I couldn't help thinking that if he went out with an injury we'd have to ask the tea lady to make up the numbers.  I was trying to see the midway point where he was getting assistance to see how bad it was and I completely took my eye off the game - I could see some of the West Ham players anxiously looking over too.  Then all of a sudden the hole appeared and you cannot take much away from Ramsay's goal truth be told.

Second goal was soft after the usual meltdown that West Ham are prone to and the rest is history.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: redlandslide on January 03, 2010, 06:48:38 PM
we'd have to ask the tea lady to make up the numbers.

I think she was already in goal.

Seriously though, what do West Ham fans think about Robert Green?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 04, 2010, 09:00:53 AM
I think she was already in goal.

Seriously though, what do West Ham fans think about Robert Green?

First couple of seasons I think we would have made him a saint, especially after the season when we beat Arsenal and Man U both home and away.  But since his "serious" international career has started I think he is always conscious that the mistakes he makes are picked up by the whole national football following and he looks far less natural in goal than he used to (which is self-evident but 2 or 3 games that he has personally gifted the opposition).

I personally still have faith as it's West Ham's inability to score goals that is their real undoing, however, letting in a sackful when you do score is doubly counter-productive.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 19, 2010, 05:50:49 AM
Woohoo!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jan/19/sullivan-gold-west-ham-takeover
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: redlandslide on January 19, 2010, 09:26:17 AM
David Sullivan's the porno publisher isn't he? Who'll be the shirt sponsors? Razzle?  :P

No, it's good news mate. A bit of stability for the club. If West Ham had gone under though, I was hoping Liverpool might swoop on their youth development team. They seem to produce a steady stream of top quality young English players that we're not producing at the minute.

How far from Upton Park is the Olympic stadium btw.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 19, 2010, 09:50:28 AM

How far from Upton Park is the Olympic stadium btw.

That's in Marshgate Lane I believe which isn't that far from West Ham proper.  Upton pk is ironically nearer East Ham or Plaistow, so if they are relocated to the Olympic stadium at least their name will be accurate :)

I am praying what this will do in the short term is keep us out of the relegation zone, but West Ham have done themselves proud of late even with the economic turmoil floating above their heads.

Dave and Dave have talked a lot about what they would like to see from the club, and I really like the idea of Karren Brady being vice chairman (I have never had any confidence in the board), but I wonder how much they are going to plough into the club for new players?  They were live on Sky Sports News earlier as I had a mate text me to turn it on, unfortunately I don't have the sports package and couldn't watch it - did you catch it Red?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: redlandslide on January 19, 2010, 10:10:14 AM
It's actually on now. The fans don't seem to happy at the prospect of moving stadium, but if I was a West Ham fan I'd be pretty excited. He's got a seven year plan to qualify for the Champions League, that seems a bit overambitious to me though.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 19, 2010, 10:33:36 AM
It's actually on now.

I can get Sky Sports News on Freeview in the kids rooms, but flipping Sky has it built into their Sports package and you don't get it without subscribing!! How stupid is that?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: redlandslide on January 19, 2010, 11:10:40 AM
Very stupid, it is only a news channel after all.

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on February 13, 2010, 09:12:32 AM
Fantastic Wales - Scotland game in the Six nations this afternoon, I would recommend either watching on iPlayer or DLing it from the box or somewhere if you like Rugby union in any shape or form (or even if you don't it was that good).

Ireland - France up next and no prizes for guessing who I will be rooting for.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: indie180 on May 26, 2010, 05:19:47 PM
Ayr United down again  :'(

Still Ranger's won another domestic league title.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on May 27, 2010, 04:09:15 AM

I'm still a bit shell-shocked at West Ham's bid for Thierry Henry as a 7.5mil deal is unprecedented at Upton Park. It looks like the New York Red Bulls deal is still good at the moment but the Premier League is where he should be and if we attract some other top flight players, he might be tempted?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: redlandslide on May 27, 2010, 04:14:56 AM
Fabio Aurelio's available on a free. He'll be able to keep Kieron Dyer company in the treatment room.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on May 27, 2010, 05:35:00 AM
Fabio Aurelio's available on a free. He'll be able to keep Kieron Dyer company in the treatment room.

They can trade sick notes, Dyer has quite a collection as do most of the West Ham team.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2010, 07:58:35 AM

Federer 2 sets down and struggling in the 3rd?  WTF!?!?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2010, 09:43:17 AM

Federer 2 sets down and struggling in the 3rd?  WTF!?!?

And he still gets through!
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 23, 2010, 12:52:11 PM

Anyone watching Mahut and Isner?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 23, 2010, 01:43:35 PM
Anyone watching Mahut and Isner?

For those who wonder what I am on about, it is now 56 games all in the 5th set.  A new world record by a country mile.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: laama on June 23, 2010, 02:18:49 PM
After 10 hours match,they suspended it and crowd wants still more.
Tomorrow when they return,it might be totally different feeling.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 23, 2010, 03:00:00 PM
Thanks for that Laama, I had to turn over so I didn't actually know what happened. I'll be sure to tune into it tomorrow.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 24, 2010, 05:03:46 AM
After 10 hours match,they suspended it and crowd wants still more.
Tomorrow when they return,it might be totally different feeling.

It's on soon and even the Queen has popped down to see it.  59 all as it stands, and standing is something both players must have trouble with at the moment.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: xtopave on June 24, 2010, 10:59:00 AM
I was watching the sports channels while cooking dinner last night and I couldn't believe it!!! My husband came home from work and I said to him: Honey, look at the score. The poor man was squinting at the TV trying to make something out of those numbers. His face was so funny!
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: laama on June 24, 2010, 02:43:33 PM
I don't think,that in my lifetime there will be even closely so long and good quality match.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 24, 2010, 03:29:02 PM

'70 - 68'

I can't begin to get my head around that score.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on November 30, 2010, 03:30:32 PM
Man U - 0

West Ham - 4

Excuse me while I wet myself..
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: redlandslide on November 30, 2010, 07:13:57 PM
Man U - 0

West Ham - 4

Excuse me while I wet myself..

That score was 200-1 before kick-off.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on March 13, 2011, 06:36:18 AM

COME ON YOU HAMMERS!!!
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on March 13, 2011, 08:58:30 AM

bless'ed referees.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on March 13, 2011, 12:46:14 PM
Odd sentiment, since it was the ref that let you have your goal.

Definitely the shoulder old son, definitely.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on March 15, 2011, 01:49:56 PM
Yup.

Just where the shoulder meets the elbow.

Exactly.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 23, 2013, 02:33:43 PM
Ok. Like I'm watching the Swansea vs Chelsea game and a bizarre incident happened whereby Hazard kicked a ballboy in the ribs trying to get the ball back quickly. It all got messy and I said casually to the missus, "what can the ref' do? He can't send him off for kicking a ballboy".

The ref' then sent Hazard off.

I think it was because he got "involved" but I have never, ever seen anything like that before.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: xtopave on January 23, 2013, 04:08:51 PM
Hazard kicked a ballboy in the ribs trying to get the ball back quickly.

I went to utube. I kinda felt like kicking the little ... myself.  ;D

But he's a pro. He shouldn't do that and get away with it.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 23, 2013, 05:04:09 PM
I went to utube. I kinda felt like kicking the little ... myself.  ;D

But he's a pro. He shouldn't do that and get away with it.

Home team ballboys are always going to dawdle if the home team is in front, and the opposite if they're behind.  It's also not unusual for players to get pissed off with them if the overdo it with the delaying tactics.  What I've never seen is a ref' send a player off for something that happened off the pitch (Cantona had already been sent off when he did his kung-fu on a fan).

I reckon John Terry should be sent off at the start of every game for his philandering.

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: xtopave on January 23, 2013, 06:38:53 PM
What I've never seen is a ref' send a player off for something that happened off the pitch

It happens all the time here. Not long ago a fan threw a lighter (or something like that) to the field. A Rosario Central player threw it back and the ref said "bye, bye". He wanted to kick himself in the butt, poor stupid.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on January 24, 2013, 05:35:00 AM
It happens all the time here. Not long ago a fan threw a lighter (or something like that) to the field. A Rosario Central player threw it back and the ref said "bye, bye". He wanted to kick himself in the butt, poor stupid.

Does that come under the heading of "misconduct"?

Scratch that, I found the law:

Quote

The player is also guilty of violent conduct if excessive force or brutality is used against a team-mate or any other person.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: xtopave on January 24, 2013, 09:24:57 AM
That law might not be that strict since some defenders I know couldn't even play one single game if that was the case.  ;D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 05, 2015, 04:50:24 AM
I am totally impressed by this Womens World Cup. I think England would have won it barring that desperate, attempted clearance, but the English are well used to that sort of thing from the men's game.

I'm rooting for the U.S as I'm piddled off with Japan atm.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: xtopave on July 05, 2015, 08:57:48 AM
When I saw a reply in this thread I was sure it was a comment on our bitter defeat in Copa America yesterday. :'( :D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 05, 2015, 12:27:12 PM
When I saw a reply in this thread I was sure it was a comment on our bitter defeat in Copa America yesterday. :'( :D

Oh yes, there was that as well:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33401452
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: drago6650 on August 28, 2015, 08:29:59 AM
Well my team Sunderland has made yet another fantastic start to the season... >:( can definately see them being relegated this season, only hope is that Newcastle come down with us.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on August 28, 2015, 03:59:15 PM
Well my team Sunderland has made yet another fantastic start to the season... >:( can definately see them being relegated this season, only hope is that Newcastle come down with us.

Bilić hasn't made West Ham look any better this season either (well, perhaps briefly against the Gunners).

Come back "big Sam", all is forgiven.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: drago6650 on August 28, 2015, 04:06:50 PM
We are just leaking goals, even Exeter put 3 past us.


Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on April 05, 2021, 03:51:50 PM
Someone make a song about Jesse Lingard already!

No, wait ... terraces are still empty.

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on April 06, 2021, 12:23:50 PM
You could replace the Hammers by the Baggies in this sentiment ...

Yes, but the other way round.

Mind you, loving the West Brom win over Chelsea. Makes us the top London club in the Premier League.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on April 11, 2021, 09:15:24 AM
Ok, I'm starting on a Lingard statue.

And possibly an effigy of Masuaku.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 26, 2021, 11:49:52 AM
Referee in the Wales game is either blind, stoopid or as bent as a nine bob note.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 27, 2021, 02:26:48 PM
Referee in the Wales game is either blind, stoopid or as bent as a nine bob note.

I was looking at the urban dictionary explanation of  "bent as a nine bob note" and its top definition suggests that it means "gay". This might have been adopted by younger folk but historically "bent" means crooked like "bent coppers", and a nine bob (nine shilling) note never existed so overall the term really means something counterfeit or "on the take".
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: dweez on June 27, 2021, 07:33:43 PM
There's a similar term in the US that went out of use a long time ago, "odd as a 3 dollar bill". It also started with the original meaning of "odd", that of "odd" or "weird". Of course, 3 dollar US bills done exist either, thus the phrase.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 30, 2021, 02:42:35 PM
But - strangely - two-dollar bills do exist, and are used to take unsuspecting foreigners by surprise.

Oddly odd and odd and gay all had meanings before they were usurped by slang.

Ordinary word -> subcultural slang -> mainstream -> deemed unacceptable to the original subculture -> cancelled -> start over. It all has roots in "I can call me that, but you can't".

What makes life a bit interesting in today's cancel culture is that once a word is determined to be unacceptable in a given usage, that word is unusable for any meaning, as its use becomes maligned as "coded bigotry": "Black Tie"? "White Tie"? Implied racism.

There was an "interesting" discussion arising when someone (from the press?) determined that "welching on a bet" was anti-Wales discrimination: dictionaries have been updated to indicate this (previously unknown) derivation of the word.

bless'ed taffies. Or any chewy sweets for that matter.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 03, 2021, 03:45:00 PM
This Southgate fella seems to know what he's doing. Bad notion I know, but I'm now glad of what happened to Big Sam.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 07, 2021, 03:56:25 PM
Whether we win Euro 2020 or not, I'm just glad that finally I get to be interested in the full competion rather than it all becoming a damp squib after the first couple of games.

TNG's back home for the final too. Best I hide a few cans for emergencies.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 08, 2021, 01:23:22 PM
I really, really don't like Sterling.
Really.

"So, Raheem - was it a penalty?" "I was in the box and I felt a touch so I went down, and the ref awarded one, so yes". People like him, and those that think this is a Good Thing™, are ruining the game.

Late on at 1-1, Raheem constantly dribbled through the box without attempting to pull it back for someone else or attempt a shot himself just waiting for one of the Danes to foul him. After all, they had broken up virtually every advance by England by fouling rather than legitimate attempts to tackle, so I didn't find it that surprising something finally went against them.

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 11, 2021, 03:59:14 PM
Stupid football with its stupid penalties, I'll never believe again.

When's the world cup?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on September 22, 2021, 03:06:44 PM
West Ham finally got a victory at Old Trafford this evening. It a shame it wasn't in the league, but hopefully the monkey is well and truly off our backs now and we won't have to wait another 14 years to see it again.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on September 22, 2021, 03:11:40 PM
Bugger! Drew Man City in the next round.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on September 23, 2021, 04:17:28 AM
At least in the distraction cup you get to play City's second/ youth team (with the odd DeBruyne to sign autographs)

Is that the same team that's won it for them the last 4 or 5 years on the bounce? Wouldn't mind fielding that team if I were their manager.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on September 25, 2021, 03:13:10 AM
Football ?????
Friends offered myself and the wench 2 tickets to watch England V South Africa in November £120 each  8) 8)
Hotel was cheaper for 2 nights than one ticket.
still Twickers is a whole day + night visit as you just cannot get away from the place (train stain just cannot cope with the  amount of people)
Still it is well managed all the way to the station with portable loo's and food
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on September 25, 2021, 04:09:42 PM
That'll be the one. To be totally honest I prefer watching this team to the first team: passing the ball 8,743 times before giving it to Sterling (who gives it to the opposition) wears a bit thin after the first hour or so.

I've never been fond of watching Man City as I always want them to lose and they almost never oblige.

Football ?????
Friends offered myself and the wench 2 tickets to watch England V South Africa in November £120 each  8) 8)
Hotel was cheaper for 2 nights than one ticket.
still Twickers is a whole day + night visit as you just cannot get away from the place (train stain just cannot cope with the  amount of people)
Still it is well managed all the way to the station with portable loo's and food

Now that's the game out of the 3 being played that I'd like to see. Best wrap up warm, though.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on September 25, 2021, 11:19:34 PM
I've never been fond of watching Man City as I always want them to lose and they almost never oblige.

Now that's the game out of the 3 being played that I'd like to see. Best wrap up warm, though.
most definitely
 
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on October 28, 2021, 10:08:41 AM
I've never been fond of watching Man City as I always want them to lose and they almost never oblige.

After last night I can scratch that.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on October 28, 2021, 02:49:59 PM
Aaargh. They outwitted me by putting Sterling into the second team!

Until City remember that they don't give points for possession, they are doomed to continue to lose.

In all honesty. West Ham are absolutely the real deal these days. I have had a lifetime of "is this the moment, is this the team?" but they have never lived up to (or anywhere near) expectations and 9 times out of 10 battled relegation. Now, even at 2-0 down I don't think we're going to lose. If they played Issa, Ogbonna, Zouma and Cresswell at the back, we'd never concede a goal anyhow.

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on October 28, 2021, 02:59:35 PM
Allowing 25 attempts on goal - even though only seven were on target - is not a recipe for success against anyone but City. Other teams convert chances, City famously pooh-pooh such mundane ideas.

Last night was not what I was talking about. It's all the other teams this year that we've made look average that makes me confident at last. If that arse Chris Kavanagh hadn't sent of Balbuena last season for nothing more that kicking a ball (in a game called football), I reckon we'd have beaten Chelsea and made it to the Champions league.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on October 31, 2021, 12:19:41 PM
If that arse Chris Kavanagh ....

Strange I said that and today he lets Kortney Hause do a Chuck Norris on Fornals and get away with it.

https://www.caughtoffside.com/2021/10/31/hause-somehow-escapes-red-video/
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on December 05, 2021, 03:39:17 AM
Well done you 'ammers: thanks from City!

Incredible what West Ham can do when they go on the front foot!

That's the second time Manchester has had call to thank me. TNG's arrival was the first.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on March 02, 2022, 02:23:40 PM
Effing scummers.

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on March 04, 2022, 02:18:04 PM
Absolutely bless'ed gutted to hear of Shane Warne's passing. WTF happened there?!
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on March 05, 2022, 12:20:37 AM
A tad surreal as he only just posted about his mate passing away and then he passed  :'( :'(
A true character.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on April 15, 2022, 03:45:13 PM
TNG arrived home yesterday for a week as he's on a mid-term break. What fun it was watching West Ham do a real number on Lyon - especially after the appalling red card decision last week that saw Cresswell getting red carded.

Less said about Dembele's wink (https://www.the-sun.com/sport/football/premier-league/5077693/dembele-cresswell-wink-west-ham/) once he'd bought the foul ... He ain't winking now, that's for sure!
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 26, 2022, 02:56:41 PM
Come on England!
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 27, 2022, 02:45:17 AM
Which England team?

The one that is good at the football thingy.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 27, 2022, 10:18:12 AM
Have we got one of those? Well, good for them.

That reminds me - I was minded to have a look at the ladies' football team on TV recently. I had to turn it off after five minutes, it was like watching a school match. Alright if you are a parent, but not really football.

I can honestly say that ever member of the England women's squad would play me off the pitch. Even the physio'.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 27, 2022, 01:56:58 PM
Me too. But the same is true of my grandson's junior school team.

All very laudable, and I am pleased for the ladies, but I can't be watching them. Equality is a wonderful thing and I am all for it - as long as I don't have to watch inferior sport and pretend that it is better than it is. Or that I am enjoying it.

I feel that way about European football. If you got points for doing the rolly polly while clutching a leg routine (any leg, doesn't even have to ones own), then I'd highly rate them. In fact, I'd say the same for most of the players in the premiership - other than those who play for West Ham. They are the only honest team out there.

But as you enjoy the rolly pollying dramas and I value your opinion, maybe I'll give it a little more licence and give it another watch.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 28, 2022, 08:22:36 AM
Fair do's - the ladies really don't spend any of their time indulging in gamesmanship (gameswomanship?), and that is highly laudable: I really wish that the boys (and the governance of the boys' game) would learn from this.

... but again, doesn't really improve the standard of the football.

I feel the same about the cricket: laudable of course, and equality is great, but it isn't something I would pay to watch.

I personally find women's football more entertaining than the mens. Admittedly, this is due the the reality of what you allude to which is they aren't quite as clinical as the top male players, but for me, that adds a massive element of unpredictability that really makes it a good watch. And to be fair to the women, the level of skill is now ridiculous all over the park. Some of the England goals would put Ronaldo to shame and our keeper has only let a single goal in over the whole competition. The keeper on your grandson's team would be hard pushed to follow that, I'm sure.

Mind you, this is coming from a man that would happily pay to watch cricket that's been rained off.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on July 31, 2022, 02:59:04 PM
Thanks England women for finally getting that monkey off our back. 
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on August 01, 2022, 12:01:11 AM
Good win and well done
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on August 01, 2022, 02:46:20 PM
Really? I don't think so. The monkey is still there as far as I can see. Similarly the monkey would still be there if the under-16 boys were to win something - the monkey is a men's thing (... or possibly an "open to all-comers" thing, but we haven't got there yet).

The ladies are of course in danger of making another monkey for themselves: when the rest of the world starts taking lady football seriously and stop losing 8-or-more to nil to the big girls then England will be competing on a more level playing field (which will likely be as much of an issue for them as it is for the boys). There are currently only about four nations funded well enough to compete in the ladies at the moment, so the situation is sort of like England men in the 1896 Euros. But I take nothing away from them: well done to the ladies for making hay while the sun shines.

Nope, the monkey has left the building. At least, this is how the mens team have to see it so they can finally play freely without the enormous expectation of "bringing it home". The public (in the main) are already on board so let's now just crack on and stop thinking that a trophy trumps the second coming of the lord (or 3rd, as the case may be).
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on August 02, 2022, 11:36:02 PM
I hope you are right. I really do.

... but I don't for one minute think so. I can't imagine that it hasn't now got worse for the poor sods: "come on guys, if the women can do it ..."
;D I'm sure Lineker will use that line
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on August 03, 2022, 10:05:24 AM
;D I'm sure Lineker will use that line

He'll probably claim he was a woman in his youth ...
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on August 04, 2022, 08:10:08 AM
He'll probably claim he was a woman in his youth ...

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on December 04, 2022, 01:58:28 PM
I must say, I'm liking the World Cup in December. It's all too boisterous in the summer.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on December 05, 2022, 02:41:02 PM
I'm missing proper football.

Don't worry, it'll eventually catch on in Gosport.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on December 06, 2022, 08:13:58 AM
England coach Jones sacked, Richard Cockerill to  temporary take over.
OUCH not long till world cup.

Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on December 07, 2022, 04:51:23 AM
Don't be dissing Gosport Borough FC, you!

They'd probably appreciate the attention.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on December 07, 2022, 11:47:15 AM
Just like West Ham.

Hey, Declan Rice gets us all the attention we need.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on December 07, 2022, 02:32:53 PM
Rice, Rice baby ...

He would've been absolutely key against France on Saturday. Perhaps you could do something with his recovery?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on December 10, 2022, 12:28:47 AM
Well after the two games friday, WOW
Will it be coming home ??
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on December 10, 2022, 03:21:07 AM
Well after the two games friday, WOW
Will it be coming home ??

It can go to the moon for all I care. Just as long as we win it.

One thing that simply must not happen: France CANNOT win it twice on the bounce. It's bad enough Italy claiming that rare achievement.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on December 10, 2022, 04:30:38 AM
It can go to the moon for all I care. Just as long as we win it.

One thing that simply must not happen: France CANNOT win it twice on the bounce. It's bad enough Italy claiming that rare achievement.

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on December 10, 2022, 11:41:53 PM
Next time.   :-\ :-\
The curse of the penalty
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on December 12, 2022, 08:18:23 AM
Next time.   :-\ :-\
The curse of the penalty

The curse of bent referees.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on December 14, 2022, 12:43:34 PM
If France win this World Cup, I'll stop watching international football until the Euros...
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on December 14, 2022, 11:59:35 PM
Hasn't the "Qatar Trophy" finished yet?

No idea, Ask the EURO Mp's under investigation ;D
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on December 15, 2022, 03:14:46 PM
Seems like little point bemoaning the bent referees when the whole system from the very top is as corrupt as it can possibly be, and every single player in every single game on every single pitch is dishonest as well (and generally proud of it).

This is an extremely good point, but I'm not sure whether it makes me feel better or worse.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on December 17, 2022, 02:38:51 AM
This is an extremely good point, but I'm not sure whether it makes me feel better or worse.
Numb maybe
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on December 24, 2022, 09:09:57 PM
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on December 25, 2022, 12:08:14 AM
😂😂
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on May 18, 2023, 01:50:01 PM
I'm having to watch the West Ham game via an online stream again. No idea what I'm paying Sky Sports for.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on May 28, 2023, 11:39:13 AM
Fantastic last day or the football season and I thoroughly enjoyed watching all the bottom teams scrambling to stay up - far more so than watching those at the top of the Premier League.

I bet redlandslide would have liked to see Everton relegated. I think I would have too.

Scummers went a long time ago (that's Southampton to those who don't know) so it looks like Gosport may bump into a Millwall fan or 2 next season. They'll pretty the place up, no doubt...
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on May 28, 2023, 04:22:50 PM
Pompey-Millwall always has more of an edge than Scum-Millwall. And Fratton is close enough to make a difference: St Mary's is miles away.

City declared in the league a couple of matches ago, I hope that they have remembered how to win for the matches against Untied and Inter.

D'you know, I thought it was closer. Mind you, the last time I went from Southampton to Portsmouth I was riding a 1300 Yamaha so it didn't take long.

In regards  to pompey: I just had a gander at league 1 and I was surprised how many teams reside there that used to be top flight when I were a lad.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 07, 2023, 04:41:10 PM
Proud to be a hammer!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/06/07/west-ham-vs-fiorentina-live-europa-conference-league-final/
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 12, 2023, 10:05:42 AM
Great win, and I'm pleased for you, but it is a strange tournament that I hope City never win; as you have to lose the race to the European Cup (whatever it is called in any given season) to qualify for it!

I'm still confused as to what would happen if you win the conference cup and finish 5th or 6th on the premier league. Would you be promoted to the Champions league?
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on June 13, 2023, 01:29:30 AM
No idea. But I think City have three entries in the Champions League next season - that should improve their chances even more!

They actually have 2x Champions league entries and  1x Europa league, but who's counting.

I just received my new, blue passport so maybe I'll catch a game in Europe next season. Knowing West Ham, though, I'd better be quick.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on August 01, 2023, 06:08:08 AM
If it weren't for the weather and the cheating, we'd have won the Ashes 4-1.

Yeah, I said it.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on August 15, 2023, 04:39:57 AM
For Christ's sake England women footballing people, you simply cannot let the aussies turn us over tomorrow!

In the Australian press, they are already predicting a hatrick after the Ashes and the netball.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on August 15, 2023, 08:44:32 AM
🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: smokester on August 16, 2023, 07:30:10 AM
Nothing to do with me - I don't care what the wimmin do.

Incredible game in my opinion.

Thankfully, you weren't needed as skill prevailed.
Title: Re: Football/Sports related chat
Post by: goldshirt*9 on August 18, 2023, 05:23:13 AM
Who runs World Rugby, The Farrell scenario is appalling