User Tag List

View Poll Results: Who's winning (losing?) the sack race?

Voters
11. You may not vote on this poll
  • Arteta

    0 0%
  • Bielsa

    1 9.09%
  • Bruce

    3 27.27%
  • Farke

    0 0%
  • Nuno

    1 9.09%
  • OGB

    1 9.09%
  • Xisco

    0 0%
  • Somebody else

    0 0%
  • Nobody's getting sack in October

    2 18.18%
  • Turtle

    3 27.27%
Page 5 of 30 FirstFirst ... 3456715 ... LastLast
Results 201 to 250 of 1472

Thread: October football: The Sack Race

  1. #201
    Senior Member Pepe's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    11,322
    Mentioned
    54 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Don't the big Spanish teams have some sort of public ownership thing going? Might explain why they are so fucking useless.

  2. #202
    Custom User Title phonics's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Posts
    18,152
    Mentioned
    118 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    I saw something about how ‘we should feel so bad about a once great club has fallen to’

    I’ve loved every second of that cheaty scummy clubs misery. Mes que un bunch of cunts.

  3. #203
    Senior Member Jimmy Floyd's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    35,309
    Mentioned
    84 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    What have they even fallen to? Lost a few games? The horror.

  4. #204
    Senior Member Pepe's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    11,322
    Mentioned
    54 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    They have definitely been much worse before. Their finances are shit? Who cares?

  5. #205
    ram it up your shitpipe Giggles's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Kildare
    Posts
    30,459
    Mentioned
    138 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Smuggest club ever. It’s great to see.

  6. #206
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    1,148
    Mentioned
    6 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    A demotion or two would be nice. Be a good FM save that.

  7. #207
    Custom User Title phonics's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Posts
    18,152
    Mentioned
    118 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Bissouma under investigation for sexual assault.

  8. #208
    Isn't he banned? Baz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Posts
    15,022
    Mentioned
    199 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Sorba Thomas' story is a good one. Hope he makes it to the Premier League.
    I'm a twit

  9. #209
    Senior Member Jimmy Floyd's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    35,309
    Mentioned
    84 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Sir Henry Winter finishing his twitter list of advice to the Saudis with 'Enjoy it. Great fans and city.' is the most Sir Henry Winter thing that he has ever done.

  10. #210
    Senior Member Offshore Toon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    5,566
    Mentioned
    20 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    I'm getting a bit carried away planning a long overdue trip to St James'. Time for bed.

  11. #211
    Senior Member Jimmy Floyd's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    35,309
    Mentioned
    84 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)


    Please never stop, Sir Henry. Please keep being you.

  12. #212
    Senior Member Waffdon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    12,799
    Mentioned
    44 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Liquidated Super League with Bury, Wigan and Derby.

    They may need to relocate to Rochdale of something.
    Wigan are minted now

  13. #213
    Won the Old Board Lewis's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Hull
    Posts
    27,080
    Mentioned
    132 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Has anyone in a worthwhile position to do so ever raised human rights with City, Arsenal, the FA etc.? They all whine about Qatar, but that is a FIFA thing and it's easy to have a go at FIFA. Not so easy to have a go at the people who control your press access.

  14. #214
    The Artist Formerly Known as Taz
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    8,637
    Mentioned
    108 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    I said it before and I'll say it again, it's fantastic to have an added passion to see Newcastle lose. They should be going down this year but hopefully I'll get a chance to go and shout abuse at them at Brentford this year.

  15. #215
    Webly Ian's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    20,654
    Mentioned
    123 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post


    Please never stop, Sir Henry. Please keep being you.
    I'm trying to figure out precisely how he's not understood Liew's post there.

  16. #216
    Senior Member Offshore Toon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    5,566
    Mentioned
    20 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    We're going to need a couple of 'can you separate the football team from the owner?' threads. @Lofty @Spikey M

  17. #217
    Senior Member Spikey M's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2016
    Posts
    22,472
    Mentioned
    35 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    No. You can't. Now jog on Osama BinMan Jersey.

  18. #218
    Senior Member Jimmy Floyd's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    35,309
    Mentioned
    84 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    If there's one thing I'll never tire of, it's (club's fans) telling (all other fans) that they don't understand their club, as if they aren't just the same institution followed by the same slavish idiots copy-pasted all over the country in different colour schemes.

    'There's a media agenda against Chesterfield, and if you can't see that, you must be as biased as the rest of them.'

  19. #219
    Administrator SvN's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    6,574
    Mentioned
    89 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    When I used to take betting a bit more seriously, I'd regularly check in on the online forums of smaller clubs to get team news, etc. It was hilarious how many of them - probably 80%ish - had threads about the media/referee bias against them.

  20. #220
    Senior Member Spikey M's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2016
    Posts
    22,472
    Mentioned
    35 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Do Sky Sports have a single pundit that didn't play for Liverpool, Man Utd or Arsenal?

    They had Le Tissier but the lure of being a full time mong on Twitter was too strong for him.

  21. #221
    Senior Member niko_cee's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    17,951
    Mentioned
    45 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    If you go into their Soccer Saturday panels then probably (where I guess Le Tiss was found) - Matt Murray? Does he ever get into the studio other than on lower league weekends?

  22. #222
    Webly Ian's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    20,654
    Mentioned
    123 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    The bits I've had the misfortune to see of BT panels of Scholes and Hargreaves might be some of the most football broadcasting ever allowed onto the airwaves. They're not even entertainingly thick, just dull as dishwater.

    Do BT have one good pundit?

  23. #223
    Senior Member Jimmy Floyd's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    35,309
    Mentioned
    84 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    I say this quite often but culturally English football is all about those three red teams, the others are just convenient opposition ultimately. There's far more mileage in having washed up players from those three on pundit panels than there is in having good pundits. It's all part of the narrative.

    When those teams don't win, the story is them being shit, rather than about someone else being good.

  24. #224
    Senior Member niko_cee's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    17,951
    Mentioned
    45 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Didn't BT unearth Sutton?

  25. #225
    Senior Member Spikey M's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2016
    Posts
    22,472
    Mentioned
    35 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post

    When those teams don't win, the story is them being shit, rather than about someone else being good.
    And there in lays the source of the complex. I don't think it's entirely imaginary.

    Spurs fans are one of the main culprits of that line of thinking, but when they're playing one of the big 4 and the panel is made up entirely of ex-players from their opponent it does make it understandable.

    The build up is heavily weighted towards United / Liverpool / Arsenal (because they bring the most viewers), if they win it's about how shit their opponent was (rather than how good Spurs were) and if they lose it's smug grins all round.

    I don't necessarily think it's bias on Sky's behalf, they're just getting in the pundits they think their core viewers want to see, but if you're a fan of one of the 17 other clubs in the league (especially if you support a rival club) I can easily see why they think the media is against them.
    Last edited by Spikey M; 07-10-2021 at 09:09 AM.

  26. #226
    Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuno Reg's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    4,485
    Mentioned
    22 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Do BT have one good pundit?
    I think Rio Ferdinand is quite good now.

    They also have AC Jimbo's podcast mates on the Italian and European stuff.

  27. #227
    Webly Ian's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    20,654
    Mentioned
    123 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    I think he's fine but he never actually says anything that makes you go "Hm, good point." He just appears to have an actual personality, such as it is, which marks him out.

  28. #228
    Man(c) of the People igor_balis's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    5,909
    Mentioned
    44 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    When I used to take betting a bit more seriously, I'd regularly check in on the online forums of smaller clubs to get team news, etc. It was hilarious how many of them - probably 80%ish - had threads about the media/referee bias against them.
    My dad's mate who went to the Albion with us would, without fail, ask my dad who the referee was.

    "It's [ref's name]"

    "FUCK sake, he fucking hates the Albion".

  29. #229
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    21,972
    Mentioned
    181 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    That Winter exchange is perfect, just perfect.

    He's like a highbrow Madeley.

  30. #230
    Senior Member Andy's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    1,326
    Mentioned
    24 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    My dad's mate who went to the Albion with us would, without fail, ask my dad who the referee was.

    "It's [ref's name]"

    "FUCK sake, he fucking hates the Albion".
    This is all just part of the match day experience.

    Also it covers all clubs across the country. The bigger clubs (Liverpool, United) are some of the worse.

  31. #231
    Administrator SvN's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    6,574
    Mentioned
    89 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    When United were winning everything, I used to look at other fanbases and laugh how mental they all were. The last 7 years have made me realise that United's fanbase is probably one of the worst out there.

  32. #232
    Senior Member Jimmy Floyd's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    35,309
    Mentioned
    84 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    The modern day internet United fan combines blinkeredness and a sense of entitlement in a way that truly grates.

    Arsenal fans online are really bizarre, particularly when it comes to messianic complexes about the next youth player through (currently it's Charlie Patiño. Give the boy a chance, he's 17 ffs). Chelsea fans seem to be full of wrong uns. Scousers are scousers. Spurs are just obsessed with Arsenal, the bigger picture doesn't seem to matter to them at all.

    City and Newcastle basically have the same fanbase, the main purpose of which is to defend their club against the imagined scorn of others vis a vis middle eastern state ownership.

  33. #233
    Senior Member Waffdon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    12,799
    Mentioned
    44 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Newcastle

    I really hope they do one up on City and start buying everyone.

  34. #234
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    1,148
    Mentioned
    6 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    The modern day internet United fan combines blinkeredness and a sense of entitlement in a way that truly grates.

    Arsenal fans online are really bizarre, particularly when it comes to messianic complexes about the next youth player through (currently it's Charlie Patiño. Give the boy a chance, he's 17 ffs). Chelsea fans seem to be full of wrong uns. Scousers are scousers. Spurs are just obsessed with Arsenal, the bigger picture doesn't seem to matter to them at all.

    City and Newcastle basically have the same fanbase, the main purpose of which is to defend their club against the imagined scorn of others vis a vis middle eastern state ownership.
    Speaking of entitlement...




  35. #235
    Senior Member Disco's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    12,231
    Mentioned
    46 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Football as a whole thinks it's far more important than it really is so is it any wonder that some of the fans are the same way?

  36. #236
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    7,747
    Mentioned
    37 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    China v Vietnam just about to kick off in Asian World Cup qualifying. Could be tasty. Unfortunately, being played in the UAE

    Liverpool born Tyias Browning starts for China, as does Brazilian... sorry, Chinese striker Elkeson de Oliveira Cardoso. Alan "Ai Lan" Carvalho on the bench.
    Last edited by John Arne; 07-10-2021 at 05:01 PM.

  37. #237
    I used to be funny.
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    21,261
    Mentioned
    41 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by mo View Post
    Speaking of entitlement...



    Howay. We've spent our entire history in the top two divisions. Four fifths of that in the top flight. That's not torture.

  38. #238
    Senior Member Offshore Toon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    5,566
    Mentioned
    20 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Are there any other Newcastle fans here anymore apart from Shindig (who was an Ashley/Bruce advocate last I saw)?

    Hard not to be excited but we'll see what happens. For now, I'm just going to celebrate Ashley being gone but I look forward to smashing everyone in the near future.

  39. #239
    I used to be funny.
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    21,261
    Mentioned
    41 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    I was a Bruce advocate because he was under Ashley's thumb, to be honest. I have no idea how he gets on with a Saudi warchest. Ashley went from being fiscally responsible (compared to Freddie's debt) to downright refusal to spend.

  40. #240
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    7,747
    Mentioned
    37 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    China v Vietnam just about to kick off in Asian World Cup qualifying. Could be tasty. Unfortunately, being played in the UAE

    Liverpool born Tyias Browning starts for China, as does Brazilian... sorry, Chinese striker Elkeson de Oliveira Cardoso. Alan "Ai Lan" Carvalho on the bench.
    90th minute equalizer, having been 2-0 with 10 mins to play



    EDIT: China with a 95th minute winner
    Last edited by John Arne; 07-10-2021 at 06:53 PM.

  41. #241
    Senior Member niko_cee's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    17,951
    Mentioned
    45 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    The woman fronting the Newcastle takeover seems to have spent the hiatus between the first bid and now having way too much plastic surgery.

    Ashley [more than] doubling his money, having probably stripped millions out in the meantime, the guy's an absolute genius, somehow.

  42. #242
    Senior Member Jimmy Floyd's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    35,309
    Mentioned
    84 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    The woman fronting the Newcastle takeover seems to have spent the hiatus between the first bid and now having way too much plastic surgery.
    When in Rome.

  43. #243
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    21,972
    Mentioned
    181 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    So are these Saudis of the spunking money variety and is that their plan with Newcastle?

  44. #244
    Senior Member Disco's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    12,231
    Mentioned
    46 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Does that technically count as a face covering?

  45. #245
    DEATH TO THE WEIRD Raoul Duke's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Haarlem
    Posts
    6,802
    Mentioned
    23 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    So are these Saudis of the spunking money variety and is that their plan with Newcastle?
    Also sawing up journalists, so it's not all banter. Howay the hacksaws?

  46. #246
    Senior Member Offshore Toon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    5,566
    Mentioned
    20 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    I was a Bruce advocate because he was under Ashley's thumb, to be honest. I have no idea how he gets on with a Saudi warchest. Ashley went from being fiscally responsible (compared to Freddie's debt) to downright refusal to spend.
    To accumulate a warchest you usually need to have some brains about you, and for that reason Bruce will never be allowed anywhere near one. The first job is to replace him.

  47. #247
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    21,972
    Mentioned
    181 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    In all this I'd forgotten that Steve Bruce is at the helm.

  48. #248
    ram it up your shitpipe Giggles's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Kildare
    Posts
    30,459
    Mentioned
    138 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Loving the pearl clutching shit when so many scumbags already own clubs. I hope they clean up.

  49. #249
    Senior Member Jimmy Floyd's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Posts
    35,309
    Mentioned
    84 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    I think MBS's goons owning a club is quantifiably worse than the various shades of shyster who currently own clubs. Even the City ones.

  50. #250
    Won the Old Board Lewis's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2015
    Location
    Hull
    Posts
    27,080
    Mentioned
    132 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Mark Hughes getting to spend City's money on a load of crap was good at the time.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •