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Re: Footy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:25 pm
by Lordie82360now
I couldn't give a monkeys about the whole show!
Should be even more boring when it is expanded to 48 teams next time.
More meaningless games from very poor teams. Bring on Outer Mongolia v Surinam or Burkino Faso v Tonga!
And VAR is supposed to help - just ask Harry Kane!
Complete farce

Re: Footy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:26 pm
by savvypaul
It's better than listening to King Crimson...

Re: Footy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:30 pm
by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
At least if Russia wins no one will need to be "eliminated".

Re: Footy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:33 pm
by Lordie82360now
Fair point - the only one decent album - hence the avatar!
As a man with odd shaped balls I fear that professional rugby union will go the same way - but that's another story.

Re: Footy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:33 pm
by savvypaul
In Colombia they shoot footballers who disappoint them...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/colo ... 18013.html

Thought they might have raised their game since!

Re: Footy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:36 pm
by savvypaul
Lordie82360now wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:33 pm Fair point - the only one decent album - hence the avatar!
As a man with odd shaped balls I fear that professional rugby union will go the same way - but that's another story.
My great love is cricket - I'm talking 5 day tests - but now we are getting a 100 ball pyjama party :snooty:

Re: Footy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:39 pm
by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
In Russia it is people who disappoint / upset Putin.

I wonder if the person who cocked up the Salisbury assassination attempt has been shot yet or is in a Siberian Gulag. Putin = the new Stalin.

Re: Footy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:40 pm
by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
savvypaul wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:36 pm
Lordie82360now wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:33 pm Fair point - the only one decent album - hence the avatar!
As a man with odd shaped balls I fear that professional rugby union will go the same way - but that's another story.
My great love is cricket - I'm talking 5 day tests - but now we are getting a 100 ball pyjama party :snooty:
With a disco and dancing girls :-?

Re: Footy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 1:28 pm
by Lordie82360now
I am not completely averse to Football having a loose affiliation to Sunderland AFC - married to a Makem.
It will be interesting to see what the Black Cats can do next season!
Starting from scratch with hopefully local talent is the only way to go.
Perhaps you agree Savvy - or are the Mags or Smoggies your team?
Cricket without the pj's also the way to go!

Re: Footy

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 1:41 pm
by savvypaul
Lordie82360now wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 1:28 pm I am not completely averse to Football having a loose affiliation to Sunderland AFC - married to a Makem.
It will be interesting to see what the Black Cats can do next season!
Starting from scratch with hopefully local talent is the only way to go.
Perhaps you agree Savvy - or are the Mags or Smoggies your team?
Cricket without the pj's also the way to go!
I'm originally from Essex, so Sarfend United are my top team. They are 'sleeping minnows' and if they ever reach their true potential then they could be, erm...quite small. I try to get to the 'oop North' away games and pop down there to see mates a few times each season.

I do go to watch Sunderland, for about the last 15 years. The supporters bus picks us up from outside our local, once they think we are drunk enough to endure it.

One of my lads lives in Boro, so he shouts for the Smoggies and I occasionally accompany him (usually when he can't afford to buy a ticket :doh: ).