Football 2017/18

[Utter Shit]

Soccer AID lads!!!

All these banter lads and ex footballers pretending to care about third world countries.

Or to put it another way, all these banter lads and ex footballers raise a shitload of money for third world countries while bgmnts implies he cares about third world countries while sitting on his hole and whining about it.

[finnquark]

Clive and Robbie have definitely been on the piss.

[Mr Eggs]

Clive gets his "Seamen comes out" in early.

[bgmnts]

Or to put it another way, all these banter lads and ex footballers raise a shitload of money for third world countries while bgmnts implies he cares about third world countries while sitting on his hole and whining about it.

I didnt imply I care. We would all play football once a year to raise a few quid if we had the profile i'm sure.

Maybe not you, I don't know.

[bgmnts]

I would love to see Usain Bolt at a professional football club.

[Mr Eggs]

Fat Sam spent half time invoicing Unicef for his petrol money.

[Rolf Lundgren]

FFS England let a 2 goal lead slip against a bunch of players who are mostly retired. Allardyce out.

[Rolf Lundgren]

It's not fair, they've brought Darth Vader on.

[bgmnts]

Darth Vader has the best run ever.

[finnquark]

McGuinness' Southgate moment

[bgmnts]

Probably a football team's wages for the year.


Did Williams take a quick glance at Gallaghers tits then or do my eyes decieve me?

[phantom_power]

Ivor Baddiel was credited as a writer on this. What did he write?

[BlodwynPig]

Just been to a cracking game this afternoon - Canada 2 - 3 Germany (the women). A goal after 51 seconds, a Canadian goal followed immediately by a German running up the other end and scoring with a world class strike. Sunburned but happy. Who needs the World Cup?

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Looking forward to the World Cup.

[imitationleather]

Closing the weekend by watching some high-quality South American footy. The commentator, clearly not having a clue what any of the names of the players are, just refers to as them as "the adversaries". He has also called a corner kick a throw-in twice and not five minutes has passed. It's pretty entertaining. Reminds me of the commentary on FIFA '98. But how did he get this job? I want it!

[DrGreggles]

Is it the American BEIN Sports by any chance?

[phantom_power]

Anyone see Collymore calling Ian Wright a Tom and a cunt on Twitter the other day? Spicy

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Anyone see Collymore calling Ian Wright a Tom and a cunt on Twitter the other day? Spicy

No, it's Twitter, if I wanted to look at a cesspit every day I'd have moved to Pontefract

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

The vulgarity of SoccerAID aside, the concept of a team half ex-pros and half amateurs makes for a novel experience to watch, which the celebrity aspect and the charity element detracted from.

I'd say the football itself was oddly compelling.

[Utter Shit]

Without the celebrities the charity element would be redundant, and without the charity element the whole thing would be redundant. If it's just ex-pros you want to see, the Legends tournaments throughout the summer are shown on Sky Sports. But they're rubbish, because everyone is competent and you don't get to see Lee Mack trying to mark Usain Bolt or Anakin Skywalker skying a penalty in front of the black boxer from Game On.

[Enrico Palazzo]

https://twitter.com/MrKenShabby/status/1005933411930968065

[BlodwynPig]

The bus of square-jawed beige men.

[phantom_power]

I saw the last half hour and enjoyed it. They took it a bit too seriously at the end though with all the celebrations. You won a friendly lads. It's not the World Cup, or even the Intertoto

[imitationleather]

The vulgarity of SoccerAID aside, the concept of a team half ex-pros and half amateurs makes for a novel experience to watch, which the celebrity aspect and the charity element detracted from.

I'd say the football itself was oddly compelling.

I didn't see SoccerAID, but I did watch the Grenfell one (It was a charity match for Grenfell survivors. Not sure I needed to make that clear, but just in case!) where Mourinho played in goal for one of the teams. He did a touching interview about the fire and the victims after the game too. I was like "Gah, the man isn't a cunt after all, is he?" I almost wish I'd not watched it because ever since I've been very conflicted about him.

SoccerAID is the one where a few years back Boris Johnson did a Zidane headbutt on someone, isn't it? Everyone was like "lolboris!" and not "Hey, the Mayor of London just assaulted someone on TV in front of literally hundreds of bored people. Surely this isn't right." It was a warning of things to come.

[finnquark]

Take it everyone saw the moment of the game - Juan Seba Veron's dive:

[Tapiocahead]

I was at the socceraid game. It was one of the oddest evenings of my life

[bgmnts]

Lovely goal just scored in the Women's Wales vs Russia game.

[imitationleather]

I'm watching Sao Paolo v Vitoria. When six minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half was announced (due to the sort of bust-up that seems to happen in every single South American game) the commentator said, in such a pained voice, "Agh! Six minutes?! That is just too much." It's been a really entertaining game, as well! Also I assume the guy is getting paid to commentate on this and isn't doing it as part of community service or something. While said bust-up was occurring he said, "Sigh. Well this is going to add ages to the half." Maybe he was desperate for a shit, I guess.

Another great moment was when a player gobbed on the pitch. Something which happens every match and always goes uncommented on. This guy says, "Huh. Well that was pleasant."

How commentary should be for me, Clive.

[Norton Canes]

Saw this on the When Saturday Comes Facebook page





Fingers crossed!

[bgmnts]

Jack Wilshere to West Ham.

100k a week to sit still in the middle of the park/on the bench/physio table.

What a shit career.

[jobotic]

Big deal, I get 300 quid a week to do that.


Oh, k.