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Reply | The ultimate World Cup thread
at 21:04 15 Jun 2026
Either Egypt are very good, or Belgium's decline is more precipitous than I realised. |
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Reply | Summer transfer rumours 2026
at 20:06 14 Jun 2026
Yup. Also the hero's companion in Cormac McCarthy's The Road is referred to as Boy, or sometimes The Boy. [Post edited 14 Jun 20:07]
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Reply | The ultimate World Cup thread
at 16:02 14 Jun 2026
Turn the sound off. Everyone on this site has watched as much, or more, football than any of the professional pundits and commentators. Not listening to their incessant babble improves the game immensely. The only time I turn the sound up is when there's been an incident I missed (occasionally,) or need clarity on (rarely.) |
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Reply | The ultimate World Cup thread
at 22:25 12 Jun 2026
Canada score a goal in a WC final for the first time. So that's one monkey off our back.
We have some decent players but I'm not sure the coaching really brings out the best in them. |
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Reply | The ultimate World Cup thread
at 21:44 12 Jun 2026
Larin definitely looked as if he had a point to prove with that goal. [Post edited 12 Jun 21:45]
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Reply | Podcast with Marti.
at 20:21 1 Jun 2026
You mentioned that you think Marti would have done better this season, but, as has been pointed out, Madsen has been a complete different player this season and a big part of our good form.
I don't have an axe to grind here, but Madsen improved considerably in the latter part of the previous season under Cifuentes. |
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Reply | Summer sounds...
at 20:39 30 May 2026
The mid-60s were a venue for a fair few classic songs. In the Summertime has already been mentioned. Whiter Shade of Pale was #1 for six weeks in 1967 (natch!) The previous summer saw The Kinks topping the charts for two weeks with Sunny Afternoon. The less said about Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep, Cheep in 1970 the better! [Post edited 30 May 20:39]
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Reply | Summer sounds...
at 17:53 30 May 2026
The session guitarist was Tony Peluso, a member of Mark Lindsay's (of Paul Revere and the Raiders fame) backing band. |
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Reply | Random Finds While Litter-Picking
at 21:22 27 May 2026
Nothing while litter-picking, but a couple of street-side finds when I was a kid.
A gold watch. Which was returned to it's owner via an ad in the local newspaper shop, and I received 10/- reward! A small fortune for a ten-year-old in the late 1950s. A year or so later a found someones unopened pay packet. I returned that too, but received nothing but a cursory "thanks" and a closed door.
Not my discovery but the best find I personally know about. In my twenties i worked as a decorator. One day one of my young co-workers was prepping a job, when he found a rolled up newspaper with £150 in old five pound notes — the really big ones — inside. Being an honest lad, or maybe a nervous one, he went to the local plod shop and reported it. The desk sergeant looked at him and said "You are a lucky boy aren't you." And went back to eating his lunch. [Post edited 27 May 21:23]
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Reply | Saints charged with spying
at 16:34 21 May 2026
Eckert's excuse that "They do it in the Bundesliga," sounds a bit unlikely to say the least. If it was allowed in Germany then why don't Dortmund's scouts just sit in the stands at Bayern's practices, for example? It's possible that there's no specific rule against it it guess. But I'm sure if it does goes on there it would be super-clandestine, not just some poor sod with a laptop hiding behind a tree. |
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Reply | Food you haven't had in ages
at 19:29 19 May 2026
Turkish Delight.
I loved it when I was a small kid. So much so that, stupidly, my parents bought me a whole box for my birthday. Like any self respecting seven-year-old I ate the entire box in about fifteen minutes. I spent the rest of the morning puking my ring. (which gave our dog a chance to enjoy it too.) I haven't touched the stuff since. |
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Reply | National League Final
at 17:29 12 May 2026
Yeah. That's the biggest issue for successful lower-league sides. Before even they manage to reach the National League. The cost of ground upgrades moving through the lover divisions is prohibitive for most of them. |
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Reply | National League Final
at 21:20 11 May 2026
So Bromley, with a similar background to Boreham Wood, were champions of League Two this season. Clearly they haven't read any rules about where "the peak of their journey" ought to be. And neither should The Wood." |
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Reply | nan and grandad
at 19:05 5 May 2026
The theme tune to 'The Archers.' Just couldn't avoid it!
In WW1 My Grandad was in the Royal Observer Corps, one of the precursors of the R.A.F. He was involved in very early radio tech with them. When he came back he wired up the entire house. Allegedly so my Gran could listen to 'Mrs Dales Diary' wherever she happened to be, but really just to show off his Mad Skilz. I'd be woken up with Tom Forrest and Walter Gabriel nattering at me from the corner of my bedroom. |
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Reply | Walsh
at 18:13 2 May 2026
Blaming the keeper for a team/squad deficit is too easy. We gave up two goals within the first ten minutes. That's an endemic problem not down to just one player. It's happened far too often this season. At the start of each half we're asleep as a team, nowhere near on task. Opposition teams now know it and the good ones exploit it as Ipswich did today. If the problem isn't rectified by next season things will get very ugly, very quickly. |
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