FOOTBALL!

[Tommy BOO]

every time when kris posts in the football thread (= whenever the blades win ) it breaks.
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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[John Mc]

People who you'd forgotten existed: Rigobert Song! He's alive and well and playing in the Africa Cup of Nations. I'm sure he was 30 when we signed him 75 years ago but somehow he's defined time and is now only 31 years old. Well done Rigobert.

Fast Talkin' Tune of The Day: Streets on Fire by Lupe Fiasco

Person Who's Procrastinating Cos He Doesn't Feel Like Going To The Gym: Me

[Tommy Tynans Lovechild]

fun to visit fratton park again and would recommend you go next season mr firesky. lovely old ground with rubbish toilets. nice to know that even with a roof, milton rd stand is still old skool. top pubs in the surrounding area and nice to visit old haunts again - brompton road sometimes i miss and yer lovely proximity to curry houses and the wedgewood rooms!

anyway shite ref decision, clearly couldn't be arsed to visit the west country for a replay so was never gonna give it, but, wtf, we'd have lost at pne in rd 5 so its a free saturday for me and some cash saved for a trip to scunthorpe instead!
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Britain... It's not that Great!

[katieken]

Pompey is great, and I didn't realise how much I love it till I moved to Gloucester last year. Oh I do miss Southsea and its drunken fools. And the Wedgewood Rooms, even if it is a cleaner place!!

And Liverpool were lucky. the Leigh Park Boys nearly sorted it out!!
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Oh, that'll be the wine box gone then......

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[John Mc]

[Tommy Tynans Lovechild]

I used to go to Leigh Park when i lived down there, a really good mate was a season ticket holder (still is, and followed the whole cup run, made it onto MotD celebrating the winner at Notts C) when it was only Havant - saw the last ever derby between them and Waterloovile, quality banter, actually it always was down there. must've been a dockyard city thing.

liverpool did very well to beat them, after all they were playing two sides!

er, i'll log off!
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Britain... It's not that Great!

[Tommy Tynans Lovechild]

so the premier league is going to play games abroad. and it seemed to excite some marketeer on r5 as he went all gooey describing how exciting it these events would be - all the life stories they could show in the builds up featuring people living in bangkok who've followed a side for 45 years suddenly getting to see them playing a league match in their country.

cab drivers in delhi. restaurenters in new york. buisnessmen in riyadh. your boys can now take a hell of beating and you can be there to see it. on your manor.

as you know i hate the premiership and have done ever since the blueprint for football was published. i was sad enough to read it and even though i put my then dislike of graham kelly to one side and read it without him in mind, i still thought was captialist crap, and that it would do horrible things to the gane. so much did i hate it in fact that i devouted nearly half a fanzine to slagging it off. i'm amazed how much i (and actually loads of other fanzine types and other fans) predicted would happen has come right. oddly though i'm not against this particular thing. half the premiership sides are global clubs now and seeing as i still like to think the fans own the side there is an argument they have a responsiblity to take the matches far and wide so the fanbase can see them.

but viewed with the love of the game more than anything, i think its really sad, i don't believe it will do aspiring football nations any good to have its local base diverting its cash and interest elsewhere. and the problem is that the bigger the premieship becomes the bigger does its *ihatethisphrase* its second tier and that to becomes a global thing.

i don't think its good that argyle offer a better "career prospect" than aberdeen or motherwell when we're mid table in the championship. surely the scottish premiership should be a stronger proposition. and much as i love halmosi, again the hungarian top flight should be more attractive. but the reality its a premiership window, a chance to get to it and the worlds best players only want to be there.

i may be the only person in england who was glad to see Platini take charge of uefa and i may be the only person in england who thinks that our club game isn't doing the global club game any good.

still seeing as the championship seems to be run by people who look up to the premiership in the way colin moynihan used to look up to m****e t*****r, it'll doubtless follow suit and that's cool. we'll get to go polynesia or antartica or the norkirsk tundra or some other wilderness that hasn't been turned over by premiership marketing men. antartica would be a cool away. seriously. no pun.

anyway i got me a ticket for ulrich schnauss at the louis today. £6.75. and there's 2 support bands. I can't even watch Brislington FC for that. gigs are great!

note: plymouth kids ulrich is coming to plymouth on Feb 21st, nice to see that artists are prepared to visit the real west country these days!
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[John Mc]

The idea of playing 39 games a season is ridiculous on so many (non-monetary) levels. I love the way Richard Scudamore make out that people who are opposed to it are the equivalent of the 4 Yorkshiremen in the Monty Python sketch. Everyone involved with football is an idiot, apart from James Richardson. He's the funniest podcast man around.

Running alongside a river in the sun while listening to music = v. good.

[Tommy Tynans Lovechild]

football is temporarily great again.

*wheresyourfamousolliemasks*


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Britain... It's not that Great!

[John Mc]

Ignore what I wrote above, I'm now in favour of the 39th game. We clearly need all the cash we can get as it looks like the people building New Anfield use Lego and chewing gum to put together their stands:

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8698_3131820,00.html

[Tommy BOO]

anyone know the latest fa cup scores?



sorry guys, i probably won't get another chance to gloat for the next ten years so i got to use this opportunity now! what a performance by barnsley, we were perhaps a little bit lucky at times but i wouldn't say that it was undeserved. i would have been satisfied with an honourable defeat and extremely happy with a draw, but even in my wildest dreams i never expected us to actually win the game.

what a strange day - i've become an uncle today (woohoo for that too!) and barnsley have beaten liverpool in the fa cup. amazing! woo
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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Tommy BOO]

Also, taking Ryan Babel off for Harry Kewell was the worst substitution that I've seen for a long time. Babel was absolutely destroying Bobby Hassell on the left wing and all their attacks were coming from that flank... and then Benitez subs him off.

Will Benitez go now?


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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Dave w.]

congratulations to barnsley.

benitez seems to have lost his way totally. can't see him staying beyond the end of the season, really, barring another european cup win. failure to get 4th would seal it. i had such high hopes a few months ago. oh well...