The Football.....

[roubaixtuesday]

Do you even follow football or indeed military band performances

I like the idea of someone following military band performances. Always walking behind, wondering which way the marchers will turn next sort of thing.

 

[PaulB]

I lived very near Wembley in 1996 and cycled past the stadium on my commute to and from Watford every day.

It was a brilliant summer and I watched all of the matches in the Rat and Carrot in Harlesden.

The pub was the first pub on one of the main routes back to London out of Wembley, so a large number of away supporters who'd failed to get tickets outside of the ground would end up jumping off the bus to watch the game live (all Wembley pubs were shut). It was rocking in the Rat and Carrot and it got picked up by the TV and newspapers at the time. The pub became all ticket come the semi finals.

Three Lions is an annoying song when it's sung by 18 year old piss heads who've never attended a match in their lives, but it's iconic for any true England supporter who understands the true sentiment that lies behind it.

Personally, I'm bricking it for Sunday. I reckon we have the skills and determination to beat the Italians, but I think the ghosts of the past will come back to haunt us.

Whatever, we are in the final and I have my table booked at the local football club.

I'm guessing this is a pure pisstake. It is, isn't it?

 

[Rusty Nails]

Also, footballers are now elite athletes as opposed to the drunkard coke heads who went before them (like my heroes Paul Merson and Tony Adams).

And football is the less entertaining because of it.

 

[Lovacott]

I'm guessing this is a pure pisstake. It is, isn't it?

No it's not.

Why do you think I am taking the piss?

 

[Lovacott]

Italy on course for a wee treble. Eurovision, Euros and Wimbledon.🤞🇮🇹

I don't doubt that for a minute but (as an England fan) I hope that you are wrong.

 

[Lovacott]

And football is the less entertaining because of it.

The very first match I attended was in 1971 at Highbury when Arsenal beat Manchester United 4-0.

The star attraction was George Best who played his matches on the back of a couple of swigs from a vodka bottle.

Twenty years later and I was at Highbury watching Tony Adams doing fearless tackles after he'd taken a half time swig from the brandy flask.

Imagine how good the TDF would be if all of the riders sunk five pints before setting off.

Or the mens final at Wimbledon if they were totally pissed and also had to spin around five times before every point.

Or the shi t faced Olympics?

That would be well worth watching.

 

[icowden]

Imagine how good the TDF would be if all of the riders sunk five pints before setting off.
Or the mens final at Wimbledon if they were totally pissed and also had to spin around five times before every point.

Drinking used to be acceptable for the Tennis many many years ago. And more recently for Darts and Snooker.
This lady was particularly spectacular, to the point where they had to try to find a way around prohibition for her!

https://www.si.com/tennis/2019/06/27/suzanne-lenglen-tennis-wimbledon-life-death

 

[VelvetUnderpants]

I will be watching the match on Sunday with a tinge of sadness, I had a phone call yesterday to tell me one of my best mates who I sit next to in The Holte End at Villa Park had died suddenly at the age of 59. He was a genuinely nice guy, hardly ever had a bad word to say about anyone, hard working, travelling by bus an hour and half each way for a low wage, yet never complained. It will feel strange not having him next to me cheering on the team he supported all his life.

Football gave us both a release from the Monday to Friday tedium.

I hope England wins on Sunday, either way I will raise a glass to my friend Nigel.

I will miss him.


As you were

 

[Lovacott]

It's the constant hyping up. It's the "it's coming home", as if that wasn't a mediocre song written by a middleweight comedian and his pal Salacious B. Crumb. It's the constant harping on about 1966.

I've spent just over half of my life in England and my favourite English trait is the ability to be ironic.

Try that sort of thing in Australia or the USA and they will look at you open mouthed in bewilderment.

The Germans would have you sanctioned.

It's coming home...

 

[Lovacott]

I will be watching the match on Sunday with a tinge of sadness, I had a phone call yesterday to tell me one of my best mates who I sit next to in The Holte End at Villa Park had died suddenly at the age of 59.

Remember, people who don't go to football, go shopping with the missus instead.

Sounds like he had a brilliant life.

 

[Slick]

I will be watching the match on Sunday with a tinge of sadness, I had a phone call yesterday to tell me one of my best mates who I sit next to in The Holte End at Villa Park had died suddenly at the age of 59. He was a genuinely nice guy, hardly ever had a bad word to say about anyone, hard working, travelling by bus an hour and half each way for a low wage, yet never complained. It will feel strange not having him next to me cheering on the team he supported all his life.

Football gave us both a release from the Monday to Friday tedium.

I hope England wins on Sunday, either way I will raise a glass to my friend Nigel.

I will miss him.


As you were

To Nigel.

 

[Smokin Joe]

We had to laugh when the papers arrived in the shop on Thursday morning. Every single one, even the FT had the football on the front page.........with the exception of the Western Telegraph, which had a story about rugby and a picture of Tom Jones.

Incidently, a BBC poll found that 47% of Welsh people wanted England to win on Sunday.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Incidently, a BBC poll found that 47% of Welsh people wanted England to win on Sunday.

That's because 48% of Welsh people are English.

 

[Lovacott]

That's because 48% of Welsh people are English.

72% of \Welsh footballers are English and the other 28% are Jocks.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Wales is basically just West Englandshire nowadays.