Alex

Could kick like mule. What a left foot he had.

Do you do t-shirts? By any chance

We’d qualify as champions of Europe. I may not have been being entirely serious btw

I don’t know why they don’t just do this with one of the many clubs with which they have an actual special bond But aye, why can’t they just be two lads from Sunderland living in and around Bilbao who go and watch them play because they like football?

Reminds me of the old - what do you call a Spanish footballer with no legs? Gracias

I saw that. I’m slightly disappointed Extras wasn’t quite the top scorer

Not a dig at you because we all play into their pathetic hands at times but we honestly need to try and start ignoring cunts like these two. Because their M.O. as much as playing to their base of gammons is getting a reaction.

You’ll be singing a different tune when we win it

You can say it hasn’t got historic roots but this link up was started way back in 2022.

like the old joke. First prize - a week in Blackpool. Second prize is a fortnight

Hey I’ve got this bang average picture of a cartoon chimp wearing sunglasses. Except it’s an NFT and unique and I’m a celebrity so it’s worth a lot of money. FUCK OFF YOU FUCKING CUNT.

Their shitty campaign has had even less impact than that toucher Exile’s one

Always thought that was a bit of tragic story that’s been bizarrely triumphed as some sort brave adventurous sacrifice. Some kid went to a shit part of Alaska, ill prepared without an exit plan. Possibly got injured (photos suggest he may have injured his arm/shoulder), then he starved to death. The knackers went because of the mythologising of it.

That particular goal (and overall performance) in the final against Sweden in ‘58. The goal in itself is a bit underrated I think. But he was 17 years old. 17! Ffs! Absolutely mental. I think it’s against France maybe, earlier in the tournament, where he scored a very similar one.

Just to clarify, it’s the person on the receiving end that gets the money

Well he is a weapon

Obsessed tbh.

I reckon he was when he used to frequent Studio 54 in his NY Cosmos days too

Pele was finished at that point too. Only 29 but ravaged off being kicked up a height and playing round the year football since he was a teenager. He was still the best player in the best international team ever

I’m sure the first England v Scotland football match was at a cricket ground in Glasgow. West of Scotland Cricket Ground or something. One of those things from those football trivia books

On shitty pitches. Just reminded me but I recently saw highlights of a game I vaguely remember seeing as a kid. Liverpool v Flamengo in the Intercontinental Cup as was. Played in Tokyo and sponsored by Toyota. Anyway, the pitch was bobbly as fuck. Liverpool had some great players including Dalglish, who’s easily one of the best ever British players. Zico (who I’d never even heard of back then) - his technique on that pitch. When you talk about some of the best players ever. He could do everything

Well he’s definitely a big strictly fan. Does that count as an assist?

Ah, thanks. I didn’t know that. It was always referred to as Cardiff Arms Park but was technically The National Stadium at… with the other ground adjacent to it? It was probably a big area of parkland originally which covers the whole area or something like that I’m guessing

To some people, aye. Meh, tbh. It’s a very superficial way of looking at it.

International football was higher profile then but Pele and Maradona were at a different level to anyone in the last 20th Century. I’ve never actually heard anyone argue Eusebio was the greatest player ever though. Cruyff maybe. Similarly Ronaldo and Messi are easily the best two of the 21st century so far, irrespective of Sunday. You can tell you work in the media like