Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER

[Gemmill 63200]

I think it's based on the actual reasons given for cautions. So that probably tells you a bit more about how the refs are a bit too pally with Arsenal players. 

[The Fish 12574]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

I think it's based on the actual reasons given for cautions. So that probably tells you a bit more about how the refs are a bit too pally with Arsenal players. 

Yeah, it only shows where dissent or a tactical foul has been blown up. Man City are prodigious with the ol' tactical foul, but get away with it.

 

Chelsea and Man Utd are most likely to suffer in my opinion. They're more reliant on the individual plucking a bit of quality out of their arse, rather than the team's style. Bruno Fernandes gets benched for 10 minutes, then there's nobody to pull the strings. If Nunez gets benched, Liverpool will get by without him just fine. 

[Gemmill 63200]

 

Just in case the question ever comes up. 

[wykikitoon 28542]

Also the first goalscorer when we flipped Man United 5-0 

[Dougle 4598]

The names in this league man. Tremendous

[Monkeys Fist 50743]

7 hours ago, wykikitoon said:

Also the first goalscorer when we flipped Man United 5-0 

When we battered them? 

[Dazzler 16199]

58 minutes ago, Dougle said:

The names in this league man. Tremendous

Best of luck to Keith in his big match.

[Monkeys Fist 50743]

2 hours ago, Dazzler said:

Best of luck to Keith in his big match.

Is that Keith Huntly, the famous detective who caught the notorious Irn Bru Bandits, Banks O’Dee and Buckie Thistle? 

[Alex 42149]

 

12 hours ago, Dougle said:

The names in this league man. Tremendous

Where’s the Civil Service Strollers when you need them? 

Edited February 14, 2024 by Alex

[Alex 42149]

18 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

Just in case the question ever comes up. 

Honourable mention to former player Fabio Pancake 

[Alex 42149]

8 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Is that Keith Huntly, the famous detective who caught the notorious Irn Bru Bandits, Banks O’Dee and Buckie Thistle? 

From Brigadoon? 

[Monkeys Fist 50743]

36 minutes ago, Alex said:

From Brigadoon? 

Different Leauygue, marrow. 

 

[Toonpack 15593]

The gay woman's Highland league can get a bit feisty

 

[Monkeys Fist 50743]

1 hour ago, Toonpack said:

The gay woman's Highland league can get a bit feisty

 

League Leaders…

[Alex 42149]

East Fife 4, Forfar 5

[Dr Gloom 26353]

the batsman's holding the bowler's willey

[Alex 42149]

16 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

the batsman's holding the bowler's willey

It was the other way round as, unlike the great Michael Holding, Peter Willey wasn’t much of a bowler. I think that was apocryphal unfortunately (although I like to imagine Brian Johnston saying it then making the TMS box giggle). Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley actually did occur though. 

Edited February 14, 2024 by Alex

[PaddockLad 22498]

3 hours ago, Alex said:

 

Where’s the Civil Service Strollers when you need them? 

They’re Lowland League along with dear old Berwick Rangers nowadays. What you’re looking at there is the Highland League fixtures  

[Meenzer 18039]

And the mighty Gala Fairydean  

[PaddockLad 22498]

3 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

And the mighty Gala Fairydean  

Who’s hallowed Netherdale ground I graced with my presence in my youth

😎 one or two games v John Collins ex Hibs, Celtic, Monaco,Everton, Fulham etc…

 

Wait till you see the stand, it’s a fuckin doozy 😊

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-63426968

 

 

 

[Dr Gloom 26353]

32 minutes ago, Alex said:

It was the other way round as, unlike the great Michael Holding, Peter Willey wasn’t much of a bowler. I think that was apocryphal unfortunately (although I like to imagine Brian Johnston saying it then making the TMS box giggle). Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley actually did occur though. 

Killjoy

[Alex 42149]

26 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

They’re Lowland League along with dear old Berwick Rangers nowadays. What you’re looking at there is the Highland League fixtures  

I did subsequently realise that. Along with, sadly, Cowdenbeath. One of the less unusual names but with the superb nickname ‘The Blue Brazil’. I used to love  (even as a very young kid) listening to James Alexander Gordon reading out the full classified results. Mainly for the unusual and poetically named Scottish teams. Even Celtic and Rangers, with their not being named after the place they play. Then Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian. The latter being the Roman name for Ireland. As you went down the leagues the names got better. Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Hamilton Academical and so on. My favourite was always Queen of the South though. Which I later found out was a reference to Dumfries in a Robert Burns poem, and that phrase in turn is a biblical quote referring to the Queen of Sheba.  
Edit: I checked and it was David Dunbar, not Burns (although Buns was from around Dumfries too) 

Edited February 14, 2024 by Alex

[Meenzer 18039]

6 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

Who’s hallowed Netherdale ground I graced with my presence in my youth

😎 one or two games v John Collins ex Hibs, Celtic, Monaco,Everton, Fulham etc…

 

Wait till you see the stand, it’s a fuckin doozy 😊

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-63426968

 

 

 

 

It's like they saw Gateshead and said "that, but smaller and in concrete"

[PaddockLad 22498]

3 minutes ago, Alex said:

I did subsequently realise that. Along with, sadly, Cowdenbeath. One of the less unusual names but with the superb nickname ‘The Blue Brazil’. I used to love  (even as a very young kid) listening to James Alexander Gordon reading out the full classified results. Mainly for the unusual and poetically named Scottish teams. Even Celtic and Rangers, with their not being named after the place they play. Then Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian. The latter being the Roman name for Ireland. As you went down the leagues the names got better. Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Hamilton Academical and so on. My favourite was always Queen of the South though. Which I later found out was a reference to Dumfries in a Robert Burns poem, and that phrase in turn is a biblical quote referring to the Queen of Sheba.  

There’s a book you’d like here, I think QotS feature in it, written by a smoggie who lives in Scotland..

 

https://www.waterstones.com/book/stramash/daniel-gray//9781906817664?gad_source=1&sv1=affiliate&sv_campaign_id=863943&awc=3787_1707913557_38306248f3b4d0b9d85f98e1df32bfa6&utm_source=863943&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.octer.co.uk%2F

 

 

[PaddockLad 22498]

9 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

 

It's like they saw Gateshead and said "that, but smaller and in concrete"

I’ll never forget the first day I saw it… I was maybe 11ish and I thought it had been dropped on to a football pitch from another planet  It’s right next to the Gala RFC rugby ground, where we were watching Gala v Kelso but I didn’t watch much of the match I just couldn’t take my eyes off this massive fuckin carbuncle next door..