Oxfordfox83

A few highlights for the lazy

Read page 12 of this thread. Can’t move for people calling him player of the season so far last year (when we were still winning…!)

Definitely got lucky with a couple of these 20 years after taking mine. I’m off to break the speed limit in celebration.

No, we wouldn’t sell any of them unless they wanted to go. Also, can we please have a bit of perspective on Kasper? We didn’t have set piece issues when we had proper centre backs, so while it’s an easy narrative to blame him, it’s not true. His kicking is a bit shite, but guess when it’s worst? When all our players are terrified of making passes because we’re playing an 8-1-1 formation. And he kept us in the Tottenham game three times minimum before we capitulated. He’s an exceptional shot-stopper with a slightly wonky passing foot, proper dedication to the team and club, and his consistency is incredible. You can count his mistakes since 2015 on two hands.

I’d like to have Brendan prepare the team, and then someone who understands football to set up the XI and manage the matches. He is still clearly doing plenty right, but every season he has a long slump that takes him ages to get out of, even if it’s obvious what’s wrong. This season it looks like we’re getting two slumps. We’re still absolutely nailed on mid table, but if that means we lose three ambitious players over summer rather than one, then it’s a high high price.

Wrong

Imagine if you’d been there though, actually watching it. Actually existing in the moment. In a gig, your little screen is bright and distracting or held in someone’s eyeline or your elbows are sticking out. You’re not contributing anything, just a little leech of the vibes of the place. Football’s a bit different because of tiered seating, so you’re not really impacting anyone else’s view, but you’re still trying to record the atmosphere that you’re not a part of because you’re making a video. Just my opinion of course.

Apart from those born in the 50s and early 60s, who have spent their entire lives in growth and increasing prosperity and standard of living. Obviously.

People who film gigs on their phones shouldn’t be allowed to go to gigs.

My teacher many years ago was John Joslin on Ratcliffe Road. I think he still lives there if you’re anywhere local-guy’s an absolute beast of a teacher, and not pricey.

Cliched and tedious, but the answer is unfortunately practice. Can’t say I ever bled, but if you play fairly regularly then before long you’ll get calluses on the end of your fingers, which should make everything much more comfortable (I think you should probably let things heal a bit first, but maybe ask a paramedic…) In terms of stretch, again, as you become more precise in your movements you’ll be able to cover more frets without discomfort, and your fingers will find a way to form barre chords without pressing down so hard. Boring advice is start on the electric which has a narrower neck, buy a capo and then learn songs with one or two barre chords so your wrist gets a bit of rest. It will get easier and easier the more you do it, but there’s no short cut…

I have a (fully irrational) dislike of Harry Kane, and of Mourinho, Lloris, and a whole host of other characters from that club. I find they have a victim mentality bordering on Liverpool’s, a delusion of size and importance that they have neither earned, nor delivered on, and a consequent entitlement and arrogance that makes me look forward to their failure. Given the choice of any team to guarantee we’d take 6 points from, it would be them. So, in the absence of credible Premier League alternatives, they’re my PL ‘rival’. Don’t think it’s that much more bizarre than anyone except Forest, Derby and Cov, none of whom are good enough to be rivals right now…

And Draper!

Title is Premier League, but I want a time machine: 1. Leicester now 2. Man City in Kinkladze era 3. Southampton in Le Tissier/Berkovic era 4. Newcastle in Ferdinand/Ginola era 5. Man Utd in Cantona era 6. Leeds 1992 7. Liverpool with Mcmanaman/Fowler 8. Cov with Darren Huckerby 9. Middlesbrough with Ravanelli and Juninho 10. Chelsea with Robben and Duff 11. Blackburn 93 12. Arsenal in Vieira/Bergkamp era 13. Bolton with Okocha 14. Sunderland with Phillips and Quinn 15. Everton with Cahill and Arteta 16. Norwich with Jeremy Goss and Ruel Fox 17. Wolves 2019 18. The Tottenham team who came third out of two 19. Forest the year Frank Clark took them down 20. The record-breaking 11 point Derby team

Excuse my ignorance, and dirty mind. What exactly is the role of a Team Lady?

Phenomenal. Salah is as good as they come and he got barely a sniff… Clever, technical, and properly body-on-the-line when it was needed. Great future!

Alright Prince Andrew

A hundred times this. Firm but fair ☑️ Hard but fair ☑️ Harsh but fair is an oxymoron and I’m genuinely moved that it grates with someone else.

Wow. I mean, I haven’t seen it, but Michael Jackson was on record as a paedophile, by his own admission as well as in numerous testimonies given prior to paying families off. It’s just much easier to expunge lostprophets music from history than his, so people carefully overlook it. I can’t see how you’d take any editorial decision as sufficient evidence to disregard the obvious fact of his guilt.

I reckon this says more about Australia than it does curry…

I think you’ve just completed the thread. Anyone with a less popular opinion than this is making it up…

I disagree, even though I’d watch a men’s match 9 times out of 10. Women’s football for me is like men’s football in the 70s, before they were properly professional in training and nutrition etc. Men’s football now is 11 athletes vs 11 athletes, some of whom have football talent, all of whom have been drilled to within an inch of their lives. Women’s still features players who like or are good at football, but aren’t necessarily that athletic (by elite standards). There’s also far less time wasting, diving, and bullshit that in men’s. Women’s football will have another George Best/Worthington type character, brilliant but lazy, which men’s never will, which is appealing. But a match can too often be defined by whose keeper is least shit…

Just in case anyone is wondering, I bought 60 stamps from @filthyfox on Weds, and they’ve arrived just now as promised…

Can’t read this, but assume you’re on our side. Cheers urban!

I’m colourblind, specifically red deficient. The way I see colour has a few impacts on me as a spectator, though rarely horrible any more, but red and black or red and grey are basically indistinguishable at speed. Worse if playing a video game than watching real sport. Playing sport, it definitely has an impact on me. Far fewer ‘change’ options at lower level, and colourblindness is much worse in peripheral vision or at speed, so I really struggled at university when playing football in maroon-it’s the same colour as pretty much everything dark from the corner of my eye. Was also buggered for cricket-just can’t pick out a red ball. I don’t have enormously strong views on this as a spectator, because you can usually work it out, but there will be an amazing kid in the academy who keeps playing through balls to the centre back and doesn’t know why… My main reason for supporting it is that we are repeatedly sold 2nd and 3rd kits, ostensibly just to avoid kit clashes. Why would we not do it?