Sir Steve Howard

17 hours ago, TonyN11 said:

Any commentator who says "was there any doubt" AFTER a player has scored from a penalty 

Err, yes penalties do get missed sometimes by ALL players 

"he was never going to miss!"

say that before then you big useless dosser

On 04/06/2026 at 16:46, Scotch said:

The first Scotland game is a 2am one but thats the only one I'll be watching. The day after has been made a bank holiday. 

This is an absolute piss take.

Not a fan of Littler in the slightest but crazy that Humphries had the darts in final leg. Littler won the league but only got throw first advantage in SF? All of those games to not even throw first in final when 1st v 3rd.

18 hours ago, rugbyblue said:

Having seen djurgarden in stockholm last year and malmo earlier this year, me and my daughter have really caught the sweden bug.  Great country and great atmospheres at games.

We are planning to do the last of the 3 big cities and see ifk göteborg next.

Anyone been?  What's the liveliest fixture to attend ?  @CosbehFox i see you are well travelled.  Any thoughts?

We went to watch Örgryte at the olympic Gamla Ullevi. Hardly anyone there in such a big stadium but was decent nonetheless

1 hour ago, Finnegan said:

 

Almost like hugely curbing billionaire owners and (mostly) enforcing a majority fan ownership is generally better for creating a more even playing field. 

 

Yet Bayern stomp the league almost every year and their summer transfer policy = buy the best player from nearest rivals from latest season.

PSG in different format and even at the bottom, 15/17 strongly hints at huge disparity between leagues.

There are a lot of positive things about German football yet the Bundesliga is about as boring as it gets unfortunately.

17 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

It's worth reading the article in full tbf because he says himself it's kinda bullshit. Although I do like that he originally did it to prove predictive modelling was nonsense.

 

I haven't put my house on NED don't worry

Human Paul the Octopus who has predicted last 3 world cup winners has Netherlands winning it. Left field choice

25 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

As good as it will be for Brighton or Bournemouth to be in the Champions League, would they rather be in the Europa and have shot at winning it? 

Europa is unbelievably easy to win now there is no drop down from CL. Would enter as one of the favourites.

Our run to Conference League final more difficult than Notts/Villa have had in Europa this time.

Murphy's at The Fusilier Leamington, great pub

14 minutes ago, Ted Maul said:

Batting first. Bad feeling about today with Essex's wealth of seam options.

Wiaan lining up for them as well hits hard

8 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

Konyaspor let the fans decide the alt kit:

Where's the fourth kit if they draw Yeovil in europe

13 hours ago, BrummieFOX said:

What does Lateral Movement mean in regards to the league? Just the league deciding to move someone?

Quorn are further North than Rushall who were in same league last year

2 minutes ago, Stadt said:

 

See my correction 

potato potato

3 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Quorn and Bury should be swapped 

already in same league? bury st edmonds in northern prem wouldn't surprise me though

Anna Karenina.

Not quite War & Peace but it's long.

Should really be called Anna Karenina/Konstantin Levin as split story lines (that do partially overlap).

Only halfway through but it's good, on board with the sordidness.

Not their first rodeo with this sort of thing. ****s

26 minutes ago, Jaspa said:

He's a cheating diving little shit bag.

 

The year after Atleti vs Leicester, at the World Cup Final in Moscow, Antwat Greasyman pulled off this trick to get the freekick France scored their first goal from.

 

 

Same game, the ref then gave France a penalty fom a ball striking an arm after a deflected cross. Everything went for France in that tournament, but I was happy for Ngolo.

 

I hope that is written in the stars, one day that we get our revenge on Atletico Madrid.

This is literally vintage Vardy. Don't hate the player.

11 minutes ago, Nalis said:

Any stat people know the last time we had four different nationalities in the semi finals?

More recent than you'd think, 2023

Brecel

Si

Allen

Selby

12 hours ago, Vacamion said:

 

Griezmann, Athletico.

 

I'm still angry, you cheating little shit.  

 

 

 

Gwon Arsenal.   

 

(Then lose to whoever wins the other semi).

 

 

 

 

 

Being pedantic, Griezmann wasn't cheating was he. It was a foul miles outside the box that the corrupt ref gave a penalty for.

19 hours ago, EastAnglianFox said:

He was asked a question in one of those pre tournament interviews along the lines of who he spends most time with on tour

 

He responded Carter and Matt Selt! I mean literally the other 2 biggest bellends on tour 

MAllen up there as well

1 minute ago, kingfox said:

A Murphy fist pump after the first session 

After one of the worst frames I've ever seen

3 minutes ago, JonnyZeroFox said:

Need I say more, he is full of BS, saw him throw some darts on tv and literally had no form, not sure on his golf game but:

 

https://www.tntsports.co.uk/snooker/former-world-champion-shaun-murphy-claims-he-is-only-person-to-achieve-147-nine-darter-and-hole-in-o_sto8807189/story.shtml

Van Gerwen stood watching him play was hilarious 

57 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

He's an absolute weirdo mate

 

Preached the lord to anybody who would listen whilst at the same time cheating on both of his ex wives.

 

Loves the sound of his own voice, known arrogance away from the table, smackable face 24/7, hangs around with Ali Carter which tells you everything

 

And dont get me started on the Murphy stomp.

 

Thats it for now I reckon 

If this is true then does indeed tell you all you need to know. Carter dreadful bloke

Rattler at Buck & Bell, Long Itchington (Warks).

I've always been blown away by the number of successfully running pubs in this random village. Seven pubs!

From a quick search, the highest pubs per capita in England and Wales is listed as Great Yarmouth (way ahead of competition at 242 pubs per 100k people - City of Westminster next at 166 but that hardly counts).

7 pubs in village of 2.7k population = 259 pubs/100k people.

I'm hereby staking Long Itchington as the pub capital of the UK.

Interested to know if anyone can think of any other candidates.

Unreal from Alvarez, how is Argentina such an absolute conveyor belt for gifted forwards