Footballwipe

Sky Sports are GAGGING for the new England manager to be a saga or newsworthy thing. The way they're pushing and touting the speculation is hilarious. We all know Carsley will get it and they can't seem to handle how simple and straightforward this process is going to be.

I know we've said it before but over bright LED lights generally. They're simply a hazard for anyone who has to endure them, whatever mode of transport they're affixed to. Cyclist rode past me as I was running in the dark this morning and his LED light absolutely blinded me. Couldn't see a fvcking thing as he approached.

It's quite nice to see on the little estate I live the kids playing out. You'll see them zoom past on their bikes/scooters, be ambling around playing or just not being in the house generally. They're all from the same area, too so it means that neighbours look out for them. Even when they're being silly (sitting in the middle of the road, hanging off unsafe things) these are flagged in community chats with concern rather than anger. They're just kids innit. I suspect when they're older this might change, but for now it's nice to see. I have to say around the whole area I live it's common to see youngsters out and about. Maybe it depends on the area you live sometimes.

Definitely, and I think we vastly underestimate his achievements in Europe. If an English or English based manager had won that much he'd be lauded for years and years. He's been painted with the language thing and his time at Arsenal, which was always going to be a hiding-to-nothing job in being the direct successor to Wenger. Villa are lucky to have him and one thing is for sure, they're making the most of him.

Yeah there's lots already said here about the fact after winning everything we have it feels anti-climactic, and also how our owners have frittered away our chance to be a mainstay in the top part of the league. I'm very much a "top PL matchup" and the big games at the end of the season when football means something. It just feels so empty otherwise, dare I say that David Mitchell sketch about football atm. Modern football seems to have turned everyone into a mixture of either a conspiracy theorist (RE: referees, governing bodies), a financial expert or a great defender of the club they support, no matter what. Couple that with the fact modern sports media spends all the time it can feeding this, tapping into all of these to drum up the engagement they so crave and it just makes it so tiresome.

Absolutely dreadful game last night. More flags than plays it felt like, though did enjoy the Brandon Aubrey love-in. Man is a star, though of course he missed a field goal to cap off the night.

I have every game in full from the season, as well as every MOTD, extended highlights, SSN reports, Premier League previews, TV news footage etc etc. It'd be a pretty herculean effort to upload them all, there's around 200gb of full match footage (depends if you wanted pre and post-match too) and about 500gb for the season, but it's only sitting on a hard disk drive - if we can find a method easy for me to upload to I can try and get them over to you.

Frightening isn't it? We've now got to us getting too many away cup draws in the conspiracy nonsense. Some people need to get off the internet and breathe some fresh air

Forest will finish him off if we don't win and haven't beaten Bournemouth or Soton before then. The atmosphere will be toxic - the blue-on-blue in the stands is inevitable.

When you think about it, teaching is: About 4-5 hours of public speaking every day in front of ungrateful teenagers on a topic you need to be fully clued up on If you're primary, hours a day of public speaking to youngsters but also be able to support their litany of needs and neediness Adept at pastoral support for children for all manner of issues and problems For teachers who are leaders, be a line manager and all the admin that comes with that Good with people having to deal with ungrateful, entitled and arsehole parents Perform an office job with the admin, planning, prep, attend meetings, training, evening events such as open evenings and parents evenings Find an office worker on 37 hours a week and tell them they have to essentially perform their workload around teaching 30 youngsters for 4-5 hours during the working day and they'd wince. I'm biased due to my family links with teaching but I cannot stand the disdain that some people have about the job. Those that do would melt into oblivion in less than a week, and that's probably just from the parents.

what do you mean by "had him"? Lamped one on him? I'm sure Haaland would've taken the inevitable three match ban Gabriel would've got. This wasn't some square up down an unpoliced dark alley. Notwithstanding that Haaland is massive

Did a bit of a skip through the gaps but was really impressed by Washington last night - really solid offensive effort. Hope they can do something good this season. Not even a fan, it just seemed like quite an aesthetic offense to watch.

Let's be honest though, all football fanbases have their own fragile individuals. On Saturday the man in front of me was complaining that "every game is against 13 men all the time." There'll be Man City and Arsenal fans with one simple search thinking Oliver was out to get them. Then, of course, there's the brigade on here who seem to think the PL are out to get us and that the whole league is completely corrupt (which, again, begs the question why you engage with something you genuinely think is rigged - I wouldn't give it the time of day personally. Or I'd find evidence to back up my tin foil hat claims). Like I continually bang on, it's a wonder who the PL/referees are actually out to get if EVERY fanbase thinks they're out to get them. Anyway, everyone is like it. Football and sports fans in general are pathetic, one-eyed whiny bastards and secretly people really, really enjoy it I reckon. If not their lives must be absolutely exhausting.

Loved the Arsenal-Man City game. I've watched football for years and years and I'm so tired of it in its normality these days - Give me tetchy players, crowds and coaches, shithousery, red cards, teams camped in their own area defending for 50 minutes. The "non norm" was fantastic and great entertainment. Probably the most exciting game I've been a neutral of since that chaotic Spurs-Chelsea game last season.

Honestly what is the rage about self service checkouts? All this "I'm doing your job for you" nonsense people spout. The internet seems to hate them (well, the old person corner of the internet anyway) There's still manned checkouts - but lots and lots of people like checking their own stuff out. Whether it's a few items or the full-shop ones. They're way more convenient. Yeah, you might have to wait to get your beer approved, there might be an error, but I find the errors a lot rarer than the early days. Do these people also refuse to use pay at pump as well? Are these the ones who saunter into the kiosk even though they could pay and go? So weird

Whilst I'm on this thread, I watched these videos the other day. Not sure if they've been posted tho so sorry if it's a duplicate. I genuinely learnt a lot and the background shots of the city as it was in 1998 are enjoyable. There's more in the series on this channel, too.

Someone in a local FB group posting pics of Jubilee Square as it was being created a decade ago Was it me imagining, or do I remember loads of people kicking off against this at the time? Converting it from a dingy car park to the open space today has been brilliant. It's such a popular place when it's sunny.

We allowed to talk 0.0% here? Finally gave in and tried Leffe 0.0 the other day in an attempt to cut down on the alcohol intake. Usually dead sceptical of alcohol-free as Becks Blue etc have tasted rank, but this was fvcking glorious. Loved every drop of it.

It's weird cos there's another forum I look at and they're creaming themselves over this season's crew compared to here . I think the RJ debate is so tiresome tbh. My take is that she has her moments, like most standard comedians, but it takes extra concentration and patience to focus on her getting to the punch line, which can be difficult to adapt or get used to. There's the ridiculous online reactionaries who say if you don't find her funny you're an ignorant albeist, but if she was Chris McCausland levels of funny there'd be far less criticism. Not sure how this season will pan out tbh but I think whatever the case it's indicative of the C4 era - not a patch on Dave pre-covid (particularly series 1 & 7, in fact it's a crime we only got six episodes of the season one crew) but it's still an eminently watchable show. And hey, at least it's not John Robins forgetting it's a comedy show and taking it super seriously. The line up for Series 19 is out as filming has begun - doesn't look like a stonker.

Not that I'm thinking too deep but I prefer the UK Dash Cams YT account, they release a compilation weekly. Not sure why I prefer it tbh they show the same type of stuff It is interesting that in many cases the behaviour of the cammer is as bad, if not worse than the person they've sent in footage of. I do enjoy a rummage through the comments of these compilations though, too.

Should I be in the least bit excited for this Joshua fight on Saturday btw? Was considering watching it but wanted to check with people who are not fairweathers like me whether it's worth it?

The unhinged hatred for Kane on here continues Imagine if Vardy was accused of "stat padding" because he took and scored three penalties in a single game, this place would melt down. God forbid a striker scoring penalties takes multiple ones in a game. We really, really need to get over our weird grudge against Harry Kane guys. We're fully grown adults.

On Cliches - I agree about MHD - I'm also glad they've got fewer guests on for the special MHD episodes. There were some MHDs that were quite tiresome as you'd get the most mundane loves and hates of football ("My first love of football is football itself," types) Listener ones are mixed, can usually tell by the episode length how good they are. Other than them settling on a core crew, I like their quizzes too. Also made me find the Career We Go podcast too which is a fine listen (although their between-round stings are so irritating). Also agree about Be Having You. It lacks the chemistry or energy or nicheness of QK, and maybe the genuine love of 90s football that the previous trio had. I've only just started listening to Jewell one, but the Kevin Phillips one I found to be a bit dull. Maybe because he's still "in the game" so to speak - so not quite as open and ready to offload great/funny anecdotes. It also focused a lot on the 90s!!! They need feature stings and more correspondence, the Steve Ogrizovic stuff was exactly the type of thing we need from listeners.

Isn't it Justin's foot they're looking at playing him on?

In 2014/15 we were live on TV twice up to the start of December In 2015/16 we were live on TV twice up to the middle of December Broadcasters aren't going to waste their picks on a team who they don't really fancy or think will make good TV. Obviously with the 15/16 that changed. But there's your comparable. Also, there's a delicious irony we've got a bit of whining about not being picked for TV when all we ever do is fvcking whine about being picked for TV when our games move.