Furball
Evil Scotsman
Seems a bit silly to turn your nose up at sausages in the hope of eating caviar.
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**Official** English Football Season 2024/25
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Tangles
International Vice-Captain
Striking how average a display that was and it wasn’t even surprising. These players just continue to do this under different managers. I’m not even surprised when they put this little effort in.I see Crystal Palace are showing its possible to win league matches and not embarrass yourself despite having a much bigger match to play beyond that.
I was suprised how well Mount played on Thursday. He genuinely changed the game when he came on. Today without time and space he was really poor. Mot that he was alone. Bruno was average and looked tired but the other forwards and mids were poor.
Skipper Pup
First Class Debutant
Well deserved, just like the guard of honour.
Niall
International Coach
Pretty much the season and this signing in a nutshell. He's another player the jury is well and truly out on, I seen someone online refer to him as a "passion merchant" and well yeah .
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
A better game than I expected given neither team really had that much riding on it. Not seen any post match analysis, but has Saka taken any **** for his part in the first goal? Just watching Robertson run for the quick throw in was pretty embarrassing.
The booing is just so weird. Pompey had a desperately poor loan this season called Sammy Silvera from Boro, he got booed by a small section when he was subbed in one game. That was very quickly drowned out by everyone else applauding him. He was shite, but he didn't deserve that. Just cannot imagine doing it to a bloke who's given 20 years of exemplary service, love the fact it was him playing Merino onside for the equaliser.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
I think there was more riding on it for Arsenal than is being made out. Given that CL qualification is not necessarily secured yet, and one of the remaining games is Newcastle, getting dicked here (which looked likely at one point) could have left things in a pretty dicey state. Would have been a terrible result symbolically as well.
That said, their other remaining game is Southampton so... probably nothing to worry about.
And yeah the booing is a strange one, but football fans (collectively, not Liverpool fans specifically) are frequently just fundamentally stupid tribal people I guess. Probably just made TAA all the more glad to be getting out of the joint, one suspects.
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
I don't like to go down this route for fear of trying to make yourself look superior. But yes, every club has them and it's hard to understand the level of stupidity in some people. Trying to defend them as well is just daft. My wife came to one Portsmouth game (an away match at Selhurst Park) over 20 years ago and we were unfortunately sat next to some guys stuck in the 80's with their racist and homophobic abuse. She's never been to another game.
Given the goal difference and the fact Forest still have to play Chelsea, I was thinking that 67 may well prove to be enough anyway. But yeah, with the Southampton game in the locker, hard to see how they didn't finish top 5.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
I mean it is a generalisation, obviously. There are lots of thoroughly decent people out there who are football supporters. It's not difficult to find people who have what I would perhaps describe as an "unhealthy" level of devotion though, and that tends to manifest in self-evidently poor/inadequate behaviour (e.g., booing someone because they want to do something different with their life).
When I went to watch Arsenal around the turn of the year, the response of a considerable number of fans to Arsenal scoring was to turn to the Ipswich fans and start to hurl abuse and them and say all sorts of unpleasant things, and make all sorts of unpleasant gestures. Like... just why? It is simply beyond my comprehension why someone (anyone) could experience such a visceral and vulgar reaction to grown men in silly uniforms kicking a little ball about.
Skipper Pup
First Class Debutant
The irony of this is he's going somewhere the abuse and booing is rampant. A mate of mine joked today that Anfield was just warming him up for what he will receive in La Liga, which is sad but true. I don't even know what the manager was doing picking him tbh.
The media are having a field day with it but realistically there's nothing new to the booing. Villa fans did it to Grealish, Chelsea fans did it to Courtois, United fans have done it to Rashford and Ronaldo, Arsenal fans to Xhaka a few years back.
Football is an emotional sport and that's part of why we love it. If Trent was expecting some sort of fairy tale send off from the club he's turned his back on then he has seriously misread the room.
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah, there's a level I'd never understand. There's a number of Portsmouth fans who plan their summer holidays around wherever the training camp is going to be in July so they get to watch the warm up games too.
I might get it if it was Spurs and it's a last minute winner. But this is Ipswich FFS!!
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
To be fair I can even understand doing that. It's not something I would ever do myself, but to each their own. I imagine it's a bit like trainspotting. Ultimately very tedious, or so it seems to be, but ultimately harmless and inoffensive. But if one's reaction to watching a game of any sort is to become abusive and aggressive towards other people, this is the sign of a deeply inadequate person.
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Honestly I love the TAA stuff. They've just won the league and they're wrapped up in bitterness about one of their players leaving for Real Madrid. Everyone who isn't a Liverpool fan agrees that it's pathetic and hilarious. But Liverpool fans keep insisting that it's not pathetic or hilarious at all, actually it's that everyone else couldn't possibly understand the unique perspective of being a supporter of Liverpool Football Club. Which obviously only makes it even more pathetic and hilarious.
It's a godsend of a story. You'd think them winning the league would mean an enforced break from laughing at Liverpool fans, but the gift keeps on giving.
It's a godsend of a story. You'd think them winning the league would mean an enforced break from laughing at Liverpool fans, but the gift keeps on giving.
Skipper Pup
First Class Debutant
Hey it's not our fault there's no title race or anything else interesting going on in the league.
Make sure you're laughing when the trophy parade is on your TV and you're bitterly complaining to your mates about how much better Liverpool FC is than your club
.IMAGINE BEING US.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
I was today years old when I learned that honouring your contract means you're turning your back on your club.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
To be fair it's a truly unique situation that nobody else has ever experienced anywhere ever, so no wonder you didn't know before.
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
I'd like to think you were routinely booed after handing in your notice at your last job.
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Mate if you’re not a fan of the University of [redacted] Law department then you couldn’t possibly understand.