enthusiast

well, there was the time chelsea appointed enzo maresca.

get pardew back, hold a half-time draw where the winner gets a free shot at kicking him in the bollocks, solve world poverty with the takings.

i'm not saying eddie out or owt like that, but what mountain are we at the top of right now? i enjoyed the league cup as much as any fucker, but in all the decades we've been an embarrassment cunts have been winning that cup practically by mistake. whatever about credit in the bank, is time going forwards or backwards? are we getting better or worse?

wouldn't know tbh

posting fron level 7?

seen two

Depth is more important than the sum total (even if some of this summer's fees are a little eyebrow-raising, especially to an old cunt like me), something that would probably be less of an issue if our academy hadn't been almost completely useless for the last 30-odd years.

even as a dyed-in-the-wool nostalgist who hates most of modern football, the comparison just doesn't stand up - it's now completely normal to have a 6' 4" centre-half who can comfortably run at speeds you only just to see in wingers. and they weren't fit enough to press either, like you watch old clips of cruyff etc. and he'll have two defenders stood about ten feet away watching him take the piss out of them.

it's perfectly rational to want to leave the rapidly crumbling disgrace that is the united kingdom anno 2025, but i'll struggle to respect anybody who does this by going to live a life of unbridled luxury in a zero-human rights slave state.

"i see people get arrested for tweeting" i take it this bloke's not read the UAE's legal code then

watching cole in 93/94 is like watching the future of football: the pace he had coming up against an age when pretty much every centre-half pairing in the league was 30-stone of alcoholism. it's really uncanny to see it now, he's like a preview of the 21st century once arsene wenger had stopped all these cunts eating deep-fried superkings three meals a day.

it's because some shitehawks trademarked man of the match 20-odd years ago, and nothing to do with Keir Starmer forcing you to house a disabled lesbian migrant in your box room or whatever

aye, the fucking 1690s.

don't worry, there's always a few steves knocking about

"dance like no one is watching, love like you've never been hurt, sing like no one is listening" - nick woltemade sent from my sony ericsson k750i

i honestly think some of our fans deserved jack colback.

fuckin loved tim krul - watched netherlands vs costa rica in 2014 when van gaal bought him on for the subs in a pub in amsterdam, a deeply pleasing memory. 4:40 for some shithousery from the absolute top rank (injury time during the playoff for a european spot):

was thinking about gaël bigirimana the other day, and it got me to thinking.. was he the most pardewed player of that miserable era? looked like he really had something to him in his few appearances, yet he turned thirty playing in the northern irish premiership on loan from a team in fucking tanzania. trying to think of who else i ever had hopes for around that time. kadar and abeid made careers for themselves. would've liked mbabu to make something of it here: surely could've been better than some of the dross we had at right-back following. actually, does it need to be terminal for it to be a pardewing? i mean, hatem managed to get over his once he got out of hull.

can't argue with that like

we can batter these

dead interesting that, but i found this a remarkable turn of phrase

wouldn't want to be an italian school/hospital/orphanage right about now

because entry is open to any nation containing a member of the european broadcasting union, which is how you get algeria/morocco/libya etc. having entered in the past. in terms of football, federation affiliation only really shows up how shaky the definition of a continent is: are georgia and kazakhstan in europe? are suriname and guyana not in south america? why is australia in asia but new zealand isn't? there's loads of good reasons that israel shouldn't be playing in uefa competition: "not being in europe" isn't really one of them. edit: