Daft questions (football edition)

[wormy]

On 07/02/2023 at 11:20, HawK said:

 

Sure, but it's just an example item. It could be 'membership packs', 'subscriptions', 'virtual turf', I mean it could be anything.

 

NFTs. It's time.

[Kid Icarus]

How much football do you watch on average per week and if it's a lot how do you get away with it?

[TheBrownBottle]

On 07/02/2023 at 20:35, Stal said:

 

What would happen is seven dozen threads would appear on RTG about sportswashing  

Literal money laundering  

[Interpolic]

Yes my wife happily lets me watch football endlessly, and all of my friends' wives are the same. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will that do for you mate? Hope all is well. 

[Interpolic]

8 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

How much football do you watch on average per week and if it's a lot how do you get away with it?

 

Serious answer, I sort of choose my battles putting it on the big telly. I don't want her having to watch football all the time. We'll watch all NUFC games together on big telly but happily she pure loves the toon these days, having not really seen much football before we met. 

 

Other than that maybe a game a week on the big telly, depends on the schedule. And I'll watch a few on a laptop when she's watching something else. And it's on constantly whenever she's out

[Disco]

5 minutes ago, Interpolic said:

 

Serious answer, I sort of choose my battles putting it on the big telly. I don't want her having to watch football all the time. We'll watch all NUFC games together on big telly but happily she pure loves the toon these days, having not really seen much football before we met. 

 

Other than that maybe a game a week on the big telly, depends on the schedule. And I'll watch a few on a laptop when she's watching something else. And it's on constantly whenever she's out

Pretty much the same bar she despises all football and finds me even more annoying than normal when we’re playing these days.

[Kid Icarus]

I watch loads like, but it seems like loads of people on here watch much more than me, getting to watch foreign matches mainly, so I was just wondering what your secrets were. 

[midds]

33 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

I watch loads like, but it seems like loads of people on here watch much more than me, getting to watch foreign matches mainly, so I was just wondering what your secrets were. 

Being single

[OCOCOL]

It’s give snd take - she watches a lot of soaps and I either go upstairs and watch something or go out for a couple of pints and watch football there. Might help our kids are all 10+ so pretty much entertain themselves during week and save days out / activities for weekends. 

[wiseman]

Games being on at stupid times here, I tend to watch them when she's gone to bed on the weekend, or getting up before the family is up to watch them. Probably the only benefit of the games time really 

[Yorkie]

If you could just delete one club from the Premier League, who would it be?

[midds]

1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

If you could just delete one club from the Premier League, who would it be?

Liverpool

[Wullie]

54 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

If you could just delete one club from the Premier League, who would it be?

Of the current crop I find West Ham interminably dull.

[LionOfGosforth]

1 hour ago, Yorkie said:

If you could just delete one club from the Premier League, who would it be?

 

Chelsea every time. Horrific club.

[Yorkie]

6 minutes ago, LionOfGosforth said:

 

Chelsea every time. Horrific club.

 

Yeah, that's mine. Just loathe how they operate and - other than showcasing lots of on-field talent down the years - I feel like they bring very little good to the league. Their use of money is absolutely hideous.

[SEMTEX]

1 hour ago, Yorkie said:

If you could just delete one club from the Premier League, who would it be?

 

Am I erasing them from all existence, creating some form of post 1992 alternate reality/timeline? Because if I'm deleting historical success then it might sway my decision.

 

Or just having a club go into administration.

[Yorkie]

5 minutes ago, SEMTEX said:

 

Am I erasing them from all existence, creating some form of post 1992 alternate reality/timeline? Because if I'm deleting historical success then it might sway my decision.

 

Or just having a club go into administration.

 

The latter, I suppose 

[wiseman]

Chelsea, I always feel like their take over was when money started getting thrown around stupidly, and changed the scope of the game. and while we are the latest beneficiaries of it, I detest everything that chelsea stands for, they feel like a hollow club, and if they disappeared the league would not be worse off for it. They're just Millwall with money.

[Astroblack]

Palace for me. Boring, shitty club with really wild board decisions. I really have to stop being nostalgic because I always wanted the likes of Palace, Forrest and Leeds to come back to the Prem but they don't have the same allure as they did in the past. Now I'm missing Bolton Birmingham and Wigan. God knows what the fuck is wrong with me. 

[Disco]

Palace and Southampton add absolutely nowt to the league and never will do but at least on the same level Fulham know they don’t but just crack on. So one of them two.
 

Southampton run Reading close as being the nowt-est team about but then you’ve got your vanity Gretna esque projects like Harrogate and Forest Green these days as well. 

[HaydnNUFC]

Fill yer boots if you can bear with the Chronicle website. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ideal-premier-league-pick-20-16043263

 

 

Here's mine. Struggled tbh.

 

 

Have the exact same thoughts about Southampton as Disco above does but recency bias and time in the Prem put them ahead of Portsmouth and Brighton for that south coast spot. Resent putting Sheff Wed in given their weird concrete shagging fans but they probably are the more "PL" club out of the Sheffield two given history and shit.

[Astroblack]

Would love Blackburn back. Love the badge and kit, Breraton, Gallagher and Dack deserve a crack at the big time. Former champs, League Cup in 02. Duff back then was a terror. Miss 'em tbh. Never went there but Ewood looked a nice place on TV. Really wanted Yakubu to hit 100 PL goals but it wasn't to be. 

[SEMTEX]

[Superior Acuña]

 

Cardiff maybe a bit weird, but think it's good to have a Welsh team in there. Could swap with Swansea. 

 

Official yoyo teams: Norwich, West Brom, Wolves, Southampton, Middlesbrough, Ipswich 

 

 

Edited April 4, 2023 by Superior Acuña

[TheBrownBottle]

Only tricky one was Portsmouth over Sheff Utd - decided two Sheff clubs too much, and you'd want a South coast club.  But not Southampton, who've offered fuck all of interest for pretty much the entirety of English footballing history.  And yes, the mackems go in there - but this does not mean I want to see them in there.

 

I'm surprised at the number of absolute nothing London clubs (Palace, Fulham, QPR) selected on here - four London clubs is enough, and those three have won 1 League Cup between them in their entire histories.  Interestingly, all three clubs also average around 25% of their league history in the top division - three seasons out of four you'd find them floundering in the lower leagues.  I'd be picking the smoggies ahead of any of them - they've won the same number of trophies as those three combined (1) and have spent almost as many years in the top division as those three combined(!).