Daft questions (football edition)

[NSG]

If a player goes down injured then the game continues and the physio can come on.

[gbandit]

Does Obafemi Martins never reference us / visit / have any affiliation with us anymore? A lot of our former players, especially strikers who got a decent number of goals talk very fondly of us but I never hear anything about or from Martins 

[Kaizero]

23 hours ago, gbandit said:

Does Obafemi Martins never reference us / visit / have any affiliation with us anymore? A lot of our former players, especially strikers who got a decent number of goals talk very fondly of us but I never hear anything about or from Martins 

 

To be fair, Martins was here for three years and hardly did anything iconic during that time or went on to be remembered as an "iconic" ex-NUFC player, so him not actively referencing his time here or being "brought back" for anything in Newcastle doesn't feel weirder than us not bringing the likes of Sebastien Bassong or Xisco back for anything (or them not referencing their time at NUFC much in interviews).

[Kaizero]

1 minute ago, Kaizero said:

 

To be fair, Martins was here for three years and hardly did anything iconic during that time or went on to be remembered as an "iconic" ex-NUFC player, so him not actively referencing his time here or being "brought back" for anything in Newcastle doesn't feel weirder than us not bringing the likes of Sebastien Bassong or Xisco back for anything (or them not referencing their time at NUFC much in interviews).

 

Sidenote: I just looked up the 08-09 season Wiki and went down a Wikihole of looking up what happened to the players we had that season (and those we let go). Did anyone else know that James fucking Troisi signed for Juventus in 2012, four years after leaving us without a single appereance?  

 

Has to be said that he went on to make exactly zero appearances for Juventus as well, but still... what the fuck?

[Fak]

1 minute ago, Kaizero said:

 

Sidenote: I just looked up the 08-09 season Wiki and went down a Wikihole of looking up what happened to the players we had that season (and those we let go). Did anyone else know that James fucking Troisi signed for Juventus in 2012, four years after leaving us without a single appereance?  

 

Has to be said that he went on to make exactly zero appearances for Juventus as well, but still... what the fuck?

Aye. And I think (without googling) he ended up at Galatasaray too maybe?

[Kaizero]

3 minutes ago, Kaizero said:

 

To be fair, Martins was here for three years and hardly did anything iconic during that time or went on to be remembered as an "iconic" ex-NUFC player, so him not actively referencing his time here or being "brought back" for anything in Newcastle doesn't feel weirder than us not bringing the likes of Sebastien Bassong or Xisco back for anything (or them not referencing their time at NUFC much in interviews).

 

Sidnote #2: Obafemi Martins has a 19 year old son named Kevin Martins that's currently on the books for Monza in the Serie A (though playing for their U19s). He goes by the nickname "King Kev"  

[Fak]

4 minutes ago, Fak said:

Aye. And I think (without googling) he ended up at Galatasaray too maybe?

I googled it and I was totally wrong. But did end up in turkey. 

[54]

What footballer has the best for being a footballer, for commentary purposes etc. 

 

As I was just watching the EFL highlights, and Rak-Sakyi is near enough perfect for whenever he smashes the ball into the back of the net  

[Interpolic]

What are your favourite footballer nicknames?

 

A few I am fond of:

Fitz Hall - One Size

Lee Clark - Jigsaw (falls to pieces in the box)

Shola Ameobi - Carl Cort

[joeyt]

Fitz Hall is the best for sure. I often find other sports have better ones than football:

 

Billy Twelvetrees- 36 (twelve 3s)

Steve Waugh - Tugga (Tug of War)

Martin Offiah - Chariots

[joeyt]

Neil Warnock - Colin

[Peppe]

I've got a question and maybe someone with better football knowledge than me can answer this:

 

What is Kai Havertz good at? Other than being a cunt.

[Big River]

are you allowed to play with a lip pillow in?

[loki679]

On 16/01/2025 at 00:08, Peppe said:

I've got a question and maybe someone with better football knowledge than me can answer this:

 

What is Kai Havertz good at? Other than being a cunt.

 

He's really good at manufacturing moves that will make him and his agent bank whilst being a dogshit striker.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I don’t think Havertz is bad but I was mystified that Arsenal wanted him for so much money. Almost seemed like collusion to bail Chelsea out of their financial hole. 

[El Prontonise]

Just now, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I don’t think Havertz is bad but I was mystified that Arsenal wanted him for so much money. Almost seemed like collusion to bail Chelsea out of their financial hole. 

 

He did a good job at end of last season, but the price was ridiculous. 

[Kilcline]

14 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I don’t think Havertz is bad but I was mystified that Arsenal wanted him for so much money. Almost seemed like collusion to bail Chelsea out of their financial hole. 

Was 100% an Arteta-led vanity signing because the Lego One was convinced Rice-Odegaard-Havertz would be the new Rodri-De Bruyne-David Silva.

 

 

[Doctor Zaius]

Havertz is clearly a good footballer but sort of fits into that category of languid creative player who is neither here nor there position wise, so doesnt really fit into a system. Someone described him as a nine and a half, which isnt really any good.

[Kid Icarus]

Havertz drops into the same category as Mason Mount for me. Tommy Toucher knew how to get him playing really well in his system but has done nothing since.