Still not worthy of a thread

[Optimistic Nut]

If Leicester are in financial difficulties due to spending, that's what needs clamped down on.

 

If it's them spending money they can afford but just isn't to the big clubs' liking, then it's a load of tosh. 

[Stifler]

Hairy hands and Keys are being let go by Bein.

[Turnbull2000]

Didn't realise Leicester had been city with a hefty points deduction, potentially getting them relegated yet again. That's a punishment for trying, and nothing else.

[Groundhog63]

All Ireland v Brazil

 

Unreal 😍

 

 

[Coffee_Johnny]

18 hours ago, Groundhog63 said:

All Ireland v Brazil

 

Unreal 😍

 

 

There’s hope for us in the CL final 😉

[Nucasol]

Chief Lizard Florentino Perez looks like he’s got his Super League - 38 fixtures, all Real Madrid vs Real Madrid B. Horrible cunt deserves it.

 

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/47855886/barcelona-confirm-withdrawal-european-super-league-project

[Ben]

On 05/02/2026 at 19:57, Stifler said:

Hairy hands and Keys are being let go by Bein.

 

I thought hairy hands was Keys ?  

[joeyt]

 

[toon25]

10 minutes ago, joeyt said:

 

 

She's absolutely fucking dangerous, her. Zero credibility. Zero integrity. Thick as mince. Could start a fight in a phone box.

[joeyt]

What is she doing

 

[Magpie]

2 minutes ago, joeyt said:

What is she doing

 

I want her to keep digging so we never have to put up with her again. Thick as a castle wall.

[toon25]

On 08/02/2026 at 14:33, joeyt said:

 

 

She's Liz Truss levels of mental derangement.

 

 

[Stifler]

She made herself a household name by going to court as a victim and has tried to double down on that ever since.

You’d want her nowhere fucking near your organisation and she’s doing more damage for the woman’s game and female pundits than any good.

[TK-421]

The absolute arrogance in her response to what Laura Woods said. 

“For eleven years I have worked alongside the likes of Laura and all those considered the best pundits in the game. It's therefore clear I was considered one of the best too if I was part of the same punditry team.” “No one who has ever hired me as a pundit has said I wasn't good enough or did not have all the attributes Laura referred to. Quite the contrary."



Anyway, she's on Talksport tomorrow morning up against Simon Jordan again, so might be a good listen! 

[toon25]

“So I said ‘how can we work together so I can stay in the game? How can we work together when Ian is not available, you give me a call or what can we do?’

 

“This is what I think black people should do, at the highest levels we need to strategise, we need to really help each other. We can get sidelined very quickly. I went to him and I was vulnerable, I said: ‘Listen, I need your help, I need Ian’s influence.’

 

“I had that meeting with his agent, a month went by and I was like ‘what’s going on?’ so I messaged him and said: ‘Did you manage to have a chat with ITV?’ He was very dismissive, didn’t really want to help me, was a bit like: ‘Listen, it’s not going to work.’ I fully expected Ian to use his influence to keep me in the game. I’ve seen him do it with others, he did it with Gary Lineker at the BBC.

 

“There’s nothing that would make me think he wouldn’t do that for me, because you’re the ally, you’re ‘Uncle’. So the question to you is, why didn’t he do that for me? I say all this to say, you don’t want to help me, you don’t want to use your influence, you don’t want to be an ally for me in the most difficult time in my career and that’s fine, that’s cool.

 

“But nine months later, when I’ve been off screen and I’ve seen that you’re doing the games and you’ve cracked on, the fact of the matter is you have the level of influence to say: ‘I don’t need to do every game, what Eni means to women’s football is much more important than me doing all of these games. Eni is one of the main characters of women’s football, I know that this is bigger for her. It’s going to be harder for her to get this opportunity in men’s football.’

 

“That’s what I expect from an ally – sacrifice. You can’t have it both ways, you can’t have this brand that says ally, that’s not my experience of you. When it comes down to it, you never really tried.”

 

 

 

 

Edited February 9 by toon25

[Stifler]

3 minutes ago, toon25 said:

“So I said ‘how can we work together so I can stay in the game? How can we work together when Ian is not available, you give me a call or what can we do?’

 

“This is what I think black people should do, at the highest levels we need to strategise, we need to really help each other. We can get sidelined very quickly. I went to him and I was vulnerable, I said: ‘Listen, I need your help, I need Ian’s influence.’

 

“I had that meeting with his agent, a month went by and I was like ‘what’s going on?’ so I messaged him and said: ‘Did you manage to have a chat with ITV?’ He was very dismissive, didn’t really want to help me, was a bit like: ‘Listen, it’s not going to work.’ I fully expected Ian to use his influence to keep me in the game. I’ve seen him do it with others, he did it with Gary Lineker at the BBC.

 

“There’s nothing that would make me think he wouldn’t do that for me, because you’re the ally, you’re ‘Uncle’. So the question to you is, why didn’t he do that for me? I say all this to say, you don’t want to help me, you don’t want to use your influence, you don’t want to be an ally for me in the most difficult time in my career and that’s fine, that’s cool.

 

“But nine months later, when I’ve been off screen and I’ve seen that you’re doing the games and you’ve cracked on, the fact of the matter is you have the level of influence to say: ‘I don’t need to do every game, what Eni means to women’s football is much more important than me doing all of these games. Eni is one of the main characters of women’s football, I know that this is bigger for her. It’s going to be harder for her to get this opportunity in men’s football.’

At no point has she realised that Ian isn’t interested in her apology or wanting to have any sort of relationship with her, be it personal or professional.

She’s also expecting that people will be there to lift her up, even after she publicly attacked them.

There is no indication that she has any sort of self awareness that isn’t driven by her own ego.

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

She's so dumb. Someone needs to tell her how bad she is at her job.

[Minhosa]

Entitled, self-absorbed cunt. 
 

Hope this is the last we see or hear from her tbh. 

[TheBrownBottle]

Does she understand that this is an argument for blocking female voices in men’s football?  

[TheBrownBottle]

3 hours ago, TK-421 said:

The absolute arrogance in her response to what Laura Woods said. 

“For eleven years I have worked alongside the likes of Laura and all those considered the best pundits in the game. It's therefore clear I was considered one of the best too if I was part of the same punditry team.” “No one who has ever hired me as a pundit has said I wasn't good enough or did not have all the attributes Laura referred to. Quite the contrary."



Anyway, she's on Talksport tomorrow morning up against Simon Jordan again, so might be a good listen! 

Christ; cunt vs cunt

[TK-421]

Talksport getting into the Punditry stuff with Aluko on shortly. 

[Nucasol]

13 minutes ago, TK-421 said:

Talksport getting into the Punditry stuff with Aluko on shortly. 

Question: Deontay Wilder to be tagged in by Aluko to knock Jordan “spark out”?

Answer: Unlikely, as he’s a man; a real ally would become an actual “bomb squad” and self detonate next to Jordan.

 

[Moose]

https://x.com/i/status/2021187602687180925

 

Whatever you think of Simon Jordan, it's immensely satisfying to watch him dismantle that narcissistic, entitled shitehawk.

 

(Sorry, I have no idea how to embed a tweet)

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Aluko is either very idiotic or she’s playing this whole thing for more profile engagement. Maybe a bit of both. 
 

However, the idea that TalkSport has anything valid to say on this is pretty ridiculous and hearing Jordan say she has a job because of DEI (an American social media culture war concept anyway) is also pretty awful.
 

The fact he’s empowered enough to say that to her face in the studio is also worrying. 

[KennyUtd]

Not a TalkSport fan generally or Simon Jordan but I'm interested in why they shouldn't have anything to say on the matter. They're mostly sports journalists/presenters themselves. She keeps claiming she's being overlooked for punditry and that another male pundit should help her out. She's just totally doubled down on that thought too. It needs calling out or understood. For someone who's clearly intelligent she makes herself look as daft as fuck.