Football Banter Thread

Pigeon_Killer · 19 Nov 2021 at 02:35

Twitter, French football, Romain Molina. If any of his stories are true, Jesus ******* Christ.

omnomnom · 19 Nov 2021 at 06:32

Pigeon_Killer said:
Twitter, French football, Romain Molina. If any of his stories are true, Jesus ******* Christ.

Yep just wow. No chance im posting that here like.

jonneymendoza · 19 Nov 2021 at 09:04

eddiemcgarrigle said:
Winning ONE trophy in nine doesn't exactly set the heather on fire up here. As for the SPFL being a mickey mouse league, what would English football be like without SKY? Quite a few of the EPL's best players have come from Scotland or Scottish teams.

Not Scottish though….

That’s like saying quite a few great players came from the under 10’s Saturday kids league down hackney marshes..

fez · 19 Nov 2021 at 09:06

eddiemcgarrigle said:
As for the SPFL being a mickey mouse league, what would English football be like without SKY? Quite a few of the EPL's best players have come from Scotland or Scottish teams.

Whats that got to do with it. It doesn't matter the reasoning for it, it is how it is. The whole world works in this fashion. There are reasons for almost everything but that doesn't change the facts.

C Kent · 19 Nov 2021 at 09:18

Scottish League football has been a joke for the past 50 years, long before the advent of the premier League. English football at least used to conquer European football regularly well before football started in 1992

Derek W · 19 Nov 2021 at 13:16

fez said:
Whats that got to do with it. It doesn't matter the reasoning for it, it is how it is. The whole world works in this fashion. There are reasons for almost everything but that doesn't change the facts.

Try telling some other posters that with regard to 'pointless internationals'

eddiemcgarrigle · 19 Nov 2021 at 22:54

C Kent said:
Scottish League football has been a joke for the past 50 years, long before the advent of the premier League. English football at least used to conquer European football regularly well before football started in 1992

Tell who was the first non Latin team to win the European Cup? I also recall Celtic humbling both Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers on their way to the Uefa Cup final. Oh, and Man City couldn't beat Celtic either.

C Kent · 20 Nov 2021 at 00:56

eddiemcgarrigle said:
Tell who was the first non Latin team to win the European Cup? I also recall Celtic humbling both Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers on their way to the Uefa Cup final. Oh, and Man City couldn't beat Celtic either.

Celtic in 1967, with a team full of players born and raised within 30 miles of Celtic Park, an unbelievable achievement.. also one that was 55 years ago.

eddiemcgarrigle · 20 Nov 2021 at 14:02

If you want to be pedantic, it was 54 years, 5 months and 29 days ago. Still doesn't deflect from the fact that Scottish teams can and do give English teams a beating in Europe, not quite the easy mark you are describing.

C Kent · 20 Nov 2021 at 15:14

And young boys have beaten premier League opposition on more than one occasion. I don't see anyone thinking the Swiss league is anything but joke of a league.

Janesy B · 22 Nov 2021 at 15:15

eddiemcgarrigle said:
Winning ONE trophy in nine doesn't exactly set the heather on fire up here. As for the SPFL being a mickey mouse league, what would English football be like without SKY? Quite a few of the EPL's best players have come from Scotland or Scottish teams.

In 11 European Cup finals between 74 and 85, an English team was in 9 of them winning 6 times.

Malevolence · 22 Nov 2021 at 19:08

Chelsea have apparently appealed Maguires red card so he is available to play against them this Sunday.

BaZ87 · 26 Nov 2021 at 16:01

https://twitter.com/x/status/1464047556414087174

So that's where the summers transfer budget went.

chroniclard · 26 Nov 2021 at 16:05

Derek W · 28 Nov 2021 at 20:55

Sums up football........

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/59448643

fez · 28 Nov 2021 at 21:41

Derek W said:
Sums up football........

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/59448643

I would have yellow carded the **** for that simulation.

Derek W · 29 Nov 2021 at 13:29

Good to see the intelligence of football shining through once more

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59448567

Reminded me of the matches surrounding remembrance day when the commentators went full on fighting the opposition / digging deep in the trenches nonsense. Aye football's the same as war........

fez · 29 Nov 2021 at 14:40

Derek W said:
Good to see the intelligence of football shining through once more

Was he intending to be offensive? No, so people getting ****** about it is just stupid. Hes apologised so its fine.

Derek W · 29 Nov 2021 at 18:28

fez said:
Was he intending to be offensive? No, so people getting ****** about it is just stupid. Hes apologised so its fine.

Of course he wasn't meaning to be offensive, but it's some leap to compare a potentially one sided match if City got into their stride to the holocaust! The monumental stupidity lies right with Cole not with anyone who has been offended by it. Compare a football score perhaps to a cricket score, a rugby score or another high scoring sport but to the mass genocide of millions of jewish people?!?!?! He's about as stupid as that other shining light in football Joey Barton who made a similar comparison.

fez · 29 Nov 2021 at 19:34

Derek W said:
Of course he wasn't meaning to be offensive, but it's some leap to compare a potentially one sided match if City got into their stride to the holocaust!

Of course it is which is exactly the reason you should realise that it was a stupid remark that he made without thinking about it. It wasn't a calculated remark that he had planned, it was off the cuff and stupid and should be treated as such.