The Banter Thread

Rotty · 21 Dec 2011 at 21:13

Just had a bunch of folks at the door singing

"what a waste of money, what a waste of money"

They were Andy Carroll singers

Shamikebab · 21 Dec 2011 at 22:02

Nice Rotty, I'll be nicking that

Stewy · 21 Dec 2011 at 22:05

Rotty said:
Just had a bunch of folks at the door singing

"what a waste of money, what a waste of money"

They were Andy Carroll singers

I had some weird foreign guy singing 'White Christmas' earlier, no idea what that was about...

Shamikebab · 21 Dec 2011 at 22:14

Cosimo · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:57

Arsenal Boxing Day game moved to the 27th:

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/important-wolves-game-postponed-by-24-hours

pingwing · 22 Dec 2011 at 15:24

Dutch football looks fun...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16300956.stm

Tummy · 22 Dec 2011 at 20:35

Video for above link :eek:

CliffyBiro · 22 Dec 2011 at 22:31

Adrianr · 23 Dec 2011 at 00:09

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/7392359/

Yaya Toure has won the African Player of the Year award

Very much deserved, he's been immense this year.

Tom84 · 23 Dec 2011 at 00:30

Keita was the runner up? Not much competition there then is there

Ripper · 23 Dec 2011 at 11:39

Read from page 68 onwards:

http://www.redcafe.net/f7/rawk-goes-into-meltdown-2011-2012-a-333736/index73.html

In short:

-Liverpool fans spend two days rigging the vote to get Suarez to win the player of the year poll on the skysports website
-United fans catch on to this with a few hours remaining on the poll
-Suarez' lead slowly begins to shorten, with Nani catching up
-Suarez leads the way at midnight (the scheduled end to the poll) but voting doesn't close (Liverpool fans take screenshots as evidence

)
-Nani overtakes Suarez. Liverpool fans snap and begin writing to Ofcom, making youtube videos about it being a fix, writing to sky to complain, saying that Sky rigged it - all the time not realising that they had just been out-rigged by the United fans

Purdy · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:41

How did united rig it?

Tom84 · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:44

I'm presuming you saw this Ripper but for those that cant be arsed to read through the thread one irate Liverpool fan even went to the trouble of creating a video to express their woes

Alpherah · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:46

To be fair, the sad united fans are no better then the equally as sad Liverpool fans for voting a billion times on a meaningless poll.

Tom84 · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:51

Alpherah said:
To be fair, the sad united fans are no better then the equally as sad Liverpool fans for voting a billion times on a meaningless poll.

I dunno I think the reaction on RAWK was worth their trouble

Biz.Kid09 · 24 Dec 2011 at 02:54

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/quiz/2011/dec/24/mario-balotelli-manchester-city-quiz

Funny thing is that any of them options could be true

Purdy · 24 Dec 2011 at 10:02

Turns out Suarez won.

HangTime · 24 Dec 2011 at 10:31

8/10 on Balotelli quiz for me, happy with that.

Bucket · 24 Dec 2011 at 12:57

Purdy said:
Turns out Suarez won.

Well they announced both.

I found it hilarious the people on RAWK getting angry at the couple of Utd fans voting when they had been voting for days to try and get it. Reporting Sky to Ofcom and all sorts saying Sky had 'fixed it' yet they were trying to fix it themselves, classic.

Tom84 · 24 Dec 2011 at 14:07

In all seriousness for a player of the 2011 accolade RVP should win it. Aren't sky running another poll for best PL player of all time that Gerrard's currently winning? Not that any internet poll should be taken seriously mind you