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Post by bpg on May 11, 2022 8:21:34 GMT
That cheeseboard does give me an idea though. If Liverpool win the Champions League, engraved locking wheel nuts. £100 for a set.
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Post by WDB on May 11, 2022 8:59:59 GMT
Is that for four, or would you want 20 to be on the safe side?
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Post by EspadaIII on May 11, 2022 16:48:54 GMT
Just hoping that Citeh win the League, Chelsea the FA Cup and Real, the Champions League...leaving the Scousers (or as we say up here Scousohs), with the Carabao Cup....
We won the Carabao Cup four times on the trot but usually some other silverware in the same year.
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Post by WDB on May 11, 2022 17:57:50 GMT
The what?
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Post by bpg on May 11, 2022 18:08:04 GMT
The Rumbelows Cup. The old League Cup, poor relative to the FA Cup.
Edit: it's been known as:
The Football League Cup
The Milk Cup
The Littlewoods Challenge Cup
The Rumbelows Cup
The Coca-Cola Cup
The Worthington Cup
The Carling Cup
The Capital One Cup
The EFL Cup
The Carabao Cup
You get the idea, scratch down the back of the sofa and we could have The WDB Cup next Feb.
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Post by WDB on May 11, 2022 19:11:15 GMT
I’ll scratch where and when I choose, thank you.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2022 19:45:17 GMT
>>Just hoping that Citeh win the League, Chelsea the FA Cup and Real, the Champions League
Wanting a time to win I get. But being bitter enough to want a team to lose just because they're not 'your' team is right out of my world.
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Post by Rob on May 11, 2022 21:01:01 GMT
>> Wanting a time to win I get. But being bitter enough to want a team to lose just because they're not 'your' team is right out of my world.
Well said.
But City being owned by a billionaire prince from a country with questionable ethics has not changed the opinion of the supporters. They have always disliked Man Utd and Liverpool intensely. It's just now in recent times they have had the money to compete whereas in the not too distant past they were second tier.
EDIT: But not quite as bad as being owned by the Saudis.
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Post by bpg on May 11, 2022 21:41:43 GMT
Hahahaha very subtle for a Mackem.
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Post by Rob on May 11, 2022 23:16:36 GMT
I only started as a football supporter because of my wife. But I think the fair play/finance rules across all sports need to be fairer. Man City started to make real progress when they were purchased by the (soon the deposed) Thai Prime minister. And then they eventually end up owned by the deputy prime minister of the UAE who is part of a family worth a trillion dollars.
And clubs try to side-step finance rules by having sponsorship deals with airlines owned by the club owner.
I'm more into F1 and have been for 40 years and I think the finance rules need tightening for F1. Big successful teams only win because they have more money. Best period in F1 in my life time was Brawn taking over the Honda team (and getting MB power) but taking advantage of the rules and having the blown diffuser. Game over for the other teams. Which is why I also like this season in F1 for the new rules too. And they will change again soon.
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Post by Rob on May 11, 2022 23:19:09 GMT
Actually F1 in my early years of interest was good too. Unreliable cars which could fail on the grid due to overheating engines. Maybe bring back manual gearboxes and a clutch pedal too  |
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Post by Humph on May 12, 2022 7:00:20 GMT
I know I must be odd, but I’ve never really grasped or engaged with the notion of “supporting” a team or indeed individual in professional sport.
I like to watch a team or an athlete/player being very good at whatever it is they are good at, but ultimately I really couldn’t care less who wins. It’s the spectacle of the competition and the opportunity to watch people doing something really well that I enjoy.
Pledging allegiance to one side or competitor isn’t high on my list. I just like to see excellence from wherever it comes.
If that makes any sense.
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Post by WDB on May 12, 2022 7:55:23 GMT
It does. I’m finding it harder even to do the usual automatic support of a national team, and only partly because Englishness itself has become pretty toxic in the last few years.
Watching the Test matches from Australia in the winter, about the only enjoyable aspect was seeing how good Australia’s bowlers were, appreciating their craft as they repeatedly dismantled England’s batting. Australia’s women were so superior in the World Cup that I could only applaud and wonder who would finish second.
The tribal football thing, as you know, entirely escapes me. Last week’s windscreen replacement happened at the Oxford Kassam Stadium, home of the only professional football team I’ve ever seen score a goal. (That was at the time when they were getting in early on the kleptocracy of the modern game by being bankrolled by Robert Maxwell.) As I arrived, I looked up at the stadium and wondered whether it might be fun to have the kind of local allegiance some here have. But then I wandered about a bit more and found it such a soulless, dispiriting place that I couldn’t imagine going there when I didn’t have to. So I won’t be doing that.
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Post by Humph on May 12, 2022 8:53:36 GMT
I suppose, however much we might think we are independent of such influences in our lives, we are all to some extent a bit tribal. Whether it’s driven by belief systems, dress codes, political leanings or any activity or interest. Even, the sort of cars we favour I guess.
We’d all like to think we make informed choices and logical independent decisions, but there will be a part of all of us, that however subconsciously, is tending to an aligning with the sociological markers of a group we feel part of or aspire to be seen as part of.
Which is a bit disappointing when I catch myself doing it.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2022 10:57:01 GMT
It does. I’m finding it harder even to do the usual automatic support of a national team, and only partly because Englishness itself has become pretty toxic in the last few years. Watching the Test matches from Australia in the winter, about the only enjoyable aspect was seeing how good Australia’s bowlers were, appreciating their craft as they repeatedly dismantled England’s batting. Australia’s women were so superior in the World Cup that I could only applaud and wonder who would finish second. The tribal football thing, as you know, entirely escapes me. Last week’s windscreen replacement happened at the Oxford Kassam Stadium, home of the only professional football team I’ve ever seen score a goal. (That was at the time when they were getting in early on the kleptocracy of the modern game by being bankrolled by Robert Maxwell.) As I arrived, I looked up at the stadium and wondered whether it might be fun to have the kind of local allegiance some here have. But then I wandered about a bit more and found it such a soulless, dispiriting place that I couldn’t imagine going there when I didn’t have to. So I won’t be doing that. If you saw Oxford score in the Maxwell era, that would have been at their former ground, the Manor Ground, which was a much more characterful place, before the Kassam was built. Unless you saw them playing an away match of course. Wycombe Wanderers has a bit more character about the place. Only a bit, mind. WWFC will shortly be playing the Mackems at Wembley for a place in the Championship (or as I prefer to call it Division 2), and I'll be in their corner for that one. For proper, timeless character, the only only place in striking distance of your good self would be, of course, Fulham. None of the "new" stadiums have much about them, although I am quite fond of Huddersfield's. |
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