West Brom never win a game but comfortably end up mid table with around 45 points every year.
Weird feelings of football
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Totally agree with this one. They're in 11th and they will quietly finish in 11th, having never been higher than 11th or lower than 11th.
Or a semifinal.
Like they've gone out of their way to shed the 'boing boing Baggies' image.
Arjen robben and ribery have been injured since 2011
Tony Pulis is the perfect match for them - that just about sums him up as a manager in general.
Ribery and Robben haven't been on the same pitch since 2011
I think we're gonna win the world cup.
I've been drinking
I've been drinking
Teddy Sheringham circa 1985
Teddy Sheringham 2016
Man has looked the same age forever
In the first one he looks like Tom Cruise after a severe beating.
He doesTony Yeboah and Paul Scholes have scored the only crossbar-and-in goals in history. Frank Lampard came close, but it was disallowed.
Every time before we play Arsenal, I think that they're no longer a direct rival and therefore no hate should be generated. The day of the game someone inevitable shares a video of Arsenal-United fights and I regain my hatred for them.
No player in Italian football has a shirt number below 20.
There's just been an interesting interview with the American women's soccer team. They've filed a lawsuit against the US FA
The 2nd half seems to feel longer than the 1st half
Geoff Hurst says Hi!
Aitor Karanka is an eastern European, from Bulgaria or Romania.
All players with a surname beginning with N' are shit
Every substitute that comes on against us is the other clubs record signing.
Eden Hazard is always nominated for the Young Player of the Year award every season even though he's now 25
Nesta?
Alessandro N'Esta? Not heard of him.
I mean your N'Zogbia's, N'Jie's, N'Doye's, N'Gog's of the world.
Smalling and Jones are never fit at the same time.
Think he means like N'Dong or N'Dlove
I have heard that N'golo Kante is not very shabby.
N'Golo is his first name. He doesn't count.
N'Zonzi is good.
Teddy Sheringham never actually scored from the corner routine that is named after him.
David Beckham had a better free-kick conversion ratio than penalty-conversion ratio.
David Beckham had a better free-kick conversion ratio than penalty-conversion ratio.
Football started looking modern somewhere around 2000. Before that it was on a grainy picture, with baggy kits, mitre footballs and shit pitches.
Samir Nasri joined Inter Milan in 2014 and has been in and out of the side
Heart of Midlothian Football Club is actually named Hearts of Midlothian Football Club
Celtic are historically superior/better than Rangers
Heart of Midlothian Football Club is actually named Hearts of Midlothian Football Club
Celtic are historically superior/better than Rangers
The Old Firm used to play each other 12 times a season. Now it has settled down to a mere 6.
Teams can only win 1 penalty shootout in a single knockout tournament. If they play a 2nd, they lose.
In addition, the player who has had the best game is most likely to miss his penalty in the shoot out
Not only that, but what looked modern in, say, 2006 or 2007, actually looks kind of out of date now. I remember watching old PL highlights from about a decade before that and everything looked so 90s. Now the same can be said for a decade ago: Rooney with actual hair, Ronaldinho with actual footballing ability, Andy Gray and Richard Keys with credible careers, and Jose Mourinho without completely grey hair. It's less that it looks out of date, to an extent I think, and more that all the people involved then who are still involved now looked so much younger then.
Likely due to the European success. Rangers have obviously been more successful in the league domestically, but when both sides have 40+ titles the discrepancies begin to seem quite minor in comparison. Celtic winning a European Cup and reaching another final gave them that elevated status to an extent: Rangers had some great teams but never quite managed to produce one (at least in a modern context, since we'd know little to analyse pre-world war teams) on the level of Stein's greatest side.
Of course, Rangers' recent years in the wilderness probably haven't helped them in this regard since it's ushered in a new era of Celtic dominance. Not that it's been particularly impressive dominance, mind.
Before Pep Guardiola, playing the long ball and shooting from distance was seen as playing direct football. Nowadays, that exact same footballing philosophy is seen as neanderthal.
Watching football highlights from the pre HD era is now blurry and unwatchable.