Weird feelings of football

Yeah there's almost a hierarchy of African names: Traore is on the bottom rung; Cisse and Sissoko will get you a mercurial, yet ultimately mid-level talent; Toure is quality; Dembele gets you a Fulham player with promise.

This is so true. :lol:
 
Every player, when transferring to a club of larger stature, describes it as a 'dream' move, regardless of how shit the club is in reality.
 
Any academy/reserve player that is a brother of a first team player will be "better" than that brother. For example, I'm pretty sure Fabio was meant to be better than Rafael, and I definitely saw quotes saying that Thorgan Hazard was potentially better than Eden.
 
Despite getting to the final a few years ago, Stoke have never actually won a FA Cup match.
 
What is he upto these days?

Real Sociedad. Got another ACL injury at the end of 2015. Missed the second half of that season and the start of this season. I've only seen him a couple of times this season, but I can't remember him standing out. I don't think I've ever seen him play a full 90. He either comes on as a 2nd half sub, or gets pulled at half time.

Hard to believe he's 25 now.
 
Newly promoted PL clubs always get knocked out in the 3rd round of the FA Cup, usually by a lower league side.
 
No United fan actually cares about the rivalry with City, and likewise no Liverpool fan actually cares about Everton. Both clubs hate each other above anything else.
 
every throw in taken is a foul throw the refs just can't be bothered to penalise.

only full backs are allowed to take throw ins.

one of the outfield players has to act like he's taking the throw in before ultimately giving the throw in to the full back as obviously only full backs are allowed to take throw ins.

throw ins near the opposition corner flag always go back to the opposition
 
Starring in the Championship is the height of achievement for Tom Ince.
 
To be fair, he probably had a middle aged face when he was a phoetus.

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Well, he's trying to look older though :D
 
Every PL/pundit has their own single thread on here which occasionally gets bumped when they say something nonsensical, whereas Paul Merson seems to get a new thread made about him every few months.
 
When Harry Kane doesn't score he's the worst player on the pitch.

Man City play better when they go down to 10 men
 
Wimbledon FC and Vinnie Jones never actually existed as a professional football outfit and were made purely for film and TV.
 
Tottenham don't have an away kit.

The African nations cup takes place every year.

Vincent Kompany and Blackburn Rovers made a bet where the loser would have to disappear forever, and they both lost.
 
Ronaldo will grow a skinny goatee before he retires

Gerard Delafeou will look world class in one game and get dropped for ten matches and then look shite until the sequence starts again, also see Jefferson Montero & Abel Taarabt circa 2010

Yohan Cabaye lost all football ability after moving to Palace

Joey Barton is a football pundit who occasionaly has to play football

Steve McClarens hair should be barred from TV

Hull City have never had a striker

Niall Quinn only still has a job on Sky because he is the only Ex City player without United connections anybody remembers

Stokes ground looks so windy and cold even on TV
 
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Real Madrid and Barcelona don't sell their players to other La Liga teams. They always go abroad. While Juve, Inter, and Milan routinely exchange their players between them.
 
Werder Bremen got relegated 4 years ago.

German teams do not compete in the Europa League.

Argentina withdrew from international football for 10 years after Italia 1990.
 
Jordan Henderson would be an ideal replacement for Carrick.
 
All Utd fans have an issue/ strongly dislike atleast one of the London clubs and they are not necessarily Chelsea or Arsenal.