Other Games 23/24

[Dazzler 11934]

12 hours ago, ewerk said:

Gawd bless ‘em, plucky underdogs.

 

Age of Liverpool's starting 11

 

GK - 25

RB - 20

CB - 24

CB - 32

LB - 29

CM - 25

CM - 31

CM - 21

RW - 20

CF - 24

LW - 27

 

Average age 25 (not fucking kids at all), their subs brought that down by a whole year to 24. 

 

GK - 24

RB - 20

CB - 25

CB - 21

LB - 27

CM - 22

CM - 23

RW - 21

CAM - 24

LW - 29

CF - 22

 

Average age of Chelsea's starting 11 was 23 - even with their subs it was still 23.

 

This media wankfest is a piss take - they had 6 players starting that were 25 or over compared to Chelsea's 3. Two players in their 30's compared to Chelsea's zero. 

 

 

[MrBass 3061]

Whoa whoa whoa! How dare you let facts get in the way of a perfectly ludicrous narrative!!

[Dr Gloom 23751]

18 hours ago, Renton said:

Fucking glad that's Chelsea and not us being sucker punched like that mind. 

 

they would have had a field day if it was us on the receiving end, which we would have been if we'd made it past chelsea and boro to the final - our form is horrible 

[Dr Gloom 23751]

i can only imagine the rapture in dury's voice as liverpool put the winner in our net 

[Renton 23869]

5 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

The average age of the Chelsea team at the end of the game was 22 vs 24 for Liverpool apparently.

 

I noticed Sky literally had the headline "Against all odds" after their win. Weren't Liverpool probably favourites after we knocked out Man City? 

[Monkeys Fist 45438]

1 hour ago, The Fish said:

 

Generally, when we're posting in the Other Games YY/YY thread, we're chatting about topics loosely connected to games, that happened within the last few days, or at least the last decade...

Yes. 
 

 

[ackas 311]

The red scousers unbelievably managed to defeat a side 10 places and 25 points behind them in the league.

Wow, how unexpected, said absolutely nobody except the fawning media and deluded fans.

[The Fish 11333]

34 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Yes. 
 

 

 

Off to re-watch Dogtown and Z-Boys, thanksverymuch.

[wykikitoon 23096]

52 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

I noticed Sky literally had the headline "Against all odds" after their win. Weren't Liverpool probably favourites after we knocked out Man City? 

Also considering they're top of the league too  

[Renton 23869]

Love a good underdog story me.

 

[Howmanheyman 36734]

Fair play to Liverpool to be honest, great photos and headlines from the BBC about the final yesterday, it really was .....

 

 

Won with a....

 

 

 

But they were.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 26, 2024 by Howmanheyman

[Monkeys Fist 45438]

[Tom 14086]

West Ham 2-1 Brentford after 10 minutes 

 

[Blastronaut 1368]

I like you lot but it's really odd seeing Newcastle fans falling over themselves to defend Chelsea in the league cup. 

 

I get it with wykiki who is clearly in denial about being madly in love with a Scouser workmate. The rest of you I'm a bit worried about.

[Holden McGroin 7712]

4 minutes ago, Blastronaut said:

I like you lot but it's really odd seeing Newcastle fans falling over themselves to defend Chelsea in the league cup. 

 

I get it with wykiki who is clearly in denial about being madly in love with a Scouser workmate. The rest of you I'm a bit worried about.

Wykiki to Bin Dipper from work.

Edited February 26, 2024 by Holden McGroin

[MrBass 3061]

21 minutes ago, Blastronaut said:

I like you lot but it's really odd seeing Newcastle fans falling over themselves to defend Chelsea in the league cup. 

[Blastronaut 1368]

18 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

Wykiki to Bin Dipper from work.

 

"I've working on a novel, you're the protagonist!"

[sammynb 3935]

1 minute ago, Blastronaut said:

 

"I've working on a novel, you're the protagonist!"

 

There's way to many subplots in that piece of prose.

[Blastronaut 1368]

14 minutes ago, sammynb said:

 

There's way to many subplots in that piece of prose.

 

Thats Football in a nutshell. Poetry without the poets.

[sammynb 3935]

1 hour ago, Blastronaut said:

 

Thats Football in a nutshell. Poetry without the poets.

 

I get that if you support a successful club or the mackems 😉but for the rest of us, football is nothing but a tragi-comedy, a huge kick in the nuts the afternoon before the date with that hot person who has already told you what's installed.

Especially for us stupid old cunts that support Newcastle. Everytime we get close, as the giant seems to rouse from its slumber, it trips and knocks itself out for another century or those clubs of poetless poetry change the rules to suit themselves, snake charming their serf like colleague (yeah right mid=table obscurity) clubs into thinking they are helping them - like those betwixed by the notion of aspiration they are fooled. The rich and elite want to you to believe you can attain what they have but it's just a fools errand. as they don't want anyone else to join their lot.

Nope, best to know there is no hope, the heroes will always die in the end and never succeed.

 

[RobinRobin 12545]

1 hour ago, sammynb said:

 

I get that if you support a successful club or the mackems 😉but for the rest of us, football is nothing but a tragi-comedy, a huge kick in the nuts the afternoon before the date with that hot person who has already told you what's installed.

Especially for us stupid old cunts that support Newcastle. Everytime we get close, as the giant seems to rouse from its slumber, it trips and knocks itself out for another century or those clubs of poetless poetry change the rules to suit themselves, snake charming their serf like colleague (yeah right mid=table obscurity) clubs into thinking they are helping them - like those betwixed by the notion of aspiration they are fooled. The rich and elite want to you to believe you can attain what they have but it's just a fools errand. as they don't want anyone else to join their lot.

Nope, best to know there is no hope, the heroes will always die in the end and never succeed.

 

Haven't you read Commando? 

[sammynb 3935]

25 minutes ago, RobinRobin said:

Haven't you read Commando? 

 

 

[Howmanheyman 36734]

8 hours ago, Blastronaut said:

I like you lot but it's really odd seeing Newcastle fans falling over themselves to defend Chelsea in the league cup. 

 

I get it with wykiki who is clearly in denial about being madly in love with a Scouser workmate. The rest of you I'm a bit worried about.

 

Seriously, who the fuck on here has defended Chelsea?  

 

Sammy's post is excellent, this one won't be nowhere near as succinct but I have to tell you, the amount of bullshit coverage us fans of historical old clubs who aren't Liverpool or Man United have to suck up just to please fans of those clubs or advertiser's wanting to please fans of those clubs, many of whom have fuck all connection to the cities of those 'I'm alright jack, fuck you the ladder's getting pulled up, enjoy permanently mediocre sides' clubs of protectionism. 

 

The sense of entitlement from those clubs and from some of their supporters, particularly, in my experience, the ones from other towns and cities who treat victories and cups not as a reason to celebrate with their friends, workmates and neighbours, (they can't, the majority of those friends, workmates and neighbours will support their local team so will be indifferent at best), but as an excuse to gloat and generally wind up the workmates and citizens of their home towns, (that's when they're not online on social media trying to let a bit of their handpicked trophy winning club's glory glow down on themselves with staggeringly little success., that's right, nobody thinks, 'ah, he supports Liverpool, their a good side so he must be really cool supporting them from another town', but rather, 'what a pathetic cunt this kid is.' Now that last bit isn't aimed at you before you get all edgy as you very rarely post in the football forum). 

 

For the avoidance of doubt, I detest Chelsea. I can't abide Klopp whilst being happy to admit he's an elite manager who knows he's flogged the horse at Liverpool and doesn't think he can do it anymore. Liverpool and one or two others are actively trying to fuck everyone else over. Do I like it when they lose? Of course I do. See also Man Utd. (Arsenal are just southern knobs with a bizarre fan base, foreign and local).

 

But Chelsea, man?  Just because this forum wasn't rooting for Liverpool doesn't mean they were actively supporting Chelsea, the truth is I'd want them both to lose. As Sammy says, it's just the way of us clubs feel who are now permanently locked out of the modern, corporate world of 21st century English football, sponsored by satellite channels. Fuck them.

 

(And I haven't even mentioned the decisions from officials!!!l)

Edited February 27, 2024 by Howmanheyman

[Kid Dynamite 7718]

Didn't realise this was Lee Clark's son

 

 

 

 

[Holden McGroin 7712]

22 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Didn't realise this was Lee Clark's son

 

 

 

 

Aye Jason Koumas’s son was on the bench and Neil Danns son came on as well. 😂