The rolling Football thread

[BelfastBloke]

There are quite a lot of football fans on MN, and also loads of football-haters. If we hide here in Dadsnet, none of the detractors will find us. But if they do, they are welcome to come here and moan.

You don?t have to be male to post here, of course. (No-one would say women can?t post in the Dadsnet section, just like no woman would EVER say men aren?t welcome on Mumsnet?)

Footy fans please sign in with

1. Which team you support.
2. Which team(s) you loathe.
3. How you are getting your kids to follow the correct team.

1. A thought on the season so far (Premiership/Championship/Champions? League/FA Cup/League Cup/(el clasico?)/World Cup bids.

Spanish culture is totally set up for that. I used to finish work at 9pm but had a break from 1pm and went back at 4 or 5pm
Not all businesses work like that these days though. My friend works a more normal day just with a longer lunch in the summer.
At the weekend we wouldn't even go out til at least midnight.
And people don't really get drunk like we do. Football is very male and more about the testosterone than the beer!

Mancini getting a text message during media conference.....v funny

Has this Tottenham team actually played together before?

Best attacking team in England. "We know that..."

Twas Painfull.

What's painful is watching the slagging that the Mirror is giving Alan Davies over his comments about the Hillsborough anniversaries.

It's pure pandering, knowing that Scousers (rightly) boycott the Sun, so positioning the Mirror to be the natural alternative.

Not see that in the Mirror, BB. And it sounds pretty cynical of the Mirror. But I am utterly with him on this. Am just surprised the authorities have let them get away with it for so long.

The Arsenal way of football is a form of art.
That's why we have statues in defence.

About to settle in and watch a full Barcelona game - first time since MU were publically spanked by them. . Suspect Wigan April 2012 vintage could do pretty well against them!

What the buggery happened to Spurs yesterday. Letting the mags into a champions league spot. Tsk.

What's nice about recording MOTD is that when Shearer opens his mouth one can pause it, go and open a beer make a cup of tea, and on return you can f fwd through him.

And you won't have missed anything anyway!

Actually he make s a bit more sense in silent fast fwd. I did unfortunatly catch him saying that the situation with 'arry and England was nothing to do with Spurs lack of form, almost to the day Capello resigned. I know Oblomov thinks Spurs collapse in the final furlong, but this season has been timely and dramatic.

Boy we DO like to make it difficult for ourselves! Etihad here we come. But I've always admired Wolves' resilience and goal-scoring threat.

I wish I'd watched that game. 4-4!

BB, I was painting staircase spindles at the time, with R5 commentary. My coverage was much better than Utd's. Standing back in defence on the 18 yd line. Again! Does SAF not read BB's Rolling Football Thread??

No it was TalkSport with Stan Collymore.....he spoketh a lot of sense....

Some of my Arsenal mates think Collymore's an idiot; but I like his commentary.

He can occasionally get a bit arsey about his audience (ie: people who "haven't played the game professionally") but most of what he says is solid.

And he's got a much broader vocabulary and has some extremely literary turns of phrase than I would have anticipated from a professional footballer (especially one with that accent..!)

yep - was a bit patronising re non-players, but was cutting, and amusing, on some non-footie themes. And the accent does not help...

might have to watch MOTD2. Looks like Wolves aren't being that resilient.

When's the Manchester derby?

Evening of 30th April - next Monday. Will be ugly.

or..There Will Be Blood.

Which would be the most amusing scenario? (I am not prepared to contemplate Arsenal not finishing third, even though I'm aware that could well happen. Especially after what I witnessed yesterday)

Option A:
1st - Citeh
2nd - Utd
3rd - Arse
4th - Spurs, but then Chavski win the Champs League and take Spurs's spot in next year's CL.

Option B
1st - Citeh
2nd - Utd
3rd - Arse
4th - Geordies

I suppose option A is the most amusing, but it does mean the Chavs winning the CL.

Torn.

Neither amuses.

And Citeh have to travel to Geordieland, which isn't the push-over it was. And we have to visit KDDDD's front room on final day. With so many ex Utd players there, it could be interesting....

if Citeh were 'Penzance AFC', or 'Rockall Utd' I wouldn't mind so much. But they aren't. So I do.