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.

Arsenal weren't exactly an army team, they were a munitions factory team, a works team from the Royal Arsenal, which is what they were called before they moved.

When they moved, they moved into Highbury and Islington, so surely that's what they should be called under David Lammy's claim?

Article about David Lammy's proposed legal action here. It's the same one I posted earlier in the thread.

Should the newly enlightened Sky Sports stop doing the Soccer AM Soccerette feature?

Oi! I hope you're not poaching, there's hardly enough men on Dadsnet as it is.

And I reckon some of them could be posing as hairy-handed truckers, and are really women.

I wonder why there aren't many men?

ah, so that's why they are called Arsenal. Thanks truck.

so few men? It's probably the site title, self-image, and poss. getting a challenging reception when they do post if it isn't couched in a way palatable to a few other female posters. It can get a bit steamy in here, but in a bad way. We can run like startled fawns round here.

Sounds like that 70's drama Star Maidens.

The argument seems to be that "Tottenham Hotspur FC" as a trade mark could potentially be revoked because it misleads the public into believing the club to have a geographical connection with Tottenham.

If it was revoked, then some other outfit could presumably muscle in and trademark (for example) "Tottenham FC"

Seems a bit far-fetched. How many people are likely to believe on the basis of the trade mark that Tottenham Hotspur play in Tottenham? Hardly anyone I imagine. In any event, the club would still retain a historical link to Tottenham.

Surely a better thing to do is demolish the stadium and offer the Olympics to some other city like Mogadishu. Tottenham can stay in Tottenham, West Ham can stay in West Ham, and the UK can save the money.

belfastboy,

Thanks for the correction.

Yes, someone could litigate against Arsenal on the same basis, ie, their name erroneously suggests an association with munitions. I don't suppose its possible for a trade mark not to mislead anyone, ever, on any basis. I imagine that it has to be something pretty substantial, e.g. a trademark such as "Savile Row Suits" owned and used by a discount store.

So, Shineon, where's my email then? And how did you like your visit to the furthest reaches, the darkest corner, of Mumsnet?

Have I just been called "Truck" by Pan and "Belfastboy" by Toad?

BB- I hope you took that as a compliment.

We lost 3-2 yesterday, 2-0 up as well.

friend of mine is a Coventry boy - he reckons they didn't recognise being 2-0 up against anyone, got a figurative nose bleed and that was that for them.

Utd - it was so cruel to give those Southamption fans a sense of hope when we all knew the inevitability of it all...

sorry about the id thing BB.

off to Chill Factore at Trff centre for dd's eleventieth birthday - an afternoon of slithering down a slope on a plastic tubing bit...fun.

Sky Blues till I die, don't live in Cov anymore though, horrible place.

'swot my friend says about the place - a total hole. Used to know someone else from Cov. and he had the same view. But he was gay, growing up in 1960's Coventry. He stood nooo chance. Derby gets the same deal from Derbyites.

If you ever get trapped in a conversation about which is the best league in the world, this blog posting might be handy... footballmanagement.wordpress.com/

Clubs were compensated at a rate of $1600 per day for releasing their players for the World Cup, with the result that English teams recieved the most money, a little over £3.8million.

Crumbs. Bring on the mighty Crawley Town at O.T.

FA Cup. Dontcha just love it??!!

Watching the FA Cup on ITV, but not really paying attention. Watching the team in white scoring for fun, I figured it was Spurs, and only 3 goals in did I realise Fulham were destroying them.

(Arsenal) - Saltatrix
(Arsenal) - BigGitDad
(Arsenal) - BelfastBloke
(Birmingham) - GingerCat12
(Coventry) - Truckulente
(Huddersfield Town) - Trublatmill
(Liverpool) - Binx14
(Liverpool) - cjdamoo
(Liverpool) - Justine MNHQ
(Liverpool) - LurcioLovesFrankie
(Man. Utd) - Pan
(Notts County) - Jenniferturkington
(Spurs) - Whathappened
(Spurs) - MarsLady
(Spurs) - AVeryMerryPersonalClown
(Sunderland) - KenDoddsDadsDog...
(Sunderland, Blackpool) - Purepurple

Obviously happy to be through to the next round, but gutted to have lost Nasri, the best player in the league so far this season.

However, I never like to see a penalty where the striker stops in his run-up, to see which way the goalie is tending. The sainted Fabregas stopped twice before scoring our pen. Is that against the rules, or not?

could be. Ungentlemanly conduct is the sin code it would come under, though I have never seen it used recently. Universal recognition it wasn't a penalty in the first place.

Well you need a bit of luck in the season, and with Arsenal's fixture list they couldn't afford a replay.

The question is can they win all four trophies?

and the answer is 'no'.

over-reliant on Fab Fab. Dodgy goalie. Not enough grit. Too much style:substance ratio. Easy to 'get at' because they don't seem to have a Plan B ever, unlike Utd.

It'd be funny if they did... after all the flack they have taken over not winning anything... and get excited over getting the to League Cup final.

Especially as they have Pat from Eastenders as an their assistant manager.

Pat. Ha!

weeell, they can have the Egg Cup bless 'em. Just nothing else.