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Barney Ronay is an annoying prat, by far the worst of the football weekly regulars imo. Although Sean Ingle's stuttering is quite a handicap to have for an audio only format. Jimbo and Barry hold the show together sometimes.
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MoPZiG posted:Good to hear Steve Claridge tearing into Capello on 606. What was he saying?
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Stim posted:Also I hope they don't have the guy from Zonal Marking on often. I already find his articles annoying enough. Seconded.
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Sep 23, 2010 19:59
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I liked the latest adventures of Adrian Mutu this week. Tries to buy champagne, has no money, gets mad at waiter for not knowing who he is, waits in the street till the early hours and beats the waiter up once he's finished work. Mental dickheads do the wackiest things. I hope Chelsea get all his money.
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ICA posted:Jesus Christ, guys. What are you on about?
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Jippa posted:
No you were right. And Jimbo was great. The heartless quip was genius.
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I was fooled.
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I stopped listening to the Game because of Barclay. He's just insufferable.
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May 27, 2011 17:49
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What's this cake stuff about?
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I don't find the football ramble as good as it used to be. Don't know if it's because I'm bored of the same jokes every single episode or because going for glold has exposed them as being considerably less knowledgeable than I thought they were. Football weekly has got even better though, more Honingstein and that serie A guy and less Barney and Ingle = 
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peanut- posted:Most of the hints given in that section are pretty drat obscure - especially starting with no reference points like the time period or player nationality. Well he normally tells them their date of birth (thus leading into another hilarious summer of love joke) and often where they were born so you can usually get the era and nationality from those. Some of the clues are incredibly obscure but I'm no anorak and I've gotten the name before all of them each time so far. They've struggled with some really basic stuff as well like on the Henning Berg one when he asked them what other players had won the premiership with different clubs which is a piece of piss and they struggled even after he told them they played for Chelsea iirc.
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Sep 27, 2011 10:11
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Mickolution posted:Haven't had a chance to listen to the most recent one yet, but surely that's what makes it more interesting? It would be interesting if they were talking about what they remembered from first hand experience. I love listening to old United fans talk about Best and Edwards etc, but just listening to them read out whatever turns up when they google a name and then guessing at what they were like is boring as gently caress. Marcus: "He scored 87 goals in 162 games". Luke: "Sounds like someone who knows where the back of the net is". Imo one of the few good profiles they have done was Prosinecki and that was because of Luke talking about what it was like watching him rock up at the club he supported in the first division and help save them from relegation. Hearing him talk about that was a million times more interesting to me than someone reciting which clubs he played for and what he won at each of them. Lot 49 fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Oct 13, 2011 |
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Auclair was talking poo poo. If he thinks Arshavin needs to be surrounded by top class players to play well then he never saw him play for Zenit or for Russia when he looked fantastic partnered with loving Pavlyuchenko. And he has played poo poo numerous times for Arsenal when in the team with Fabregas and Nasri and the players Auclair were saying he needed around him.
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Big Piece O poo poo posted:Poor Barry Glendenning, getting punched in a bar on St. Patrick's Day. Punched by an Arsenal fan who was celebrating Muamba potentially dying, because he thought Muamba was a Tottenham player. Has to be a strong contender for twat of the year.
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Is Patrick Barclay still on The Game podcast? He was single-handedly responsible for me giving up on that one about a year ago.
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Apr 11, 2012 10:41
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Cheers. I'll give it another go then.
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Apr 11, 2012 12:12
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It was something about Begovic not having any say over transferring to United... ... because beggars can't be choosers. They were laughing because it was so bad.
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marcadia posted:Why is Jimbo so harsh to Sid Lowe all the time? Does he just not like La Liga or is there another reason? I thought Sid was going to snap at him again this week. Imo a lot of it is because Richardson like to keep the show a) moving quickly and b) be at least as funny as it is informing. Lowe takes way longer to get his points across than the other pundits, many of whom essentially speak in sound bites, and he just isn't good at making jokes.
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Jan 29, 2013 11:04
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What would be people's ideal football podcast? I want proper fans, not journos, who are at least reasonably articulate and funny. And I want it focused on basically the premier league only. Like the first 15 minutes of the ramble are always the best imo because they actually know the teams/players/managers well but it's nowhere near as good as it could be because they skip so much stuff to save time. Which they then spend later on talking about leagues where they clearly don't watch much outside of the odd Barcelona/Juventus/etc match and reading out old player profiles from wikipedia. Basically I think I want the weeks best/funniest posts from TRP EPL thread read out in accents of the appropriate stereotype for an hour.
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I didn't think they could find someone else as insufferable as Ronay but they managed it. Also I always thought Pete from the Ramble used toilet humour and told stories about getting drunk and buying pianos because he was playing a clown, but in reality he was quite smart. Listening to their Hazard vs. ball boy discussion has ended that delusion. The man's an idiot. I felt sorry for the other two hosts when every point they made was answered with him shouting "he's a footballer, he's paid to set a good example."
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Jan 30, 2013 16:07
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Honigstein is my favourite too.
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http://audioboo.fm/channel/united-we-stand-podcast Sid Lowe was on the latest United We Stand podcast. I found it interesting how much better he comes across in a format which is slower and more serious. Football weekly is too quick and irreverent for him imo.
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Feb 16, 2013 10:42
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Isn't he the guy that's rl friends with someone on this forum?
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Apr 27, 2013 11:25
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Jippa posted:The problem with the game is it's just marcotti using the same shtick he used a decade ago on talksport which is just shouting ridiculously hyperbolic questions then waiting for bored sounding people to calmly rely to him. Football First in Europe with him, Balague and Durham was amazing and I'd kill to have recordings of some of their arguments.
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Aug 13, 2013 20:21
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What was the tweet? Also 'Why did they get beat 4-1? ... because Ashley Young is crap' is the most correct Auclair has ever been about anything.
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The hall of fame was the worst part of the show imo and now it's gone the ramble is my favourite football podcast. It was only good if it was a player they'd actually seen a lot of, which is basically people who had played in the premier league. Everyone else just had their wikipedia page read out like bbb said.
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Jim (the Arsenal fan) is the one with glasses. Pete (the Newcastle fan) is the one in the sleeveless robe thing. Luke (the Portsmouth fan) is the big scruffy one. And obviously the other one is Marcus. Also I agree with other posters that Luke is the best and Pete is the worst.
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He's the West Ham fan.
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Glendenning is up their with Lawrenson now in the stakes of people whose job it is to talk about football but are seemingly incredibly bored by it. Imagine those two commentating on a match together. christ.
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Jeff Goldblum. A-List. y/n? imo Pete and Jim are right. Luke and Marcus are letting their love of Jurassic Park cloud their judgement.
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Suarez.
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The Ramble's new intro reminds me of another song but I can't put my finger on what.
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Tuesday Club have done their first episode in a year and it's pretty good.
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algebra testes posted:I also liked Barry's "worst game of football" story. Can you remember at what point in the episode it was? I gave up after about 20 minutes this week because I want to hear them be funny and talk about football. Instead I got renowned social commentators Max and Barry pontificating about sexism and racism. Would never have happened under Jimbo's watch 
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algebra testes posted:1:00 hour on the dot gets you that, and the widely re-posted Roy Keane story. Thank you kindly.
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RideTheSpiral posted:Can't even be sexist and racist in football anymore Circular discussion is just always boring as gently caress to listen to.
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Lot 49 posted:Barney Ronay is an annoying prat, by far the worst of the football weekly regulars imo. Although Sean Ingle's stuttering is quite a handicap to have for an audio only format. My very first post in this thread. He's terrible and has always been terrible. It normally doesn't get talked about because the FW pundits (like most pundits) are bad at debate so they tend to circle jerk and agree with each other's opinions. Like a few weeks back Ronay went on a rant about VAR which was even more bullshit than his Tottenham whining but the rest of them lapped it up. This time for once someone challenged him and he had a temper tantrum. Now no-one will disagree with him for about a year.
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