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FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

eternally, big dave whelan holding a press conference to try and get malky mackay out of trouble for doing a racism, where he announced that actually it was ok because jews really do love money

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FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Leicester City firing Nigel Pearson after his son was one of the players who decided to generate goodwill on their goodwill tour of thailand by filming each other getting rimjobs while yelling racial slurs at the hookers

Leicester City replacing him with Claudio Ranieri, who's most recent job was leading 2004 champions (and pot one seeds) Greece to a sixth-place finish in their six-team qualifying group, behind Northern Ireland, Romania, Hungary, Finland, and the Faroe Islands (population 52,000)

Some stuff that happened the following season

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

the entirety of manchester united 8 - 2 arsenal, up to and including wenger and mike dean having an argument as to what constitutes 'the stand' at old trafford and ending with wengy doing a pose on the roof of the dugout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4lMbSr2ZYk

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Harry Redknapp quitting Portsmouth to go and manage rivals Southampton, absolutely making GBS threads the bed there, and then a bunch of Southampton fans secretly rigging an internet poll to get him hired back at rock-bottom Portsmouth despite the vast majority of their actual fans now hating him

And then he went and kept them up, as a treat

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Robert Huth, getting banned for transphobia after responding "weapon" to a twitter account which would post pictures of the top half of a porn star and invite you to guess if she had a penis

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Someone, who may or may not have been a member of this forum, creating a Twitter account featuring a profile picture of Norman Tebbit being carried disorientated from the scene of the Brighton Hotel bombing, under the username 'Tebbit's Cum Face'

Aforementioned account being the only Twitter account favourited by David Cameron, the sitting Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, presumably while he was trying to remember if he supported West Ham or Villa

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

britishbornandbread posted:

Always found the joking about Gascoigne and his mental health a bit uncomfortable. Then I remember he’s a wife beater, so gently caress him.

Exhibit A, the following list of stories as to what happens when you fully enable a man in need of legitimate and substantial mental health support because it's the 1980s and because he's one of the most naturally talented players of his generation, swinging wildly from world-class trolling, to being a Geordie Forrest Gump, to a series of uncomfortable crimes:

quote:

1) One hour after playing for England, met 'showbiz pals' Danny Baker and Chris Evans in a Hampstead pub while still wearing his full kit... boots included.

2) When asked for his nationality before an operation, told the nurse: "Church Of England."

3) On a trip to London, jumped out of his car to demand "a go" on a workman's pneumatic drill. After getting the go-ahead, happily pounded the pavement to the amusement of shoppers.

4) On first meeting with Lazio's president to discuss his big-money move to the Italian club, was quick to tell the esteemed gentleman that he reminded him of Bud Abbot.

5) Organisers of Italia 90 TV coverage had the splendid idea of augmenting team line-ups with film of each player mouthing his own name. Gascoigne's genius led him to subvert the process by, instead, mouthing 'loving Wanker'. The BBC had to use it all the way through the tournament.

6) Booked a series of sun-bed sessions for then-Newcastle team-mate Tony Cunningham. Who, of course, is black.

7) Asked by a Norwegian camera crew if he had a message for England's upcoming opponents, immediately responded with, "Yes. gently caress off Norway." Then ran off laughing.

8) Turned up for England training the morning after then-manager Bobby Robson had called him "daft as a brush" with a floor brush sticking out of his sock.

9) When asked for a footballing comment while at Lazio, burped enthusiastically into a TV microphone. He was fined £39,000.

10) Decided it would be a great idea to have massive hair extensions. Looked a fool and had them taken out a day later.

11) After paying for ex-wife Sheryl's breasts implants, sent flowers to the hospital after the operation addressed to 'Dolly Parton'.

12) Astounded commuters in London by jumping on a double-decker in London's Piccadilly Circus and asking if he could have a drive. The bus driver said yes, and the passengers thoroughly enjoyed Gazza's impromptu performance.

13) Sent a rose to the Wimbledon dressing room for Vinnie Jones after the infamous ball-squeezing incident. Got a toilet brush in return.

14) Set up best mate Jimmy 'Five Bellies' Gardner with a 'girl' he knew to be a transvestite.

15) Has taken the piss out of refs constantly during his career. On one occasion he sniffed a hapless ref's armpit while he was holding his hand high to signal a free kick.

16) Undeterred by their frosty reactions, Gazza again tried to prove that refs have a sense of humour by yellow-carding the referee after the official had dropped his card during a Rangers v Hibs game. He was booked for his troubles.

17) While attempting to deflect the 'kebab controversy' which spelled the beginning of the end of his England career, assured reporters that his doner-munching antics following Middlesbrough's promotion to the Premiership would in no way affect his fitness before France 98. One reporter asked: "What do you feel like now?" Back came the inevitable response: "I feel like a kebab with onions."

18) As an apprentice desperate to impress then-Newcastle boss Jack Charlton, spent a week's money on fishing gear and begged the famous angler to give him a lesson. On arrival at the riverbank, Charlton promptly threw all but the rod out into the briny, then poured a bottle of Newcastle Brown into the water, dipped in the rod and within seconds was pulling out a whopper. Lesson over.

19) As 'perk' of boot-cleaning duties during his apprenticeship, took Kevin Keegan's Golas home to show his mates. But left them on the Newcastle Underground.

20) When playing for England against Belgium in Italia 90, ridiculed Enzo Scifo as he lay on the ground clutching his leg. Gazza thought he was play-acting, so did a mime of his own which involved hopping on one leg with his tongue lolling out.

21) His attempt to jet off to Libya with Middlesbrough for a post-season tour was hampered by the fact he'd left his passport at home. An emotional Gazza wept at the check-in desk until a minion was despatched to bring it to the airport.

22) Celebrated his new-found hero status after flying home from Italia 90 by wearing a huge pair of fake plastic boobs and stomach bearing the legend 'Gazza'.

23) On meeting the president of Denmark's FA, pretended he could speak Danish. When invited to demonstrate, imitated The Muppet Show's Swedish Chef.

24) Conned Five Bellies into eating a mince pie after he'd scraped out the filling and replaced it with cat excrement.

25) Walked into the Middlesbrough canteen wearing nothing but his training socks and ordered lunch.

26) Paid £320 for a Mars Bar in a newsagents in his home town of Dunston, then told the shop owner to spend the change on sweets for local kids.

27) Whilst dining in the prestigious Bedford Arms Hotel in Woburn with a few of his Geordie mates, decided to place his erect member on the shoulder of a diner at the next table. Thinking someone had tapped him on the shoulder the gentleman turned his head only to have Gazza's helmet prod him in the cheek.

28) Took a documentary team to a beautiful Scottish cottage which he informed them was his new place, pretended he'd forgotten his key and knocked instead. When the door opened, told the befuddled housewife inside that he was doing a telly advert and wanted to know if she preferred Daz or Omo.

29) Crashed Middlesbrough's team bus at the club's training ground and caused £310,000 worth of damage.

30) While at Rangers, urinated over sleeping team-mate Richard Gough.

31) Handed £1000 over to Jimmy Five Bellies after betting that the burly boozer couldn't withstand a cigarette lighter's heat on the bridge of his nose for five seconds. Jimmy could. Twice.

32) After briefly giving up drinking, was advised to find a new interest. Picked bingo.

33) Bought a £1000 robot and programmed it to travel into Jimmy Five Bellies' room at Gazza Towers and announce: "Make a cup of tea, fat man."

34) Stuck his tongue out when the TV cameras panned past him during the national anthem at Italia 90.

35) Prepared for England matches during that hugely important tournament by playing marathon games of tennis in the scorching midday sun.

36) Thought it would be appropriate to wear a blue fright wig before the 1991 FA Cup Final.

37) In his time, has agreed to dress as a Roman centurion, a clown, Oliver Hardy and Braveheart for 'photo opportunities'.

38) While his Italia 90 team-mate was the hero of Hillsborough, marched into a Sheffield barbers and demanded "a Waddle cut".

39) When Gazza signed for Spurs in 1988, he came down to finalise the deal with a bunch of his Geordie mates. They took over the posh hotel in Hadley Wood where Spurs were footing the bill and wreaked havoc. Gazza met then-chairman Irving Scholar and began talks by saying, "We'd like to thank you for the best three days of our lives."

40) Asked to leave West Lodge Park Hotel in London after guests were treated to the sight of a naked Five Bellies swimming across the duck pond.

41) On his first night in Rome after signing for Lazio, gave his minder the slip, put his shoes by an open window and hid in a cupboard. The minder thought he'd committed suicide.

42) Recorded a video message for a corporate party and signed off with a cheery "Happy Christmas, you loving wankers".

43) Greeted reporters in Rome by standing up, asking for silence, then farting at ear-splitting volume.

44) Told an interviewer that he was so superstitious about the number 13 that he couldn't ever bear to see the numbers 4 and 9 together. Oddly, the combination of 5 and 8 was deemed OK.

45) Shredded England team-mate Dennis Wise's Armani suit "for a laugh".

46) While staying at a Scottish hotel, drove across its golf course in his four-wheel drive Jeep.

47) While reputation preceded him in Italy, the English language did not. Hence, his Lazio debut was marked by a banner which read: 'Gazza's Boys, We Are Here. Shake Your Women And Drink Your Beer'.

48) Conversely, rival Italian supporters once hailed him with a banner which stated bluntly: 'Paul Gazza, You Are Fat Poofta'.

49) After being sent off while playing for Lazio, shook hands with virtually every member of the Genoa side.

50) While staying in a New Zealand hotel, was told there was no bacon for breakfast. Replied, "What, all the sheep in this country and there's no bloody bacon!"

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

thierry henry open palm slamming a football into the irish net

not many nations can say that they marched into the dark heart of FIFA and asked to be the thirty-third team in the world cup, only to have everyone laugh at the way they pronounce "thirty-third" until they forget why they're there, but the irish can, and they say it every day

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett


found this in the related tweets and did a little lol having suddenly remembered

https://twitter.com/FootyRustling/status/1361685550818852866

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Sven Goran Eriksson having an affair with an FA secretary, a story that Sven's long-term girlfriend wasn't particularly happy about, but otherwise not of a huge journalistic significance other than it being damned impressive that a man who looked like a dead ringer for c montgomery burns managed to gently caress as much as he did

the head of the FA offering the press that he would shove this poor woman out in front of a press conference, in exchange for them not reporting anything to do with the fact that he was also having sex with the same FA secretary, a much more interesting story that the media immediately reported in full along with the attempt to undermine the manager of the England team by the head of the FA

FullLeatherJacket fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Feb 24, 2021

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

whichever guest on football weekly had to be told off for referring to neil warnock as 'colin' on air

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett


Well, he must have gotten sick or died in an accident, I guess that's kind of noble to d... wait, no, he was sold to a team better than Birmingham City, the loftiest goal of any Birmingham City player

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett



rip headless leeds fash, you were too good for this world

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Wikipedia plot summary posted:


"Corruption within FIFA builds up over the years from Havelange's expansion efforts. As president of FIFA, Blatter is tasked to clean this up, for which he is seen as a controversial president. Many FIFA officials attempt to vote him out of office because of how incorruptible he is. The movie ends with a 2006 vote, in which Blatter is able to retain his presidency by cowing the corrupt members of FIFA, threatening to expose their ill deeds if they do not endorse Blatter and his anti-corruption campaign by voting for him as the FIFA president."

and with that, a mighty cheer went up from the great heroes of FIFA, for they had banished the awful lemon tree forever

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Tokyo Sexwale posted:

lol is that real because holy poo poo

tbh it's about par for a 16-year-old geordie

he didn't write that a week before his £35,012,000 move to become the new fernando torres at liverpool

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett



off to sign paul konchesky

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

The story from Roy Keane's autobiography of him getting unceremoniously released by United after appearing on MUTV while injured, badmouthing his teammates and then later getting into an argument with Ferguson in front of the rest of the squad; then turning out a month later for Celtic away at some shithouse second-division team in the Scottish Cup, losing 2-1, and then getting back on the bus to see John Hartson tucking into a bottle of coke and a packet of crisps


FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

that time that robbie savage went to the darts and they booed him at the darts and they had to stop the darts

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

vyelkin posted:

Extremely funny that Di Matteo won Chelsea the CL and they were so confused by it that they gave him a long-term contract and then sacked him immediately.

he got sacked three months into the following season and then winston bogarded it for two full years sitting at home getting paid his full £7m-a-year contract rather than taking a partial payoff from chelsea

:discourse:

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

the time that the Telegraph, a supposedly respectable newspaper for adults to read and learn about why changing anything would be wrong, sent a roving reporter to do live text reporting of Jurgen Klopp's press conference after announcing that he'd leave Borussia Dortmund

they did not check with him before he left if he spoke any German he did not

https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/588323104268615680

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

the sex ghost posted:

Evrachat in the champions league thread reminded me of him not shaking Suarez's hand and the TV commentators doing unironic regency gasps of astonishment at the lack of decorum

you're remembering it backwards

suarez refused to shake evra's hand for dobbing him in for being a big racist



then united won 2-1 and he did some expert trolling



look at phil dowd running over as fast as his little legs will carry him

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Remembering the time that Chelsea hired Gianluca Vialli, and also a translator for Gianluca Vialli, who didn't actually speak any Italian and so just made up what he thought he was saying

Also nobody noticed until he did TV interviews and some Italians wrote in

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Also the time that Tim Lovejoy asked for Hoover Dam's number on his short-lived primetime MLS highlights show, and then got sent it by goons

Also that Tim Lovejoy had a short-lived primetime MLS highlights show

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

frankenfreak posted:

Why is he so bald?

he has no hair

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

that time that GD posted a transfer rumour about Ciro Immobile and everyone just quoted it and said "he's not moving" while GD got more and more caremad that no-one was trusting his sources

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

the sex ghost posted:

We were chatting at work today about our favourite 'player at a mid to low level prem club has a good last month of the season and generates a load of noise that they deserve to be on the plane' moments. Fondly remember Bullardmania for euro 2008 but forgot about Grant Holt's cruel omission for 2010 I think

Bobby Zamora, of "when the ball hits your head and you're sat in row Z, that's Zamora" fame

this was about the time when he single-handedly knocked Juventus out of Europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elXs9j3G46A

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

remember they had little sticks like they were going to taxi an aircraft because you're not allowed to use a flag until you become a big boy linesman

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bde0w209_oo

FullLeatherJacket fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Jun 20, 2021

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

the discussion in the transfer thread of fail chelsea strikers made me suddenly remember this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2E-5PyYjT0

some say I'm still lolling to this day

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett


surely once you've represented England competitively you can't redeclare like this

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Fixins posted:

That whole era of trolling man united fans and the classic joke by some goon of "I'd 8-2 be a man united fan" lol. I miss Abu Dave

other cool things to remember correctly are the time that robbie keane launched one from halfway but roy carroll just caught it easily in his hands like an adult, giving the linesman no decision to make, as no doubt it would have been a very obvious call had it gone over the line

also the time that joey barton got sent off against city and invited three separate opposition players to a bbq he was having that weekend on his way off the pitch by way of apology

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

I love the logic of punching four separate people on the grounds of "what are you going to do, give me a quadruple red card?" and then the FA subsequently giving him a twelve-match ban for four red-card offences

He kicked, he swore, he was not actually that good at the game when you boil it down, but there goes the smartest professional footballer the world has ever seen

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett


literally for about a decade I'd always taken it as Owen just pissing about and having fun with them and that people were taking it out of context

it's not though, he's legit just doing some tiny fistpumps as he bosses some middle-schoolers

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

the sex ghost posted:

Gus poyet having to give a press conference as Brighton manager to try and find out who did a massive diarrhea poo poo over, on and around the toilet in the away dressing room at the amex

it was deffo him

Gus Poyet getting sacked on air for having a poo poo all over the away dressing room before a playoff game

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/23022212

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Mickolution posted:

Or Arsenal fans.

https://youtu.be/oTXfA-urOP8

the best part about this was that he never ran that far in his total city career before or after this goal, and eventually got sent out on loan to madrid to get his salary off the books

also apparently literally-real-madrid-under-florentino-perez did a double-take when city told them what the salary actually was and ended up having to still cover some of it

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Diego Forlan, taking six months to score his first United goal despite running himself into the ground

then when he finally did, tearing his shirt off and being unable to get it back on, so just accepting this fact and playing shirtless

https://youtu.be/RZfCfaBxXnc

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

on the back of multiple keeper chat in the gamethread, the time that man city put david james on as a striker to try and get a result against middlesbrough

https://youtu.be/hZj7xcehvOU

narrator's voice: they did not

this was also apparently the specific moment where stuart pearce lost the dressing room

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Alctel posted:

What was the train of thought behind this, did they just run out of fit players

Pearce had Jon Macken on the bench, who was an actual £5m striker (a poo poo one, but it's City) who was overlooked for bringing on Nicky Weaver and sending David James up front wearing a pre-printed outfield shirt, which would suggest that this was a tactical plan that Pearce had thought of before the game

I can see the logic if it's his last game for the club and you want to do it as a laugh, or even if there's three minutes to go and you're just loading balls into the box to try and get a head on it, but City actually needed to win and instead he mainly wandered around the edge of the box and flailed about in a way likely to injure himself or an opponent, as was the style at the time

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Shrapnig posted:

Reminds me of that Scottish(?) footballer who was asked for his book recommendations and it was very obvious that he could barely read given the suggestions.

tbf Delaney at least sounds like he's read one to one-and-a-half books

I imagine that Jamie Vardy would be busy inviting Gengis Khan over for tea on the grounds that he's a top shagger

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FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

a man beating a machete-wielding terrorist in an arsenal shirt with a bar stool while yelling "gently caress you, I'm Millwall"

him sitting in bed with a "Learn How To Run" magazine his friends had bought him

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