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23 minutes ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:

Rio Ferdinand agreed to do an AMA on r/soccer. Its going about as well as you would expect.

 

https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1caloi6/hi_reddit_im_rio_ferdinand_former_england_and/

If there was ever a Done In One moment, that was it.

51 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

That's very cool, but yeah I'd argue that's not really geared towards your average consumer/shirt wearer.

This article was an interesting read about higher end shirts and fashion brands etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/apr/20/360-pounds-replica-football-shirt-luxury-sportswear

The one danger here is that clubs will see themselves being short-changed from what they're charging *right now* and jack up their prices in response. This is where the "not for your audience" argument falls on its arse as "the audience" is never a constant and the people who are paying what they can to follow their passion will lose out to people who pay 4x that just to look good in photos and get contracts to make that money back.

Yet another genre shift for the People's Game away from the people.

TLDR the Cards are fucking mid. Which is an immediate improvement on last year.

In a bit more depth we've found a catcher who can hit almost as well as Yadi did, but he's the backup behind Contreras. Outside that our pitchers are giving up too many runs and we're still cooking LOBster for any team wanting to make their defense look good.

18 hours ago, Briefcase said:

I read on Twitter (I know I know) the other day from Everton fans saying that if the title goes to the last day of the season and they are safe or relegated they want to lose 15-0 to Arsenal (who they play last game) to stick their fingers up to Liverpool and also the PremIer League (guessing because of the docked points).

Football is a funny old game.

*Monkey paw curling*

Everton lose 15-0 to Arsenal and they finish 18th, and the dockside stadium is completed early for their opening game against the League One playoff winners Lincoln City.

4 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

Yeah that stood out to me too. Him chatting about "houses" made him sound a bit stuck in the past. AEW is essentially a TV company, not an old school wrestling promotion. Their still a young company and their entire business plan is built towards getting a big pay day in the next round of media rights as that's where the money is. They've been incredibly open about this. 

And he left them to join a company that made its all-time most profitable year when not a single soul bought a ticket to attend.

Today I learned that the National Lottery website has raised the minimum withdrawal to £10 from its online accounts, when the majority of prizes from the scratchcard and draws are well under that.

Fuck that noise, going back to the shops. At least I can win some mars bars without having to stack up for 8 packs. Dick move, that.

Congrats on the career, AD99 and thanks for the Superbowl. 😭

Aww sheeeit, here we go again

8 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Event Horizon is the Anderson Miracle. But I was surprised how decent Monster Hunter was!

Brought to you by Paul WS Anderson.

Milla Jovovich is both commercial and conventional, I grant you, but she's had a howler here.

3 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said:

Great header on Sunday, though wasnt it?

He was way ahead of all of us on that curve.

EDIT: Mike Van Dijk would've been a killer comeback name, come to think of it.

I'm busy for a variety of IRL reasons, so I need to drop out of this one. Sorry I couldn't keep up and my football-fu is way off.

Cheers for your hard work as ever Foggy.

On 2/28/2023 at 9:41 AM, BomberPat said:

It's been that way for a long time. My ex worked in Jersey's HMV, and they shut down not long before things started moving that way. The profit margins are so low on most of what they "traditionally" sell, that combined with declining sales in things like CDs and DVDs anyway, they were always trying to push into other areas to make money, and the worse things get, the more and more of the shop gets taken over by that stuff, until it's effectively a Funko Pop Emporium with a few records.

On one hand it's a shame, because smalltown teenage life pretty much revolved around bouncing between HMV and the skate shop, so there's a lot of nostalgia attached to it, but on the other hand, fuck 'em. There's a poetic justice to the likes of HMV struggling to stay relevant or to stay afloat while the kind of small record shops they ran out of business thrive.

If only that applied to film and TV as well. My ambivalence is that HMV is pretty much the only place to get first run TV & film in media without going though the Trotters Independent Traders that is Amazon 2024.

I think he'll be out of the game a year tops, and certainly not coming back to Liverpool's prinicpal competitor no matter how daft the money is.

1 minute ago, hallicks said:

Like Wenger and Fergie, I just thought he’d be there forever. At least he was able to stop City winning it once.

We're halfway into the season and 'twice' isn't off the cards.

FA Challenge Cup Fourth Round proper

Everton 2-1 Luton Town
Sheffield United 1-3 Brighton & Hove Albion
Fulham 0-3 Newcastle United (19:00)
West Bromwich Albion 2-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers (Sunday 11:45)
Newport County 1-5 Manchester United (Sunday 16:30)

National League
Aldershot Town 1-1 Rochdale
Dagenham & Redbridge 2-0 Kidderminster Harriers
Gateshead 2-1 Barnet w/TildeGuy~!

La Liga
Las Palmas 0-3 Real Madrid (15:15)

Atlético Madrid 3-1 Valencia (Sunday 20:00)

QB: Jared Goff (Detroit Lions)

RB: Christian McCaffrey (San Francisco 49ers)

WR: Amon-Ra St.Brown (Detroit Lions)

TE: Travis Kelce (Kansas City Chiefs)

K: Justin Tucker (Baltimore Ravens)

DST: San Francisco 49ers 

MOST YARDS: San Francisco 49ers

MOST POINTS: Baltimore Ravens

TOTAL NET YARDS: 1592 Yards

AFC1: Kansas City Chiefs @ Baltimore Ravens

NFC1: Detroit Lions @ San Francisco 49ers:

3 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Because of what happened with Ashley Massaro. I'm never watching again.

Mostly the reason I quit, and I can't say I've missed a great deal since in the near 5 years without it. Even with the semantic argument of 'Netflix already gave them ten figures and I have no interest of helping them recoup that".

13 hours ago, Tamura said:

£6,354 for a table and chairs?! I suppose I should be grateful it's on sale for the "bargain" price of £2,495 instead. 

Sounds akin to a shop called 'BoConcept' that ran scandinavian-style furniture in the middle of decaying Bristol. At scandinavian prices. After two failed shops they finally took the hint and found people with actual money up the road.

Week 24 fixtures 

Championship

Norwich City 1-2 West Bromwich Albion
Stoke City 1-3 Birmingham City

Scottish Cup Round 4
Airdrieonians 2-3 St Johnstone
Bonnyrigg Rose 0-3 Falkirk
Forfar Athletic 1-3 Hibernian
Dumbarton 0-3 Rangers (17:30)

German Bundesliga
Cologne w/seph 2-2 Borussia Dortmund (14:30) 

French Cup Round 10
Girondins de Bordeaux 1-2 Nice (16:30)
Rouen 1-2 Toulouse (Sunday 16:30)
Sochaux 2-0 Reims

Probably been upped here before, but it's been earworming me all day.

18 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

He looks like a Johnny Knoxville/Spike Jonze character from Jackass.

Barry Humphries on Wish.

Meanwhile...

Week 23 fixtures 

Championship

Cardiff City 0-2 Leeds United
Southampton 3-1 Sheffield Wednesday
West Bromwich Albion 2-1 Blackburn Rovers
Ipswich Town 2-1 Sunderland (17:30)
Queen's Park Rangers 0-1 Watford (Sunday 12:00)

FA Trophy Fourth Round
Welling United 0-2 Chesterfield

FA Women's Cup Fourth Round
Derby County 1-2 Leicester City (Sunday)

Segunda División
Rácing Ferrol w/Fog Dude 1-2 Espanyol (20:00) 

Serie A
Fiorentina 2-1 Udinese (Sunday 17:00)
AC Milan 1-2 Roma (Sunday 19:45)