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Post by ripper on Jul 8, 2021 20:10:57 GMT
Ooohhh, well-drilled! Bold! This was your colour commentary from Bona Sports. cheers, H. Ah, a Julian and Sandy reference. What a great series Round the Horne was...goodness knows how they got away with some of it. |
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Post by ripper on Jul 8, 2021 20:17:44 GMT
dem bones/ripper please suggest best channel to watch final on, because I wasn't joking about how terrible the commentary was. It was shocking. Radio commentary is, of course, far more descriptive. I assume that it will be on BBC1, and I believe that you can press the red button and choose to listen to the Radio 5 commentary while watching the match, rather than suffering the normal one. I have not done that, but I have heard Radio 5 commentators mention pressing the red button and selecting the radio commentary on many occasions. John Murray usually does England commentaries with Chris Waddle as pundit, but not sure if that will be the commentary team for sunday. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 8, 2021 21:02:29 GMT
Ooohhh, well-drilled! Bold! This was your colour commentary from Bona Sports. cheers, H. Ah, a Julian and Sandy reference. What a great series Round the Horne was...goodness knows how they got away with some of it. helrunar has a funny reference to this in another thread, about a hairdressers, but I can't remember which thread. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 11, 2021 15:30:28 GMT
I wonder how nervous the men on here are feeling at this moment?
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 11, 2021 23:05:59 GMT
So England were beaten by the usual method: penalties.
But try not to be too downhearted, it's another step up isn't it?
That was Italy's 11 major final I think the commentator said. And England's second. So here is the difference: Italy expect to get to finals, England don't. So do Germany I assume (get to finals). England need to be thinking this is normal, and not something that comes around every 50 years. I'm having trouble explaining what I want to say. But perhaps one day England fans will just think, we win the next one, which will be soon, as we regularly reach them.
I know nothing about football, but I thought Italy were in the end the better team. England players seem young too, so hope for the future.
I'd comment on the game, but I'd just show myself up.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jul 12, 2021 9:42:14 GMT
What?? Was there football on? Wow, I mean, there was nothing in the papers or anything...
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Post by ripper on Jul 12, 2021 11:22:50 GMT
So England were beaten by the usual method: penalties. But try not to be too downhearted, it's another step up isn't it? That was Italy's 11 major final I think the commentator said. And England's second. So here is the difference: Italy expect to get to finals, England don't. So do Germany I assume (get to finals). England need to be thinking this is normal, and not something that comes around every 50 years. I'm having trouble explaining what I want to say. But perhaps one day England fans will just think, we win the next one, which will be soon, as we regularly reach them. I know nothing about football, but I thought Italy were in the end the better team. England players seem young too, so hope for the future. I'd comment on the game, but I'd just show myself up. I understand what you are saying, Princess, about getting the mindset to expect to reach finals, rather than falling short each time. It certainly was a step up in competition progression. Overall, Italy were the best team in Euro 2020, so on that basis deserve to win it. However, England are a young side, who will hopefully learn from this experience and get better. From the humiliation of losing to Iceland in the last Euros to losing in the lottery of a penalty shoot-out in the final of the next one against very experienced and skilled opponents is massive progress imo. Yes, I am disappointed that the team did not win, but am very encouraged by this campaign. I think Southgate has done a very good job, and has broken the hoodoo of not reaching finals. I am boiling mad after hearing of the disgusting racist abuse suffered by Rashford, Saka and Sancho on social media following the penalty shoot-out loss. It is time that this was stamped out for good. It's a tiny minority of morons who do this, but their actions bring shame on our country and on the overwhelming majority of England fans who back all players. Time for some tough action from social media companies in making it easy for these criminals--racist abuse is a crime, so they are criminals--to be quickly identified and prosecuted, then some prison time and large fines, and a criminal record with all that brings. It is time these people learned that their vile actions have consequences. Also just wanted to say how sad I was to hear of the passing of former England striker Paul Mariner, capped 35 times with 13 goals, and a key member of the great Ipswich team of the late 70s/early 80s. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 12, 2021 11:44:32 GMT
I am boiling mad after hearing of the disgusting racist abuse suffered by Rashford, Saka and Sancho on social media following the penalty shoot-out loss. It is time that this was stamped out for good. It's a tiny minority of morons who do this, but their actions bring shame on our country and on the overwhelming majority of England fans who back all players. Time for some tough action from social media companies in making it easy for these criminals--racist abuse is a crime, so they are criminals--to be quickly identified and prosecuted, then some prison time and large fines, and a criminal record with all that brings. It is time these people learned that their vile actions have consequences. Also just wanted to say how sad I was to hear of the passing of former England striker Paul Mariner, capped 35 times with 13 goals, and a key member of the great Ipswich team of the late 70s/early 80s. It's disgusting and shameful, and they are cowards who hide behind anonymous profiles on social media. If they did it openly nobody would stand for it and the communities where they lived wouldn't put up with it. I won't name the main company, but it's always a cesspit of abuse all the time, and some people who should know better make a living encouraging it on there. They target people they don't like and organise pile-ons from their thousands of followers. I don't go near it. it makes people shallow, as they don't think more than whatever length is allowed in a tweet. I think the awful papers are guilty too, they are poisonous in what they encourage, but they seem to be dying out, as news goes online. |
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Post by ripper on Sept 19, 2021 11:35:13 GMT
Very sad to hear that Jimmy Greaves has passed away aged 81. A fantastic player and prolific goalscorer for club and country. He scored 44 times for England in 57 appearances. He also had a well-loved partnership with Ian St. John, also sadly no longer with us, on the very popular Saint and Greavsie Show--and a Spitting Image puppet, which made frequent appearances on the satirical show. RIP.
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Post by dem on Sept 19, 2021 18:15:01 GMT
Very sad to hear that Jimmy Greaves has passed away aged 81. A fantastic player and prolific goalscorer for club and country. Very sad, though not unexpected with his longstanding health issues. Barnet fans love him because whenever he was interviewed it would always be "Jimmy, you had a great career with England, Chelsea, Spurs, AC milan, West Ham ..." and he'd always add "and Barnet," though he also briefly played for a few non-league teams in his later career including Chelmsford City. He also turned out for Wealdstone alongside Bruce Forsyth (until he was sent off) versus the Wolves first team in an atypically competitive testimonial with some brutal tackling by both sides. Wealdstone V Wolves. Another sad loss, Eddie Presland, Wealdstone's manager that night, developed Alzheimer's and died a few weeks ago at around the same time we said goodbye to Gerd Muller, Germany's greatest goal machine. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 19, 2021 21:56:36 GMT
Very sad to hear that Jimmy Greaves has passed away aged 81. A fantastic player and prolific goalscorer for club and country. Very sad, though not unexpected with his longstanding health issues. Barnet fans love him because whenever he was interviewed it would always be "Jimmy, you had a great career with England, Chelsea, Spurs, AC milan, West Ham ..." and he'd always add "and Barnet," though he also briefly played for a few non-league teams in his later career including Chelmsford City. He also turned out for Wealdstone alongside Bruce Forsyth (until he was sent off) versus the Wolves first team in an atypically competitive testimonial with some brutal tackling by both sides. Wealdstone V Wolves. Another sad loss, Eddie Presland, Wealdstone's manager that night, developed Alzheimer's and died a few weeks ago at around the same time we said goodbye to Gerd Muller, Germany's greatest goal machine. It is sad news. I know nothing about him, but apparently he was one of the greatest goal scorers of all time. When he turned out for Wealdstone it seems that he had the disadvantage of having to play with two heads. I've no idea who grafted the second on, but I hope the extra head wasn't a racist like out of the film. It might belong to the Captain out of Dad's Army. |
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Post by dem on Sept 20, 2021 8:43:42 GMT
Perhaps now whoever owns the rights will see fit to reissue the Jackie Groves novels in the Omnibus edition they deserve.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 20, 2021 9:34:48 GMT
I'm sure that when the great Jimmy Greaves was playing the celebrity teams would be made up of people that most of the population would have recognised. Although the DJ one would maybe have been a lot of strange faces to some.
If Greavsie was playing today he would have to turn out with some awful person from Love Island, or that Essex show. Or even worse, a YouTube "star".
Actually they are all equally awful.
Sometimes people complain that once great star players are playing for teams that are a comedown from their glory days, but why not play for the love of the game at the end of your career? So what if your not going to win anything at the club?
That's what Greavsie seems to have done at Chelmsford City, and Ronaldo is doing at Man Utd.
Jimmy Greaves brought a lot of happiness into people's lives, he was representing a community of tens of thousands, and with England millions, on the pitch, as people lived football through him, and it is among the best legacies of all to have don't you think.
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Post by ripper on Sept 20, 2021 10:19:18 GMT
When Greaves was bought by Tottenham they paid Ā£99,999 for him. Manager Bill Nicholson refused to pay the extra pound as he didn't want Greaves to have the baggage of becoming Britain's first Ā£100,000 player. Also, back then, referees were far more lenient of rough play, so Greaves had to cope with a lot of tackles that wouldn't be tolerated today, yet he still managed to score an incredible number of goals.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 20, 2021 13:47:33 GMT
Perhaps now whoever owns the rights will see fit to reissue the Jackie Groves novels in the Omnibus edition they deserve. I find the cover sordid, sleazy, squalid and generally revolting, like those Confessions movies. How men are titillated by it I don't know. |
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