I know. Don’t support Ipswich. Just look for their results. Due to when I got picked for primary school team saw a football card and Ipswich had the same kit. The had never been in top flight then and didn’t have a clue who they were or even where Ipswich was. Though Alf Ramsey altered that not too long after. Always admired Bobby Robson’s Ipswich and their style of play. Still look for their results and Hearts because I liked their badge on one of those cards you got with bubble gum. As good a reason as any, I suppose,
Except I am not a Norwich fan. Once said Norwich were an example of how to run a club our size. Still are, and done with owners worth peanuts. Their average this season is only 250 short of capacity, something we could not achieve even if we wanted as we can’t adjust for different away fans and fill seats they don’t take. Of course first time I mentioned it the usual thin skinned types who think saying something comparing something favourably to Hull is anti Hull and an act of treason.(Asked someone for an example of my anti Hull posts which should be easy if there are so many but over a week later haven’t seen one. I think some people need to look up the maningofbanti). Had fun winding them up, a thing made easier by info from a Norwich season ticket holder I know and I bump into now and again. Urika is among people I have gone to City with for over 50 years and who will tell you the only time they have heard me mention Norwich is when we have played them.
I used to work in the prison service, one day we had a Cons v Screws game of football in the sports hall. Turns out there was a 3rd/4th tier professional footballer on the cons side who had been banged up for (allegedly) dealing drugs. He lined up to take a shot, I charged in as an attempt to block said shot. The ball hit me in the thigh which stung a fair bit but I gave it a rub, limped for a bit but carried on. That night, my thigh was purple, orange, yellow, grey, brown and black. It took nearly two weeks to turn back to normal. Turns out when a professional footballer strikes a ball, they REALLY strike the ****ing thing! That's why they turn their heads and don't "face" the shot.
Yeah, but there's a few lads walking around with an imprint of the lace still visible on their baldy nogging.
It’s the pretend to be hurt at nearly all levels of the professional game that I can’t get my head around. Even when they’re not trying to get an opposition player booked or sent off, there will be the anguished look on the face, the tight grasping of the general area of contact (sometimes not even the correct place). Get up, and then play normally immediately. It’s been so normalised that there is zero embarrassment for a strapping 25 year old athlete to pretend he’s in immense pain in front of about a billion people watching the World Cup around the world on tv. Madness.
Tried it a 'couple' of times which obviously asks questions about my sanity The point of them...**** only knows cos I don't!!
Reminds me of the story from the world cup in Germany. Some arsehole filled a few balls with concrete, then applied the skin so it just resembled a ball. A few Herbert's tried to kick them and in doing so sustained a nasty injury, including a broken foot. Not funny if that was you.
Mason mounts was embarassing last night i was always brought up to get up Never show them you’re hurt
