| The Loft For Words Match Report on 15:35 - May 3 with 2051 views | IndependentlyBlue |
“A strategy as thick as a whale omelette”, had me chortling in my Guinness. Wonderful stuff. Hope they have a good season next year, proper club |  |
| Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt |
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 15:39 - May 3 with 2016 views | Illinoisblue |
| The Loft For Words Match Report on 15:35 - May 3 by IndependentlyBlue |
“A strategy as thick as a whale omelette”, had me chortling in my Guinness. Wonderful stuff. Hope they have a good season next year, proper club |
This bit made me laugh:
“The game, though, was long since over at that point and, I’ll hold my hands up and be perfectly honest here, I think I was already back at Manningtree by then. You can see the temptation to randomly turn over a tea room on days like this.” |  |
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 15:48 - May 3 with 1946 views | N17Blue |
Thing is, Clive is such a talented writer, so good at the furious sarcasm, the genuinely startling metaphor, that when he says something like this about Town:
“ This is the level, this is where we have to get to, this is the sort of football any Championship fan would want their team to play. If I wasn’t so mortified by our contribution to it I’d have stood and applauded. They’re a magnificent team in this division, with a generational manager, and they’re deservedly going up automatically.”
I mean, I’m blushing and I just watch us from the stands. |  | | |
| The Loft For Words Match Report on 15:58 - May 3 with 1877 views | Zx1988 |
"Nigel Farage's favourite lunch venue." 🤣 | |
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 16:05 - May 3 with 1813 views | Dennyx4 |
Great read.
“If someone kicks you in the boll*cks 100 times in the first ten minutes, but then slows down, is that good news or bad news” |  | | |
| The Loft For Words Match Report on 16:10 - May 3 with 1770 views | BlueBoots |
"We didn’t have to make it this easy for them, but they were electric and borderline unplayable in the first ten minutes. If they hadn’t very sportingly called the dogs off thereafter this game would have come with a death toll rather than a final score."
I think the whole article might end up being re-posted here in quotes  |  |
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 16:11 - May 3 with 1758 views | Zx1988 |
"If Watford aren't available, we're their non-union Mexican equivalent."
You'll always win me over with Simpsons quotes! | |
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 16:11 - May 3 with 1755 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
"We didn’t have to make it this easy for them, but they were electric and borderline unplayable in the first ten minutes. If they hadn’t very sportingly called the dogs off thereafter this game would have come with a death toll rather than a final score."
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 16:15 - May 3 with 1713 views | Churchman |
It’s beautifully written.
‘We didn’t have to make it this easy for them, but they were electric and borderline unplayable in the first ten minutes. If they hadn’t very sportingly called the dogs off thereafter this game would have come with a death toll rather than a final score’.
Edit: apols, duplicate quote! It’s a great read though. [Post edited 3 May 16:18]
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 16:28 - May 3 with 1613 views | patrickswell |
Clive Whittingham is a brilliant writer, but I always find reading Loft for Words to be a bit of sobering experience. They got a lot wrong during their Premier League campaigns, which was compounded by further bad decisions after they were relegated. For many years, they have essentially been a West London equivalent of a Marcus Evans run-club, and Clive’s match reports on our games with QPR in 2018/19 are among the most haunting and withering pieces written by an outsider about the state we were in, that I ever remember seeing about us. [Post edited 3 May 16:29]
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 17:01 - May 3 with 1417 views | lordsambuca |
Yeah, great share.
I often check in to this site just to read his match reports, weven though I have no attachment to QPR, although their recent experiences are sobering.
He is a brilliant and witty writer, but almost always fair and balanced. His critiques of referees are usually a highlight, brutal but accurate. | | | |
| The Loft For Words Match Report on 17:27 - May 3 with 1273 views | ITFC_History |
Calling George Hirst 'Sid' from Toy Story when we played them at Loftus Road still makes me giggle. [Post edited 3 May 23:03]
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 17:32 - May 3 with 1243 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Excellent stuff. Have to love his reports.
"This is the level, this is where we have to get to, this is the sort of football any Championship fan would want their team to play." should make the few of our fans who have found this season boring take note.
"Clarke-Salter, who could offer a tape of this game in evidence for a blue parking badge, gave the ball away." made me chuckle. |  |
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 17:33 - May 3 with 1228 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| The Loft For Words Match Report on 15:58 - May 3 by Zx1988 |
"Nigel Farage's favourite lunch venue." 🤣 |
It's OK everyone has forgotten that and moved on from it. | |
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 17:36 - May 3 with 1214 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| The Loft For Words Match Report on 16:28 - May 3 by patrickswell |
Clive Whittingham is a brilliant writer, but I always find reading Loft for Words to be a bit of sobering experience. They got a lot wrong during their Premier League campaigns, which was compounded by further bad decisions after they were relegated. For many years, they have essentially been a West London equivalent of a Marcus Evans run-club, and Clive’s match reports on our games with QPR in 2018/19 are among the most haunting and withering pieces written by an outsider about the state we were in, that I ever remember seeing about us. [Post edited 3 May 16:29]
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I very much felt like I was reading about a club in our ME years too. | |
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 17:42 - May 3 with 1164 views | Cafe_Newman |
| The Loft For Words Match Report on 17:32 - May 3 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Excellent stuff. Have to love his reports.
"This is the level, this is where we have to get to, this is the sort of football any Championship fan would want their team to play." should make the few of our fans who have found this season boring take note.
"Clarke-Salter, who could offer a tape of this game in evidence for a blue parking badge, gave the ball away." made me chuckle. |
" should make the few of our fans who have found this season boring take note."
Yep. There should be a thread of quotes like these (from people who know a bit about football) that dimwits posting about KMcK's limited footballing awareness can be directed to. |  |
| FREE PALASTINE FROM ZIONIST BOMBS. FREE LEBANON FROM ZIONIST BOMBS. FREE IRAN FROM ZIONIST BOMBS. |
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| Brilliant line… and reminds us all that our club leadership f@cked up on 17:47 - May 3 with 1109 views | unstableblue |
| The Loft For Words Match Report on 15:58 - May 3 by Zx1988 |
"Nigel Farage's favourite lunch venue." 🤣 |
If Farage and Reform get into Government this country would be destroyed, any perceived support from our brand is a disgrace.
And even if you don’t agree with that. The whole saga was managed appallingly. |  |
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 17:58 - May 3 with 1050 views | WeWereZombies |
'Justin Obikwu I’m starting to think of more as an idea than a person, more of a rumour than a tangible thing, a fictitious character rather than a real live boy. They’ve told you they’ve signed a striker, that they’ve spent money, that they’ve shown ambition, but have they? If a bone bruises in the woods and there’s no-one around to hear it, does it make a bruise? Justin Obikwu is whatever you want him to be – a first bluebell of spring, a church chime on a summer breeze, a static shock from a cheap carpet.' |  |
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| The Loft For Words Match Report on 18:25 - May 3 with 946 views | farkenhell |
"Rangers continued to allow their full backs to get totally exposed on both sides of the field all afternoon without corrective action. I’m starting to wonder if that laptop those three spend all game staring at down there is actually showing the snooker." | | | |
| The Loft For Words Match Report on 18:29 - May 3 with 912 views | Swansea_Blue |
Phil is super professional in his reports, but I do like a good Loft for Words report too. His turn of phrases (turns of phrase?) are very entertaining. |  |
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