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Thread | 441 miles
at 23:03 29 Apr 2025
That’s the distance from Truro to Gateshead by road. If Gateshead don’t go up ( still in play-offs at the moment but with a crunch game against Southend on Saturday) , this National League fixture next season must smash all records for distance traveled for a league game in England. I must admit, I don’t know how long the 5th division has been national, but I wonder if any other country has five national leagues. |
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Thread | Sleeves
at 13:08 14 Mar 2025
Just seen the Malmö shirts for the upcoming season, and notice they have a long-sleeved one. https://www.mffshopen.se/matchklader
I always think of Muhren in long sleeves, - but when was the last season anyone wore a long-sleeved shirt in action for Town (goalkeeper apart?). (I guess the reason nobody wears them now is only that they're easier to tug than the 'arm-warmers' they favour?) |
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Thread | Irish correspondents...
at 11:32 25 Feb 2025
2 questions
On my facebook feed, I've been getting what may be 'propaganda' suggesting that there is greatly increased interest in the League of Ireland. True? I know that a Dublin derby was recently played in front of a capacity crowd at the national stadium, but was that just a bit of window-dressing? If there is increased interest, any reasons why? (I wonder if it's partly due to people losing interest in the PL and preferring 'real' football to the TV version. I think crowds in the lower leagues and particularly the National League(s) maybe support this.)
Also that there is some talk of an all-Ireland top league? Is that realistic? (Haven't UEFA always shut down any talk of the Dutch and Belgian leagues combining?) [Post edited 25 Feb 11:36]
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Thread | Professional footballers
at 20:39 8 Feb 2025
I think it would be interesting to hear from people who have friends who have been or are professional football players (down to the National League level), what’s their take on what players understand about their job that supporters generally don’t understand ? I mean, as supporters we understand that the best player in training might not be the best in front of a crowd, but what else?
No names, no clubs, - maybe just the rough level they played at. )
(I say this after meeting someone who played ‘lower leagues’ and lived in Cheshire among elite players, and socially he always found the ‘big’ players as always very very respectful to him as a fellow pro, despite huge salary differences. A few years ago now.) [Post edited 8 Feb 20:55]
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Thread | KVY
at 21:01 3 Feb 2025
Very very happy Colchester fans this evening |
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Thread | The centre circle
at 13:11 26 Jan 2025
Since the kick-off rule changed a few seasons back, does the centre circle have any use, apart from the obvious one of allowing players (and spectators) to get their bearings? By which I mean, does it feature in any of the game's rules? |
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Thread | Cliftonville
at 15:15 1 Jan 2025
One of their players, Michael Newberry, has died on his 27th birthday. Awful for Jim Magilton, among many others.
edit (Apologies, this may well be old news.) [Post edited 1 Jan 15:16]
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Thread | Alan Judge
at 11:36 29 Dec 2024
I'd missed the fact that he re-signed for Woking in November, and has played games since then.
That was a very nasty injury he got that finished his time at Colchester, on an icy pitch at Sutton, and one hell of a long stretch working his way back to fitness. I hope he's enjoying his festive football. |
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Thread | Cyril Lea
at 13:05 17 Dec 2024
When Cyril Lea left Town, was he on good terms with Bobby Robson or had they had some sort of falling out?
(Is my memory playing tricks, or did the crowd used to sing Tra-la la-la Cyril Lea'? ) |
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Thread | Braintree sack Harrop
at 14:27 28 Nov 2024
That looks harsh (to this ousider anyway), as he did well to get them promoted to the NL and they surely can't have expected to 'rip up' that league. I wonder if they have anyone in mind. (Cole Skuse perhaps?) |
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Thread | Nicotine patches
at 11:00 31 Oct 2024
Goodness, they give you the longest, clearest dreams. Every night is an adventure. Last night I was at Alan Hunter's testimonial with my nephew, who wasn't even born for another twenty years or so. |
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Thread | Ipswich Villa team
at 16:11 27 Sep 2024
A half-and-half shirt on the front of this weekend's stylish program.
Looking at this list of players to play for both Town and Villa, starting at the top you immediately get a sublime strike duo.
https://www.prideofanglia.com/page.php?page=playerDisplayConnections&selecte
But it seems to me that concocting a well-balanced XI is much more difficult than it was for West Brom last season, as the Villa list seems to have most of its riches in the forward positions.
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Thread | "He flicked to kick and I didn't know."
at 10:03 17 Sep 2024
Who here has several Subbuteo teams in Town colours? And if you could keep just one team, which would it be?
(For what it's worth, I have none. I have a strange array, including Brazil on claret bases, which to this day makes me half-expect some claret in the Brazil strip.) |
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Thread | Say cheese
at 12:05 20 Aug 2024
https://www.itfc.co.uk/teams
This season's player photos starting to appear on the official site. Somewhat more elegant than last year's, where profiles looked like they'd been cut out with those scissors you get in kindergartens. As I write, half the squad has a new photo, half old. Perhaps it's updating bit by bit. [Post edited 20 Aug 2024 12:05]
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Thread | Brazilian names
at 17:27 5 Jul 2024
(Unsure whether to put this in 'football' or 'general', but I go 'general' in the hope there's someone who knows a bit about Brazil.)
Why do Brazilian players so often have their first names on the back of their shirts? (Allison at Liverpool. for example?) I do realise that it's not only Brazilians who do this, but there seem to be disproportionately many.
Is it just that one player did it and other Brazilians followed, or is it that in Brazilian football it 'always' has been like this, or is it something 'deeper' in Brazilian culture that the surname has a lesser status? ( Maybe the mother's and the father's surname are considered equal? )
I can see why Cruyff Junior might want not to wear his father's name. But Zlatan Ibrahimovic, in a rare moment of reflection said how much he regretted having 'Zlatan' on his shirt for a while, when he realized how much it hurt his father that he was not wearing the family name. [Post edited 5 Jul 2024 17:28]
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