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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 17:28]
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Thread | Right-wingers, left-wingers
at 12:26 12 Jun 2024
The Peterborough Telegraph has just published a list of Posh's best-ever wingers.
(If you're interested, it's 1. George Boyd 2 Siriki Dembele 3 Tommy Robson 4 Ephron Mason-Clark 5 Peter McNamee 6 Marcus Maddison 7 David Farrell 8 Matthew Etherington 9 Bobby Barnes 10 Kwame Poku.)
So who would make it onto your Town list? I'm thinking of people who really did most of their best work in the opponents' half, and basically stayed near the touchline. (Clive Woods and Kevin O'Callaghan spring to mind.) Preferably rather spindly, and with their socks round the ankles, - not these modern über-athletes who could probably play just about anywhere on the pitch.
1. Mick Lambert |
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Thread | Released players
at 12:28 31 May 2024
So as I understand it, the league had to be informed a week or two ago who has been released (and who has been offered new contracts which they may or may not accept.) These released players (and I guess players who were disappointed with the offers made, if there are any) will have had their agents get busy trying to get signed somewhere else, and in some cases may already have been snapped up. Their new clubs are just waiting for Town to make their retained list public before they can announce their signings?
Is that where we are at the moment? What's the next deadline? [Post edited 31 May 12:41]
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Thread | Property
at 10:46 29 May 2024
if you suddenly got a contract like the one Mckenna is said to have been offered, where would you live? (If your job required you to be in Ipswich every day.)
(I'm reminded of Zlatan Ibrahimovich, who bought a house in Malmö that wasn't even for sale.) [Post edited 29 May 10:54]
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Thread | Suffolk pink
at 08:51 19 May 2024
Given that the football club is generally considered to represent the county as much as it represents the town, shouldn't the club consider an away shirt in this fetching colour?
Just give the kit manufacturers the required ingredients for the dye, - "all ... natural ingredients native to Suffolk, such as ox blood, sloe berries, elderberries and Blackthorn." (I thought sloe and blackthorn were the same thing, but I could well be wrong.)
https://www.fennwright.co.uk/about-us/news/the-history-behind-suffolk-pink-house |
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Thread | Manager-of-the-year
at 17:42 3 May 2024
Who would take 2nd place in the Championship manager-of-the-year competition? Coventry? Preston ? QPR? There are unusually few clubs where pre-season hopes/expectations have been surpassed in this league. |
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Thread | Kiki Musampa
at 10:08 21 Apr 2024
On my 'social media thread', something just came up where people were talking about nicknames.
One that was mentioned was that when Kiki Musampa played for Man City (about twenty years ago) he was known (it didn't say if it was by players or fans) as... Chris.
Have there been any Town players with witty nicknames?
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Thread | Beachiest team ever?
at 07:11 16 Apr 2024
Chesterfield, 4 points from the last 7 games, and have lost their last four. [Post edited 16 Apr 7:13]
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Thread | Khushi's bat
at 15:44 8 Apr 2024
At Trent Bridge yesterday (Notts v Essex) the umpires found that Feroze Khushi's bat was too big. He was required to change it, and Essex will probably be docked points.
It made me wonder if there's any rule about how big goalkeeping gloves can be. They seem to be getting bigger and bigger. |
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Thread | Hanging up his boots
at 12:22 26 Feb 2024
Hearing that Joe Hart has announced his retirement got me thinking, which Town players have ‘hung up their boots’ while playing for Town? Simon Milton springs instantly to mind, but apart from Phil Parkes (whose Ipswich ‘career’ was very much a postscript) I can’t think of any. I mean at the natural the end of a long career, not horribly unfortunate cases like Nydam. (Supple’s case is a very unusual one of course.) But there must be others, even if the lure of pulling on the blue & white stripes of Colchester has proven too strong for many. |
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Thread | Dull kit question
at 12:49 11 Feb 2024
When the ref and a goalkeeper show up with basically the same kit ( as happened yesterday and happens quite often) is one supposed to change, and if so who?
I was at a game in Germany (4th tier) yesterday, and the keeper did go up for a corner at the end, and was dressed exactly like the ref .
Two things I noticed, - one trivial, one less so.
The linesmen wore no studs. They were running up and down grass, no muddier than the pitch.
There was a bit of a ‘handbags’ mass brawl just before half-time. Lots of players holding each other at arms’ length and being over-enthusiastic vigilantes after a bit of argy-bargy. I wondered how long the ref would take to sort it out. Answer: not long. Ref simply called for the two captains, rugby-style, - and booked them both for not controlling their players. ( I guess teams in this league do not appoint their Morsy as captain!) [Post edited 11 Feb 12:50]
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Thread | Coventry -Leicester
at 12:33 13 Jan 2024
I don’t really know anyone who supports either of these clubs. But am I right in thinking this is historically their biggest game, like Town-Norwich, Forest -Derby, - even if they have plenty of other close neighbours? |
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Thread | Stoke statistic
at 11:18 6 Dec 2023
A Potteries newspaper has totted up how many strike partners Tyrese Campbell has had up front for Stoke since he made his debut in 2018. (He played very few games before the 2019-20 season in fact.)
Answer: 108 |
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Thread | Hypothetical questions.
at 21:15 1 Dec 2023
Answer both please.
1. Which Town player ( as they are right now ) could you most easily ‘hide’ in a top class game ( say Man City v Real Madrid ) without him sticking out like a sore thumb?
2. Which player would most upgrade any mid-table league 2 club still hoping for automatic promotion?
Is it the same player?
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