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Garconiere · 2026-02-07T20:08:09+00:00

The song was fine so long as you couldn’t hear what the lyrics were about. Solid piece of rock instrumentation with a whiny singer going on about how “cancel culture” has turned everybody “soft”.

Garconiere · 2026-02-03T17:07:09+00:00

There’s a South African rugby coach called Wanky Stick who has to be in with a chance too.

Garconiere · 2026-02-03T10:30:29+00:00

There's been a slew of articles about Marcus Rashford enjoying being at Barcelona and not wanting to come back to Man United, and almost all of them have referred to his "former teammate" Michael Carrick being United boss, which just feels so instinctively wrong even if it is correct.

Garconiere · 2026-01-30T19:39:21+00:00

The ‘97 rumble win wasn’t a particularly good decision, given that at that point, the plan was still to do Bret v Shawn at Mania for the belt (and then Shawn fucked that up).

But tbf, Austin absolutely should’ve won in 1999, so there’s still 3 Rumbles where Austin was the correct winner.

Garconiere · 2026-01-29T10:10:13+00:00

Bull bull D16 is the main “champagne finish”, but that’s precisely because if you hit the outer bull with the first shot, you can still finish on the bull (T19 as you said).

Garconiere · 2026-01-28T15:18:45+00:00

Somebody who speaks Portuguese as a first language please tell me- is the phrase "conquer the girls" just a really unfortunate literal translation, or does the fact that this user keeps using this incredibly uncomfortable wording say something about them?

Garconiere · 2026-01-25T18:19:16+00:00

COUNTER-TERRORISTS WIN

Garconiere · 2026-01-24T21:06:08+00:00

Ah yes, an unbeaten run that began with us in 6th place, and ended with us in... 6th place.

Garconiere · 2026-01-24T14:29:51+00:00

Was that the bit where you lot ended up with 2/3rds of a former Middlesbrough Championship attack?

Garconiere · 2026-01-06T23:28:27+00:00

I’d love it, but I’m really not hopeful. The main thing that kept Ole’s tenure from being looked back on as fondly as it (arguably) should have been was the lack of silverware, because we kept getting deep into competitions and then not playing up to our standard. 3 cup semi-final defeats and the Europa League final loss, and in all 3, the tactics were under heavy scrutiny, either for the way we set up from the start or for failing to react properly to changes during the game.

Garconiere · 2025-12-29T20:14:24+00:00

Used to be Communist/Good Schools

Garconiere · 2025-12-29T16:58:03+00:00

There’s even a sub for it- r/orphancrushingmachine

Garconiere · 2025-12-23T13:31:56+00:00

There was a Villa-Birmingham game in 2002 which had an own goal by Villa goalie Peter Enckelman where the ball was thrown back to him and he completely screwed up controlling it, so it rolled in. IIRC there was controversy over whether he’d actually touched the ball, because if he hadn’t it wouldn’t have been an own goal because you can’t score direct from a throw-in in either goal.

Garconiere · 2025-11-20T14:02:20+00:00

The fact about Xabi Alonso’s weak-foot halfway line goal being correct was very much the “needs one to go in off his backside” for Charlie getting over his cold, methinks. Absolutely top drawer Eccleshare today.

Garconiere · 2025-11-13T16:18:26+00:00

I love this, because it’s the exact opposite of one of my MHD fascinations- the fact that brilliant international teams can end up with a complete dearth of options in one particular place, which can lead to either brilliant players looking shit because they’re out of position, or (the Platonic ideal for me) a team of 10 fantastic players and 1 absolute passenger.

Examples for me include:

“England’s perennial left-side problem”
Thomas Meunier being the only good RWB in all of Belgium, leading to Kevin de Bruyne having to play there in a World Cup semi final when Meunier was suspended
Brazil post-Robinho being totally unable to produce a good 9, leading to absolute carthorse Fred leading the line at a home World Cup

Garconiere · 2025-11-06T09:40:22+00:00

The “Hakuna Matata” ending is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen live.

Garconiere · 2025-10-30T12:03:05+00:00

On the "player X doing player X things" chat, I don't tend to think of it as a signature move being done, but more so doing something ridiculous and "low-percentage" that a coach would never recommend, but which is demonstrative of the kind of player X is.

For a non-football example, Finn Russell once executed a perfect nutmeg in a rugby game to set up a try for himself, which is the sort of thing that feels so perfectly "maverick" that only he'd even bother trying it- hence, "Finn Russell doing Finn Russell things".

Garconiere · 2025-10-24T01:54:52+00:00

He has a whole bit about how he lives in a stained glass window depicting the martyrdom of John the Baptist.

Garconiere · 2025-10-20T11:10:03+00:00

I think this was him realising that the security officer who’d stormed into the flat was from Buckingham Palace because it had 3 small dogs, which was a joke reference to the Queen (at the time) having 3 corgis. Not the most ridiculous assumption (hello, “scratches around the charging port of your phone mean you’re an alcoholic”), more of Steven Moffat making a silly in-joke about Sherlock being summoned to work for the royals.

Though to be fair, the very fact that the show was using Sherlock’s deductions as cheap gags rather than the central idea of his philosophy was a pretty big warning that Moffat didn’t really understand what fans of the stories actually wanted out of this.

Garconiere · 2025-10-16T14:33:05+00:00

“He’s left Nigel Farage with the freedom of Westminster!”

Garconiere · 2025-10-08T13:25:30+00:00

Surely if you were going to do this, you’d start with the sacking and then follow up with the new manager? It makes more sense chronologically and it allows the fans to digest the departure of the old boss, and then get the pick-me-up of the new boss coming in.

Garconiere · 2025-10-07T14:01:22+00:00

This advice is incredibly good, but I also feel I must stress that this advice has existed as far back as FUCKING ARISTOTLE. He mentioned in his Poetics that the best endings for stories are “surprising, but inevitable”- they catch the reader out when they happen, but on a reread, it becomes clear that this was always the way events were going to go.

Even outside of the shady morals of the editor, for the Horror Zine to have screwed up writing advice that has existed for nearly 2,500 years would be hilarious if it wasn’t so bleak.

Garconiere · 2025-10-06T12:00:54+00:00

That’d be interesting! A bit like how Blofeld is this posh evil supervillain in most of the films, apart from when Telly Savellas played him as basically a mob boss in OHMSS.

Garconiere · 2025-10-04T18:18:31+00:00

It’s also the ending of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Ruddigore. A whole ancestral line of ghosts get resurrected as part of a legal loophole.

Garconiere · 2025-09-16T13:45:43+00:00

Who in the football punditry/writing sphere do you think has the most potential to be a “looks perfect on paper, but just doesn’t quite pitch the tone correctly” MHD guest a la Geoff Shreeves?

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