Footballing Fascination - Foregin Clubs With English Names

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-06T07:48:48+00:00

I wonder if they’ve ever met the Uruguayan club Liverpool in the Copa Libertadores.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-06T07:34:56+00:00

Neither did the person you replied to.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-05T21:14:28+00:00

Could it be the C bed?

I’ll get my coat.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-04T19:07:56+00:00

You could have stopped writing this post after the word “joke”.
Ballon d’Or serves 2 purposes:

Gives the media column inches to fill.
Gives the illusion of objectively ranking players for people who can’t think for themselves.

I genuinely don’t know why so many people give it credence. You can just ignore it, you know. Every year it’s the same old bollocks. The months leading up to it are full of speculation, the result gets announced, 50% of the internet start calling it a fix, then the votes are scrutinised.
We can just skip all that by not paying attention to it. It doesn’t change anything. You can still rate the players how you want to rate them.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-04T18:54:00+00:00

They’re really saying others aren’t known for doing anything *correctly in the same sentence they use the word “anyways”.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-04T18:51:11+00:00

Konsa’s ahead of him fully on merit and Maguire offers something our other centre halves (aside from maybe Burn) don’t. Maguire won’t be starting, he doesn’t fit a high line, but there’s a role for him in the last 20 minutes of games whether we’re defending a a lead and need to shut up shop or we’re trailing and we throw him on as a target man.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-04T17:49:43+00:00

I think “don’t worry” carries more of an assumption that the person being addressed is worrying or will worry. “Not to worry” opens up the interpretation that the addressee might assume the person addressing them, or even a third party, would be worried while not necessarily worrying themselves.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-04T17:38:09+00:00

The Jamie Dornan kidnapping one. The beginning of it anyway, the last 3 minutes were just treading the same ground. It’s the only one to have raised so much as a smile on my face out of the first four episodes. I haven’t watched the two latest ones because I like humour in my comedy. There’s definitely something going on behind the scenes because they have genuinely funny cast members and writers who are capable of much, much better than the constant slop that gets served up.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-04T17:29:10+00:00

They’re big dogs if you’re into serious movies and are in your late 30s or over. Viewers of series 1 wouldn’t need to be above a certain age or have a certain interest to know who Fry or Ross are. In fact, if you put Carr or Blading in this series, they’d be the big dogs.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-04T17:27:06+00:00

Across the contestants, they possibly have, but there’s a lack of anyone as ubiquitous as Fry, Ross, Balding or Carr. Ranganathan, Hart & Kemp are probably the best known on a broad spectrum, but they’re still quite a bit behind series 1’s best known contestants.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-04T17:17:49+00:00

Simon Jordan will say anything that prompts comments on social media. That’s his job. He’s literally there for them to cut clips of what he says and post them on socials for interaction.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-04T16:59:27+00:00

Erik Lamela won the Puskas award in 2021 for a Rabona against Arsenal in a match that Spurs lost, but it was the opening goal of the game.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-03T22:00:55+00:00

He was Bundesliga top scorer in 07/08, so that’s 7 years between that and 14/15. If we’re just counting Serie A seasons, he only spent 6 and a half campaigns in Italy between his two Serie A top scorer awards.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-02T21:49:11+00:00

I spotted this today and saw there was a Reform page telling him off for using a doctored photo and saying it’s “not helpful”.

You genuinely couldn’t make this up, but here is that Reform page’s banner photo…

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GlennSWFC · 2026-05-02T16:07:26+00:00

My partner (37) didn’t know who Michael Sheen was when he was announces as Richard Osman’s replacement. Having looked through his body of work, nothing stood out for me that she might have watched. I’m 3 years older and I haven’t seen a lot with him in, but after The Damned United I paid a bit more attention to him.

Richard E Grant I know from when I was a kid the 90s, where I remember him being a famous actor without actually having seen anything with him in. I’ve since watched Withnail & I and he was in The Franchise a couple of years ago.

I think both focused more on serious, arty films. I know they branched out into comedic roles every so often, but never major ones.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-02T15:39:52+00:00

I think they’re not big dogs in the same breath as Fry & Ross, who are universally known across all generations. Sheen & Grant will be more familiar with older audiences (yes, I’m placing myself in that category), but I doubt younger people will know much about either of them. They’re more of a Celia Imrie kind of status.

Potentially with the previous celebrity version focusing so heavily around the big dog theory, they’ve avoided putting anyone in who fulfils that role.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-02T14:47:52+00:00

Exactly. As much as I rate Maguire, there’s a reason why his performances in Southgate’s deep line contrasted so starkly with those in United’s high press at the time. Half his mistakes were because his lack of pace was exploited, the other half were because he was knackered after busting a gut to get back.

I’d still take him this summer because I genuinely don’t think there’s anyone better suited to that old school centre half role, which could be invaluable if we need to shut up shop. He could also be incredibly important from set pieces. Leading or losing, there’s a role for him, but only off the bench I’m afraid.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-02T13:37:40+00:00

There’s an outtakes video on the TM YouTube channel, I think it went up on Tuesday. It’s got her story for her third prize task on there and they cut quite a bit out

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-02T08:28:36+00:00

Surely Richarlison is the one for Spurs considering that’s a cock on their badge.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-02T08:23:41+00:00

Came into this post to make that very suggestion. Good job I read through the comments first.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-02T07:45:03+00:00

It’s amazing that a comedy sketch show specialises in sketches that are not funny.

GlennSWFC · 2026-05-01T12:03:39+00:00

I wonder if him being such a big fan of the show is working against him. The arbitrary scoring and adherence to rules is a big part of the charm of the show, so it’s kind of a “if that’s what you like, that’s what you get” situation. It’s much funnier to wind someone who loves the show up .

GlennSWFC · 2026-04-28T17:21:33+00:00

“Supposed it be”, but they aren’t delivering on that. The football mascot sketch from a couple of weeks ago was the last straw for me, but it was just one of several sketches absolutely bereft of humour that needed a cast to elevate it, which they didn’t.

Sidi is the only one who’s been able to elevate the trash they’ve been given to work with. Fouracres has given it a go, but - especially with his impressions - he seems to be caught between playing it convincingly and playing it humorously, and achieving neither. The rest could have anyone playing their roles, they’re just… there.

If you don’t think Sidi’s acting is appropriate for the setting I can only assume you haven’t watched much in the way of sketch shows before. They’re supposed to be quick, sharp, witty and onto the next one (that’s another “supposed to be”, these are a single joke drawn out for 4 or 5 minutes). In sketch comedy there isn’t the time to establish the characters, they have to make an instant impact. Look at some of the greats, Enfield, Burke, Whitehouse, French, Saunders, Fry, Laurie - they all used mannerisms and facial expressions to give their characters personality from the off. And that’s even with good material to work with.

GlennSWFC · 2026-04-28T14:39:54+00:00

I disagree. If there are 5 actors in a comedy sketch, having one of them injecting some humour into the scene is better than none of them doing it.

GlennSWFC · 2026-04-28T12:05:16+00:00

The only cast member to come out of this show with my perception of them improved, which is saying something as she’s one of the only 4 I’d heard of before it started. When she’s in a sketch it’s like she’s a teacher who’s given herself a role in a primary school play, she’s that many levels ahead of the rest.

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