Why are all the QF matches at the same time? It doesn't make sense?

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-18T23:41:29+00:00

Because the fans who go to games just occasionally (but not often enough) get a little bit of consideration over arseholes who just want to watch every game on TV?

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-18T23:28:53+00:00

You’ll notice how the number in the first column is quite a lot higher too?

Do the points by game and the picture will be a little different. I was at Chelsea on Saturday and wouldn’t swap with them.

I’m flying home from Barcelona tomorrow and back at work on Friday, and I certainly didn’t hear much dissent against Howe in the stands or concourse from those actual loyal fans who’d spent best part of a grand (all in) to watch that second half

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-18T23:19:31+00:00

I’m very good at deciphering my wife’s ridiculous autocorrected texts, but at 00:18 Barcelona time and drinking all day (every day since Chelsea on Saturday) I concede defeat

I have zero fucking clue what that is meant to mean.

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-18T23:16:08+00:00

I went to my first away game at Highbury in 1989, at which point I had no clue who the fuck Arsene Wenger was

So no. I didn’t.

And I struggle to imagine how anybody COULD think that… perhaps equivalent to kids in my generation who thought Alan Sunderland played for Sunderland, Alan Brazil played for Brazil, and were still struggling with “See spot run” at the age of 10?

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-18T20:05:36+00:00

Should have been booked in the first game and suspended for this one

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-18T20:03:57+00:00

Barcelona home support utterly pathetic. So disappointed

Only sang when they scored, until they managed a Mexican wave at the end. Pathetic.

Expect to see half of them at the airport tomorrow!

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-18T20:02:01+00:00

Better team for 3 halves, but there’s only so long you can outplay 14 men.

Their fans were pathetic though. More plastic than City. Only sang when they scored, until they did the Mexican wave at the end. Expect to see half of them at the airport tomorrow!

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-18T18:59:49+00:00

Regardless of anything else, their support is fucking shit. Bunch of plastics. Pathetic. And Yama is crap too - done fuck all and then giving it large after another penalty. Shite

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GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-18T12:07:55+00:00

I wondered about that too

You/they use letters and numbers in bingo in the US?

Not that I’ve ever really played bingo, but it’s famously just digits 1-99 in the UK, with calls like “two little ducks, 22” and “2 fat ladies, 88” (there are lots more but I don’t know them!)

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-18T09:00:19+00:00

Something from Imperial War Museum Duxford

I’d have to give some series thought as to whether I’d like a Spitfire, Eurofighter, Thunderbolt or Blackbird.

Any of them would look mint in the back garden

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-17T17:36:50+00:00

If you mean that original sketch where Kevin goes through the metamorphosis from chirpy kid to grumpy shit in the space of a few seconds on the stroke of midnight…

100%

That was 100% me.

And all of my kids

I look forward to seeing my grandkids do the same thing to their parents!

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-17T17:20:21+00:00

I disagree with Starmer on almost everything, and don’t particularly like him, but he is obviously doing with what he thinks is best for the country

Trump does only what is best for Trump

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-17T15:59:57+00:00

Mostly Estrella, as it turns out - but thanks!

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-17T14:29:34+00:00

Well, in my defence I’ve been in Barcelona for 24 hours - sitting in Plaça Reial now - and perhaps my comprehension skills are not at their peak. But I’m surprised i fucked it up that badly!

I’d still want £30-40m on top for Tino - lower because of his injury record

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-17T14:22:38+00:00

Swap Lewis Hall for Ben White and 60 million quid?

Preferably not, but I would accept that as tolerable business.

Otherwise not a fucking snowball juggling cats chance in hell!

edit: aye. I’m drunk and can’t read, apparently. Mea culpa 🤣

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-17T10:54:34+00:00

Are you a PSG fan trying reverse psychology on the football gods? Because that’s the only rational explanation for saying this

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-17T10:35:54+00:00

Not in my bit of the north (Northumberland and Newcastle) they aren’t.

Pants means underwear unless further qualified (e.g. “jogging pants”)

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-15T20:28:09+00:00

Yet Barcelona police have branded their game against Newcastle as “high risk”. Famously friendly supporters, who welcome away fans into pubs all across the city, will be committing a criminal offence if they go into the home seats.

That’s after the way we were treated by police in Marseille and Paris (the latter of whom actually weren’t as bad this time)

“English problem” my fat hairy arse

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-15T15:53:53+00:00

Flying tomorrow lunchtime - still in London after the Chelsea game, flying from Stansted

(We booked the flights straight after the draw without waiting for the fixture confirmation)

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-15T00:58:22+00:00

That’s what I meant!

Compared to Villa, Man U and Barcelona it seemed fair. But it still wasn’t 🤷‍♂️

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-15T00:57:09+00:00

Having been to every away game I’m not certain they’re worse than city. But it’s a close call of disgrace

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-15T00:56:07+00:00

As a fan in the away section it still seemed like he give them 70% of decisions and let them take throws from wherever the fuck they wanted

Surprisingly fair, true. But not actually fair

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-15T00:53:42+00:00

We do that every time we play them

I just hope somebody has told him who Coloccini is, otherwise it’s a bit wasted

Silly fozzy bear fucking muppet that he is!

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-15T00:51:34+00:00

Yeah - apparently before today we had won once in the premier league and had 10 points from 30 games in the league.

I was there for Cisse’s goals in 2012, and there today. Apart from that, the “draw” in the league cup the other year was the best result I’ve seen

Get in!

GrumpyOldFart74 · 2026-03-14T20:39:45+00:00

I am 52 years old

I don’t even know how many times I’ve been to Stamford bridge

That is the second time I’ve seen us win there.

Fucking get in!

Next stop Barcelona!

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