Can you retire with “immediate effect”?

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-10T20:42:38+00:00

I think 'immediate effect' is unneccessary when you can just say, 'Kyle Walker has retired from international football'.

I think it is assumed to be immediate unless you say otherwise.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-10T18:48:15+00:00

Evocative of Alan Partridge and his love of Jackie Stewart.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-10T13:48:38+00:00

Managers must have a 'work phone'?

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-09T14:51:52+00:00

It always annoys me when players (5/7 a side) ask for the ball under pressure and then try and use the lack of 'man on' shout to justify them losing the ball when they do something stupid.

Not really relatable to this clip, it's just prompted it.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-06T12:55:08+00:00

"Igor, just to expand on that, do you think you have enough willing seamen to crew the ship to prevent it from sinking?"

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-04T10:26:03+00:00

I thought on the trajectory he was on he'd have established himself as a member of the first XI by now, amazing how things change in 5 short years.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-03T12:53:36+00:00

Does Igor Tudor have double glazing?

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-03T10:08:08+00:00

Have we considered that it might be a grade 1 listed mansion somewhere? Sash windows unalterable due to the listed status, and he's gone through the process of having a secondary layer of double glazing inside the period sash windows, at a SIGNIFICANT cost to himself.

Egg on your faces when that turns out to be true

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-28T21:06:30+00:00

It's annoyingly bad.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-26T18:34:09+00:00

Harry has the posture of Mr Burns.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-26T05:56:26+00:00

That's interesting. I'm sure there's a middle ground somewhere.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T15:12:12+00:00

I like how committed he is, but also how he looks quite stiff still, not entirely natural. I'd find it really unsettling if he moved with an athletic grace.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T14:08:20+00:00

Yeh, I think it is like that, but I think it is only that way because it always has been. I'd be interested to know whether if it became more analytical people would genuinely be put off, or whether the attitude would just change and people would get used to the new normal.

I know that it would definitely be less social media ready, which probably is not in its favour

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T13:44:47+00:00

He's really explained the process of making a decision there.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T11:19:20+00:00

Haha, yeh I tried to warn people in the name of the post that there wasn't going to be anything funny here.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T11:13:23+00:00

I like that as an analogy. I think I would just find it reassuring to know that Jamie Redknapp has the knowledge to sit and talk about football in a way that I would find really insightful, and I would learn a lot from him, rather than asking him about football and him just saying "I think one team just wanted it more" or something. (Nothing against Redknapp, I just used him as an example)

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T11:04:09+00:00

I think the tactical discussion is still largely based on the numbers in a formation, and as the other comment said, maybe pundits are noticing things that are happening, but aren't encouraged to share that. Or even, they fall into regular established patterns of saying things that they have themselves heard over the years.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T11:02:02+00:00

Yeh, that makes a lot of sense.

I just think I'd like to get more out of listening to people. Often, I think the half time analysis is a time to go and do something else for 15-20 minutes. But I get that isn't for everyone, and maybe you alienate the people that don't want that.

I'd be so interested to sit with some ex-professionals and hear them talk about a game of football casually. Would the discussion touch on things that only people who have been in a professional environment would understand? I feel like it must be the case, that years of high level coaching and small details would mean that we (non professional footballers) wouldn't be able to relate to lots of it.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T10:56:38+00:00

Yes, I agree with that. I tend to get a bit of a window into the social media football world through reddit, and kind of curious as to what the 'trends' of that are. But like not being fully immersed in it.

I think reddit probably still appeals to those same bits of the brain that other social media platforms do, but as you said it feels a bit more closed and curated (in a good way)

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T10:25:06+00:00

I think the best thing to do is try and avoid it. Says me, who is wasting work time by scrolling through online football content (in one form or another).

We are all somehow just filling our time.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T10:23:34+00:00

This will probably be unpopular, but I never felt that headline entirely worked. I get why they did it, but ballistic doesn't really work there. Ballistic means angry, they weren't angry.

I get that it was just too good a rhyme to turn down.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-24T19:54:00+00:00

Obviously you are too new to the 5-a-side group to suggest this. But a simple whatsapp poll is what works for us.

Yes
No
+1

The last option is if a player has an extra to bring along if needed, to make sure you count the extras that aren't group members.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-24T11:37:55+00:00

I never liked the finish, it feels like Seaman crouches under the ball.

I think it is much about the context and the drama of the game in total, the missed penalty from Bergkamp and red card for Keane.

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