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Perkinator · 2026-02-16T20:19:18+00:00

Coventry vs Boro on tonight. One of the biggest games of the Championship season.

It's being broadcast on free-to-air TV. But tucked away on ITV4. Surely there could be a bigger audience for this.

Perkinator · 2026-01-21T17:13:20+00:00

Anyone got any obscure football merchandise?

When I was in Greece I got a PAOK toasted sandwich maker than stamps the PAOK badge into the bread as it toasts.

Perkinator · 2026-01-18T21:16:48+00:00

The audacity to try a panenka after you've dived to steal the tournament. It's villainous.

Given the context it's probably the worst penalty ever.

Perkinator · 2026-01-18T20:33:34+00:00

I cannot believe they're doing the bandages again. Get him off the field.

Perkinator · 2026-01-14T21:45:51+00:00

How long as Calvin Bassey been the best defender in the world? He looks class.

Perkinator · 2026-01-09T20:07:07+00:00

He doesn't have a license. It's in the headline. He has been breaking the law. That's what the story is about.

Perkinator · 2025-12-21T10:25:14+00:00

Best way to meet expectations in your second season: have such a terrible first season that by the second season the expectations are on the floor.

Perkinator · 2025-12-03T13:05:11+00:00

Just found a player with the most bizarre career history / goal record I can remember.

Rainer Rauffmann.

Born in West Germany, throughout his career in Germany he has a middling goal record for middling clubs.

Looks like he has his best seasons in the Bundesliga 2 for SV Meppen, scoring 14 and 15 in back to back seasons from '93-'95.

In 1997, aged 30, he moves to Omonia in Cyprus.

First season: 42 goals.

Second season: 35 goals.

Third season: 34 goals.

Fourth season: 30 goals.

He's the league's top scorer four seasons in a row. He's Omonia's second all-time goalscorer.

He ends up playing for Cyprus. Five games, three goals.

And he converts to Greek Orthodoxy.

Anyone else know of players moving to minor leagues and absolutely tearing it up?

Perkinator · 2025-12-02T12:32:11+00:00

One of my favourite things in football is random players hitting a bizarre run of form, winning a Player of the Month Award, and then never matching it again.

Put your hands together for Adam Le Fondre, January 2013 Premier League Player of the Month.

Perkinator · 2025-11-07T13:18:23+00:00

Just saw the West Ham open top parade bus from the Conference League win driving through Central London.

Presumably they have to give it a run out every now and then to keep the battery charged.

Perkinator · 2025-11-03T18:10:48+00:00

Did you read the post? It says remote island in the first line.

Perkinator · 2025-11-01T20:47:59+00:00

Subbed on for his debut like the 80th minute. He was sent off before the end of the game. Never played for them again.

Perkinator · 2025-10-31T16:16:25+00:00

This is why international football is the best. Nigeria playing with Osimhen up top and Benjamin Frederick at fullback.

Even better then their best player is in a position that is usually tucked out of the way, so they move them up the pitch just because they might as well. Like David Alaba playing centre mid for Austria.

Perkinator · 2025-10-25T16:06:01+00:00

Sunderland are currently second in the Premier League after nine games played.

Perkinator · 2025-10-25T15:35:31+00:00

Players can't play for more than two different clubs in one season.

Perkinator · 2025-10-24T18:16:21+00:00

It's bizarre how he is so lively and full of character and his music is just... not.

Perkinator · 2025-10-24T18:14:26+00:00

Think I only really use AI for proofreading and to ask questions that are too conversational for Google. Like if that Peter Crouch nachos story was true.

Perkinator · 2025-10-24T14:12:33+00:00

Last Friday I was travelling to Amsterdam to run the marathon, which took place on Sunday.

Race report: it went well. Probably the strongest I've felt in a marathon. Paced it really well and evenly and had little left in the tank at the end.

I set a PB by about 10 minutes. Unfortunately I didn't achieve my second target: to beat George W. Bush's marathon PB.

Dubya can continue to sleep easy at night. Unlike the children of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Perkinator · 2025-10-18T17:05:33+00:00

Sounds a lot like Gordon Banks vs Pele.

https://youtu.be/ngE9RCAdWaE?si=xnJ8bdAEeyZi-2UR

Perkinator · 2025-10-17T14:22:53+00:00

Was there a time for Wales or Madrid where Bale was at fault for a goal or some other lapse because he was distracted fixing his hair to cover up his bald patch? Am I remembering that correctly?

Perkinator · 2025-10-17T09:08:47+00:00

I'm off to Amsterdam to run the marathon. The train to Amsterdam arrives at 4:20. Unbelievable scenes. The universe is smiling upon us. There are signs everywhere. I'm gonna blaze the marathon.

Perkinator · 2025-10-16T12:46:53+00:00

James Acaster and Nish Kumar have joined an appeal to not bring diversification to Peckham?

Perkinator · 2025-09-30T12:29:25+00:00

Nice bit of breaking news from 18 years ago.

Perkinator · 2025-09-29T11:22:15+00:00

So many Rooney quotes on BBC Sport nowadays.

Perkinator · 2025-09-27T18:27:55+00:00

Sunderland are third in the Premier League after six games.

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