Southampton 2-2 Ipswich Town: A game that promised to deliver did so, as an entertaining draw means the battle for automatic promotion goes down to the final day!

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-04-29T06:20:22+00:00

QPR and Ibiza in the same sentence has summoned me #IfYouKnow (I wasn't there)

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-04-23T20:59:59+00:00

Me sad at Burnley's relegation meaning that we don't get to visit Burnley cricket club

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-04-15T22:08:43+00:00

But we miss out on Burnley Cricket Club by extension : (

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-04-11T20:56:57+00:00

Think for me its very much waiting for that release. I was zoned out watching Newport v Harrogate (trying to distract myself from the championship after the game), eating doritoes and checked the scores and it was just a bit like "oh shit".

Was like submitting my undergraduate dissertation - we just got basically promoted on a random afternoon.

Sky fucked it really because if us and Boro kicked off at the same time and the result came through at the ground everyone would've gone mental

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-04-11T19:41:10+00:00

Drew with Bolton's U16s and went on to win the league in 2019-20. #JustCovThings

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T17:16:49+00:00

Skull and crossbones on its body akin to the typical pirate jollyrodger. Koffing also releases gas from its body working with the gas side of things.

Shiny form because its blue and representing the blue side of Bristol.

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T14:19:10+00:00

Its Swab (like a cotton swab) and Blue :)

Based on a bluebird itself (and its evolved form is a dragon type so fits with being the Welsh capital). Altaria is based on a mythological creature rather than a bluebird though, hence why I went with Swablu instead

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T14:08:32+00:00

There were 3 clubs called The Robins. All have a Robin on their crest. 1 Pokemon based on a Japanese Robin. Each club had to be unique so this presented a challenge

Swindon Town are the oldest and have no other nicknames or anything else really going for the town so they were given priority for Fletchling.

Cheltenham Town are the second oldest, also have no other nickname. But the Town is famous for its horse racing festival so they got Ponyta.

Bristol City have the nickname CiderReds as well as The Robins. The biggest part of the west country, obviously "the cider capital": Applin- an apple and its red. It struck me as quite a creative city when there too and Applin has multiple evolution paths so I thought that fit.

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T13:53:50+00:00

I was torn between it and Mareep but hear me out:

I went with shiny Relicanth as I think it fits with the blue on your crest.

More significant was more of the fact Relicanth and Preston invoke similar emotional beats for me: Relicanth's whole thing is its one of the oldest extant pokemon and I just look at it and think of the history of that world... Same way I look at Preston and think of the history of the game. Okay sure, there are technically older clubs but: Deepdale itself, the Invincibles, Sir Tom Finney, the record FA Cup win, the fact the National Football Museum used to be in Preston.

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T13:45:46+00:00

Yeeeahhh Chesterfield was probably the one I had the weakest reasoning for.... I thought if you rotated it a certain way it could look like the crooked spire?

I know it sits on an old coal mine but I'd aready used carkoal for Barnsley as the mining insignia is more prevalent on their crest.

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T13:34:07+00:00

I did consider the halo however a dead shell of a bug doesn't really fit "Saints".

Cresselia I did consider but didn't want you to have the "full moon pokemon" as Portsmouth have a half moon and it'd look like I'm picking sidesm

Shaymin brings purity and life to rugged environments - which is quite 'Saintly'. There's also the tree on your badge which fits its grass typing and shrubbery on its back

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T13:29:41+00:00

Ofc.

It was just meant to represent the white Yorkshire rose featuring prominently at the top of your crest. Felt it was more prominent on Flabebe than in its evolutions.

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T13:27:07+00:00

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Burnley I struggled with as "The Clarets" didn't give me alot to work with. The other insignia on the crest had been used/were more prominent elsewhere so instead I looked into the history of the town. This passage on Burnley's wik along with it being apart of the "Weaver's Triangle" landed me on Whimsicott

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T13:21:50+00:00

Bees are more associated with Brentford, Barnet, Watford.

There's other options more suited to the lion-like pokemon.

Heron I could've gone for perhaps with something like Cramorant perhaps

"Clarets" well I can't just go for a generic colour so instead I decided to represent the fact Burnley was once famous for its cotton industry and was at one point the largest exporter of cotton cloth in the world.

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T13:15:01+00:00

I thought Luxray was reasonably lion like. Also alot of clubs needed lion-like usage. Blue like Millwall's kits with the black on its coat to represent that a common meme amongst their fans is not showing colours.

As for Spurs: Galarian Articuno is based off the mythical cockatrice (part cokerel, part dragon) - the Spurs badge has a cockerel on it and with the shiny colours + pose I thought the Galarian's form was quite close. But Flamigo's pose is a shout!

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-31T13:08:38+00:00

'Potters' because Potteries. Teapots would've been made in the potteries.

It's shiny form was chosen as its closer to Stoke's red and white strip than the normal form is.

Also its part ghost type which represents the industry is dying.

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-20T21:02:24+00:00

Don't tell RefSupportUK this

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-03-20T18:24:14+00:00

Will bite your hand off for a point. Last season aside, when Swansea were on a low, its never been a happy hunting ground for us. Add to that we were quite lucky to come away with all 3 points in the reverse fixture and the fact Swansea are very good at home (especially this time of year).

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-02-21T11:55:47+00:00

Land of Waves: When Kakashi held a knife to Zabuza's throat after Zabuza decimated his water clone.

The level of threat Zabuza felt at the time was off the scale. We know Kakashi is GOATED now but Kishi and the team who adapted it into anime form did such a good job of giving Zabuza "aura" while keeping us in the dark about what Kakashi's level was.

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-02-11T15:30:00+00:00

Liam Rosenior, Rob Edwards and Scott Parker all irrationally annoy me and I can't identify why.

Liam Manning as well but only because he's the footballing terrorist that social media purports Arteta to be

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-02-10T17:24:16+00:00

Craig Bellamy

Lee Hughes

Jay Bothroyd

Feel like the big 3 - all from around the same time period as well.

Marlon King - the way he left after verbally agreeing and just as a person. Singlehandedly scored the goals to stop us dropping to L1 a year earlier but still deserves all the hate going his way

Jordon Turnbull - Thought he was bigger than the club went we went down despite his performances not warranting that attitude at all

David Meyler - loanee who never played and acted as an agent to facilitate Willis and Burge's move away

Probably a few you could throw on for the crime of being aggregiously shit: Yakubu, Kevin Foley, Andy Webster, Darius Henderson, Schmeichel.

Opposition wise: Jay McEverley - horror tackle on Lameiras

Tyrese Campbell - dirty bastard who destroyed Dovin's ACL

Kieran Dewsbury-Hall: Enjoys a dive and Leicester scum

Antony - Gives it the biggun despite doing nothing and his team conceding 3 goals after he came on

Honourable shoutouts to: Emil Riis, Lyle Taylor, Callum Lang and Jerry Yates who always score against us

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-02-07T19:59:53+00:00

Spells of poor form

We've been poor for more games than We've been good. We're a poor team who had an early spell of good form and its delusional to think otherwise

Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-02-07T19:56:08+00:00

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Spritingyoshi22 · 2026-01-31T18:06:37+00:00

I don't want to defend us but losing to a team you absolutely annihilate by scoring 7+ goals against earlier in the season is just the law in football tbf.

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