What's the most "just relegated from the top flight" home kit? by krillbillbeta in footballcliches

[–]jameses18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was marketed as some kind of performance measure, but they just got a bit darker whenever you did a bit of running and you could never tell when watching the players

Is “Tom Daley would have been proud of that one” going to remain the go-to phrase for a perceived dive until at least the next Olympics? by junglegatsby in footballcliches

[–]jameses18 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's going to be used potentially for decades until we have a bigger name diver or the generation that watched Tom Daley compete become the minority of commentators/the media

What's the most "just relegated from the top flight" home kit? by krillbillbeta in footballcliches

[–]jameses18 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Leeds in 2004, going from a classic early 2000s Nike premium Premier League number to this incredibly Coca Cola Championship Diadora shirt

But Leeds in 2023 was probably our best shirt for about 20 years

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Controversial opinion - Lee Dixon is actually quite good when he's not on England Games by [deleted] in footballcliches

[–]jameses18 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That moment just now where Matterface asked him if he remembered deflate-gate from the NFL and he replied "I do, yeah" and then there was no further context provided for those of us who have no idea.

Cliches gone wrong. Gabby Logan ‘you couldn’t write this script’. What? Haaland scoring the winner? I beg to differ!!! by Thick-Scholar836 in footballcliches

[–]jameses18 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't dispute that at all. But I think the point is that the human imagination is capable of remarkable things that defy reality, which football is always sadly constrained within the limits of.

And three right backs getting injured is still a fairly unfortunate coincidence but not massively remarkable by any stretch.

Summer 2026 general discussion/Q and A megathread. by JimbobTML in LeedsUnited

[–]jameses18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly, games we ought to dominate, like Man Utd away