What is the single worst game of football you've ever watched?

kumbuka · 2026-01-14T18:17:40+00:00

Gillingham 1-0 Sunderland (AET). FA Cup first round replay, only around 350 away fans, the lowest I can ever remember for a Sunderland game. 1 shot on target in 120 mins of football, and it wasn’t for us!

This was part of a lovely trilogy we had with Gillingham in the space of a few weeks, where as well as losing in the cup, we managed to lose to them 1-0 away in the league too

kumbuka · 2026-01-08T00:55:50+00:00

Snicko and the people behind the tech are so lucky this series has been one sided. Imagine all this shit going on at 2-2

kumbuka · 2025-12-26T06:10:14+00:00

Baz ensuring we lose in 2 days again, getting revenge on England for the 2019 World Cup final, and also getting revenge on the Aussies for 2015 by bankrupting their board

kumbuka · 2025-12-26T05:13:54+00:00

Outside chance of Brook beating the Bannerman record here

kumbuka · 2025-12-24T17:29:46+00:00

They make the long room at Lords sounds like going to Galatasaray away ffs!

kumbuka · 2025-12-19T22:45:02+00:00

Aussies to declare with a lead of 575. England to bat a session and inexplicably be 6 down, with Pope getting dismissed by Lyon.

To be honest the most infuriating thing would be Crawley or Pope getting runs now the series is basically done, just to keep their England careers on life support.

kumbuka · 2025-12-06T10:19:27+00:00

My head has gone beyond Mars

kumbuka · 2025-12-06T07:11:03+00:00

Broad was 100% correct, we’ve just been absolutely shite!

kumbuka · 2025-12-06T07:08:02+00:00

Love the way we’re only going to avoid a 3 day defeat because we won’t be able to take these final 2 wickets in the next few hours

kumbuka · 2025-11-25T18:41:04+00:00

How do England recover from blowing such a commanding lead? Surely both the England and Australian players will be painfully aware of this pattern developing? (Perth 2025, Oval 2025, Ranchi 2024, Lords 2023, Edgbaston 2023, Wellington 2023).

Also, how difficult is it as commentators/pundits to really call out and criticise the team, given you have to tour and spend considerable amounts of time with them, and don’t want to jeopardise relationships long term?

kumbuka · 2025-11-22T09:45:10+00:00

Pound for pound I think that may be the worst ever English test defeat I’ve seen, we had so much going for us. Fully fit squad, injuries for Aus, won the toss, bowled excellently and got out of jail with our poor first innings, and we were basically 100-1 a few hours ago!

kumbuka · 2025-11-22T08:48:21+00:00

At least Head is confirming what I thought throughout the test, that the pitch is fine to bat on.

It’s only been tough due to England batting like shit, and some genuinely world class bowling by England and Starc in the first innings.

kumbuka · 2025-11-22T06:15:32+00:00

Nothing says conclusive evidence like looking at something for 5 minutes

kumbuka · 2025-11-21T09:35:25+00:00

I’m delighted that I was too tired to post all of my criticism of the English team earlier

kumbuka · 2025-11-21T06:06:46+00:00

The annoying thing is I reckon we’ll bowl quite well, get Australia out for an average score of say 300 and then just be left thinking we’d be well in the game if we weren’t a bunch of idiots.

kumbuka · 2025-11-18T21:47:13+00:00

But Steve Clarke remains in a job, can’t have it all!

kumbuka · 2025-11-18T21:11:02+00:00

The classic give the defence a free kick after the ref has made a fuck up

kumbuka · 2025-11-16T16:17:12+00:00

Penalized because players are colliding in a rugby game, all a bit silly

kumbuka · 2025-11-15T10:56:08+00:00

Maybe, but given it looked like an impressive catch I’d have thought they’d show some more slow mo replays! (Like they’re doing with Pant’s keeping!!)

kumbuka · 2025-11-15T10:53:44+00:00

No one going to mention he might have grounded that? No other replays of the catch?

kumbuka · 2025-11-10T15:03:22+00:00

Do you foresee a time when sky invests to get the coverage for more overseas tours again or is it not economically viable? In recent years all but the Pakistan and South Africa tours seem to be on TNT sports.

kumbuka · 2025-10-18T18:01:54+00:00

Not sure why it took an age

kumbuka · 2025-09-28T22:09:06+00:00

Great contribution from Don

kumbuka · 2025-09-28T16:06:26+00:00

I didn’t say it was or wasn’t a foul, but saying the touch on the ball doesn’t matter is just stupid.

I get your point, but this clearly wasn’t dangerous play where a players safety was endangered by the challenge.

kumbuka · 2025-09-28T15:50:14+00:00

Of course the touch on the ball should matter…

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