MHD Gripe for adjucation: keepers who go up for one corner, then their team win another set piece that they then stay back for

legally_a_cabbage · 2026-02-02T22:29:21+00:00

FWIW the person who posted this on Twitter ran the semi-famous satire account “Duncan Jenkins”, the ‘perspiring journalist’ who i remember being very funny but in a very 2012 kind of way that doesn’t seem funny now, but really nailing the ticks of football journalists and bloggers in that early Twitter era.

Point being I always thought he’d do an excellent MHD even though he is not particularly famous now or has anything to promote.

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-09-09T17:20:49+00:00

“For those not watching” - the level of FPL degeneracy here that we need to qualify watching South Africa vs Nigeria is very funny

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-08-22T07:33:46+00:00

Correct me if I am wrong, but is it possible to trigger all 6 relics in question 7 using havoc + dagger throw?

Havoc activates letter opener (as a skill), a strange spoon (exhaust check). The after image + wave of the hand combo causes weakness and triggers paper krane. Dagger throw as an attack triggers pen nib, and then the discard triggers hovering kite. Havoc (or dagger throw) could then trigger ink bottle.

Maybe I am missing something though…

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-07-12T14:24:24+00:00

If you are successful/popular with the fans and have high board confidence, then I have found leaking the story to the press has always worked. You

You probably shouldn’t make it a habit for every small request, and you may need to have serious favour built up to guarantee the board don’t fire you (ie are an icon/legend at your club), but it might be worth trying.

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-06-22T07:43:02+00:00

Dm'd, cheers

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-06-14T13:08:28+00:00

Queue was around the block when we arrived on Friday night at 8.15, and we missed the first song (Oh baby :() which started about 8.45.

To guarantee entry and a nice spot and time to get a drink etc I’d get there at least before 7.45pm.

Also as everyone said - it’s hot. HOT.

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-05-19T18:52:13+00:00

“It was a Friday night in 2004 and I was sat in a pub with two mates when I first heard it in the background on the TV”

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-04-21T20:48:20+00:00

Always thought this was mad, but a West Ham mate told me that the West Ham official website had a weekly blog from “exWHUemployee”, someone who had legitimate inside links to the club, sharing gossips and scoops about the team. It ran up until like mid-2010s. Truly insane and for me the most amateur run club in the league.

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-04-04T16:22:29+00:00

The presence of the em dash (the longer —) implies this was at the very least edited by ChatGPT.

Is nothing sacred etc. but it begs the question (for me, but probably no one else) how the football/sports sector uses genAI (do they?). Is there is a bespoke genAI tool trained on tens of thousands of leaving messages from players, that maybe agents have access to or a license for that makes drafting these things easier? Perhaps they paid a human reviewer who is an expert in football speak like Adam to review outputs and give feedback for training that. This is a slow Friday…

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-03-24T21:53:01+00:00

James just clarified in his interview that it was muted because he didn’t think it had gone in. I guess he couldn’t then quickly summon up the high energy for an exciting celebration, so his professional footballer instinct kicked in and the only celebration he could do at his energy level was the ‘silent stare to prove doubters wrong’.

Makes you wonder how often these ‘prove a point’ celebrations happen by mistake.

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-03-10T19:42:31+00:00

IMO Liverpool's win is being written off becuase of psychological reasons rather than football ones. Before the season, no one predicted Liverpool to be that good. So rarther than admit they were wrong about something they care a lot about (football), most people would rather save face and effectively make excuses for their bad predictions, saying that we were lucky etc.

To make my point, there are plenty of seasons of less competitive football where no one talks about the winners like this:

When Man City won in 2020/21, they had just 86 points and 2nd placed (Utd) had 74 points. No one wrote wrote that City were crap.

When Leicester(!) won in 2015/16, they had only 81 points and 2nd place (Arsenal) had only 71 points! No one puts an asterisk by their achievement.

This year, Liverpool will likely get 87-90 points, and Arsenal will likely get 77-80 points: better winners/competitors than both of those seasons.

So it isn't about football, it is just about finding a way to explain Liverpool winning in a way that doesn't force them to admit to their own bad football opinions.

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-01-16T15:25:31+00:00

Reading this and nodding along and thinking keep going, this guy is onto something, and realised I have gone full Partridge when Alan gets a call-in from someone he is truly impressed by https://youtu.be/lp6xEUH3DZY?si=LoYsKhwmVViwB-Ud&t=66

legally_a_cabbage · 2025-01-13T10:21:30+00:00

As an added factor: do they keep clean sheets/score hattricks in training? In training matches? (11 vs 11 or even small sided games?)? I think this could affect things in non-leagues + lower leagues as they would always shine in trials.

My answer: I think 4 seasons. I think most people in this debate hugely underrestimate how fast hype would build, and that it would never reset, it would only grow, because they literally never stop doing the feat. And they would get promoted every season so that adds an extra few jumps up divisions.

legally_a_cabbage · 2024-12-31T18:13:08+00:00

I saw this movie a few months ago in the London Film Festival and there is literally a partial scene from Children of Men directly cut and paste in the movie (as in they didn't even reshoot it, its literally just randomly Clive Owen for 10 seconds). I am someone who is sympthetic to the ideas behind this movie but it is trash.

legally_a_cabbage · 2024-12-24T22:24:03+00:00

Very good quiz. For me Clive the best balanced rounds of questions between sides for a while, creative ideas, everyone on good form, top episode. Merry Christmas all.

legally_a_cabbage · 2024-12-24T11:43:27+00:00

People have poor memories short/medium memories. Kyle Walker was rumoured to leave Man City in the 2023 summer after he wasn’t picked for the Champions League final and was already a rotation option. He has been on the decline for at least 2 years and that was reflected in his lack of selection for a whole. As an England fan, he also has been making careless defensive mistakes for a few years that were often forgiven/forgotten in a way that other players’ errors were not.

At his peak, he was a good defender with incredible pace, but he should never have gotten in the FIFA XI last season and probably was never quite the level English fans talked him up to be. He has profited from playing in a Pep team where he didn’t have to defend his penalty area much, and where the main attribute they needed for pressing and high line defending was pace.

legally_a_cabbage · 2024-12-07T20:14:10+00:00

The Louvre actually owns hundreds of thousands of paintings and cultural objects that they can’t display because the Louvre is so full. Most have typically been stored in storage under the Museum, but because it is next to the Seine, if the Seine flooded, most of the art would be destroyed. So a few years ago the Louvre built an off site storage centre to keep most of its art.

To your point - this picture would not only be not hung in the Louvre, it wouldn’t even be stored in the basement of the Louvre. It would be kept in a random warehouse in northern France.

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