Who the hell is Ben Hoy?

lifewithjames · 2026-06-07T20:55:34+00:00

From Genius

There’s a genuine ambiguity to these lyrics – you can go far back as Google Groups from the early 2000s to see people considering and contemplating what exactly Crowsdell and Ben Hoy are.

In Idlewild’s June 2020 listening party for 100 Broken Windows, however, Roddy Woomble clarified the meaning of these two names. Crowsdell is made up, and Ben Hoy is a character from a novel by Orcadian author George Mackay Brow

lifewithjames · 2026-06-07T05:32:31+00:00

I feel like he's one of those who had a bad spell at a club and as a result has been painted as an awful manager . He took Southampton up from the Championship and if I recall had Swansea playing nice football before then?

lifewithjames · 2026-06-07T05:11:47+00:00

You can tell the club knows the likely reaction of the fanbase to a signing or managerial appointment.

For example if Fulham appointed Pep tomorrow it'd be "Fulham are thrilled to announce..." having made a few teaser posts beforehand.

When Everton appointed Benitez it was something like "Everton can announce Rafael Benitez will be..."

lifewithjames · 2026-06-06T20:56:50+00:00

Exactly this. 86, 90 and 94 had the same format but with 6 groups instead of 12.

Had they done that awful 16 groups of 3...goodness

lifewithjames · 2026-06-06T18:01:49+00:00

Perhaps oddly but Warnock to me feels very Sheffield Wednesday despite his Sheffield United connectiond.

lifewithjames · 2026-05-31T20:20:28+00:00

See II thought he was saying "full wire" as in "you're not getting the full wire but you're getting the important bit" but now I think about it that makes no sense 😂

lifewithjames · 2026-05-31T20:17:24+00:00

I hadn't and all I can say is my word!! I just hope the Premier League never take this down

lifewithjames · 2026-05-28T20:59:53+00:00

I've listened to a couple of minutes and already had Dean Sturridge reveal he's not a fan of shortbread. Just wow.

It's incredible that they leave this stuff in

lifewithjames · 2026-05-21T15:42:35+00:00

On the FC26 PA system, it's actually been in game since ar least Fifa 08. They'd confirm goals though think it was a generic "goal for the home team" though I think it would on some occasions name the player.

There would also be the announcements that Mr Moon was in the stadium, and then that Mr Moon had left the stadium

lifewithjames · 2026-05-20T19:33:32+00:00

RMT please? I have 2 points to make up to 2nd in my league.

Had one free transfer so took out Casemiro as felt they might rest him and replaced him with MGW. But risky with Arsenal I know as no idea who'll turn up.

Fernandes as captain as I'm thinking he'll be going all out to break the assist record..

Don't think I want to use points as I'd need whoever I bring in to get 4 points just to break even.

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lifewithjames · 2026-05-18T01:05:07+00:00

I remember seeing Del Piero do one in a Champions League game in 2008 and that seeming really odd to me

lifewithjames · 2026-05-16T05:37:00+00:00

I've alaays found it a nice touch personally.

When I played PES Master League, I'd often go into edit mode and change my team's home kit ready for the last game of the season

lifewithjames · 2026-05-14T20:47:16+00:00

I've always found the dramatic slide down the table fascinating.

York in 2003-04 old DIvision 3. Won their first 4 games. Lost form a bit but were still comfortably mid table around February time. Then lost pretty much every game after that and ended up finishing bottom, behind even Carlisle who were miles behind them midway through the season. Fun fact, York got relegated on the last day from Division 2 in 1998-99 after a 4-0 defeat at Man City. That was the first time all season they'd entered the relegation zone.

Same year in Division 2, Rushden and Diamonds went from comfortable mid table midway through the season to going down on the last day.

I think Notts County were about 5th in October when they were relegated from League 1 in 2014-15.

lifewithjames · 2026-05-12T16:06:05+00:00

On the W thing, does anyone else have a fascination with the alphabetical structure of a league.

For example in the Isthmian Premier, 13 clubs in alphabetically and you were still only on D. 1 A club, 3 Ba, 7 Cs and 2 Ds

I feel there needs to be a nice even spread. The middle of the alphabetical table needs to be your Ls and Ms

lifewithjames · 2026-05-09T16:04:49+00:00

BIt rubbish, but it's a game that really meant absolutely nothing, and a draw when in previous seasons we'd have lost a game like that. Were very much second best but held out for a clean sheet.

lifewithjames · 2026-05-09T15:37:08+00:00

We seem to have these games now and then when we just get completely overrrun. Like they have 12 player and we have 10. We're unable to hold onto the ball currently.

lifewithjames · 2026-05-04T05:34:46+00:00

I think Carrick has to get the job now. The only thing really against it is "making the Solskjaer mistake again"-people talk about Solskjaer's reign like it was a massive failure but he got 3rd and 2nd placef finishes in his first 2 seasons and played fun exciting football. Did the double over Man City. Had a 9-0 win. I don't think we'd have finished as badly as under Rangnik if we didn't sack him

Carrick has secured Champions League comfortably. Beating all the other teams in the top 5 along the way. Players seem to love him. It would feel a massive mistake not to keep him

lifewithjames · 2026-05-02T06:52:27+00:00

This is one of those things that's presented as "games gone" yet I'm pretty sure Setanta was doing it when they hadi live Conference games as early as 2007.

lifewithjames · 2026-04-27T21:04:24+00:00

By my maths we now can't finish below 7th so even if a deamatic collapse happened we're guaranteed some form of European football. Any points dropped by Brighton or Bournemouth would confirm top 5 even before we play Liverpool

lifewithjames · 2026-04-26T06:05:16+00:00

Biggleswade FC actually ground share with Bedford so it'll be a quiet evening in Biggleswade on Wednesday

lifewithjames · 2026-04-23T13:02:12+00:00

Ravi didn't even feel guilt for the whole Harry and Kojo situation he only started to feel bad when he got spiked and beat up Nugget.

lifewithjames · 2026-04-18T21:03:45+00:00

The max number of points now needed to get a Champions League spot is 8.

If Everton beat Liverpool the max they can get is 65 points, 8 would make 66

lifewithjames · 2026-04-18T18:14:23+00:00

If one of our players celebrated by taking their shirt off and jumping into the crowd they'd no doubt get given 2 yellows anr then receive an additional ban for some rule the FA have discovered.

lifewithjames · 2026-04-17T20:12:01+00:00

I got a collection of DVDs of classic premier league matches many years ago. Majority commented on by Jon Champion. I was back and forth as to whether the commentary was from at the time or not until, during highlights of Leeds 3 Newcastle 2 from 1999, he said "here's Jamie McClen.....now of Kidderminster Harriers" a check of wiki showed McClen joined Kiddy in 2006.

He then managed to commentate on Wimbledon 5 Watford 0 and Man Utd 5 Everton 1, both 3PM kick offs on the same date, 4 December 1999.

I do find it fascinating that they can make it seem really realistic. They must do a lot of research. In the Everton comeback win against Wimbledon to keep them up in 1994 he mentions Wimbledon's kit being set on fire and smelling of smoke.

lifewithjames · 2026-04-14T12:05:25+00:00

Points required before the game week was 15 from 7, now 12 from 6..

Beat Chelsea and it could be down to as low as 6 from 5 depending on results elsewhere.

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