General Football Thread

[Lineker]

His boyhood club!

[Colly]

I call bullshit, Mido would never use a treadmill.

Unconfirmed reports state there was a parmo on a string hanging in front of it.

[Adam]

So Messi could end up going to jail for 6 years? What the hell?

[Lineker]

Mean Machine remake?

[Dan]

[Colly]

No we won't, we'll be waiting 5 hours and 35 minutes for it to start.

[Dan]

I'm pretty sure the photo is from 3 days ago.

[Matt]

So this time in 11 months and 3 weeks England will be on a plane home.

[Thrilla]

Well, you're more optimistic than I am, I doubt we'll even qualify.

[stokeriño]

On a plane home from an end-of-season friendly against Peru, perhaps.

[Lineker]

So, Independiente have been relegated. Boca Juniors are now the only Argentine "grande" never to have been relegated.

[Lineker]

Today marks ten years since Marc-Vivien Foé died.

[Lineker]

Macclesfield Town have confirmed to BBC Radio Manchester they hope to raise £20,000 by offering one person the chance to play for the club.

[stokeriño]

£20,000 is a vast enough sum as it is, but for only 10 minutes' play? You might only touch the ball once.

[Colly]

I hope the league dock them points for not fielding their strongest team. Or fine them £20,000.

[Adam]

They've already withdrawn it. I don't see what the problem is. Our chairman played for 3 minutes at the end of a game in the Conference. He was like 56.

[Gazz]

It's not exactly in the spirit of competition is it to be fielding a fat, rich bloke at the end of a game.

Maybe Mike Ashley could solve our right back problem...

[Lineker]

Football game played by 1858 rules in Sheffield

[Colly]

Edit: Epic phone link fail.

Edited June 27, 2013 by Colly

[Adam]

It's not exactly in the spirit of competition is it to be fielding a fat, rich bloke at the end of a game.

Maybe Mike Ashley could solve our right back problem...

In all fairness to him though it was the 90th minute, we were 3-1 up and both sides were already guaranteed to finish in the position they started the day in. Plus it did what he wanted by fulfilling his lifelong dream and getting us some media attention.