Zico

not being negative but can't see either making themself a first team regular regardless of what league we're in

clearly all out on the piss in the hotel friday night

got to say I would like to hear more from @bryan_munich

maybe a few bots want to keep him also mjhb January 11 Jetson F/Worth Sir Digby bryan_munich bwfcwacka junot Leigh Exile Mr_White CalBWFC Piphead shandyandyj kobeer jimsamben UKkuhl Jack Daniels Nielsonjohn sailesy

who are even these sfw pfk505

and FA Cup & League Cup though we won the latter on pens not beat them at home since 2017

Muamba vibes

makes sense was always in there in full kit, hanging around behind the bar as opposed to in front of it, but at a time you'd expect the footballing staff to be still in the changing rooms so always wonderered just who he was

nothing has changed on this point of view

who is the guy it pans too? used to see him every home game in the hotel bar afterwards

we compared the Evatt era to Phil Neal, was very similar in terms of what came next if there are to be similarities between SS and Rioch, just remember the gap we had to close down on Port Vale and Stoke, it was 10 and 20 points at one stage IIRC certainly bigger than it is now the aim has to be top two the new signings and rumoured Hardie + one other should hopefully have a big impact on our ability to make it if the top 2 win their game in hand, it looks even tougher than it is now but with 16 games to go, it's do-able, we have to hope these new signings are the difference between wins and draws and that we come out on top in our tough run in but the form in the top 6 going the way it is means we can't afford too many slip ups

@Wanderlust in his man cave

good to see, after the recent fixture congestion and now having been knocked out the PJ cup, that we only have 2 midweek games till the end of the season

in terms of the occasion and what a win would've meant, it's got to be Boro all day long seen us win and lose play offs, get promoted, get relegated etc but never seen us win a trophy that was our big chance

Yep Just my observation on his content and context ,and the message he's trying to portray

had a look at his account, saw this - not sure what the issue is, it's just lads having a fight this account shows lads from all over scrapping at the footy on a regular basis are we at the point of what is and isn't socially acceptable scrapping?

Laville, Ballesta and Yves-Andre in one day pretty sure they were all flown in on their agent's (McKay?) helicopter to sign

they were in 3 seperate windows like well 2 the window didn't exist in 01/02 as such, you just had to sign them before march bruno came start of 01/02 season youri in feb of 02 okocha in the following summer

I'll give you a labour defector to start with Simon Danczuk went head to head against George Galloway and lost

31 of them they even have a wiki page that lists them all but yeah, if someone defects from labour that'll even things up over to you @bolty58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Conservative_Party_defections_to_Reform_UK Robert Jenrick Danny Kruger Andrew Rosindell Lee Anderson Suella Braverman Nadhim Zahawi Nadine Dorries David Jones Lia Nici Jonathan Gullis Dame Andrea Jenkyns Sir Jake Berry Adam Holloway Ben Bradley Chris Green Sarah Atherton Maria Caulfield Anne Marie Morris Ross Thomson Alan Amos Marco Longhi Aidan Burley Lucy Allan Malcolm Ian Offord, Baron Offord of Garvel Michelle Ballantyne Graham Simpson Laura Anne Jones Rupert Matthews Laila Cunningham Thomas Kerr Luke Campbell

go on then, explain how it is more than "recycled Tories"

excellent: A 'sideways and backwards' virus has infected English football Fans are railing against this grim and increasingly common style of play Centre-back to right-back to central midfielder to centre-back to other centre-back to left-back to goalkeeper to centre-back to right-back to central midfielder to the same centre-back who started with the ball 30 seconds and most of a paragraph ago. Welcome to football, more expensive and more… err fun than ever before? Scientific research – my own poor memory plus some social media trawling – suggests that Bolton Wanderers were the first supporters to sing “Sideways and backwards, everywhere we go” back in January 2025. Which proves either that Bolton is a vibrant hub of supporter imagination or that their fans are merely the grumpiest. Now it is the viral hit of 2026. I have heard Tottenham supporters sing it at Burnley, Southampton supporters towards Tonda Eckert, Leicester fans at Wrexham before Marti Cifuentes was sacked, Forest fans in Braga at Sean Dyche, Huddersfield to manager Lee Grant. There are more: Bristol City, Birmingham City, Charlton Athletic a couple of seasons ago. It strikes as a distinctly modern phenomenon to chant about your own team being bad or unwatchable. I don’t know when it started exactly, but the roots are in growing sarcasm: “How shit must you be, we’re winning away?”, “You’re going down with the [insert name of own club]”, “We’ve scored a goal, we’ve scored a goal, we’ve scored a goal”. “Sideways and backwards” is a little different, because it is the first one that focuses not on the team being poor – although that is clearly part of it – but on the style of football being boring and unadventurous. Still, play this football when your team is trailing and witness how the chant rises in volume and ferocity. It is an accusation of managerial cowardice: you do not dare to take risks and so you don’t deserve to manage our club. It is typically reserved for managers under huge pressure after failing to impose their style. In the vast majority of examples above, that manager was quickly sacked. The reason for the chant’s virality is obvious. Twenty years ago, a sarcastic barb might be restricted to one club or even one section of a crowd once only. Social media preserves and multiplies them because they are a) recorded on phones and b) widely shared because they become popular on large fan accounts. Before you know it, 75 clubs in the 92 are singing “Putting on a show” and you are sick of waking up in the middle of the night with it in your head. Again, “Sideways and backwards” is unique. It is a protest against a growing style of football that is aesthetically grim. Entire minutes pass by with the ball barely changing hands between two teams and neither entering the opposition penalty area. It is like watching a video on loop, a glitch in the sport. Football is at its most entertaining when it contains surprise. A 15-pass, 45-second move that literally ends up back where it started is the antidote to entertainment. Supporters are not thick; they know about baiting a press and waiting for a lapse in concentration. They know that it might make sense in certain circumstances. It is just that it is not fun to watch. When this style of football is successful, you will get few arguments. But it is the combination of safe passing and very little end product that irks the most, particularly in lower leagues where often the best chance of success is to take chances and play direct. Watching Newport County pass it amongst themselves towards the bottom of League Two under David Hughes, before inevitably making a catastrophic mistake, was one of my great moments of 2024-25. Another important point: football invited this form of mutiny. The only times I have heard “Sideways and backwards” live have been from visiting supporters, who have spent an inordinate sum of time, effort and money (the latter increasing all the time) to watch their team. If you charge people more for the same product and that product then becomes lethargic and listless, do not expect them to cheerlead it. Like every football chant – I am looking at you “Football in a library” – we will soon reach the point of weary overuse. It will get misused for a team just being bad at football. Some wag will have to come up with a new ditty (“Fans just wanna have fun” to the Cyndi Lauper hit, or something) and we will do the same cycle again. But, for now, “Sideways and backwards” is the football song of 2026. People are tired of controlled possession with no purpose. They are tired of head coaches telling them things in post-match interviews that have been disproven by what they just watched. They are tired of going here, there and everywhere in England just to go sideways and backwards before they leave.

Is that a wide enough net for you?