25/26 - Non Saints Games

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Just switched it on at the end of half time. Has anyone said something like Cole*-Play yet? That'd be a good play on words. 

 

* Palmer, get it?

[whelk]

Some of you will hate this because it’s scousers but great tribute at the end

 

[SNSUN]

Had a choice of whether to watch James or James tonight and I ended up choosing James. Nice big scoreline from James's team tonight.

[whelk]

Vote for Superior Player of the Match - FFS

[Turkish]

Jack Stephens gets a mention in the world club cup final 👏👏👏👏😂

[Saint NL]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Jack Stephens gets a mention in the world club cup final 👏👏👏👏😂

Trend setter 🤣

[sfc4prem]

10 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Jack Stephens gets a mention in the world club cup final 👏👏👏👏😂

As someone not watching, my only tenuous link guess would be Cucurella's curly locks?

[Turkish]

6 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

As someone not watching, my only tenuous link guess would be Cucurella's curly locks?

No, they said Levi Colwill has been like his hero Jack Stephens tonight 

Edited Sunday at 21:21 by Turkish

[ant]

Given footballers can't resist pulling Cucurella's hair, should its continued existence be considered an unfair advantage?

[Maggie May]

Trump joining Chelsea’s trophy presentation is up there with the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. He just refused to leave. Haha.

[sockeye]

Just read that Chelsea get $142.3 million for winning the Club World Cup. Not exactly healthy for the game.

[Dark Munster]

1 hour ago, Maggie May said:

Trump joining Chelsea’s trophy presentation is up there with the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. He just refused to leave. Haha.

If I was one of the Chelsea players (or manager) I would've told him to f*ck off. And then dare him to try to deport me using his masked ICE Gestapo thugs while 100 million are watching.

[skintsaint]

2 hours ago, Maggie May said:

Trump joining Chelsea’s trophy presentation is up there with the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. He just refused to leave. Haha.

Just another corrupt guy getting mixed up with Chelsea.

[SW11_Saint]

1 hour ago, sockeye said:

Just read that Chelsea get $142.3 million for winning the Club World Cup. Not exactly healthy for the game.

Nothing about that tournament is healthy for the game…

[Sarnia Cherie]

5 hours ago, SW11_Saint said:

Nothing about that tournament is healthy for the game…

America should not be allowed anywhere near our national sport. Trashy and tawdry from start to finish. Far too much money in it these days. Ridiculous wages, huge transfer fees and obscene prize money. I remember my Dad who was footy mad going through the roof when Johnny Giles was the first player to be paid £100 a week. He went on and on about how many hours he would have to drive his bus to get that. Just as well he can't see how FIFA are ruining the once humble game of football.

[Football Special]

I didn't watch a minute of that tournament, even Chelsea / Man City fans I know weren't interested  yet Fifa will claim it was a success. All about the global product 

Do Chelsea even have a pre season now ? 

[Sarnia Cherie]

7 minutes ago, Football Special said:

I didn't watch a minute of that tournament, even Chelsea / Man City fans I know weren't interested  yet Fifa will claim it was a success. All about the global product 

Do Chelsea even have a pre season now ? 

Chelsea have played around 43 weeks of football. As for FIFA they made £2b so of course they will see it as a success.

[Turkish]

11 hours ago, SNSUN said:

Had a choice of whether to watch James or James tonight and I ended up choosing James. Nice big scoreline from James's team tonight.

Did they do Sit down?

[Turkish]

34 minutes ago, Football Special said:

I didn't watch a minute of that tournament, even Chelsea / Man City fans I know weren't interested  yet Fifa will claim it was a success. All about the global product 

Do Chelsea even have a pre season now ? 

I wasn’t really interested I watched Bayern Munich beat that New Zealand team as I was bored and thought the whole thing was a farce. Watched the semi final PSG V Real and was blown away by PSG to be honest so watched the final as was expecting them to dish out a similar performance tonight but Chelsea were excellent. Crap tournament and nothing more than a money maker for FIFA but I did enjoy the semi final and final 

[skintsaint]

1 hour ago, Sarnia Cherie said:

 As for FIFA they made £2b so of course they will see it as a success.

I think with the bald FIFA guy saying its a success due to the revenue made sums it all up really.

Not too much about the fan experience, prestige etc....nope just about money made.

[sandwichsaint]

2 hours ago, Sarnia Cherie said:

America should not be allowed anywhere near our national sport. Trashy and tawdry from start to finish. Far too much money in it these days. Ridiculous wages, huge transfer fees and obscene prize money. I remember my Dad who was footy mad going through the roof when Johnny Giles was the first player to be paid £100 a week. He went on and on about how many hours he would have to drive his bus to get that. Just as well he can't see how FIFA are ruining the once humble game of football.

Johnny Haynes (Fulham) was the first 100/week footballer. Johnny Giles played for Leeds about ten years further on.

[danjosaint]

And now Ifab have complained the half time break of 24mins was illegal or something along those lines 

 

[Sarnia Cherie]

48 minutes ago, sandwichsaint said:

Johnny Haynes (Fulham) was the first 100/week footballer. Johnny Giles played for Leeds about ten years further on.

I stand corrected. Wrong Johnny!

[SW11_Saint]

4 hours ago, Football Special said:

I didn't watch a minute of that tournament, even Chelsea / Man City fans I know weren't interested  yet Fifa will claim it was a success. All about the global product 

Do Chelsea even have a pre season now ? 

Me neither, purposely. Zero interest.
A pure marketing operation and a way of shoehorning in sub-standard Middle East and American teams into the world order. FIFA are jealous of the revenue that UEFA have via their club  competitions, and this is Infantino’s idea to counter it. 
 

if ever a photo summed up everything wrong with the modern game…

[Patrick Bateman]

22 minutes ago, SW11_Saint said:

Me neither, purposely. Zero interest.
A pure marketing operation and a way of shoehorning in sub-standard Middle East and American teams into the world order. FIFA are jealous of the revenue that UEFA have via their club  competitions, and this is Infantino’s idea to counter it. 
 

if ever a photo summed up everything wrong with the modern game…

Absolutely agreed, complete waste of time, ridiculous and I never watched any either, zero interest. 

[Badger]

15 hours ago, SW11_Saint said:

Nothing about that tournament is healthy for the game…

 

9 hours ago, Football Special said:

I didn't watch a minute of that tournament, even Chelsea / Man City fans I know weren't interested  yet Fifa will claim it was a success. All about the global product 

Do Chelsea even have a pre season now ? 

Absolute nonsense of a tournament, and it seems a pretty hollow success for Chelsea - leaving aside the $ won of course - as it means fuck all to most fans.

The whole thing is a Watneys/Texaco Cup type tournamnent designed for billionaire owned clubs in the 21st Century for a global tv audience. In truth the Watneys/Texaco Cups meant more to the real fans of the clubs taking part at the time.

No doubt Chelsea and their players will be crying about too may games towards the end of next season.

I consider myself fortunate to have lived trough a bit of a golden era of football 1960's - 80's , before it started on the slippery slope to what it has now become. 

[AlexLaw76]

The World Cup itself wasn’t popular when it started in the 30s

So who knows 

[SW11_Saint]

25 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

The World Cup itself wasn’t popular when it started in the 30s

So who knows 

Yeah, but that was countries - therefore it united nations. Is anyone outside of Surrey that excited about Chelsea winning this? Chelsea & City aren’t even the best two clubs in England. 

They will keep running it though as it creates TV revenue and armchair football fans will pretty much watch anything.  

I’m more than happy for the ‘Super clubs’ to bugger off and do this all the time. Leave the rest of us to it…

[Tommy Mulgrew]

15 hours ago, Sarnia Cherie said:

I stand corrected. Wrong Johnny!

Apparently a hereditary problem: first, your dad and, now, you!  😄

[Sarnia Cherie]

7 hours ago, Tommy Mulgrew said:

Apparently a hereditary problem: first, your dad and, now, you!  😄

It will just be me. I am way older than my Dad was when that news was announced.

[Tommy Mulgrew]

Perhaps I was a bit obscure or merely of an older generation:

In UK slang, "johnny" can refer to a condom. It can also be a more general term for a man or boy, similar to "chap" or "guy"
 

What is a Johnny in Cockney slang?

Johnny-bag - condom.

Never mind.

[Midfield_General]

Jason Wilcox and the rest of Ratcliffe's lads continuing to do a cracking job at Man Utd:

- Only made one signing (Cunha); Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man City etc have all made multiple major signings already

- Struggling to get Mbeumo over the line because Brentford keep raising the price - they are now demanding £70m, and fair play to them for seeing United coming and knowing they'll panic and pay it in the end

- Rashford, Garnacho, Sancho, Antony and Malacia all estranged from the first team and training separately. Hundreds of millions of talent going to waste and no buyers

I wonder when they start freaking out, panic buying and sacking more people? Wilcox has got to be next in the firing line if this window doesn’t improve pretty quickly 

Edited Thursday at 08:07 by Midfield_General

[S-Clarke]

39 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Jason Wilcox and the rest of Ratcliffe's lads doing a cracking job at Man Utd:

- Only made one signing (Cunha) 

- Brentford keep raising the price on Mbeumo - now demanding £70m, fair play to them for seeing United coming and knowing they'll pay it in the end

- Rashford, Garnacho, Sancho, Antony and Malacia all estranged from the first team and training separately but no buyers

I wonder when they start panicking and sacking more people? 

There are some other bits I read which made me laugh too.

They're apparently in contact with the agent of Jamie Vardy, and are 'open' to the possibility of exploring a deal towards the end of the window. The ultimate panic signing.

They are also interested in Ndidi at Leicester and freebie DCL.

It's funny to watch after my childhood being full of school morons proclaiming Man Utd is everything, but they're honestly no more than a mid-table PL side now. That's not going to change as the standard of player they have is awful (for the level they aspire). They're targeting Cunha, Mbeumo etc as their big signings, but if we're honest they're just good mid table PL players.

Edited Thursday at 08:06 by S-Clarke

[SaintBobby]

On 14/07/2025 at 18:17, AlexLaw76 said:

The World Cup itself wasn’t popular when it started in the 30s

So who knows 

I actually quite enjoyed the Club World Cup. Sure, it's a bit of a joke and a farce, but was reasonably entertaining in parts.

Chelsea being crowned World Champions having been 15 points away from being English champions is hilarious.

If they are remotely serious about the competition having a future, they need to let in more of the super teams. No Barcelona or Liverpool was a bit mad.

At least the real World Cup tends to have the best 10-12 teams in the world competing in it, even if quite a few countries are just making up the numbers.