Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Did you see Rangers getting turfed out of the Challenge Cup by Alloa? Good times. Aye, thank God Ally "does not do walking away." Not so fast, apparently Wee Fat Ally McCoist has had enough after losing to Queen of the South. QotS is one of the better Game of Thrones names in Scottish football (and there are several). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 I dunno, kinda the best national anthem on the planet. As a Scot, even I can admit the best is clearly the Italian one. There's actually some debate about whether Flower of Scotland should even be the anthem, I've heard "Caledonia", and "A man's a man for a' that"(which I'd go for) put forward. Bonus points for the mention of the mighty East Fife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Harms Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Strangest damn dude ever in football, I think. It was literally, one minute he was great...and then he wasn't. It was like Eric Bristow getting dartitis or some shit. I mean, guy's only 30 now and yet he's finished as a top level centre forward. Best thing Liverpool ever did was getting 50 million spondulas for him probably 12 months after his head went. When £35 million of that is spent on Andy Carroll it doesn't seem like such a great deal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Sunderland/WHU shaping up to be an exciting game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesterCopperpot Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 I dunno, kinda the best national anthem on the planet. As a Scot, even I can admit the best is clearly the Italian one. There's actually some debate about whether Flower of Scotland should even be the anthem, I've heard "Caledonia", and "A man's a man for a' that"(which I'd go for) put forward. Bonus points for the mention of the mighty East Fife. I would plump for the Welsh anthem personally A country of choirboys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 http://youtu.be/iVo3OHTs9Vk The correct answer is Uruguay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Harms Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Does anybody still rate Altidore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 No, that was an awful miss. That should have been a penalty on Winston Reid. It obviously wasn't intentional, but it's not like he was 3 yards away and it was blasted against his arm. The ball was looped in and Reid walked right into the ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 I'm just watching the results feed, Tranmere go one up courtesy of a goal by Max Power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Best anthem is Russia, too bad their plan to be good at sports these days is "We're Russia please let us win, to hell with proper development structure". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Was having some fun digging through the Soccer Manager Club list and built a theoretical division with 20 unique club names. I'm pretty far down the rabbit hole with this list but looking for any really good suggestions I might have missed, just for laughs. I threw in the three Montevideo Uruguay teams just because I like the way they roll off the tongue. 1- FK Ogre (Latvia) 2- Thor (Iceland) 3- United Africa Tigers (Namibia) 4- Torpedo Zhodino (Belarus) 5- The Strongest (Bolivia, and your winner. Because even if you lose, you're still The Strongest.) 6- Tarxien Rainbows (Malta) 7- Sun Pegasus (South Korea) 8- Santiago Morning (Chile) 9- Rushden & Diamonds (England) 10- Royal White Star Bruxelles (Belgium) 11- River Plate de Montevideo12- Liverpool de Montevideo13- Racing Club de Montevideo (Uruguay) 14- Progres Niederkorn (Luxembourg) 15- Hercules (Spain) 16- Heart of Lions (Ghana) 17- FC Santa Claus (Finland) 18- Atlas (Mexico) 19- CD Dragon (El Salvador) 20- Buckie Thistle (Scotland) Also considered: Flamengo, Chaco For Ever, Hearts of Oak, Churchill Brothers, and Bangkok Glass which sounds like the punchline to an awful joke. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 young boys Vasco da Gama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Have Young Boys ever played Newell's Old Boys? I'm not sure I want to google that. Check out the list of Jamaican teams - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_football_clubs_in_Jamaica Humble Lions FC, Los Perfectos FC, if you go down to the third tier clubs and below, it becomes even more absurd - Tru Juice FC, Delta Force FC, all kinds of shit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 I'm not even going to ask about the name origins of Christian Pen FC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Jack Warner owns a team in Trinidad called Joe Public FC, they play at a stadium next to the Dr. Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence, the wikipedia page for which contains this predictable gem - "The development, despite being paid for by football bodies was registered in the name of Warner-owned two companies". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Kaizer Chiefs. Port Vale (nb: not situated anywhere near a port. Or a vale). Hajduk Split. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Germinal Beerschot is a must. I think they went busto last year though and merged with some other club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 ADO Den Haag should be there, too. Sounds like something Gandalf would say "you shall not not pass" to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Kashima Antlers is right there. RIGHT THERE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yo-Yo's Roomie Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Don't forget Grasshoppers Zurich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Harms Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 I don't want to take away anything from De Gea's performance, because he didn't put a foot wrong, but Liverpool's finishing was very poor. Sterling in particular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Quite happy with the Tottenham win over Swansea. Good, even game. Lots of back and forth. Kane and Eriksen doing the business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 In the lower leagues of English football you have Vauxhall Motors FC and Metropolitan Police FC. Both former works teams that now are just regular teams. In Wales you used to have Total Network Solutions FC but they are now called The New Saints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Further digging I found at least one more quality name in Batman Petrolspor. I'm sure it means something totally different in Turkish but come on it's club fucking Batman. Golden Arrows is a South African team that would sound a lot cooler if Golden Arrow wasn't a bus line in these parts. Cefn Druids are no doubt a team you don't mess around with. Gimnasia de Conception sounds like some sort of Olympic fanfiction I'm not clicking on from work. Inverurie Loco Works is also a quality factory-named team. My, what a custom league this would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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