SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2023/2024

That's the one! Ta!

 

Dortmund have been excellent but they NEED to convert one of these chances, it's shaping up for a typical Real Madrid smash and grab.

 

I obviously HATE Madrid but I had a feeling they were gonna win. Fuck it.

Next year is gonna be another long season.

 

I think if Dortmund had taken one of those early chances they could have gone on to run Real over a bit. The writing was on the wall once it got to half time at 0-0.

 

Agreed. Madrid has that WTF quality about them where if you don’t take at least one chance, they find a way to win even if they’re playing like shit.

 

They might be the most clinical side I've ever seen. You could be 18-2 up in shots on goal and they'll win the match 1-0. There comes a point where they do it so often you can't call it luck anymore.

 

Yeah I have to agree. Even as far back as 2006/2007 where La Liga was still extremely deep in terms of talented squads, they were doing the same thing.

They’re legitimately the best side in the world right now.

 

Been avoiding this thread

Anyways....England very laborious and being bailed out here by ref.

 

Cole Palmer.....stick another £30m on his value.

 

Fucking greasy grealish gets an assist....that's him in the squad I suppose. Good finish from Cammy's love-child.

 

That might have been the worst game at St James Park all year

 

What an unusual wiki entry.....




"Tyson Fury is a former HW Champ who used to sit on the swing in Dimbly Melton and throw crabapples at passing vehicles but since becoming mega rich he's moved on to doing other shit"

 

Ireland about to win a game and snap Hungary's 14 game unbeaten streak.

29,000 in Dublin for the game. Poor. Can't blame them though.

 

Was the team trying to make statement about Irish stew being superior to goulash?

 

If there were any doubts about that culinary issue it was resolved by a 92nf minute winner scored by a man with a REAL IRISH NAME.

TROY PARROT!

(Which sounds like a delicacy of the Classical period in Asia Minor)

 

Thats one of the better names ive ever heard

 

Pretty similar to the crowd for Celtic-wolves which i also thought was poor albeit the game wss announced on short notice and me & wee fergus seemed to be the only glesga fans in town. Impressive stadium in a lovely area tho (which is rare for a stadium)

 

Down in Bristol for the day, who do I find lurking only this bollix......the kids missed a trick when they elected to throw Colston in the drink and not the Oranje menace himself.....

 

Oh aye i know exactly where you are. Shite memory for faces, names, events but city layouts/locations? Im rainman. I found bristol....ok. Maybe it was a victim of my high expectations but i liked it a bit less than i expected to. Prefer Manchester, Belfast, Newcastle as random visits. The indoor market with the food area is class tho - good shawarma!

 

Yeah I've been just down there . Usual shite shopping centres, some cobbles a d backstreets- v nice. London prices though. Student girls everywhere. Daft creatures but beautiful. I had a look at the Tesco's built into the sandstone on Clare Street. Fierce breeze coming down that road. A lot cooler than London in the méteo sense of the word.

Had a look into Bath on the way in on the train. Very pretty.

Train itself was very reasonable. £28 one way.

 

I love Bristol, great city. Bath is really nice too, Irish, agreed.

 

I know you're not such a degenerate booze hound as me but Cornubia is good for a pint, if you're nearby. Best I found in bristol, classic no nonsense ingerlish boozer, great real ale selection, beer garden, feng shui, probably frequented by geezers with peg legs at one point

 

I just walked up a place called Windmill Hill which is the master of any hill I've walked up since Glasgow. Fuck me.....I could feel my left hip jamming closed.

I just passed through a place near King Street with seemingly endless garden benches and pint glasses and said to myself "Huts Scene"

I'll passed through a little park that had a genuine Calais-style tent city in it and open weed smoking..

Lot of Welsh names here too.

 

From a distance Bath looks very very nice . Bristol has an awful lot of roadworks going on right now and it has a feeling of 1980s Dublin too it. Decline with a veneer of Empire but the potential for something better. Cobbles, dust, drunks, pubs, streets named after wankers and brutes.

 

Aye, Bristol did remind me of Dublin in that its mostly a Georgian city rather than victorian/edwardian like Glasgow & Manchester. Lots of nice brick townhouses and purely palladian set piece architecture: less ecclectic, transatlantic, industrial or gothic stuff and generally a few floors smaller. A more genteel vibe if also a bit less urban drama.

 

Speaking of pubs...

Jimmy, Slice...WTF

the snug hounslow - Google Search

The Wishing Well/Tommy Flynn's/The Cromwell/The Snug permanently closed.

It looked like it was doing well as The Snug last time I was there.

 

That place was always so bad it weirdly made it an enjoyable experience

 

I had forgotten that between Tommy Flynn's & the Cromwell, it was called The Lamplighter. It may have helped if they didn't change the name every eighteen months. AND if they didn't name a pub that's around 50% Irish or Irish blood patrons, THE CROMWELL. Jesus, I grew up half the world away and could have told them that was a terrible idea.

I actually liked that place. It was the meeting spot for The Hounds of Hounslow in '14 & '17. I had some interesting conversations there over the years.

 

It's not permanently closed. I was there on Friday night for a couple. It's still called The Lamplighter and still attracts the whacky locals of Hounslow.