football quotes, humour and guff

Plenty guff from Sid Waddell in the cracking darts final, the highlight of which must be:

“He’s (Barney) running in plimsolls but Taylor is wearing jet-propelled MOCCASINS!”

Spotter’s badge Neil Ardiff

Football pundits eh? What selfless reserves of human generosity gets these learned men to give weekly of their accumulated knowledge and experience? Read the rest of this entry »

The’re all out to get Arsene these days aren’t they? But this latest trick of fate is a low blow indeed:

“You can see that the team is taking off but we were punished for going two goals behind.”

There is no such f**king thing as the “Super Sixteen” round of the Champions League. That is all.

Just another regular week’s work for Eamon Dunphy:

Sir Fergie was a “liar and a disgrace” for employing and condoning “wicked” “cheating diver” Ronaldo. Read the rest of this entry »

Since current European Champions Barcelona have failed again to convince the RTE jury, can we once and for all compile a definitive list of the mythical XIs that Eamo and Gilesy deem worthy of the ultimate epithet “real teams”. Read the rest of this entry »

Record Irish goalscorer Henrik Larsson’s surprise arrival at Ireland A after his earlier spell at Ireland B has certainly startled the pundits. Even that most well-researched of International football observers John Giles was bamboozled into a rare moment of factual uncertainty: Read the rest of this entry »

“We do not have any basic problem apart from the fact we have not got
enough points, and that is a big problem.”

Spotter’s badge Seamus Hempenstall

Newsflash: the lusitania is in a bit of bother. RTE will soon be all over the story, once researchers calm down after breaking the scoop of the evening just eleven minutes after the final whistle in Ireland v Ireland tonight. Proud Gaels everywhere will remember forever where they were when Billo breathlessly announced… Read the rest of this entry »

Up for grabs a fetching “Battle” t-shirt, appropriately crafted in the likeness of Spurs’ away kit Read the rest of this entry »