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Yeah yeah I know but some of us are ardent followers. :ROFLMAO:

England match scheduled kick off 1am so should I stay up? Maybe but knocked it on the head at 12.30 am when they announced at least an hour delay so off to bed. Came down at 06.45 ready for the re run at 7 to be greeted by my wife exclaiming "they won". :oops: despite the fact I'd told her yesterday I wouldn't be watching live and she's well aware I don't like to know the result in advance. My calm, measured reply was "thanks for that" and you should have seen her face but at least I stopped her telling me how many goals and she's been tiptoeing around me all day. She's probably worried that when Come Dancing, Traitors etc come on the telly I'll get my own back. The thought never crossed my mind. 😏

Women.....ARGH
 
started an hour later here so I recorded it, avoided my phone and tv first thing this morning and sat and watched it with my daughters after I walked the dog. Saturday will be an 11pm KO so will stay up,
 
AndyP said:
started an hour later here so I recorded it, avoided my phone and tv first thing this morning and sat and watched it with my daughters after I walked the dog. Saturday will be an 11pm KO so will stay up,
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It was a hell of a game Andy, couldn't take your eyes off it for a second. They looked completely knackered at the end, good job it didnt go to extra time.
 
If we could get Starmer to ring Infantini, do you think we could have that red card rescinded?

Wrong shaped ball for me......
 
I'm no football fan but do tend to watch England games, the late start meant I didn't bother with this one though.

Last week I got an email from my sons secondary school saying that because of the late England match the pupils didn't have to be in school until 11:30am on Monday morning, school would open at the normal time but the kids could have a lie in and come in later if they wanted.

My son begrudgingly got the 8am bus as normal and said there were only 2 of them in his first lesson.

I know football is important to a lot of people but I was surprised at the school having the morning off for a match that wasn't even quarter-finals.
 
I detest sport full stop
I will watch WRC ghoulishly for crashes and breakdowns but thats it.
As for football I cringe when they send a news reporter to a pub and
interview " fans" ( the fairweather idiots who wouldnt normally be there) who then erupt into deliberately toneless and slightly self-concious yob-bawling.

But England vs Argentina ?
No pressure there then !!!
 
Never been enthusiastic about sport - probably because of the sports master we had while at boarding school in Germany as an 11 yr old (father in the British Army and stationed there)... cross country runs in winter... bloody freezing and getting back to the changing room blue 🥶.

However, I did watch the final in '66... any other games after never came close. Over the years of doing falconry I was grateful that so many thousands went to football matches rather than taking up activities in the countryside 😎.

If England get to the final I'll no doubt feel I should give up 90 minutes to watch them play... and 🤞they win. BUT... what I'll NOT be looking to watch is the however long the pre match discussions take before a ball is actually KICKED...
 
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Never been enthusiastic about sport - probably because of the sports master we had while at boarding school in Germany as an 11 yr old (father in the British Army and stationed there)... cross country runs in winter... bloody freezing and getting back to the changing room blue 🥶.

However, I did watch the final in '66... any other after games never came close. Over the years of doing falconry I was grateful that so many thousands went to football matches rather than taking up activities in the countryside 😎.

If England get to the final I'll no doubt feel I should give up 90 minutes to watch them play... and 🤞they win. BUT... what I'll NOT be looking to watch is the however long the pre match discussions take before a ball is actually KICKED...
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Well, at least they got rid of the ghastly Linneker
 
Why do those who hate sport and football especially seem to know plenty about it and must have watched some? Were they chained to a chair with the remote control out of reach by any chance? ;) Doesn't apply to Rob who can't spell Wimbledon so can't have watched. :ROFLMAO:

I hate to tell you fellas but the BBC is about to screen wall to wall coverage of the Open golf next week. :whistle: Should we open a complaint thread now in advance?
 
Possibly because of the interruptions to regular TV programmes that get cancelled when there are *dedicated SPORTS channels* 🤔 ??? Even if they are Sky Pay to View! And those LONG LEAD UPS by the "commentators" ... anyone would think they where planning some expedition to the moon or Mars 😎

Possibly, know 'plenty' by default from when visiting friends and they want to watch the football on TV rather than spend time with the visitors, shout at the screen at the ref for not seeing this or that foul, handball, trip, push, or the other team that they don't support... bit like my gran used to do when the WWW wrestling used to be on television... Hulk Hogan and such (miss my gran and being with her when she did this 😀🤣)...

You left out the Darts at the Crucible on recently - AND the horse racing 😎...

All in fun Bob... all in fun... (but some do get a tad *excited* 🤣 )
 
I was pulling your chain Frank as you probably guessed. ;)

I follow many sports and for my sins I'm a lifelong NUFC supporter, played a bit of football, cricket (gave that up when I was out for a duck), a lot of golf, bit of running and even playing with an oddly shaped ball that bounces unpredictably, been to a few of those matches as well and on top of that I follow F1. :rolleyes:

I agree completely, too much TV coverage and far too much money injected from media because of it and I also hate most of the preamble and then autopsy usually by ex players who can't even talk properly, Wayne Rooney being a prime example

I didn't watch the tennis, don't watch the darts and as for horse racing :rolleyes: but fully understand how they appeal to others. I won't watch fly on the wall progs, strictly come prancing or "documentories" on the trials and tribulations of so called celebs like Katy Priceless.

The one thing I would say is that there are many people who rely on TV as an important part of their life. I meet up with several ex golfing partners every few weeks for a coffee, all in their 90s and most on their own now and without TV stimulous a couple of them would be brain dead.
My father was largely confined to a reclining chair for the last few years of his life, oxygen by his side and very limited mobility so TV became his life. The downside was he became an expert on every damn subject under the sun and loved an argument. :ROFLMAO:
 
Likewise back at ya Bob - as you'll have realised 🤣 Fun to have a chuckle 😃

Being at various schools with dad being in the armed forces and sent here there every three years or so (2 different areas/camps in Germany) and attending Army schools, Sports in those days were heavily used - mainly rugby, cricket, football and basketball, running... all covered while at the boarding school.

Played footie, usually left wing. Scored a goal from a corner kick ... ball curved into the far corner of the top of the goal 😍 - didn't get picked for the team 😠. Soon after I started to get a stich while running, I'd slipped on a bit of grit in the road while trying to run/jump to get on the pavement and hit the kerbside - cracked two ribs...

Cricket as BS... seemed I was the only one that knew which side to approach the wicket to bowl from... still didn't get picked out for the team - maybe my running skills after the cracked ribs?

Rugby... mmmm! We had a BIG lad in the opposite side. BIG! He had the ball, running up the side, no-one would tackle him as he ran past them so, muggins here, did... arms round his legs, brought him down and got cracked on my chin by his boots... yep... painful but he didn't score 😎.

Basketball... loved playing that game. Was good at it to! Until the ball bounced up and hit the tip of my right middle finger... bent it right back. Had to strap it up for a number of weeks... The tip of that finger now bends over to the left at that joint.

Guess I'm a tad accident prone sometimes?

All fun... 🤣😂🤣
 
Lurker said:
My dear old Dad was a FA official at the 1966 final, what would be called the fourth official these days. I spent the whole game hoping that the referee or a linesman would get injured. 🙂
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It was certainly a great game... had me, literally, on the edge of my seat...
 
AndyP said:
I wonder how many more local pubs would have closed this summer without the extra revenue generated by sporting events?
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They ran out of beer a couple of times in Newcastle Andy though come to think of it that's not uncommon, any excuse for a p*ssup
 
Lons said:
Why do those who hate sport and football especially seem to know plenty about it and must have watched some? Were they chained to a chair with the remote control out of reach by any chance? ;) Doesn't apply to Rob who can't spell Wimbledon so can't have watched. :ROFLMAO:

I hate to tell you fellas but the BBC is about to screen wall to wall coverage of the Open golf next week. :whistle: Should we open a complaint thread now in advance?
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You forgot the Commonwealth Games coming shortly Bob, which means ear to ear, non-stop runnin' n'jumpin' til bloody Christmas😥 Just to change tack slightly, I've just finished reading 'The Boys in the Boat' recently made in a film directed by George Clooney and as usual, the book is infinitely better than the film (and that's good as well). It tells the really gripping, true story of the 1936 mens rowing eight who won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in front of Adolf Hitler. The team came from Seattle and were mostly dirt poor, brought up in the Depression of 1930's America but they overcame all their innumerable problems and difficulties to make what their coach said was the best eight he'd ever produced.

It's staggering to find out that the stroke oar was suffering from pneumonia during the final but he found the inner strength to pull 44 strokes per minute for the last hundred metres or so of the race.

What makes the book even better is that the shells (boats) were all hand built by an Englishman called George Pocock who built the best racing craft in the early part of the 20th cent...one was even ordered by Oxford for the Boat Race! There's plenty of detailed information in the book describing how he went about building the shells and the timber he used, mostly from the West Coast of the USA and Canadia.


The US boat in the far lane was trailing in last place but ultimately won! Forget your namby-pamby footie and read the book - Rob

Edit - there's a cunning pun in the post somewhere🤣
 
RogerS said:
I never thought I’d read Lons and ‘I did a bit of running’ in the same sentence :ROFLMAO:
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Cheeky begger, I vividly remember running up the slope at your last gaff with a huge length of very heavy timber on my shoulder and from memory you were left behind puffing and panting. :ROFLMAO:

I am going back a long long way. At school I ran in the county cross country championships, never good enough to win of course and for years I ran five or six miles every day mostly twice a day along the canal near Beverley. I also often ran the 3 miles to the squash courts a couple of times a week and then mostly limped back after playing. I was lighter, fitter and of course no dodgy knees in those days.

Talking of knees, apparently the X-rays confirm the expected wear and tear but pain is apparently from calcium crystals deposits. They call it CPPD (pseudogout). So apparently I can't even afford "proper" gout and have to make do with the fake version FFS :rolleyes:
 
AndyP said:
I wonder how many more local pubs would have closed this summer without the extra revenue generated by sporting events?
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Better to get the actual figures verified.
But not by the Royal Family Are Excellent Value for Money Institute of Economics😉

Lons said:
Why do those who hate sport and football especially seem to know plenty about it and must have watched some?
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Nope never watched it - wouldn't know one end of a football bat from the other.
A mate forced me to go to a local match with him years ago to try and change my mind.He failed.:(Ninety minutes later we drifted apart......

But its the Argentina thing that caught my interest- Goose Green Revisited if the football match isn't allowed to get in the way.
I doubt many England supporters currently over there would be old enough to remember let alone care, but the populist figures in Buenos Aires have been rabble-rousing for decades.

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@fuse Unless you/they look up Linneker, his pod cast I believe?, and his mention of the Falkland Islands being the Isla Malvina - as the Argentinians call them!

I'll now no longer mention anything political in this area 🤐
 
Rowing vid was very interesting. The 8 looks puny compared with modern day athletes. Not a huge footie or team sports fan at all, but I like the TdeF and I am really hoping Keeley Hodgkinson breaks the 800m world record this year.
 
Lons said:
Cheeky begger, I vividly remember running up the slope at your last gaff with a huge length of very heavy timber on my shoulder and from memory you were left behind puffing and panting. :ROFLMAO:

I am going back a long long way. At school I ran in the county cross country championships, never good enough to win of course and for years I ran five or six miles every day mostly twice a day along the canal near Beverley. I also often ran the 3 miles to the squash courts a couple of times a week and then mostly limped back after playing. I was lighter, fitter and of course no dodgy knees in those days.

Talking of knees, apparently the X-rays confirm the expected wear and tear but pain is apparently from calcium crystals deposits. They call it CPPD (pseudogout). So apparently I can't even afford "proper" gout and have to make do with the fake version FFS :rolleyes:
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Not to worry, Bob, as they give you pseudo-medicine for it.:)
 
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Didn't mention that I took up coarse fishing did I 🤔😎
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Considering your other mishaps what happened, did you fall in or get a hook through your nose? :ROFLMAO:

Never appealed to me, I've been a fly fisherman most of my life. Have caught the odd coarse fish on a fly though, most recently a couple of decent sized perch.
 
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