Banter

[Kop Cat]

As well as the actual football being sterile and seemingly unreal what I also miss is the banter in the boozer, ( and I would be getting pelters the way United are playing), with the covid restrictions a lot of our local rival fans (round here there are Millers, Leeds, pigs and a smattering on manure) are either not bothering with the pub or have altered their drinking times and now when I go in there is hardly anyone of the usual punters to have a go at or have a go at me depending on results. The ones that are in also, like many Blades, think its pretty shite state of affairs anyway so the conversation quickly turns to fucking covid or VAR. Maybe i`m a bit masochistic cos like I say, I would be getting slaughtered at the moment, but I miss it.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

As well as the actual football being sterile and seemingly unreal what I also miss is the banter in the boozer, ( and I would be getting pelters the way United are playing), with the covid restrictions a lot of our local rival fans (round here there are Millers, Leeds, pigs and a smattering on manure) are either not bothering with the pub or have altered their drinking times and now when I go in there is hardly anyone of the usual punters to have a go at or have a go at me depending on results. The ones that are in also, like many Blades, think its pretty shite state of affairs anyway so the conversation quickly turns to fucking covid or VAR. Maybe i`m a bit masochistic cos like I say, I would be getting slaughtered at the moment, but I miss it.

Watching football in empty stadiums is awful. Sat on the settee with a beer swearing under my breath most games is a shitty new normal that I will never get used to.

 

[corner_flag]

Well this is a depressing thread. So here are some famous insults to lighten the mood:

“Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.”
Arsene Wenger’s reply to Sir Alex Ferguson in 2002 claims his side had been the best team in the Premiership.

“Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don’t remember Billy being crap.”
Tommy Docherty, the legendary football coach, on Rangers’ Italian flop Lorenzo Amoruso in 2000.

“Only if there’s an outbreak of bubonic plague.”
Giovanni Trapattoni gives a blunt answer when asked if he will select Paolo Di Canio for his Italy World Cup squad in 2004.

“The local girls are far uglier than the ones in Belgrade. Our women are far prettier and they don’t drink as much beer.”
Georgi Hristov, of Macedonia, spoils his relationship with the locals when describing women at his new football club in Barnsley. (The photo in the local paper that followed with him surrounded by Barnsley beauties kind of proved his point, alas)

“You were a crap player, you are a crap manager. The only reason I have any dealings with you is that somehow you are manager of my country and you’re not even Irish, you English ****. You can stick it up your bollocks.”
What Roy Keane allegedly said to Mick McCarthy, the Ireland manager, that got him sent home from the 2002 World Cup.

 

[Gimli]

Well this is a depressing thread. So here are some famous insults to lighten the mood:

“Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.”
Arsene Wenger’s reply to Sir Alex Ferguson in 2002 claims his side had been the best team in the Premiership.

“Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don’t remember Billy being crap.”
Tommy Docherty, the legendary football coach, on Rangers’ Italian flop Lorenzo Amoruso in 2000.

“Only if there’s an outbreak of bubonic plague.”
Giovanni Trapattoni gives a blunt answer when asked if he will select Paolo Di Canio for his Italy World Cup squad in 2004.

“The local girls are far uglier than the ones in Belgrade. Our women are far prettier and they don’t drink as much beer.”
Georgi Hristov, of Macedonia, spoils his relationship with the locals when describing women at his new football club in Barnsley. (The photo in the local paper that followed with him surrounded by Barnsley beauties kind of proved his point, alas)

“You were a crap player, you are a crap manager. The only reason I have any dealings with you is that somehow you are manager of my country and you’re not even Irish, you English ****. You can stick it up your bollocks.”
What Roy Keane allegedly said to Mick McCarthy, the Ireland manager, that got him sent home from the 2002 World Cup.

The last one, as hilarious as it is if true, still carries a tinge of disappointment when I think about the potential of ROI in that 2002 WC (with Roy Keane of course)

 

[bypassblade]

Watching football in empty stadiums is awful. Sat on the settee with a beer swearing under my breath most games is a shitty new normal that I will never get used to.

I could not agree more it's awful with empty stadiums only thing in my favour is I'm very deaf, so cannot hear TV anyway but I know some of commentators are rank. I don't swear under my breath there's only me and wife and it comes out nice & loud, I agree though no fans is a sure fire way to kill football & I don't care how rich PL are they are not a money pit.

 

[JPBrods]

It's shit. The only matchday "banter" you find these days is on twitter, and consists entirely of 16 year olds with their favourite player as their avatar, gleefully going from club account to club account with nothing more to add than "shit club, relegated"

 

[BushBlade]

Bielsa the other day before the City game. The interviewer was asking him about Guardiola’s comments on how much he was influenced by him. His reply was something like “I see nothing in Manchester City that is like how my teams play”.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Banter at work via Teams from our resident Newcastle fan. Quick as a flash, and I'm back at him: