Blades fans needed for Soccer AM

[Blade56]

Geof Druett and Marylin Webb coloured it in. (Joke Circa 1975)

I read that and seriously considered hitting the "Report" button

 

[pommpey]

Not a fan of the show?

I used to be. Hells Bells was a refreshing bit of football-related totty who you could see was an actual 'fan' (and could head a ball). Lovejoy was so consumed with himself and Chelsea and the connective tissue between his understanding that everyone thought he was a cunt except him was there to be seen. The catwalk, Road to Wembley, some of the sketches, Vengaboys, even all the way up to 'unbeleeeebabull tekkehs' was pretty novel and fresh. Then the big joke left, and they have drafted in uncharismatic bloke after uncharismatic bloke. Now they have Venners back, don't they. Chamberlain suddenly got rich from poker (and looks like she's lost interest entirely) and the whole fucking thing is cliched, boring and try-hard blokey. The guests are tedious and talk more about their new record, programme, film or book and not enough about football. They all look like they come into the office on a Monday and instead of it firing well and looking like chaos until 9am (as it used to be) on Saturday and going like clockwork, they struggle to find the most entertaining thing to stretch over ten shows until it is milked flat as a witches tit. I blame Tubes. That fucking one-question thing was as funny as a popped pile, and he knew it. Apparently he's a bit 'large' about himself (or was) and his 'fame'. Yeah. Fame.

PS I declined to be in HMS Endurance's crossbar challenge in Antarctica, ten years ago.

pommpey

 

[Rodders]

I used to be. Hells Bells was a refreshing bit of football-related totty who you could see was an actual 'fan' (and could head a ball). Lovejoy was so consumed with himself and Chelsea and the connective tissue between his understanding that everyone thought he was a cunt except him was there to be seen. The catwalk, Road to Wembley, some of the sketches, Vengaboys, even all the way up to 'unbeleeeebabull tekkehs' was pretty novel and fresh. Then the big joke left, and they have drafted in uncharismatic bloke after uncharismatic bloke. Now they have Venners back, don't they. Chamberlain suddenly got rich from poker (and looks like she's lost interest entirely) and the whole fucking thing is cliched, boring and try-hard blokey. The guests are tedious and talk more about their new record, programme, film or book and not enough about football. They all look like they come into the office on a Monday and instead of it firing well and looking like chaos until 9am (as it used to be) on Saturday and going like clockwork, they struggle to find the most entertaining thing to stretch over ten shows until it is milked flat as a witches tit. I blame Tubes. That fucking one-question thing was as funny as a popped pile, and he knew it. Apparently he's a bit 'large' about himself (or was) and his 'fame'. Yeah. Fame.

PS I declined to be in HMS Endurance's crossbar challenge in Antarctica, ten years ago.

pommpey

I've not seen it this season but it's been cut back to 1hr 30 now from the 2 1/2 hours it used to be. Last seasons with the new bloke was excruciatingly bad. The guy before, Max Rushden was OK I thought.

 

[South London Blade]

I'd rather go swimming at Michael Barrymore's house.

 

[sitwell]

Why do you all want it binning ? ,Its a football show ,you don't have to watch it ,I probably see it twice a season but at least its there and its on TV. Would you prefer another cooking programme or another skank/smackrat programme where they pretend to care what happens in their lives ? Why is everyones reaction to something they don't like to get rid of it and fuck anyone else ?

 

[Ecco1889]

but can Tim name 2 ramones albums.......

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

I've not seen it this season but it's been cut back to 1hr 30 now from the 2 1/2 hours it used to be. Last seasons with the new bloke was excruciatingly bad. The guy before, Max Rushden was OK I thought.

Worst than new run I'd Are You Being Served . Porridge .

Just way way past its sell by date to point real football fans just don't watch it . Unless it's a case that it is not aimed at the original punter who used to watch it , and aimed at a much younger audience . Would be interesting what the viewing ratings are or were , if a thing actually exist . Just boring and pointless .

Wonder if Statto knows , but they even bombed him.

Lovejoy thought he had the same status as a Chelski footballer and believed his own publicity a bit like Keys and Gray . What happened to them.

UTB

 

[UnitedBlade]

Used to be essential viewing in the early years but haven't turned it on in ages.

Max Rushden at least had a feel for the absolute joy of amateur football. I played many years in the Southern Amateur league when I lived in London and absolutely loved it. His piece in the Guardian is a superb tribute to the game we all adore.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/apr/17/max-rushden-joys-of-amateur-football

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

Used to be essential viewing in the early years but haven't turned it on in ages.

Max Rushden at least had a feel for the absolute joy of amateur football. I played many years in the Southern Amateur league when I lived in London and absolutely loved it. His piece in the Guardian is a superb tribute to the game we all adore.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/apr/17/max-rushden-joys-of-amateur-football

Had a long chat with Max Rushden who works at Talk Sport in Paris Gardens and played 5 aside across the road from there offices until building works got in progress .

He even thinks it's not got the freshness , anything goes attitude it used to have , as times change , move on , tastes come different , soccerette sexist. .Perhaps the audience has changed and is not a cult programme , but just now main stream .
Not my cup of tea , but I am a moaning , pinnercky , hard to please old fucker . Lovejoy still a wanker .

 

[Kabba Kabba Doo]

I find it cringey these days, I wouldn't say cancel it but it needs a complete overhaul, including getting rid of Hells bells, possibly replaced by Rachael Riley maybe since sky seems to have got a hard on for her at the minute! Get rid of Tubes, Rocket and co and replace with a new fresh team and turn it back into a football show!

 

[pommpey]

It's never by accident, profanity is the lubricant of language.

The emolient of expression.

Fucking mooch it is.

pommpey

 

[Grecian2000]

Why do you all want it binning ? ,Its a football show ,you don't have to watch it ,I probably see it twice a season but at least its there and its on TV. Would you prefer another cooking programme or another skank/smackrat programme where they pretend to care what happens in their lives ? Why is everyones reaction to something they don't like to get rid of it and fuck anyone else ?

I agree and disagree in equal measure here Sitters. I've only seen it many moons ago and decided, even back in its hey day, it certainly wasn't for me (I must have been too old even back then!). Would that make it a candidate for the chop though? Not really. Certainly not, as you say, to be replaced by some more Home Improvements.
However, what if the channel has x number of hours to put football shows on and this shite is taking up 25% of that airtime. Wouldn't it be better to fill that 25% with good football stuff instead?

Take the beeb. When I were a lad you got bugger all and then along came BBC2 and Kenny W and here's MOTD. Blinding. Half an hour a week, swiftly followed my Sam Leitch and football focus and you've now got three quarters of an hour.
Wind forward to today. What is there now, 6 hours? Perhaps not even that.
You've got MOTD, MOTD2, MOTD Extra (or whatever it's called) and Football focus. A huge increase in time but (with the loss of the Football League show) so heavily biased toward Premier League that it has become overkill (in my view supporting a team light years from that arena).
So, what do we get this last couple of weeks? A new footy show on the beeb called "The Premier League Show". Now, whilst I might applaud the fact we've got another 30 minutes on terrestrial TV, how much more interested/likely to watch would I be if it had been lower or none league based? Loads!

All for football on TV, just wish there were better shows.

 

[pommpey]

Why do you all want it binning ? ,Its a football show ,you don't have to watch it ,I probably see it twice a season but at least its there and its on TV. Would you prefer another cooking programme or another skank/smackrat programme where they pretend to care what happens in their lives ? Why is everyones reaction to something they don't like to get rid of it and fuck anyone else ?

To be honest, I watch Saturday Kitchen these days anyway, even with the ineptitude (but gorgeousness) of Lorraine Pascale at the helm. I can't bear to see the likes of Rocket and co trying to prevent some third rate wheeze fail hard and hear the assembled camera crew and clip board carrying media grads masquerading as 'producers' peal into forced laughter just to sustain some sort of credibility to their thin humour. It used to be funny. It isn't now. The guests are tenuous, self-promoting bore-fests, the skits stink of cheese and any connection it used to have with football and its fans went when Lovejoy went. So many catchphrases came from that show at it's peak. Now there are none, which is a marker for it's fading marketability.

pommpey

 

[mattbianco1]

I used to watch this show religiously. It was what Saturday mornings were made for. Sit there hung over, watch soccer am then drag yourself to the pub for more beer and SUFC.

Then Tim Lovejoy left and the show went downhill faster than Roger Rabbit, on a banana skin, pushing Baby Herman's pram down the apartment steps in Toontown

 

[S5Blade]

Worst than new run I'd Are You Being Served . Porridge .

Just way way past its sell by date to point real football fans just don't watch it . Unless it's a case that it is not aimed at the original punter who used to watch it , and aimed at a much younger audience . Would be interesting what the viewing ratings are or were , if a thing actually exist . Just boring and pointless .

Wonder if Statto knows , but they even bombed him.

Lovejoy thought he had the same status as a Chelski footballer and believed his own publicity a bit like Keys and Gray . What happened to them.

UTB

They make a fortune as pundits for non-uk sport channels covering the premier league... Think its BEIN Sports or someone similar.....

 

[sitwell]

but can Tim name 2 ramones albums.......

That was a shitty question to be fair ,I love the Ramones ,but after Ramone ,Its Alive and Rocket to Russia I would have to resort to looking at my cds ,their albums don't have names that spring out.. just remembered End of the Century and Road to ruin

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

I'd rather appear on Crimewatch in connection with sheep shagging.

I got three months.
Out after one.
Was around for the "lambing" season....

Spreading the seeds of love is one of my many joys....

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

To make it more interesting we should nominate people and give a reason. Eg. Tyler Durden because he wouldn't let us down by accidentally swearing or LYDON because he would talk sense an confuse them.

I'll have my hair done..
"More powder lovey...."

X

 

[blade too long]

A show which should have been shitcanned years ago. Helen Chamberlain sitting embarrassed through rehashed old material which used to be funny ... in 2001, with daft cunts like Tubes trying to rid himself of that laugh a century 'rap-ting' he did with the questions and Rocket, who is closing in on his pension.

What pissed me off more was they'd have all sorts of truculent indie boys fresh from last nights e's and pills fest plugging their derivative, jangly guitar shit album who, when questioned, 'didn't really have a favourite football team' and you can tell never kicked a fucking bald tennis ball around a wet school yard at their £30k prep school in Wiltshire.

Unfortunately, the show lost it's charm when Lovejoy believed he was actually bigger than SoccerAM, asked for a payrise and fucked off thinking he was the new Chris Evans. The joke was on him, and he didn't know it.

Fuck SoccerAM, almost as much as that abortion League football show on Channel 5 and its superannoying theme tune.

pommpey

unlike pompey to moan about things
must be bad

I lost interest in it , when we got drawn away at walsall in the jpt trophy
fixed

 

[ghandi]

Geoff Druett

About ten years ago he sat in the same row as me on a flight to Skiathos. He was the only bloke on the plane wearing a sports jacket and reading a broadsheet so asked if he was working but it turned out he was off on hos hols like everyone else.

 

[Blade56]

Some blades on Football a.m. Now, anyone we know?

 

[Esablade]

Some blades on Football a.m. Now, anyone we know?
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Sam Morsy, centre right!?!?

 

[Whiston Blade]

Always liked the white Laver away shirt.

 

[breeny]

Anybody we know?

 

[breeny]

Richard Ashcroft acting like a bit of a has been

 

[Bladesman]

Richard Ashcroft acting like a bit of a has been

I don't mind some of his new music.

Although I think he must get sick of being asked about the bitter sweet symphony music video all the time.

 

[Jonboy60]

Some blades on Football a.m. Now, anyone we know?
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Fukin hope not.

 

[breeny]

Guy with the glasses looked a decent finisher

 

[S20Eddie]

Fair play to Tubes for giving the lads the fight tickets but someone really needs to have a word with the kid doing the serving.

 

[stringjunior]

Always liked the white Laver away shirt.

Wore it to the Wembley defeat against palace. Still can't stand Hopkin