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That’s exactly what we did in 2016 and there were dinlos on here defending it.

Check out the last "joke" could this not be considered sexist and misogynistic? I mean one of Bob Monkhouses jokes was about getting a horse for his wife being a fair swap, joking that your wife has fallen off a motorbike is surely worse? At very least wives and mother in law jokes are definitely "of that era" which seems to be considered offensive by some when it suits them

Is the first joke on the Crap Jokes thread funny or offensive ? If the 'N' word is now off limits an I allowed to watch Richard Prior ?

You have no soul.

I want us to go strong for this, as surely we do have a chance, albeit a slim one. We arent some League One/Two team who are just here for a fun day out and play teams like this once every 100 years. We were in the same division as them (and have been most seasons) until last summer. Only 10 months ago we drew 0-0 at home to Man City and lost narrowly (1-2 to an 89th min Odegaard goal) to Arsenal themselves. We are probably the best team in the division below them on current form, and definitely have more momentum/confidence than when we last played them, and I dont think our team is much weaker than it was back in May to be honest (certainly not mentally). I dont expect us to win, but surely we do have a (slim) chance and have to go for it big time. Unfortunately, I think Flynn Downes is eactly the sort of player we need in the middle of the park for a game like this (grit, determination, drive, aggression - we cant be soft and let them play their game), so its such a shame he's missing this one, which makes our chances slimmer.

The two men who were arrested have now been released on bail. Assumption being that there wasn't enough evidence to charge them at this time, and therefore probably for the best that their identities were not relseased.

It's because to the people who run these clubs, who are simply parasitic capitalists out to make as much money as possible out of businesses that happen to be football clubs, that getting the money for being in the competition every year is far more important than silly secondary concerns like the sporting glory of actually winning it. Their decisions all make sense as soon as you view it through the same non-sporting lens that they do where it's simply about what balance of income and investment will make them personally the most money before they bail and go and do something else. They couldn't give a toss about trivialities like winning things. It's why modern professional football is fucked. The primary concern of most people involved with it now is just how much money they can generate from it, and that trumps everything. While that's sad, you can sort of understand from a selfish point of view if you put yourself in the shoes of those businessmen or players or agents or whatever who have the opportunity to personally make themselves or their families millions. What's weird though is like you say when the fans start talking like that as well, even though they don't actually see any of that money.

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Ive just posted the same, I hadnt realised youd beaten me to it. Stood in with the WHU fans as 10 year old and cheered like mad but they were good as gold, I never felt threatened but I was a kid. Im fairly certain it was Jimmy Greaves with the dodgy pen but I have been wrong in the past lol

Tommy Jenkins away at WHU circa 1969/70?, he went on an amazing dribble and beat 5 or 6 players before slotting it home. Jimmy Greaves scored an equalizer with a penalty.

He holds the ball up well and is a strong battler but he's crazy slow at times and looks laboured, in summary not amazing not terrible but light years ahead of Archer

I just hope Downes comments about some of the players struggling to get themselves up for the West Brom game after the high of playing Fulham don’t influence the team selection. We have to go full strength.

Adam Armstrong v Leeds at Wembley, 2024 😉

Good memories. I missed most of Le Tissier's best ones in-person but did see an early direct free kick v QPR in 1990 so I'll count that. And I was at the last game at The Dell and that was special. Certainly no love lost for this player but the best skill I've been present for could well be Osvaldo v Man City. Crazy player, crazy goal.

I've not seen any full line ups anywhere... As you say, they've only trickle fed news of players taking part... Feels to me like they've underbaked the publicity on this match somewhat... The list of players they've announced so far is actually quite impressive, so it's a tad odd that they've not published full squad lists yet (nor a programme / timetable of the day's events, AFAIK) in order to tempt more fans to come along.

I don't think there's any situation where we won't go strong, we cannot think of going weak or resting players - even against their second string. If you step off it and go with a weaker side, lose heavily, it just crashes out any momentum. I agree with others views that this ''play the kids in the cup, focus on the league'' is such a defeatist approach in my eyes. It's not just us, I've seen Newcastle and Villa fans suggesting going weaker in the European comps (when they were in them) to concentrate on the league, so they could qualify for Europe next season. Make that make sense. As fans we've been indulged by the finances of football, it's not for us to worry about - we're the fans, all we can judge success on is winning silverware - surely? Modern fan bases seem more bothered about achieving a 'Positive net spend' or a '15th' place finish so we get £2m extra, rather than actually going all out for a bit of silverware. Quarter finals don't come around too often, European runs don't come around too often (for clubs like us), so let's just grab the chance.

It has to be. As a fanbase we're realistic, if Arsenal turn up and play as they have this season they'll more than likely beat us. But we take hope from games like their draw at Wolves and Mansfield gave them a good game in the last round, magic of the Cup and all that. Very few tickets remain for this game, expect it will sell out by end of the week.

Sure it has been mentioned in the depths of this post, but the goal music, unnecessary and fucking awful! Did they have Mr Motivator as a consultant on that one.

Ground will be about half full i reckon, maybe bit less 13-15k at a guess. Chapel hasn't been opened. Itchen Centre blocks sold to Saints fans and middle blocks of Northam. Centre blocks of Kingsland say "Man Utd End" if you select one of those seats, not sure if people realise that. None of the corners have been on sale. Have they actually confirmed the two teams that will be playing? I've seen a few names added here and there but not one list?

Play to win, full strength team please. They won't fancy a trip down here. If we go out we go out with our heads held high and if we win then it's on to the semi.

You said people on this forum would be filming acts of peaodphila from behind a mirror you said other posters would be weeding out the ones who were too old, too ugly and muslims, Your post was so abhorrent you were condemned by everyone who read it and the thread was deleted. It was described as one of the most disgusting posts ever read on this forum, which is some achievement., No apology, no thought that maybe you got it wrong. You defended and continue to defend someone caught with indecent images of children as "not the crime of the century" Yet you continue to criticise other posters, you continue to preach and be pious whilst holding these views, along with your views on domestic violence and your racist comments, meanwhile saying people who pull you up on it are stalkers. Alll these things togther it's not a good look for you is it?

Would you laugh at a joke using the n word? There are plenty of things we laughed at in the 70’s but we wouldn’t dream of laughing at now. Bob Monkhouse was of that era. We have no idea about the content of the book, but someone has made the call that some of the jokes could be seen as offensive now.

In his first game for us I noticed that he was very vocal, organising the back four and getting messages up the park via the centre backs and defensive midfielders. In those first few games the back four actually looked a bit bemused, but clearly the positive effect has been revolutionary. The best goalkeepers we have had at SFC were communicators who went the extra mile in terms of bravery - Peretz brings this.

Oh dear, here we go again. Just when I think that nutty nic is the dimmest poster in here, up you pop. My comment was made in relation to the fact that the BBC ran the Edwards story as the main feature every day for the best part of a week. Now perhaps you agree with the BBC News editor that the story was the most important news item both nationally and internationally for the best part of a week? I don’t. After a day or two there was no reason to continue use it as the lead story. It seems to me that the BBC overreacted because they were scared of the kick back from anti BBC types. As for the not the crime of the century comment, it clearly wasn’t. As abhorrent as being in possession of indecent chill images is, it is not considered, under the law, as serious as murder. That is why murder cases are tried in the Crown Court and attract longer sentences and the case that he was charged with was heard in the Magistrate’s Court. As said, he received a suspended sentence. If he had committed a more serious act under the law, do you think he would have avoided a custodial sentence? I have explained this all previously. Clearly it went over both your and your mate’s (hypochondriac) heads. As regards disturbing behaviour, following people around on the internet on a daily basis and desperately trying to score points off them by dredging up long past posts and twisting them into something they weren’t seems to me to be disturbing behaviour. You even managed to drag another poster’s wives into one of your stalky posts a while back! At a time when the misuse of social media is coming under such scrutiny, you might like to consider the fact that someone your age really should not be using public forums to deal with your own personal insecurities and issues.

Well of course you do.