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[Albion] Danny Welbeck.







Guinness Boy

Tofu eating wokerati
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Jul 23, 2003
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I seem to be saying it a lot recently, but this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read on this site.

Do you think emergency services have their own pubs or something? We’ve reached a point where “A man met one of he friends in a pub” is now a potential clue to some grand deception. F*ck me.
Both the guy you quoted and Swansman are that most modern of things - the foreign, internet football hipster that's never wrong. So both regard it as cheating when Brighton fans go to places like pubs and hear stuff from people in the know. How very dare they? They should be at home watching youTube videos of the Italian third division like normal people.
 






jackalbion

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Aug 30, 2011
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My point is: they treated wellbeck, which just so happens to be their last act of the day at work, which just so happens to coincide with the end of the soccer game and then they happen to go to the same bar as all the soccer fans and the spout confidential medical information....come on man!

Also that is very different from anonymized information another person was talking about. I bet those stories don't include the patients names.
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Whitechapel

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Jul 19, 2014
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Both the guy you quoted and Swansman are that most modern of things - the foreign, internet football hipster that's never wrong. So both regard it as cheating when Brighton fans go to places like pubs and hear stuff from people in the know. How very dare they? They should be at home watching youTube videos of the Italian third division like normal people.

Unfortunately it’s a disease that infests every aspect of the internet now. It’s why people are experts in Middle Eastern conflict one week (because they skimmed the Wikipedia article on Palestine) and body language experts (because they watched a true crime documentary on Netflix) the next.

Why be relatively knowledgeable about topics you actually know about when you can be an expert on every subject ever? All it requires is paddling pool depth knowledge on a subject and the arrogance to think you can’t be wrong.

That’s why outside of football I stick to my areas of expertise on here. If it’s not about a UK Hip-Hop artist only 4 people care about, cocaine dealers between Worthing and Brighton or local pubs then I keep my nose out because I don’t have a clue. And that’s okay.
 








Harry Wilson's tackle

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Oct 8, 2003
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Faversham
We all know that Danny is head and shoulders above the rest of the team.
And he's been incognito in hospital, using the name Dan Druff.
 


Sid and the Sharknados

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When did soccer/football become such a shibboleth in this country? I'm sure when I was a small child in the 90s it wasn't seen as that weird to call it soccer, and I can't imagine things like Soccer Saturday would be called that if it had been considered such a big deal, notwithstanding the obvious appeal of the alliteration.
 


raymondo

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Apr 26, 2017
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When did soccer/football become such a shibboleth in this country? I'm sure when I was a small child in the 90s it wasn't seen as that weird to call it soccer, and I can't imagine things like Soccer Saturday would be called that if it had been considered such a big deal, notwithstanding the obvious appeal of the alliteration.
I bought Soccer Star magazine weekly in about 1963
 




AZ Gull

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Oct 14, 2003
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When did soccer/football become such a shibboleth in this country? I'm sure when I was a small child in the 90s it wasn't seen as that weird to call it soccer, and I can't imagine things like Soccer Saturday would be called that if it had been considered such a big deal, notwithstanding the obvious appeal of the alliteration.
The word soccer has been regularly and consistently used in the UK for literally decades. Some people just find it a handy stick to beat the US with (because EVRYTHING about the US is VERY BAD, obviously).
 


jcdenton08

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Oct 17, 2008
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Both the guy you quoted and Swansman are that most modern of things - the foreign, internet football hipster that's never wrong. So both regard it as cheating when Brighton fans go to places like pubs and hear stuff from people in the know. How very dare they? They should be at home watching youTube videos of the Italian third division like normal people.
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Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
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Faversham
The word soccer has been regularly and consistently used in the UK for literally decades. Some people just find it a handy stick to beat the US with (because EVRYTHING about the US is VERY BAD, obviously).
I suspect it's the pronunciation.

Succour.

That eyeball-insult of a game between Palarse and Forest the other night was as far from succour as a 90 minute spectation can possibly be.

I had literally lost 15% of my soul by the time the final whistle went. It's now a horcrux in Will Hughes' kit bag.
 




Professor Plum

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Jul 27, 2024
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When did soccer/football become such a shibboleth in this country? I'm sure when I was a small child in the 90s it wasn't seen as that weird to call it soccer, and I can't imagine things like Soccer Saturday would be called that if it had been considered such a big deal, notwithstanding the obvious appeal of the alliteration.
As I’m sure most people know, soccer was the shortened term for asSOCiation football just as rugger was short for RUGby football. It was widely used in England up to the 80s or so when it suddenly became an alien word. Remember Star Soccer on TV in the 60s/70s? Became the Big Match. It’s us who have changed, not the Americans.
 






thedonkeycentrehalf

Moved back to wear the gloves (again)
Jul 7, 2003
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This feels like a very simple question but also that I'm about to be whooshed...

Japan...
I’ll be honest, I may have whooshed myself as I thought it was just a bad NSC pun and hadn’t spotted your location.
 




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