Smiley Culture

The worst night out of the year tonight. Though it seems most people I know have gone abroad or are just not doing much. Quiet one for me, I’m off to the Final of the Darts tomorrow.

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That loveable rogue and Billericay Town owner/Manager/captain/ballboy/hero Glenn Tamplin has been banned from driving for 5 months and been fined £1500.

It’s officially Christmas. The Darts are back at Ally Pally and everyone becomes a Darts nut for a few weeks. Merry Christmas

Allardyce, Pardew, Hodgson and Moyes all getting jobs at Premier League clubs this season highlights the safety first approach taken by Premier League owners in an attempt only to further line the pockets of the owner. This reduces the quality and entertainment levels of the Premier League further.

Orient have their 49th manager in a week, this time Justin Edinburgh takes the reins. Meh.

Maybe these Peruvians will join a big club like Rio Ave.

Why does every thread I see him on turn into him sucking off a load of Peruvian footballers most people have never heard of? Anyway, that Dutch second tier is mad, there's always a load of goals and both teams scoring in games there. It's a betting man's paradise.

First Round of the World's have been drawn and there's some great matches in store. Chisnall v Van der Voort, Sulojvic v Painter and Webster v Peterson three of the better ties.

No day off for this royal wedding then? The Queen might as well kill her off now.

Saw that in the week, I'm surprised he got off as lightly as he has tbh. I also noted he didn't play yesterday for 'Ricky against Harlow Town.

Merthyr Town have hit financial crisis (not for the first time) and told their first team to leave. They sent a development squad side to Chesham United today…and lost 13-1 (THIRTEEN)

I was thinking about Super League and the International game to see if I could think of a league system in the northern hemisphere that means players aren't playing too many games in a year and allows potential growth to the game at an International level and I've stolen an idea that Rugby Union has brought in in that Celtic League they have but I think it would work for Super League and International Rugby League. Here it is; Super League becomes a fourteen team competition split into two seven-team conferences. The conferences are equal and one isn't higher or lower than the other. There is no promotion or relegation between the two conferences. Each team plays the other teams in their conference twice (home and away) and each team from the opposing conference once, meaning sides play twenty-one league games before a play-off series between the top two sides from each conference, which ends in the traditional Grand Final at Old Trafford. Twenty-one league games means there are more "free" weekends in the calender which can feature the Challenge Cup fixtures but also the free weekends should see International weekends brought in to grow the game at the International stage further.

Only if you'd have a severe brain injury.

Was he? He's a fucking cabbage living off the fact he inherited a great Crewe side that had Ashley Westwood, Nick Powell and someone else who went on to a bigger club.

Hope England get trounced by France tbh (though it won't happen). Wayne Bennett's squad selection for this game is based on picking players names out of a hat I think.

England are garbage under Wayne Bennett. Luke Gale has been Space Jam'd and has seemingly had all of his talent sucked out of him by a tiny blue monster. It's such a poor tournament this time around, as well. USA, Scotland and I'd say England have regressed from the 2013 tournament, crowds have been poor and scorelines have resembled cricket scores.

Au revoir Zizou. Well behind Barca, getting drummed off Spurs at Wembley and likely to qualify from the groups in 2nd, where they could meet City or PSG.

You've never watched Rugby Union or England play football then.

Northern Hemisphere sides are getting a battering down so far and I can't really see it changing. England should beat Lebanon but then they'll get PNG, though that's no walk in the park, even in Melbourne. The rest of the northern hemisphere countries won't win a game against Southern Hemisphere sides.

You've just described 20+ years of Premier League Football in a paragraph.

Yeah, that's my point, stabbings don't make national news anymore. They're not as big headlines anymore, they're reported in local papers a lot more these days.

It's quite common really, though most stabbings don't get reported in the national press anymore.

In fairness, it was a bottle but yeah, knife crime is massive over here.

Genuinely the scariest experience of my life when I witnessed my cousin get stabbed in the ear, it sounds stupid because like, it's only an ear, but there was that much blood I couldn't tell where the wound was and a couple of inches south and we'd have lost him. Weapons are for wankers.