Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota

[SubZeroDegrees]

I'm guess I'm at fault for this fukkery

 

[yoyoyo1]

i forgot about that brilliant orange book, i bought it a few years ago right before i moved and it's been sitting stacked up somewhere ever since. wonder if its worth reading

@yoyoyo1 can i get a non-troll opinion on this, of all people in here you must've at least skimmed it

yeah you're right. it's a nice read, pretty entertaining. extremely dry when he goes into appreciation for random architects and painters from the 1500s ooo dutch art. but the soccer stories are good. love the culture stories. a bit repetitive. don't have patience to read books anymore (sad) so it's a credit i got it done in a few days.

 

[dennis roadman]

yeah you're right. it's a nice read, pretty entertaining. extremely dry when he goes into appreciation for random architects and painters from the 1500s ooo dutch culture. but the soccer stories are good.

nederphiles and actual dutch people can't help but talk about how amazing holland is

i'll pick it up one of these days

 

[yoyoyo1]

nederphiles and actual dutch people can't help but talk about how amazing holland is

i'll pick it up one of these days

i'm a casual "nederphile", love the language and want to learn it one day. brehs are like smart and happy scandinavians.

 

[dennis roadman]

i'm a casual "nederphile", love the language and want to learn it one day. brehs are like smart and happy scandinavians.

i have dutch family members and i've always enjoyed holland as a country. eredivisie is a fun arcade league and the national team is when firing on all cylinders

but they are a weird bunch

and their language is brehs sound like germans arguing in soprano

 

[yoyoyo1]

there's really a book coming out called
Arsenal: The Making of a Modern Superclub



http://www.amazon.com/Danish-Dynami...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1403580748&sr=1-1
Danish Dynamite: The Story of Football's Greatest Cult Team for your hipster needs

 

[Roaden Polynice]

I guess I might be in the minority but I absolutely loved Brilliant Orange. I remember buying it and reading the first chapter and didn't touch it for about a year, then one summer just hunkered down and powered through it and it was completely worth it.

I haven't read a soccer book in ages though, in case you were wondering and you're OFT trivia is up to snuff, I STILL haven't gotten around to reading Puskas on Puskas. One of these days.

And Bergkamp's biography has been on my Amazon wish list forever too.

But I was thinking about how much I used to read about soccer. I still read about it, but at one point I was reading every shytty column on the Guardian by all those hacks, listening to Football Weekly every week, reading all the columns on SI and every Zonal Marking post as well as The Blizzard and random books. Now even thinking about doing that it's a monumental time waste. fukk was I thinking back then?

Now I just read the Guardian rumours column, whenever Barney Ronay or Rob Smyth write something and I skim the 10 Talking Points from the weekend and actually read the comments. That's all I can dedicate nowadays.

Anyway, the point is out of all the football reading I did, the one website that actually shaped how I think about football was Surreal Football (RIP). The writing wasn't very good, and they were essentially wums for their entire run, but they let me know to not ever take it so serious.

 

[Max B]

there's really a book coming out called
Arsenal: The Making of a Modern Superclub

Woolwich has never been a superclub ...


That must been written by some delusional woolwich fan

 

[yoyoyo1]

I guess I might be in the minority but I absolutely loved Brilliant Orange. I remember buying it and reading the first chapter and didn't touch it for about a year, then one summer just hunkered down and powered through it and it was completely worth it.

I haven't read a soccer book in ages though, in case you were wondering and you're OFT trivia is up to snuff, I STILL haven't gotten around to reading Puskas on Puskas. One of these days.

And Bergkamp's biography has been on my Amazon wish list forever too.

But I was thinking about how much I used to read about soccer. I still read about it, but at one point I was reading every shytty column on the Guardian by all those hacks, listening to Football Weekly every week, reading all the columns on SI and every Zonal Marking post as well as The Blizzard and random books. Now even thinking about doing that it's a monumental time waste. fukk was I thinking back then?

Now I just read the Guardian rumours column, whenever Barney Ronay or Rob Smyth write something and I skim the 10 Talking Points from the weekend and actually read the comments. That's all I can dedicate nowadays.

Anyway, the point is out of all the football reading I did, the one website that actually shaped how I think about football was Surreal Football (RIP). The writing wasn't very good, and they were essentially wums for their entire run, but they let me know to not ever take it so serious.

WOOF, same here breh. I used to read everything, listen to everything. Now I read nothing and listen to nothing.

I have 3 Howlers I haven't read, tons of Blizzard pdfs, like 6. Stopped reading my favorite Uli Hesse Bundesliga columns. Only listen to Bighead Redhead once every few weeks for US Soccer and MLS stuff. Even stopped watching so many games and highlights, cause it's just a neverending cycle isn't it? Would love to get into it again but really really don't care that much.


Used to abuse the school printers putting together the weekly Guardian roundups and SI columns. The daily When Saturday Comes posts. Like 30 pages of solid 12 font. And printing out the Blizzard


--Bottom line it's kind of like podcasts these days right? Used to religiously listen to a few, now EVERYONE has a podcast. EVERYONE has a soccer blog. EVERYONE has their soccer magazine and book now. And instead of feeling like wading through you just go "ahhh fukk this" and pick nothing up.

 

[dennis roadman]

i get a little irritated when someone brings up david peace books

the damned utd is a good movie, clough is clough, michael sheen is enjoyable, peter taylor played by the GOAT timothy spall

but peace's writing is so goddamned boring

i aint trying to read your diary of you imagining yourself as a legendary british manager, foh david

 

[Roaden Polynice]

If there's one thing that's been good about the coli lately it's been the movie club

Watching shyt I'd never watch in a million years. To be sure, there hasn't been a good movie picked yet but that's ok with me I suppose.

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

@Grams @BLAZO da GAWD @Hater @gho3st looks like we are signing Herrera

 

[Capo Dei Capi]

OFT brehs, we need to have a meeting over this @2meo breh. Not sure he should be allowed in this thread.

This is like when NY got together to discuss Pac's foot on their neck

 

[BLAZO da GAWD]

@Grams @BLAZO da GAWD @Hater @gho3st looks like we are signing Herrera

I have no opinion on the breh but I don't understand how in two summers, were literally the only club ever linked with him.

I'm kinda skeptical...and for that price

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

I have no opinion on the breh but I don't understand how in two summers, were literally the only club ever linked with him.

I'm kinda skeptical...and for that price

hes a solid well rounded midfielder, great work rate, creative and doesnt shy away from tackles.

the price might be a bit high but its because bilbao dont negotiate with anyone. as long as we buy more players then i dont care about the fee. we need midfielders and to compete in this market. fees are higher than ever in this current climate.